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2 Kings 12:14

New Century Version

They paid the money to the workers, who used it to repair the Temple of the Lord.

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The money brought into the Temple of the Lord was not used to make silver cups, wick trimmers, bowls, trumpets, or gold or silver vessels.

They did not demand to know how the money was spent, because the workers were honest.

They also gave some of the things they had taken in wars to be used in repairing the Temple of the Lord.

Then the Levites gave it to the supervisors of the work on the Temple of the Lord, and they paid the workers who rebuilt and repaired the Temple.

But Judas did not really care about the poor; he said this because he was a thief. He was the one who kept the money box, and he often stole from it.