1It was in the seventh year of Jehu that Joash began to reign in Judah, and he reigned in Jerusalem for forty years. And his mother's name was Zibiah, of Beersheba. 2And Joash did what was right in the eyes of the LORD all the years that Jehoiada, the priest, instructed him. 3But the people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places, which had not been removed.

4And Jehoash told 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 from the treasurers; so that they may repair whatever damage is found in the Temple.” 6But in the twenty-third year of King Joash, the priests still had not repaired the damage to the Temple. 7Then King Joash called for Jehoiada, and the other priests, and said, “Why are you not repairing the damage to the Temple? Now, take no more money for your own purposes, but use it all for repairing the damage to the Temple.” 8So the priests agreed to receive no more money from the people, and let others be responsible for repairing the damage of the Temple. 9Then Jehoiada, the priest, took a chest, bored a hole in its lid, and set it beside the altar, on the right side at the entrance to the Temple of the LORD, and the priests who guarded the door put all the money that was brought to the Temple of the LORD into it 10And whenever they saw that there was much money in the chest, the king's scribe and the high priest came, counted it, and put in bags. 11Then they gave that counted money to those who did the work, and who had oversight of the Temple of the LORD; and so they paid the carpenters and builders, who worked on the Temple of the LORD - 12The 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 money to pay the workmen; because they acted in good faith. 16However, the money from guilt and trespass offerings that came 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, attacked, and captured Gath (in Philistia); and then Hazael turned to attack Jerusalem. 18And Joash, king of Judah, took all the hallowed things that Jehoshaphat, 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; who then withdrew from Jerusalem.

19Now the rest of the events of the reign of Joash, and what he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? 20Then his officials, Jozachar, son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad, son of Shomer, conspired against Joash, and killed him in the house at Millo, which is on the road to Silla. 21And they buried him with his fathers in the city of David; and Amaziah, his son, reigned in his stead.