2 Kings 12:14

14 for they gave that to those who did the work, and repaired the LORD’s house with it.

2 Kings 12:14 Meaning and Commentary

2 Kings 12:14

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.

2 Kings 12:14 In-Context

12 and to the masons and the stone cutters, and for buying timber and cut stone to repair the damage to the LORD’s house, and for all that was laid out for the house to repair it.

13 But there were not made for the LORD’s house cups of silver, snuffers, basins, trumpets, any vessels of gold or vessels of silver, of the money that was brought into the LORD’s house;

14 for they gave that to those who did the work, and repaired the LORD’s house with it.

15 Moreover they didn’t demand an accounting from the men into whose hand they delivered the money to give to those who did the work; for they dealt faithfully.

16 The money for the trespass offerings and the money for the sin offerings was not brought into the LORD’s house. It was the priests’.