4And Jehoash said to the priests, “All the money that is brought into the temple of the LORD for the dedicated things, both the money of every man’s assessment (for those bound by vows), and the money that comes into any man's heart to bring into the temple of the LORD, 5Let the priests receive it, each from his acquaintance; and that they may repair the breaches of the temple, wherever any breach shall be found”. 6But in the twenty-third year of King Jehoash, the priests had not repaired the damage to the temple. 7Then King Jehoash called for Jehoiada, the priest, and the other priests, and said to them, “Why are you not repairing the damage to the temple? Now, therefore, do not receive any more money for your own purposes, but use it for repairing the breaches of the temple”. 8So the priests agreed to receive no more money from the people, and let others be responsible for repairing the breaches of the temple. 9Then Jehoiada, the priest, took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid of it, and set it beside the altar, on the right side at the entrance to the temple of the LORD, and the priests who kept the door put in it all the money that was brought to the temple of the LORD. 10And whenever they saw that there was much money in the chest, the king's scribe and the high priest came and put the money in bags, and counted what was found in the temple of the LORD. 11Then they gave that counted money to those who did the work, and who had the oversight of the temple of the LORD; and they paid the carpenters and builders, who worked on the temple of the LORD, 12To masons, and hewers of stone, and to buy timber and hewn stone to repair the breaches of the temple of the LORD, and for all that was laid out for repairing the temple. 13But the money that was brought into the temple of the LORD was not spent for bowls of silver, snuffers, basins, trumpets, or any utensils of gold, or silver; 14But instead, they paid the workmen, and repaired the temple of the LORD with it. 15Moreover, they did not require an accounting from the men, to whom they gave the money to be paid to workmen; for they acted in good faith. 16The trespass money and sin money brought into the temple of the LORD was not used for the repairs; it belonged to the priests.

17Then Hazael, king of Syria (Aram), went up, and fought against Gath (in Philistia), and captured it; and Hazael resolved to go up to Jerusalem. 18And Jehoash, king of Judah, took all the hallowed things that Jehoshaphat, and Jehoram, and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own hallowed things, and all the gold that was found in the treasuries of the temple of the LORD, and in the king's house, and sent it to Hazael, king of Syria; and he withdrew from Jerusalem.

19Now the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? 20His servants, Jozachar, son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad, son of Shomer, conspired against Joash, and killed him in the house of Millo, which is on the way to Silla. 21And they buried him with his fathers in the city of David; and Amaziah, his son, reigned in his stead.