2 Kings 12:2-4

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

² And Joas did that which was right before the Lord all the days that Joiada the priest taught him.

³ But yet he took not away the high places: for the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

⁴ And Joas said to the priests: O All the money of the sanctified things, which is brought into the temple of the Lord by those that pass, which is offered for the price of a soul, and which of their own accord, and of their own free heart they bring into the temple of the Lord: