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Athaliah heard the noise made by the people, and appeared before them in the temple of the LORD. (2 Kings 11, 13)
Then Jehoiada the priest instructed the captains in command of the force: "Bring her outside through the ranks. If anyone follows her," he added, "let him die by the sword." He had given orders that she should not be slain in the temple of the LORD. (2 Kings 11, 15)
Thereupon all the people of the land went to the temple of Baal and demolished it. They shattered its altars and images completely, and slew Mattan, the priest of Baal, before the altars. After appointing a detachment for the temple of the LORD, Jehoiada (2 Kings 11, 18)
with the captains, the Carians, the guards, and all the people of the land, led the king down from the temple of the LORD through the guards' gate to the palace, where Joash took his seat on the royal throne. (2 Kings 11, 19)
For the priests Joash made this rule: "All the funds for sacred purposes that are brought to the temple of the LORD--the census tax, personal redemption money, and whatever funds are freely brought to the temple of the LORD-- (2 Kings 12, 5)
the priests may take for themselves, each from his own clients. However, they must make whatever repairs on the temple may prove necessary." (2 Kings 12, 6)
Nevertheless, as late as the twenty-third year of the reign of King Joash, the priests had not made needed repairs on the temple. (2 Kings 12, 7)
Accordingly, King Joash summoned the priest Jehoiada and the other priests. "Why do you not repair the temple?" he asked them. "You must no longer take funds from your clients, but you shall turn them over for the repairs." (2 Kings 12, 8)
So the priests agreed that they would neither take funds from the people nor make the repairs on the temple. (2 Kings 12, 9)
The priest Jehoiada then took a chest, bored a hole in its lid, and set it beside the stele, on the right as one entered the temple of the LORD. The priests who guarded the entry would put into it all the funds that were brought to the temple of the LORD. (2 Kings 12, 10)
When they noticed that there was a large amount of silver in the chest, the royal scribe (and the priest) would come up, and they would melt down all the funds that were in the temple of the LORD, and weigh them. (2 Kings 12, 11)
The amount thus realized they turned over to the master workmen in the temple of the LORD. They in turn would give it to the carpenters and builders working in the temple of the LORD, (2 Kings 12, 12)