9. The money that the Levite guards had collected in the Temple was handed over to Hilkiah the High Priest. (It had been collected from the people of Ephraim and Manasseh and the rest of the Northern Kingdom, and from the people of Judah, Benjamin, and Jerusalem.)
10. This money was then handed over to the three men in charge of the temple repairs, and they gave it to
11. the carpenters and the builders to buy the stones and the timber used to repair the buildings that the kings of Judah had allowed to decay.
12. The men who did the work were thoroughly honest. They were supervised by four Levites: Jahath and Obadiah of the clan of Merari, and Zechariah and Meshullam of the clan of Kohath. (The Levites were all skilful musicians.)
13. Other Levites were in charge of transporting materials and supervising the workmen on various jobs, and others kept records or served as guards.
14. While the money was being taken out of the storeroom, Hilkiah found the book of the Law of the Lord, the Law that God had given to Moses.