2 Kings 12:1–15

In the seventh year of Jehu ^aJehoash began to reign; and forty years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Zibiah of ^bBeer-sheba. ²And Jehoash did that which was right in the sight of the Lord all his days wherein Jehoiada the priest instructed him. ³But ^cthe high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places. ⁴And Jehoash said to the priests, All the money of the ^||dedicated things ^dthat is brought into the house of the Lord, even ^ethe money of every one that passeth the account, ^†the money that every man is set at, and all the money that ^†fcometh into any man’s heart to bring into the house of the Lord, ⁵Let the priests take it to them, every man of his acquaintance: and let them ^grepair the breaches of the house, ^hwheresoever any breach shall be found. ⁶But it was so, that ^†in the three and twentieth year of king Jehoash ⁱthe priests had not repaired the breaches of the house. ⁷Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and the other priests, and said unto them, Why repair ye not the breaches of the house? ^*now therefore receive no more money of your acquaintance, but deliver it for the breaches of the house. ⁸And the priests consented to receive no more money of the people, neither to repair the breaches of the house. ⁹But Jehoiada the priest took ^ka chest, and bored a hole in the lid of it, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as one cometh into the house of the Lord: and the priests that kept the ^†door put therein all the money that was brought into the house of the Lord. ¹⁰And it was so, when they saw that there was much money in the chest, that the king’s ^||scribe and the ^lhigh priest came up, and they ^†put up ^min bags, and told the money that was found in the house of the Lord. ¹¹And they gave the money, being told, ⁿinto the hands of them that did the work, that had the oversight of the house of the Lord: and they ^†laid it out to the carpenters and builders, that wrought upon the house of the Lord, ¹²ⁿAnd to masons, and hewers of stone, and to buy timber and hewed stone to repair the breaches of the house of the Lord, and for all that ^†was laid out for the house to repair it. ¹³Howbeit ^othere were not made for the house of the Lord ^pbowls of silver, snuffers, basons, trumpets, any vessels of gold, or vessels of silver, of the money that was brought into the house of the Lord: ¹⁴But they gave that to the workmen, and repaired therewith the house of the Lord. ¹⁵Moreover ^qthey reckoned not with the men, into whose hand they delivered the money to be bestowed on workmen: for they dealt faithfully.