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10 When they saw that there was a large quantity of silver in the box, the king’s secretary and the high priest went up and tied it in bags and tallied[a] the silver which was found in the House of the Lord.

11 Then they gave the silver which had been weighed out to those who were overseeing the work on the House of the Lord. They paid it out to the carpenters and the builders who were working on the House of the Lord, 12 and to the bricklayers and the stonemasons, who used it to buy wood and stone from the quarry to repair the damage to the House of the Lord and to meet all the expenses for repairing the building.

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  1. 2 Kings 12:10 Or weighed