10. This pleased the people and their leaders, and they brought their tax money and filled the box with it.
11. Every day the Levites would take the box to the royal official who was in charge of it. Whenever it was full, the royal secretary and the High Priest's representative would take the money out and return the box to its place. And so they collected a large sum of money.
12. The king and Jehoiada would give the money to those who were in charge of repairing the Temple, and they hired stonemasons, carpenters, and metalworkers to make the repairs.
13. All of them worked hard, and they restored the Temple to its original condition, as solid as ever.