2 Kings 11:21-12:15 Joash was seven years old when he began to reign.

ACV⁽ⁱ⁾ ²¹ Joash was seven years old when he began to reign. ¹² ¹ Joash began to reign in the seventh year of Jehu. And he reigned forty years in Jerusalem, and his mother's name was Zibiah of Beersheba. ² And Joash did that which was right in the eyes of LORD all his days in which Jehoiada the priest instructed him. ³ However the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places. ⁴ And Joash said to the priests, All the money of the hallowed things that is brought into the house of LORD, in current money, the money of the persons for whom each man is rated, and all the money that it comes into any man's heart to bring into the house of LORD, ⁵ let the priests take it to them, every man from his acquaintance, and they shall repair the broken parts of the house wherever any breach shall be found. ⁶ But it was so, that in the twenty-third year of king Joash the priests had not repaired the broken parts of the house. ⁷ Then king Joash called for Jehoiada the priest, and for the other priests, and said to them, Why do ye not repair the broken parts of the house? Now therefore take no more money from your acquaintance, but deliver it for the broken parts of the house. ⁸ And the priests consented that they should take no more money from the people, neither repair the broken parts of the house. ⁹ But 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 a man comes into the house of LORD. And the priests who kept the threshold put in it all the money that was brought into the house of LORD. ¹⁰ And 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 counted the money that was found in the house of LORD. ¹¹ And they gave the money that was weighed out into the hands of those who did the work, who had the oversight of the house of LORD. And they paid it out to the carpenters and the builders who worked upon the house of LORD, ¹² and to the masons and the hewers of stone, and for buying timber and hewn stone to repair the broken parts of the house of LORD, and for all that was laid out for the house to repair it. ¹³ But there were not made for the house of LORD cups of silver, snuffers, basins, trumpets, any vessels of gold, or vessels of silver, of the money that was brought into the house of LORD, ¹⁴ for they gave that to those who did the work, and with it repaired the house of LORD. ¹⁵ Moreover they did not reckon with the men into whose hand they delivered the money to give to those who did the work, for they dealt faithfully.