2 Kings 12:5

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Let the priests take, every man from his friends and neighbours, to make good what is damaged in the house, wherever it is to be seen.

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  • Isa 58:12 : 12 And your sons will be building again the old waste places: you will make strong the bases of old generations: and you will be named, He who puts up the broken walls, and, He who makes ready the ways for use.
  • 1 Kgs 11:27 : 27 The way in which his hand came to be lifted up against the king was this: Solomon was building the Millo and making good the damaged parts of the town of his father David;
  • 2 Kgs 12:12 : 12 And to the wall-builders and the stone-cutters, and to get wood and cut stone for building up the broken parts of the house of the Lord, and for everything needed to put the house in good order.
  • 2 Kgs 22:5-6 : 5 And let it be given to the overseers of the work of the Lord's house, to give to the workmen who are making good what was damaged in the house of the Lord; 6 To the woodworkers and the builders and the stone-cutters; and for getting wood and cut stones for the building up of the house.
  • 2 Chr 24:5 : 5 And getting together the priests and Levites, he said to them, Go out into the towns of Judah year by year, and get from all Israel money to keep the house of your God in good condition; and see that this is done without loss of time. The Levites, however, were slow in doing so.
  • 2 Chr 24:7 : 7 For the house of the Lord had been broken up by Athaliah, that evil woman, and her sons; and all its holy things they had given to the Baals.

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  • 2 Kgs 12:6-12
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    87%

    6 But in the twenty-third year of King Jehoash, the priests had not made good the damaged parts of the house.

    7 Then King Jehoash sent for Jehoiada the priest, and the other priests, and said to them, Why have you not made good what is damaged in the house? now take no more money from your neighbours, but give it for the building up of the house.

    8 So the priests made an agreement to take no more money from the people, and not to make good what was damaged in the house.

    9 But Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and making a hole in the cover of it, put it by the altar, on the right side when one comes into the house of the Lord; and the priests who kept the door put in it regularly all the money which was taken into the house of the Lord.

    10 And when they saw that there was much money in the chest, the king's scribe and the high priest came and put it in bags, noting the amount of all the money there was in the house of the Lord.

    11 And the money which was measured out they gave regularly to those who were responsible for overseeing the work, and these gave it in payment to the woodworkers and the builders who were working on the house of the Lord,

    12 And to the wall-builders and the stone-cutters, and to get wood and cut stone for building up the broken parts of the house of the Lord, and for everything needed to put the house in good order.

  • 2 Kgs 22:4-6
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    4 Go up to Hilkiah, the chief priest, and let him give out the money which is taken into the house of the Lord, which the keepers of the door have got together from the people;

    5 And let it be given to the overseers of the work of the Lord's house, to give to the workmen who are making good what was damaged in the house of the Lord;

    6 To the woodworkers and the builders and the stone-cutters; and for getting wood and cut stones for the building up of the house.

  • 2 Chr 24:4-6
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    4 Now after this Joash had a desire to put the house of the Lord into good order again;

    5 And getting together the priests and Levites, he said to them, Go out into the towns of Judah year by year, and get from all Israel money to keep the house of your God in good condition; and see that this is done without loss of time. The Levites, however, were slow in doing so.

    6 Then the king sent for Jehoiada, the chief priest, and said to him, Why have you not given the Levites orders that the tax fixed by Moses, the servant of the Lord, and by the meeting of Israel, for the Tent of witness, is to be got in from Judah and Jerusalem and handed over?

  • 2 Kgs 12:4
    77%

    4 And Jehoash said to the priests, All the money of the holy things, which comes into the house of the Lord, (the amount fixed for every man's payment,) and all the money given by any man freely from the impulse of his heart,

  • 2 Chr 34:9-11
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    9 And they came to Hilkiah, the chief priest, and gave him all the money which had been taken into the house of God, which the Levites, the keepers of the door, had got from Manasseh and Ephraim and those of Israel who had not been taken away as prisoners, and from all Judah and Benjamin and the people of Jerusalem.

    10 And they gave it to the overseers of the work of the Lord's house, and the overseers gave it to the workmen working in the house, for building it up and making good what was damaged;

    11 Even to the woodworkers and builders to get cut stone and wood for joining the structure together and for making boards for the houses which the kings of Judah had given up to destruction.

  • 2 Kgs 12:14-16
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    73%

    14 But it was all given to the workmen who were building up the house.

    15 And they did not get any statement of accounts from the men to whom the money was given for the workmen, for they made use of it with good faith.

    16 The money of the offerings for error and the sin-offerings was not taken into the house of the Lord; it was the priests'.

  • 2 Chr 24:11-13
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    11 So when the chest was taken to the king's servants by the Levites, and they saw that there was much money in it, the king's scribe and the chief priest's servant took the money out, and put the chest back in its place. They did this day by day, and got together a great amount of money.

    12 Then the king and Jehoiada gave it to those who were responsible for getting the work done on the Lord's house, and with it they got wall-builders and woodworkers and metal-workers to put the house of the Lord in good order again.

    13 So the workmen did their work, making good what was damaged and building up the house of God till it was strong and beautiful again.

  • Isa 58:12
    71%

    12 And your sons will be building again the old waste places: you will make strong the bases of old generations: and you will be named, He who puts up the broken walls, and, He who makes ready the ways for use.

  • Amos 6:11
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    11 For see, at the order of the Lord the great house will be full of cracks and the little house will be broken.

  • 2 Chr 34:17
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    17 They have taken out all the money which was in the Lord's house and have given it to the overseers and to the workmen.

  • Neh 3:20-22
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    20 After him Baruch, the son of Zabbai, was hard at work on another part, from the turning of the wall to the door of the house of Eliashib, the chief priest.

    21 After him Meremoth, the son of Uriah, the son of Hakkoz, was working on another part, from the door of the house of Eliashib as far as the end of his house.

    22 After him were working the priests, the men of the lowland.

  • Neh 3:28
    69%

    28 Further on, past the horse doorway, the priests were at work, every one opposite his house.

  • Lev 14:45
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    45 And the house will have to be pulled down, the stones of it and the wood and the paste; and everything is to be taken out to an unclean place outside the town.

  • Num 5:9-10
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    69%

    9 And every offering lifted up of all the holy things which the children of Israel give to the priest, will be his.

    10 And every man's holy things will be his: whatever a man gives to the priest will be his.

  • Ezra 1:4
    69%

    4 And whoever there may be of the rest of Israel, living in any place, let the men of that place give him help with offerings of silver and gold and goods and beasts, in addition to the offering freely given for the house of God in Jerusalem.

  • Isa 22:10
    69%

    10 And you had the houses of Jerusalem numbered, pulling down the houses to make the wall stronger.

  • Ezek 12:5
    69%

    5 Make a hole in the wall, before their eyes, and go out through it.

  • Ezek 13:5
    68%

    5 You have not gone up into the broken places or made up the wall for the children of Israel to take your place in the fight in the day of the Lord.

  • Hag 1:9
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    9 You were looking for much, and it came to little; and when you got it into your house, I took it away with a breath. Why? says the Lord of armies. Because of my house which is a waste, while every man takes care of the house which is his.

  • Lev 14:42-43
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    42 And they will take other stones and put them in place of those stones, and he will take other paste and put it on the walls of the house.

    43 And if the disease comes out again in the house after he has taken out the stones and after the walls have been rubbed and the new paste put on,

  • Amos 4:3
    68%

    3 And you will go out through the broken places, every one going straight before her, and you will be sent into Harmon, says the Lord.

  • Hag 1:5
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    5 For this cause the Lord of armies has said, Give thought to your ways.

  • Neh 5:12
    67%

    12 Then they said, We will give them back, and take nothing for them; we will do as you say. Then I sent for the priests and made them take an oath that they would keep this agreement.

  • Joel 2:17
    67%

    17 Let the priests, the servants of the Lord, be weeping between the covered way and the altar, and let them say, Have mercy on your people, O Lord, do not give up your heritage to shame, so that the nations become their rulers: why let them say among the peoples, Where is their God?

  • Ezra 6:5
    67%

    5 And let the gold and silver vessels from the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took from the Temple at Jerusalem to Babylon, be given back and taken again to the Temple at Jerusalem, every one in its place, and put them in the house of God.

  • Ezra 5:15
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    15 And he said to him, Go, take these vessels, and put them in the Temple in Jerusalem, and let the house of God be put up again in its place.

  • 2 Kgs 22:9
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    9 Then, after reading it, Shaphan the scribe went in to the king and gave him an account of what had been done, saying, Your servants have given out the money which was in the house, and have given it to the overseers of the work of the house of the Lord.

  • 1 Sam 2:36
    67%

    36 Then it will be that the rest of your family, anyone who has not been cut off, will go down on his knees to him for a bit of silver or a bit of bread, and say, Be pleased to put me into one of the priest's places so that I may have a little food.

  • Ezek 13:12
    67%

    12 And when the wall has come down, will they not say to you, Where is the whitewash which you put on it?

  • 2 Kgs 22:12
    67%

    12 And he gave orders to Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, and Achbor, the son of Micaiah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah the king's servant, saying,