2 Kings 12:5–12

⁵let the priests take it themselves, each from his constituency; and let them repair the ⁵damages of the temple, wherever any dilapidation is found.”

⁶Now it was so, by the twenty-third year of King Jehoash, ^hthat the priests had not repaired the damages of the temple. ⁷ⁱSo King Jehoash called Jehoiada the priest and the other priests, and said to them, “Why have you not repaired the damages of the temple? Now therefore, do not take more money from your constituency, but deliver it for repairing the damages of the temple.” ⁸And the priests agreed that they would neither receive more money from the people, nor repair the damages of the temple.

⁹Then Jehoiada the priest took ^ja chest, bored a hole in its lid, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as one comes into the house of the Lord; and the priests who ⁶kept the door put ^kthere all the money brought into the house of the Lord. ¹⁰So it was, whenever they saw that there was much money in the chest, that the king’s ^lscribe ⁷and the high priest came up and ⁸put it in bags, and counted the money that was found in the house of the Lord. ¹¹Then they gave the money, which had been apportioned, into the hands of those who did the work, who had the oversight of the house of the Lord; and they ⁹paid it out to the carpenters and builders who worked on the house of the Lord, ¹²and to masons and stonecutters, and for buying timber and hewn stone, to ^mrepair the damage of the house of the Lord, and for all that was paid out to repair the temple.