7. For the sons of Athaliah, that wicked woman, had broken up God’s house; and they also gave all the dedicated things of the Lord’s house to the Baals.
8. So the king commanded, and they made a chest, and set it outside at the gate of the Lord’s house.
9. They made a proclamation through Judah and Jerusalem, to bring in for the Lord the tax that Moses the servant of God laid on Israel in the wilderness.
10. All the princes and all the people rejoiced, and brought in, and cast into the chest, until they had filled it.
11. Whenever the chest was brought to the king’s officers by the hand of the Levites, and when they saw that there was much money, the king’s scribe and the chief priest’s officer came and emptied the chest, and took it, and carried it to its place again. Thus they did day by day, and gathered money in abundance.
12. The king and Jehoiada gave it to those who did the work of the service of the Lord’s house. They hired masons and carpenters to restore the Lord’s house, and also those who worked iron and bronze to repair the Lord’s house.