10. Then the Levites paid the men who supervised the work on the Lord’S Temple. And the supervisors paid the workers who repaired the Lord’S Temple.
11. They gave the money to carpenters and builders to buy large rocks that were already cut, and to buy wood. The wood was used to rebuild the buildings and to make beams for the buildings. In the past, the kings of Judah did not take care of the Temple buildings. The buildings had become old and ruined.