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2 Kings 12:5-12

2 Kings 12:5-12 CSB

each priest is to take it from his assessor  and repair whatever damage is found in the temple.”  , But by the twenty-third year  of the reign of King Joash, the priests had not repaired the damage  to the temple.  So King Joash called the priest Jehoiada  and the other priests and asked, “Why haven’t you repaired the temple’s damage? Since you haven’t, don’t take any silver from your assessors; instead, hand it over for the repair of the temple.” So the priests agreed that they would receive no silver from the people and would not be the ones to repair the temple’s damage. Then the priest Jehoiada took a chest,  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.  Whenever they saw there was a large amount of silver in the chest, the king’s secretary  and the high priest would go bag up and tally the silver found in the LORD’s temple.  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, the masons, and the stonecutters — and would use it to buy timber and quarried stone to repair the damage to the LORD’s temple  and for all expenses for temple repairs.

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