1In the seventh year of Joash's kingship.2In the seventh year of Jehu, King Joash reigned forty years in Jerusalem, and his mother's name was Zibiah of Beersheba.3And Joash did what was upright in the eyes of the LORD all his days in which Jehoiada the priest instructed him.4Only the high places did not depart; the people still sacrificed and burned incense at the high places.5And he said to the priests, "Joash: all silver of the holy gifts that is brought to the house of the LORD, silver crossing over a man, silver of souls' set value, all silver that rises upon the heart of a man to bring to the house of the LORD."6Let the priests take for themselves, each from his seller, and they shall strengthen the breach of the house wherever a breach is found.7And it was in the twenty-third year of King Joash that the priests did not strengthen the repair of the house.8And King Joash called to Jehoiada the priest and to the priests and said to them, “Why are you not strengthening the repair of the house? And now, do not take silver from your acquaintances, for you shall give it for the repair of the house.”9And the priests agreed not to take silver from the people or to strengthen the breach of the house.10And Jehoiada the priest took one ark and bored a hole in its door and put it beside the altar on the right as a man of the house of the LORD came. And the priests who were keepers of the threshold put there all the silver brought into the house of the LORD.11When they saw that there was much silver in the ark, the king's scribe and the high priest went up, bound it up, and counted the silver that was found in the house of the LORD.12And they gave the silver—the melted-down ones—into the hand of the doers of the work, the appointed ones in the house of the LORD. And they brought it out to the carpenters of the tree and to the sons of the doers in the house of the LORD.13and for walls and for hewers of the stone and to buy trees and hewn stones to strengthen the damage of the house of the LORD and for all that goes out on the house to strengthen it.14But they shall not make basins of silver from the money offerings, basins, trumpets, or any vessel of gold or vessel of silver from the silver brought to the house of the LORD.15They will give it for doing the work, and they will strengthen the house of the LORD.16The men shall not be called to account, those who give the silver into their hand to give to the doers of the work, for they are doing it in faithfulness.17Silver of guilt offerings and silver of sin offerings shall not be brought into the house of the LORD; it shall be to the priests.18Then Hazael king of Aram went up and fought against Gath and captured it. And Hazael set his face to go up against Jerusalem.19Joash king of Judah took all the cultic sanctifications that Jehoshaphat and Jehoram and Ahaziah, his fathers kings of Judah, had sanctified, and his cultic sanctifications and all the gold found in the treasuries of the house of the LORD and the house of the king, and he sent them to Hazael king of Aram, and he went up from Jerusalem.20Now the rest of the words of Joash and all that he did—are they not written in the book of the words of the days for the kings of Judah?21And his servants rose up, made a conspiracy, and struck Joash in the house of Millo, at the descent of Silla.