2 Kings 12:9-11

Christian Standard Bible

⁹ Then the priest Jehoiada 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; the priests who guarded the threshold put into the chest all the silver that was brought to the Lord’s temple.^{(B) 10} Whenever they saw there was a large amount of silver in the chest, the king’s secretary^(C) and the high priest would go bag up and tally the silver found in the Lord’s temple.^{(D) 11} Then they would give the weighed silver to 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,