2 Kings 12:6

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

let the priests receive it each from their acquaintances, and they shall use it to repair any damage found in the temple.'

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Other Translations

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    But it was so, that in the three and twentieth year of king Jehoash the priests had not repaired the breaches of the house.

  • KJV1611 – Modern English

    But in the twenty-third year of King Jehoash, the priests had not repaired the breaches of the house.

  • King James Version 1611 (Original)

    But it was so, that in the three and twentieth year of king Jehoash the priests had not repaired the breaches of the house.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    But it was so, that in the three{H7969} and twentieth{H6242} year{H8141} of king{H4428} Jehoash{H3060} the priests{H3548} had not repaired{H2388} the breaches{H919} of the house.{H1004}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    But it was so, that in the three{H7969}{H8141} and twentieth{H6242} year{H8141} of king{H4428} Jehoash{H3060} the priests{H3548} had not repaired{H2388}{(H8765)} the breaches{H919} of the house{H1004}.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    But whan ye prestes repayred not the decaye in the house vnto the thre and twetieth yeare of kynge Ioas,

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    Yet in the three and twentieth yeere of King Iehoash the Priestes had not mended that which was decayed in the Temple.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    And so it came to passe, that vnto the three and twentith yere of king Iehoas, the priestes had mended nothing that was decayed in the temple.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    But it was [so, that] in the three and twentieth year of king Jehoash the priests had not repaired the breaches of the house.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    But it was so, that in the three and twentieth year of king Jehoash the priests had not repaired the breaches of the house.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    And it cometh to pass, in the twenty and third year of king Jehoash, the priests have not strengthened the breach of the house,

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    But it was so, that in the three and twentieth year of king Jehoash the priests had not repaired the breaches of the house.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    But it was so, that in the three and twentieth year of king Jehoash the priests had not repaired the breaches of the house.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

  • World English Bible (2000)

    But it was so, that in the three and twentieth year of king Jehoash the priests had not repaired the breaches of the house.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    By the twenty-third year of King Jehoash’s reign the priests had still not repaired the damage to the temple.

Referenced Verses

  • 1 Sam 2:29-30 : 29 Why do you scorn My sacrifice and offering that I commanded for My dwelling? Why do you honor your sons more than Me by fattening yourselves on the best of all the offerings of My people Israel? 30 Therefore, the LORD, the God of Israel, declares: I certainly said that your house and your father’s house would walk before Me forever. But now the LORD declares: Far be it from Me! For those who honor Me I will honor, but those who despise Me will be disdained.
  • 2 Chr 29:34 : 34 But because there were too few priests to skin all the burnt offerings, their Levite brothers helped them until the work was completed and the priests had consecrated themselves, for the Levites were more diligent in consecrating themselves than the priests.
  • Isa 56:10-12 : 10 Israel's watchmen are blind; they all lack knowledge. They are all mute dogs; they cannot bark. They lie around dreaming, loving to sleep. 11 Yet the dogs are greedy; they never have enough. They are shepherds who lack understanding; all of them turn to their own way, each seeking his own gain from every quarter. 12 "Come," they say, "let us fetch wine and drink our fill of strong drink! Tomorrow will be like today, or even far better."
  • Mal 1:10 : 10 Oh, that one of you would shut the temple doors so you would not light useless fires on my altar! I am not pleased with you, says the LORD of Hosts, and I will not accept any offerings from your hands.
  • Phil 2:21 : 21 For they all seek their own interests, not those of Christ Jesus.
  • 1 Pet 5:2 : 2 Shepherd the flock of God that is among you, watching over them—not under compulsion, but freely; not for dishonest gain, but eagerly.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • 2 Kgs 12:7-12
    6 verses
    89%

    7 But by the twenty-third year of King Joash, the priests had not repaired the damage to the temple.

    8 So King Joash called Jehoiada the priest and the other priests and said to them, 'Why are you not repairing the damage to the temple? Therefore, do not take money from your donors anymore but give it directly for the temple’s repairs.'

    9 The priests agreed not to collect money from the people nor to handle the repairs of the temple themselves.

    10 Jehoiada the priest took a chest, bored a hole in its lid, and placed it beside the altar, on the right side as one enters the temple of the LORD. The priests guarding the threshold deposited into it all the money brought to the temple of the LORD.

    11 Whenever they saw there was a lot of money in the chest, the king’s scribe and the high priest would come, count the money that had been brought to the temple of the LORD, and put it into bags.

    12 They would give the prepared money to the workers appointed to oversee the repairs to the temple of the LORD. They used it to pay the carpenters and builders working on the temple of the LORD,

  • 2 Kgs 12:2-5
    4 verses
    85%

    2 In the seventh year of Jehu, Joash became king, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Zibiah, and she was from Beersheba.

    3 Joash did what was right in the eyes of the LORD all the days that Jehoiada the priest instructed him.

    4 However, the high places were not removed; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.

    5 Joash said to the priests, 'All the money dedicated as holy gifts brought to the temple of the LORD—that is, the census money, the assessed value for individuals, and all the money that anyone approaches with a willing heart to bring to the temple of the LORD—

  • 2 Chr 24:4-7
    4 verses
    79%

    4 After this, Joash decided to restore the house of the Lord.

    5 He gathered the priests and Levites and said to them, "Go out to the cities of Judah and collect from all Israel money to repair the house of your God annually. Hurry and do this task." But the Levites did not act quickly.

    6 So the king summoned Jehoiada, the chief priest, and said to him, "Why have you not required the Levites to bring in from Judah and Jerusalem the tax imposed by Moses, the servant of the Lord, and the congregation of Israel for the tent of the testimony?"

    7 For the wicked Athaliah and her sons had broken into the house of God and had even used all the holy things of the Lord's house for the worship of the Baals.

  • 2 Kgs 22:3-6
    4 verses
    77%

    3 In the eighteenth year of King Josiah's reign, the king sent Shaphan, son of Azaliah and grandson of Meshullam, the scribe, to the house of the LORD, saying,

    4 “Go to Hilkiah the high priest, so that he may count the silver brought into the house of the LORD, which the doorkeepers have collected from the people.

    5 Let it be given to the hands of the workmen who are appointed over the house of the LORD, and they shall use it to pay the workers engaged in the repairs of the house—

    6 the carpenters, builders, and masons. It shall also be used to buy timber and quarried stone for repairing the house.

  • 2 Chr 24:11-13
    3 verses
    77%

    11 Whenever the chest was brought to the king's steward by the Levites, and they saw there was a large amount of money, the king's scribe and the high priest's officer came, emptied the chest, and returned it to its place. They did this day after day and collected a great amount of money.

    12 The king and Jehoiada gave the money to those who carried out the work of the Lord's temple. They hired stonemasons and carpenters to restore the temple and craftsmen to work with iron and bronze to repair the house of the Lord.

    13 The workers diligently carried out their tasks, and the restoration of the temple made steady progress under their hands. They rebuilt the house of God according to its original design and strengthened it.

  • 2 Kgs 12:14-16
    3 verses
    75%

    14 However, no silver basins, snuffers, bowls, trumpets, or any gold or silver vessels were made from the money brought to the temple of the LORD.

    15 Instead, they gave the money to the workers, who used it to repair the temple of the LORD.

    16 No accounting was required from the men who handled the money given to the workers, because they acted with integrity.

  • 2 Chr 34:8-11
    4 verses
    72%

    8 In the eighteenth year of his reign, to cleanse the land and the temple, he sent Shaphan son of Azaliah, Maaseiah the city governor, and Joah son of Joahaz, the recorder, to restore the house of the LORD his God.

    9 They went to Hilkiah the high priest and gave him the money that had been brought to the house of God, which the Levites, the gatekeepers, had collected from Manasseh, Ephraim, and the remnant of Israel, as well as all Judah, Benjamin, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

    10 They gave it into the hands of the supervisors of the work being done on the house of the LORD, who then gave it to the workmen repairing and restoring the temple.

    11 They gave it to the craftsmen and builders to buy dressed stones, timber for joists, and beams for the buildings that the kings of Judah had allowed to fall into ruin.

  • Neh 3:20-22
    3 verses
    71%

    20 After him, Baruch son of Zabbai zealously repaired another section, from the corner to the entrance of the house of Eliashib the high priest.

    21 After him, Meremoth son of Uriah, the son of Hakkoz, repaired another section, from the entrance of Eliashib's house to the end of it.

    22 After him, the priests—the men from the surrounding region—made repairs.

  • 2 Chr 29:3
    71%

    3 In the first year of his reign, in the first month, he opened the doors of the house of the LORD and repaired them.

  • Ezek 13:5
    71%

    5 You have not gone up to the breaches or repaired the wall for the house of Israel, so that it can stand firm in battle on the day of the LORD.

  • 2 Kgs 22:12
    70%

    12 Then the king commanded Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam son of Shaphan, Achbor son of Micaiah, Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah, the king’s servant, saying,

  • Isa 22:10
    70%

    10 You counted the houses of Jerusalem and tore down houses to fortify the wall.

  • 2 Kgs 12:18-19
    2 verses
    70%

    18 At that time, Hazael king of Aram went up and fought against Gath and captured it. Then he turned to attack Jerusalem.

    19 But Joash king of Judah took all the sacred items that had been dedicated by his forefathers—Jehoshaphat, Jehoram, and Ahaziah, kings of Judah, along with his own sacred gifts and all the gold found in the treasuries of the temple of the LORD and the royal palace—and sent them to Hazael king of Aram. Then Hazael withdrew from Jerusalem.

  • 2 Chr 30:3
    70%

    3 They could not celebrate it at the proper time because not enough priests had consecrated themselves, and the people had not gathered in Jerusalem.

  • 2 Chr 22:12
    69%

    12 Joash remained hidden with them in the house of God for six years while Athaliah ruled over the land.

  • 2 Kgs 13:10
    69%

    10 In the thirty-seventh year of Joash king of Judah, Jehoash son of Jehoahaz became king over Israel in Samaria, and he reigned for sixteen years.

  • Amos 6:11
    69%

    11 For the LORD has given the command: The great house will be shattered into pieces, and the small house into bits.

  • 1 Chr 15:13
    69%

    13 For because you did not carry it the first time, the LORD our God broke out against us, since we did not seek Him according to the proper procedure."

  • 2 Kgs 14:13
    69%

    13 Jehoash king of Israel captured Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash, the son of Ahaziah, at Beth Shemesh. Then he went to Jerusalem and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the Ephraim Gate to the Corner Gate, four hundred cubits long.

  • Neh 3:6
    69%

    6 Joiada son of Paseah and Meshullam son of Besodeiah repaired the Old Gate. They laid its beams, set up its doors, its locks, and its bars.

  • Lam 2:6-7
    2 verses
    69%

    6 He has violently done away with his dwelling, as if it were a garden, destroying his appointed meeting place. The LORD has caused Zion to forget its appointed times and Sabbaths. In his fierce anger, he has despised king and priest alike.

    7 The Lord has rejected his altar and disowned his sanctuary. He has delivered into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces. They raised their voices in the house of the LORD as on a day of appointed festival.

  • 2 Chr 25:23
    69%

    23 Joash king of Israel captured Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, at Beth Shemesh. Then he brought him to Jerusalem and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the Ephraim Gate to the Corner Gate, a section four hundred cubits long.

  • Neh 3:28
    69%

    28 Above the Horse Gate, the priests made repairs, each one opposite his own house.

  • 2 Chr 13:9
    69%

    9 Have you not driven out the priests of the LORD, the descendants of Aaron, and the Levites, and appointed your own priests like the peoples of other lands? Whoever comes with a young bull and seven rams can become a priest of what are not gods.

  • Neh 11:12
    68%

    12 Their associates, who carried out the work for the temple, numbered 822. Also, Adaiah son of Jeroham, son of Pelaliah, son of Amzi, son of Zechariah, son of Pashhur, son of Malchijah.