8. Then 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.”
9. The kohanim agreed that they would take no more money from the people, nor would they repair the damage of the House.
10. But 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.
11. Whenever 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.
12. Then 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,
13. and 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.
14. But 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.
15. For they gave it to those that did the work, and with it they repaired the House of Adonai.
16. They did not check on the men to whom they gave the money to pay the workers, for they dealt faithfully.
17. The money from the guilt offering and money from the sin offering was not brought into the House of Adonai—it was for the kohanim.
18. Then King Hazael of Aram marched and attacked Gath and captured it, and next Hazael set his face to march against Jerusalem.