Session 10 2 Kings 12:4-16

SOLUTION (2 KINGS 12:9-12)

Jehoiada’s new plan for paying for the temple repairs.

9 Then the priest Jehoiada took a chest, bored a hole in its lid,
and set it beside the altar on the right side as one enters the LORD’s temple;
the priests who guarded the threshold put into the chest all the silver that was brought to the LORD’s temple.

10 Whenever they saw there was a large amount of silver in the chest,
the king’s secretary and the high priest would go bag up and tally the silver
found in the LORD’s temple.
11 Then they would give the weighed silver to those doing the work —
those who oversaw the LORD’s temple.
They in turn would pay it out to those working on the LORD’s temple — the carpenters, the builders,
12 the masons, and the stonecutters — and would use it to buy timber and quarried stone
to repair the damage to the LORD’s temple and for all expenses for temple repairs.

Analyze:

accountability
focus on verses 9-12
to find their evidence of accountability.

Discuss:

• How do people’s financial practices often reveal their most significant priorities? (p. 87)

Transition:

Jehoiada’s new plan worked!
In 2 Chronicles 24:10, we find these details:
“All the leaders and all the people rejoiced,
brought the tax, and put it in the chest until it was full.”
The people gave joyfully and in abundance.