2 Throughout the time Jehoiada the priest instructed him, Joash did what was right in the Lord’s sight.
3 Yet the high places were not taken away; the people continued sacrificing and burning incense on the high places.
4 Then Joash said to the priests, “All the dedicated money brought to the Lord’s temple, census money, money from vows, and all money voluntarily given for the Lord’s temple,
5 each priest is to take from his assessor and repair whatever damage to the temple is found.”
6 But by the twenty-third year of the reign of King Joash, the priests had not repaired the damage to the temple.
7 So King Joash called Jehoiada the priest and the other priests and said, “Why haven’t you repaired the temple’s damage? Since you haven’t, don’t take any money from your assessors; instead, hand it over for the repair of the temple.”
8 So the priests agreed they would not take money from the people and they would not repair the temple’s damage.