2 Kings 12:8

KJV1611 – Modern English

The priests consented to receive no more money from the people nor to repair the breaches of the house.

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  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    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.'

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    And the priests consented to receive no more money of the people, neither to repair the breaches of the house.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    And the priests{H3548} consented{H225} that they should take{H3947} no{H1115} [more] money{H3701} from the people,{H5971} neither{H1115} repair{H2388} the breaches{H919} of the house.{H1004}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    And the priests{H3548} consented{H225}{(H8735)} to receive{H3947}{(H8800)} no{H1115} more money{H3701} of the people{H5971}, neither{H1115} to repair{H2388}{(H8763)} the breaches{H919} of the house{H1004}.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    And the prestes agreed to take no money of the people, and to repayre the decaye of the house.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    So the Priestes consented to receiue no more money of the people, neither to repaire the decayed places of the Temple.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    And the priestes consented to receaue no more money of the people, except to repaire the decayed places of the temple.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    And the priests consented to receive no [more] money of the people, neither to repair the breaches of the house.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    The priests consented that they should take no [more] money from the people, neither repair the breaches of the house.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    And the priests consent not to receive money from the people, nor to strengthen the breach of the house,

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    And the priests consented that they should take no `more' money from the people, neither repair the breaches of the house.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    And the priests consented that they should take no [more] money from the people, neither repair the breaches of the house.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    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.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    The priests consented that they should take no [more] money from the people, neither repair the breaches of the house.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    The priests agreed not to collect silver from the people and relieved themselves of personal responsibility for the temple repairs.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2 Kgs 12:3-7
    5 verses
    90%

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

    4 Jehoash said to the priests, 'All the money of the dedicated things that is brought into the house of the LORD, including the money of those who pass the account, the money each man is valued at, and all the money that comes into any man's heart to bring into the house of the LORD,

    5 let the priests take it for themselves, each man from his acquaintance, and let them repair the breaches of the house wherever any breach is found.'

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

    7 Then King Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest and the other priests, and said to them, 'Why have you not repaired the breaches of the house? Therefore, do not receive any more money from your acquaintances but deliver it for the breaches of the house.'

  • 2 Kgs 12:9-16
    8 verses
    79%

    9 But Jehoiada the priest took a chest, bored a hole in its lid, and set it beside the altar on the right side as one enters the house of the LORD. The priests who guarded the door put in it all the money that was brought into the house of the LORD.

    10 When they saw that there was much money in the chest, the king's scribe and the high priest came up, put the money into bags, and counted the money that was found in the house of the LORD.

    11 They gave the money, after it had been counted, into the hands of those who did the work and had oversight of the house of the LORD. They paid it to the carpenters and builders, who worked on the house of the LORD,

    12 and to masons and stonecutters, and for buying timber and hewn stone to repair the breaches of the house of the LORD, and for all that was laid out for the house to repair it.

    13 However, there were no silver bowls, snuffers, basins, trumpets, any vessels of gold, or vessels of silver made for the house of the LORD from the money that was brought into the house of the LORD,

    14 for they gave it to the workmen and repaired the house of the LORD with it.

    15 Moreover, they did not require an accounting from the men into whose hand they delivered the money to pay the workmen because they dealt faithfully.

    16 The guilt money and sin money were not brought into the house of the LORD; it was the priests’.

  • 2 Chr 24:4-8
    5 verses
    76%

    4 And it came to pass after this, that Joash was minded to repair the house of the LORD.

    5 And he gathered together the priests and the Levites, and said to them, Go out to the cities of Judah, and gather from all Israel money to repair the house of your God from year to year, and see that you hasten the matter. However, the Levites did not hasten it.

    6 And the king called for Jehoiada the chief, and said to him, Why have you not required of the Levites to bring in from Judah and from Jerusalem the collection, according to the commandment of Moses the servant of the LORD, and of the congregation of Israel, for the tabernacle of witness?

    7 For the sons of Athaliah, that wicked woman, had broken up the house of God; and also all the dedicated things of the house of the LORD did they bestow upon Baalim.

    8 And at the king's commandment they made a chest, and set it outside at the gate of the house of the LORD.

  • 2 Kgs 22:4-7
    4 verses
    76%

    4 Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may count the silver which is brought into the house of the LORD, which the keepers of the door have gathered from the people:

    5 And let them deliver it into the hand of those who do the work, who have the oversight of the house of the LORD: and let them give it to those who do the work which is in the house of the LORD, to repair the breaches of the house,

    6 To carpenters, and builders, and masons, and to buy timber and cut stone to repair the house.

    7 However, there was no reckoning made with them of the money that was delivered into their hand, because they dealt faithfully.

  • 2 Chr 34:9-11
    3 verses
    75%

    9 And when they came to Hilkiah the high priest, they delivered the money that was brought into the house of God, which the Levites that kept the doors had gathered from the hand of Manasseh, Ephraim, and all the remnant of Israel, and all Judah and Benjamin; and they returned to Jerusalem.

    10 And they put it into the hand of the workmen who had the oversight of the house of the LORD, and they gave it to the workmen who worked in the house of the LORD, to repair and amend the house:

    11 Even to the craftsmen and builders they gave it, to buy hewn stone, timber for couplings, and to floor the houses which the kings of Judah had destroyed.

  • 2 Chr 24:10-14
    5 verses
    74%

    10 And all the princes and all the people rejoiced, and brought in, and cast into the chest, until they had made an end.

    11 Now it came to pass, that when the chest was brought to the king's office by the hand of the Levites, and when they saw that there was much money, the king's scribe and the high priest's officer came and emptied the chest, and took it, and carried it to its place again. Thus they did day by day, and gathered money in abundance.

    12 And the king and Jehoiada gave it to those who did the work of the service of the house of the LORD, and hired masons and carpenters to repair the house of the LORD, and also those who worked in iron and bronze to mend the house of the LORD.

    13 So the workmen worked, and the work was completed by them, and they set the house of God in its state, and strengthened it.

    14 And when they had finished it, they brought the rest of the money before the king and Jehoiada, from which were made vessels for the house of the LORD, even vessels for ministering, and to offer with, and spoons, and vessels of gold and silver. And they offered burnt offerings in the house of the LORD continually all the days of Jehoiada.

  • 2 Chr 34:17
    73%

    17 And they have gathered together the money that was found in the house of the LORD, and have delivered it into the hand of the overseers and to the hand of the workmen.

  • 2 Chr 8:15
    71%

    15 And they did not depart from the commandment of the king to the priests and Levites concerning any matter, or concerning the treasures.

  • Neh 5:12
    71%

    12 Then they said, We will restore them, and will require nothing from them; we will do as you say. Then I called the priests and required an oath from them that they would do according to this promise.

  • 2 Kgs 22:9
    70%

    9 And Shaphan the scribe came to the king, and brought the king word again, and said, Your servants have gathered the money that was found in the house, and have delivered it into the hand of those who do the work, who have the oversight of the house of the LORD.

  • 2 Kgs 11:17-18
    2 verses
    69%

    17 Jehoiada made a covenant between the LORD, the king, and the people, that they would be the LORD's people; and also between the king and the people.

    18 All the people of the land went to the house of Baal and tore it down; they thoroughly broke his altars and images in pieces, and killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. And the priest appointed officers over the house of the LORD.

  • 2 Chr 13:9
    69%

    9 Have you not cast out the priests of the LORD, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and have made yourselves priests like the peoples of other lands? So that whoever comes to consecrate himself with a young bull and seven rams, the same may be a priest of those who are no gods.

  • Mic 3:11
    68%

    11 The leaders judge for reward, and the priests teach for hire, and the prophets divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? No harm can come upon us.

  • 2 Chr 24:20
    68%

    20 And the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest, who stood above the people, and said to them, Thus says God, Why do you transgress the commandments of the LORD, so that you cannot prosper? Because you have forsaken the LORD, He has also forsaken you.

  • 2 Kgs 22:12
    67%

    12 And the king commanded Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Achbor the son of Michaiah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asahiah, a servant of the king's, saying,

  • 1 Kgs 20:8
    67%

    8 And all the elders and all the people said to him, Do not listen to him, nor consent.

  • 2 Chr 23:17
    67%

    17 Then all the people went to the house of Baal, and broke it down, and broke his altars and his images in pieces, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.

  • 2 Chr 23:6
    67%

    6 But let none come into the house of the LORD, except the priests, and those that minister of the Levites; they shall go in, for they are holy: but all the people shall keep the watch of the LORD.

  • 2 Kgs 12:18
    67%

    18 Jehoash king of Judah took all the hallowed things that Jehoshaphat, Jehoram, and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own hallowed things, and all the gold found in the treasures of the house of the LORD and the king's house, and sent them to Hazael king of Syria. Then he departed from Jerusalem.

  • 2 Chr 31:10
    66%

    10 And Azariah the chief priest of the house of Zadok answered him and said, Since the people began to bring the offerings into the house of the LORD, we have had enough to eat and have left plenty, for the LORD has blessed his people; and what is left is this great store.

  • Ezra 2:68-69
    2 verses
    66%

    68 And some of the heads of the fathers, when they came to the house of the LORD which is at Jerusalem, offered freely for the house of God to set it up in its place:

    69 They gave according to their ability to the treasure of the work sixty-one thousand drams of gold, and five thousand pounds of silver, and one hundred priests' garments.

  • 1 Chr 28:13
    66%

    13 Also for the divisions of the priests and the Levites, and for all the work of the service of the house of the LORD, and for all the articles of service in the house of the LORD.

  • 2 Kgs 11:9
    66%

    9 The captains over the hundreds did everything Jehoiada the priest ordered, and each took his men who were coming on duty on the Sabbath, with those who were going off duty on the Sabbath, and came to Jehoiada the priest.

  • Mal 2:1
    66%

    1 And now, O you priests, this commandment is for you.

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