2 Kings 12:9-11

Holman Christian Standard Bible

⁹ Then Jehoiada the priest took a chest,^(A) bored a hole in its lid, and set it beside the altar on the right side as one enters the Lord’s temple; in it the priests who guarded the threshold put all the money brought into the Lord’s temple.^{(B) 10} Whenever they saw there was a large amount of money in the chest, the king’s secretary^(C) and the high priest would go to the Lord’s temple and count the money found there and tie it up in bags.^{(D) 11} Then they would put the counted money into the hands of 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,