People bring money to the temple
8 The king told the Levites to make a big box. They put it outside the gate of the Lord's temple. 9 Then he sent a command to everyone in Jerusalem and in the rest of Judah. He told them to bring the money to pay their tax to the Lord. That was the tax that God's servant Moses had told the Israelites that they should pay when they were in the wilderness. 10 All the officers and all the people were happy to give this money. They brought it to Jerusalem and they threw it into the box, until the box was full. 11 Every time that the box became full of money, the Levites took it to the king's officers. Then the king's secretary and the officer who served the leader of the priests took the money out of the box. Then they put the box outside the temple gate again. They did that every day, so that they had a lot of money.
12 The king and Jehoiada gave the money to the men who would take care of the work on the Lord's temple. They paid men who could work with stone and wood to repair the temple. They also paid men who knew how to work with iron and bronze for this work.
13 These workers worked well so that they soon finished the work. They built the temple to be very strong, in the way that it should be. 14 When they had finished, there was some money that remained. So the workers took the money to the king and to Jehoiada. They decided to make tools to use in the temple. There were things that the priests used to serve the Lord in the temple, and to offer burnt offerings. They used gold and silver to make dishes and other things. While Jehoiada was still alive, the priests always made burnt offerings as sacrifices to the Lord in his temple.
15 But Jehoiada became very old and he died when he was 130 years old. 16 They buried him beside the kings in the City of David. They gave him that honour, because he had done many good things in Israel for God and for the temple.
