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Then King Joash 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 from your acquaintance, but deliver it for the breaches of the house.”

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

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 one cometh into the house of the Lord; and the priests who kept the door put therein all the money that was brought into the house of the Lord.

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