⁵ It is to be given to those doing the work – those who oversee the Lord’s temple. They in turn are to give it to the workmen in the Lord’s temple to repair the damage.^{(A) 6} They are to give it to the carpenters, builders, and masons to buy timber and quarried stone to repair the temple.^(B)

¹¹ Whenever the chest was brought by the Levites to the king’s overseers, and when they saw that there was a large amount of silver, the king’s secretary and the high priest’s officer came and emptied the chest, picked it up, and returned it to its place. They did this daily and gathered the silver in abundance. ¹² Then the king and Jehoiada gave it to those in charge of the work on the Lord’s temple, who were hiring stonecutters and carpenters to renovate the Lord’s temple, also blacksmiths and coppersmiths to repair the Lord’s temple.^(A)