So the priests agreed that they would receive no silver from the people and would not be the ones to repair the temple’s damage.

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)

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