2 Kings 12:8-10

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⁸ So the priests agreed to set up a special repair fund that would not go through their hands, lest it be diverted to care for their personal needs. ⁹ Jehoiada the priest bored a hole in the lid of a large chest and set it on the right-hand side of the altar at the Temple entrance. The doorkeepers put all of the people’s contributions into it. ¹⁰ Whenever the chest became full, the king’s financial secretary and the High Priest counted it, put it into bags,