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And Jeho'ash did what was right in the eyes of the LORD all his days, because Jehoi'ada the priest instructed him.
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Nevertheless the high places were not taken away; the people continued to sacrifice and burn incense on the high places.
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Jeho'ash said to the priests, "All the money of the holy things which is brought into the house of the LORD, the money for which each man is assessed--the money from the assessment of persons--and the money which a man's heart prompts him to bring into the house of the LORD,
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let the priests take, each from his acquaintance; and let them repair the house wherever any need of repairs is discovered."
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But by the twenty-third year of King Jeho'ash the priests had made no repairs on the house.
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Therefore King Jeho'ash summoned Jehoi'ada the priest and the other priests and said to them, "Why are you not repairing the house? Now therefore take no more money from your acquaintances, but hand it over for the repair of the house."
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So the priests agreed that they should take no more money from the people, and that they should not repair the house.
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Then Jehoi'ada the priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid of it, and set it beside the altar on the right side as one entered the house of the LORD; and the priests who guarded the threshold put in it all the money that was brought into the house of the LORD.
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And whenever they saw that there was much money in the chest, the king's secretary and the high priest came up and they counted and tied up in bags the money that was found in the house of the LORD.
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Then they would give the money that was weighed out into the hands of the workmen who had the oversight of the house of the LORD; and they paid it out to the carpenters and the builders who worked upon the house of the LORD,
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and to the masons and the stonecutters, as well as to buy timber and quarried stone for making repairs on the house of the LORD, and for any outlay upon the repairs of the house.