2 Kings 12:9–15

⁹Then the priest Jehoiada took a chest,^ao bored a hole in its lid, and set it beside the altar on the right side as one enters the Lord’s temple; the priests who guarded the threshold put into the chest all the silver that was brought to the Lord’s temple.^{ap 10}Whenever they saw there was a large amount of silver in the chest, the king’s secretary^aq and the high priest would go bag up and tally the silver found in the Lord’s temple.^{ar 11}Then they would give the weighed silver to those doing the work—those who oversaw the Lord’s temple. They in turn would pay it out to those working on the Lord’s temple—the carpenters, the builders, ¹²the masons, and the stonecutters—and would use it to buy timber and quarried stone to repair the damage to the Lord’s temple^as and for all expenses for temple repairs.

¹³However, no silver bowls, wick trimmers, sprinkling basins, trumpets, or any articles of gold or silver^a were made for the Lord’s temple from the contributions^A brought to the Lord’s temple. ¹⁴Instead, it was given to those doing the work, and they repaired the Lord’s temple with it. ¹⁵No accounting was required from the men who received the silver to pay those doing the work, since they worked with integrity.^b