2 Kings 12:4-15 ▼

4 And Jehoash said to the priests, “All the silver of the holy things that are brought into the house of YHWH, the silver of passing over of each man, the silver of his valuation assessment, and all the silver that a man purposes in his heart to bring into the house of YHWH,

5 let the priests take it unto themselves, each from his constituency, and they shall strengthen the breach of the house in every place where there is found a breach.”

6 And it was by the twentieth year and third year of King Jehoash, that the priests had not strengthened the breach of the house.

7 And King Jehoash called to Jehoiada the priest, and to the priests, and he said to them, “Why have you? not strengthened the breach of the house? And now take no more silver from your? constituency, but for the breach of the house give it.”

8 And the priests agreed to receive no more silver from the people, nor to strengthen the breach of the house.

9 And Jehoiada the priest took one chest and bored a hole in its lid and set it beside the altar, on the right side as one comes into the house of YHWH. And the priests who kept the door put there all the silver brought into the house of YHWH.

10 And it was, at their seeing that there was much silver in the chest, that came up a scribe of the king and the high priest, and they bound it up and counted the silver found in the house of YHWH.

11 And they gave the weighed silver into the hands of those who did the work, those inspecting the house of YHWH, and they paid it out to the carpenters and to the builders making the house of YHWH,

12 and to the masons, and to hewers of stone, and for buying timber and hewn stone to strengthen the breach of the house of YHWH, and for all that went out upon the temple to strengthen it.

13 However, there were not made for the house of YHWH basins of silver, wick trimmers, sprinkling bowls, trumpets, or any articles of gold or articles of silver, from the silver brought into the house of YHWH;

14 but they gave to those doing the work, and they strengthened with it the house of YHWH.

15 And they did not require an account with the men whom into their hands they delivered the silver to be paid to those doing the work, for in faithfulness they were acting.