2 Kings 12:1-8
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Joash Repairs the Temple
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3The high places, however, were not removed; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense there. 4Joash said to the priests, “Collect all the money that is brought as sacred offerings to the temple of the LORD —the money collected in the census, the money received from personal vows and the money brought voluntarily to the temple.
5Let every priest receive the money from one of the treasurers, then use it to repair whatever damage is found in the temple.” 6But by the twenty-third year of King Joash the priests still had not repaired the temple. 7Therefore King Joash summoned Jehoiada the priest and the other priests and asked them, “Why aren’t you repairing the damage done to the temple? Take no more money from your treasurers, but hand it over for repairing the temple.”
8The priests agreed that they would not collect any more money from the people and that they would not repair the temple themselves.