2 Kings 12:5-7

Common English Bible

⁵ The priests should take the money from their donors and use it to repair the temple wherever such a need for repair is discovered.”

⁶ But by the twenty-third year of King Jehoash, the priests still hadn’t repaired the temple. ⁷ So King Jehoash summoned Jehoiada the priest and the other priests together. “Why haven’t you repaired the temple?” he asked them. “Stop taking money from your donors; instead, give it directly for temple repairs.”