1Joash was seven years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Zibiah; she was from Beersheba.2Joash did what was upright in the eyes of the LORD throughout all the days of Jehoiada the priest.3Jehoiada took two wives for himself, and he fathered sons and daughters.4After this, it came about that Joash resolved in his heart to renew the house of the LORD.5He gathered the priests and the Levites and said to them, "Go out to the cities of Judah and gather silver from all Israel to strengthen the house of your God, year by year, and you must act quickly concerning the matter." Yet the Levites did not act quickly.6The king called for Jehoiada the head and said to him, "Why have you not required the Levites to bring from Judah and from Jerusalem the tribute of Moses the servant of the LORD and of the assembly for Israel, for the tent of the testimony?"7For Athaliah the wicked woman, her sons had broken into the house of God, and they had also made all the sacred things of the house of the LORD for the Baals.8The king commanded, and they made one chest and placed it outside at the gate of the house of the LORD.9They gave a proclamation in Judah and in Jerusalem to bring to the LORD the tribute of Moses the servant of God upon Israel in the wilderness.10All the officials and all the people rejoiced and brought and cast into the chest until they had finished.11It came about at the time when they brought the chest to the king's officials by the Levites, and when they saw that there was much silver, the king's secretary and the chief priest's overseer would come and empty the chest and carry it back to its place. Thus they did day by day, and they gathered silver in abundance.12The king and Jehoiada gave it to those doing the work of the service of the house of the LORD, and they hired hewers and craftsmen to renew the house of the LORD, and also ironworkers and bronze-workers to strengthen the house of the LORD.13The doers of the work carried out the work, and the repair rose for the work by their hand, and they set the house of God upon its measure and strengthened it.14When they had finished, they brought the remnant of the silver before the king and Jehoiada, and they made articles for the house of the LORD—articles of ministry, bowls, and articles of gold and silver—and they were offering burnt offerings continually in the house of the LORD all the days of Jehoiada.15Jehoiada grew old and was full of days, and he died; he was one hundred and thirty years old at his death.16They buried him in the city of David with the kings, because he had done good in Israel and with God and his house.