Then Jehoiada the priest took (A)a 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 [a]kept the door put (B)there all the money brought into the house of the Lord. 10 So it was, whenever they saw that there was much money in the chest, that the king’s (C)scribe[b] and the high priest came up and [c]put it in bags, and counted the money that was found in the house of the Lord. 11 Then 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 [d]paid it out to the carpenters and builders who worked on the house of the Lord,

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 12:9 guarded at the door
  2. 2 Kings 12:10 secretary
  3. 2 Kings 12:10 tied it up
  4. 2 Kings 12:11 Lit. weighed

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