But they gave that to the workmen, and repaired therewith the house of the Lord. ] They took care that the workmen should first be paid for the repairs of the temple.
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And made the repairs: and to them that cut stones, and to buy timber, and stones to be hewed, that the repairs of the house of the Lord might be completely finished, and wheresoever there was need of expenses to uphold the house.
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But there were not made of the same money for the temple of the Lord, bowls, or fleshhooks, or censers, or trumpets, or any vessel of gold and silver, of the money that was brought into the temple of the Lord:
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For it was given to them that did the work, that the temple of the Lord might be repaired.
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And they reckoned not with the men that received the money to distribute it to the workmen, but they bestowed it faithfully.
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But the money for trespass, and the money for sins, they brought not into the temple of the Lord, because it was for the priests.