2 Kings 12:4-16

4The high places, however, were not taken away. The people were still sacrificing and burning incense on the high places.

5Then Jehoash said to the kohanim, “All the money of the sacred donations brought to the House of Adonai—the money in exchange for each person’s valuation, as well as all the money that anyone’s heart prompts him to bring to the House of Adonai—

6let the kohanim receive it, each from one of the treasurers, so they may repair the damage to the House wherever any damage is found.”

7But by the twenty-third year of King Jehoash, the kohanim still had not repaired the damage to the House.

8Then King Jehoash summoned Jehoiada the kohen and the other kohanim, and said to them, “Why are you not repairing the damage to the House? Now therefore, take no more money from your treasurers, but hand it over for the damage to the House.”

9The kohanim agreed that they would take no more money from the people, nor would they repair the damage of the House.

10But Jehoiada the kohen took a chest, bored a hole in its lid, and placed it beside the altar, on the right side as one entered the House of Adonai. The priestly guards of the threshold deposited there all the money that was brought to the House of Adonai.

11Whenever they saw that there was a large amount of money in the chest, the royal scribe and the kohen gadol would come up, put the money in bags and count the money that was found in the House of Adonai.

12Then they would give the money that was weighed out into the hands of those who did the work, who had been overseeing the House of Adonai—they, in turn, would pay it out to the carpenters and the builders who worked on the House of Adonai,

13and to the masons and the stonecutters, and for buying timber and cut stone to repair the damage to Adonai’s House, and for all that was laid out for the House to repair it.

14But there were no silver cups, snuffers, bowls, trumpets, and no vessels of gold or vessels of silver made for the House of Adonai from the money brought to the House of Adonai.

15For they gave it to those that did the work, and with it they repaired the House of Adonai.

16They did not check on the men to whom they gave the money to pay the workers, for they dealt faithfully.