5Let the Priestes take it to them, euery man of his acquaintance: and they shall repaire the broken places of the house, wheresoeuer any decay is founde.
6Yet in the three and twentieth yeere of King Iehoash the Priestes had not mended that which was decayed in the Temple.
7Then King Iehoash called for Iehoiada the Priest, and the other Priestes, and sayd vnto them, Why repaire yee not the ruines of the Temple? Nowe therefore receiue no more money of your acquaintance, except yee deliuer it to repaire the ruines of the Temple.
8So the Priestes consented to receiue no more money of the people, neither to repaire the decayed places of the Temple.
9Then Iehoiada the Priest tooke a chest & bored an hole in the lid of it, and set it beside the altar, on the right side, as euery man commeth into the Temple of the Lorde; the Priestes that kept the doore, put therein all the money that was brought into the house of the Lord.
10And when they sawe there was much money in the chest, the Kinges Secretarie came vp and the hie Priest, and put it vp after that they had tolde the money that was found in the house of the Lord,
11And they gaue the money made readie into the handes of them, that vndertooke the worke, and that had the ouersight of the house of the Lord; and they payed it out to the carpenters and builders that wrought vpon the house of the Lord,
12And to the masons and hewers of stone, and to bye timber and hewed stone, to repayre that was decayed in the house of the Lorde, and for all that which was layed out for the reparation of the Temple.