1In the seventh year of Jehu, Jehoash popped off and reigned for forty years in Jerusalem. His mom's name was Zibiah from Beer-sheba, no cap.

2Jehoash was vibing right with the Lord as long as Jehoiada the priest was schooling him.

3But those high places? Still sus. People were out here sacrificing and burning incense there.

4Jehoash told the priests, "Yo, all the cash from the dedicated stuff that comes to the Lord's house, just take it and do your thing."

5"Let the priests handle it, fam, and fix the house wherever there's a leak."

6But for real, in the twenty-third year of King Jehoash, the priests still hadn’t fixed the leaks.

7Then King Jehoash hit up Jehoiada the priest and the other priests, asking, "Why aren’t you fixing the leaks? Stop taking money from your homies and use it for the repairs."

8The priests were like, "Bet, we won’t take any more cash from the people or fix the leaks."

9But Jehoiada took a chest, drilled a hole in it, and put it by the altar, where the priests who guarded the door dropped all the cash coming into the Lord's house.

10When they saw there was mad cash in the chest, the king’s scribe and the high priest came through, bagged it up, and counted the money found in the Lord's house.

11They handed out the cash to the workers overseeing the Lord's house, and it went to the carpenters and builders working on it.

12They also paid masons and stone cutters, and bought timber and cut stone to fix the leaks in the Lord's house, no cap.

13But they didn’t make any silver bowls, snuffers, basins, trumpets, or gold/silver vessels with the cash brought into the Lord's house.

14Instead, they gave that to the workers and fixed up the Lord's house with it.

15Plus, they didn’t keep track of the cash given to the workers because they were straight-up loyal.

16The money for trespasses and sins wasn’t brought into the Lord's house; that was just for the priests.

17Then Hazael, king of Syria, rolled up, fought Gath, and took it, then set his sights on Jerusalem.

18Jehoash, king of Judah, took all the holy stuff that Jehoshaphat, Jehoram, and Ahaziah, his dads, dedicated, plus his own holy things and all the gold from the treasures of the Lord's house and the king's house, and sent it to Hazael, king of Syria, who dipped from Jerusalem.

19The rest of Joash's acts, everything he did? Isn’t that written in the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

20His servants rose up, made a plot, and took Joash out in the house of Millo, which leads down to Silla.

21Jozachar, son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad, son of Shomer, his servants, got him, and he died; they buried him with his dads in the city of David, and Amaziah, his son, took the throne.

1In the seventh year of Jehu Jehoash began to reign; and forty years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Zibiah of Beer–sheba.

2And Jehoash did that which was right in the sight of the Lord all his days wherein Jehoiada the priest instructed him.

3But the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

4And Jehoash said to the priests, All the money of the dedicated things that is brought into the house of the Lord, even the money of every one that passeth the account, the money that every man is set at, and all the money that cometh into any man’s heart to bring into the house of the Lord,

5Let the priests take it to them, every man of his acquaintance: and let them repair the breaches of the house, wheresoever any breach shall be found.

6But it was so, that in the three and twentieth year of king Jehoash the priests had not repaired the breaches of the house.

7Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and the other priests, and said unto them, Why repair ye not the breaches of the house? now therefore receive no more money of your acquaintance, but deliver it for the breaches of the house.

8And the priests consented to receive no more money of the people, neither to repair the breaches of the house.

9But 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 as one cometh into the house of the Lord: and the priests that kept the door put therein all the money that was brought into the house of the Lord.

10And it was so, when they saw that there was much money in the chest, that the king’s scribe and the high priest came up, and they put up in bags, and told the money that was found in the house of the Lord.

11And they gave the money, being told, into the hands of them that did the work, that had the oversight of the house of the Lord: and they laid it out to the carpenters and builders, that wrought upon the house of the Lord,

12And to masons, and hewers of stone, and to buy timber and hewed stone to repair the breaches of the house of the Lord, and for all that was laid out for the house to repair it.

13Howbeit there were not made for the house of the Lord bowls of silver, snuffers, basons, trumpets, any vessels of gold, or vessels of silver, of the money that was brought into the house of the Lord:

14But they gave that to the workmen, and repaired therewith the house of the Lord.

15Moreover they reckoned not with the men, into whose hand they delivered the money to be bestowed on workmen: for they dealt faithfully.

16The trespass money and sin money was not brought into the house of the Lord: it was the priests’.

17Then Hazael king of Syria went up, and fought against Gath, and took it: and Hazael set his face 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 treasures of the house of the Lord, and in the king’s house, and sent it to Hazael king of Syria: and he went away from Jerusalem.

19And 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?

20And his servants arose, and made a conspiracy, and slew Joash in the house of Millo, which goeth down to Silla.

21For Jozachar the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad the son of Shomer, his servants, smote him, and he died; and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David: and Amaziah his son reigned in his stead.