2 Kings 12:5
The priests should receive the silver they need from the treasurers and repair any damage to the temple they discover.”
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- Isa 58:12 : 12 Your perpetual ruins will be rebuilt; you will reestablish the ancient foundations. You will be called,‘The one who repairs broken walls, the one who makes the streets inhabitable again.’
- 1 Kgs 11:27 : 27 This is what prompted him to rebel against the king: Solomon built a terrace and he closed up a gap in the wall of the city of his father David.
- 2 Kgs 12:12 : 12 as well as masons and stonecutters. They bought wood and chiseled stone to repair the damage to the LORD’s temple and also paid for all the other expenses.
- 2 Kgs 22:5-6 : 5 Have them hand it over to the construction foremen assigned to the LORD’s temple. They in turn should pay the temple workers to repair it, 6 including craftsmen, builders, and masons, and should buy wood and chiseled stone for the repair work.
- 2 Chr 24:5 : 5 He assembled the priests and Levites and ordered them,“Go out to the cities of Judah and collect the annual quota of silver from all Israel for repairs on the temple of your God. Be quick about it!” But the Levites delayed.
- 2 Chr 24:7 : 7 (Wicked Athaliah and her sons had broken into God’s temple and used all the holy items of the LORD’s temple in their worship of the Baals.)
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- 2 Kgs 12:6-127 verses87%
6By the twenty-third year of King Jehoash’s reign the priests had still not repaired the damage to the temple.
7So King Jehoash summoned Jehoiada the priest along with the other priests, and said to them,“Why have you not repaired the damage to the temple? Now, take no more silver from your treasurers unless you intend to use it to repair the damage.”
8The priests agreed not to collect silver from the people and relieved themselves of personal responsibility for the temple repairs.
9Jehoiada the priest took a chest and drilled a hole in its lid. He placed it on the right side of the altar near the entrance of the LORD’s temple. The priests who guarded the entrance would put into it all the silver brought to the LORD’s temple.
10When they saw the chest was full of silver, the royal secretary and the high priest counted the silver that had been brought to the LORD’s temple and bagged it up.
11They would then hand over the silver that had been weighed to the construction foremen assigned to the LORD’s temple. They hired carpenters and builders to work on the LORD’s temple,
12as well as masons and stonecutters. They bought wood and chiseled stone to repair the damage to the LORD’s temple and also paid for all the other expenses.
- 2 Kgs 22:4-63 verses84%
4“Go up to Hilkiah the high priest and have him melt down the silver that has been brought by the people to the LORD’s temple and has been collected by the guards at the door.
5Have them hand it over to the construction foremen assigned to the LORD’s temple. They in turn should pay the temple workers to repair it,
6including craftsmen, builders, and masons, and should buy wood and chiseled stone for the repair work.
- 2 Chr 24:4-63 verses77%
4Later, Joash was determined to repair the LORD’s temple.
5He assembled the priests and Levites and ordered them,“Go out to the cities of Judah and collect the annual quota of silver from all Israel for repairs on the temple of your God. Be quick about it!” But the Levites delayed.
6So the king summoned Jehoiada the chief priest, and said to him,“Why have you not made the Levites collect from Judah and Jerusalem the tax authorized by Moses the LORD’s servant and by the assembly of Israel at the tent containing the tablets of the law?”
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4Jehoash said to the priests,“I place at your disposal all the consecrated silver that has been brought to the LORD’s temple, including the silver collected from the census tax, the silver received from those who have made vows, and all the silver that people have voluntarily contributed to the LORD’s temple.
- 2 Chr 34:9-113 verses75%
9They went to Hilkiah the high priest and gave him the silver that had been brought to God’s temple. The Levites who guarded the door had collected it from the people of Manasseh and Ephraim and from all who were left in Israel, as well as from all the people of Judah and Benjamin and the residents of Jerusalem.
10They handed it over to the construction foremen assigned to the LORD’s temple. They in turn paid the temple workers to restore and repair it.
11They gave money to the craftsmen and builders to buy chiseled stone and wood for the braces and rafters of the buildings that the kings of Judah had allowed to fall into disrepair.
- 2 Kgs 12:14-163 verses73%
14It was handed over to the foremen who used it to repair the LORD’s temple.
15They did not audit the treasurers who disbursed the funds to the foremen, for they were honest.
16(The silver collected in conjunction with reparation offerings and sin offerings was not brought to the LORD’s temple; it belonged to the priests.)
- 2 Chr 24:11-133 verses73%
11Whenever the Levites brought the chest to the royal accountant and they saw there was a lot of silver, the royal scribe and the accountant of the high priest emptied the chest and then took it back to its place. They went through this routine every day and collected a large amount of silver.
12The king and Jehoiada gave it to the construction foremen assigned to the LORD’s temple. They hired carpenters and craftsmen to repair the LORD’s temple, as well as those skilled in working with iron and bronze to restore the LORD’s temple.
13They worked hard and made the repairs. They followed the measurements specified for God’s temple and restored it.
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12Your perpetual ruins will be rebuilt; you will reestablish the ancient foundations. You will be called,‘The one who repairs broken walls, the one who makes the streets inhabitable again.’
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11Indeed, look! The LORD is giving the command. He will smash the large house to bits, and the small house into little pieces.
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17They melted down the silver in the LORD’s temple and handed it over to the supervisors and the construction foremen.”
- Neh 3:20-223 verses70%
20After him Baruch son of Zabbai worked on another section, from the buttress to the door of the house of Eliashib the high priest.
21After him Meremoth son of Uriah, the son of Hakkoz, worked on another section from the door of Eliashib’s house to the end of it.
22After him the priests worked, men of the nearby district.
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28Above the Horse Gate the priests worked, each in front of his house.
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45He must tear down the house, its stones, its wood, and all the plaster of the house, and bring all of it outside the city to an unclean place.
- Num 5:9-102 verses69%
9Every offering of all the Israelites’ holy things that they bring to the priest will be his.
10Every man’s holy things will be his; whatever any man gives the priest will be his.’”
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4Anyone who survives in any of those places where he is a resident foreigner must be helped by his neighbors with silver, gold, equipment, and animals, along with voluntary offerings for the temple of God which is in Jerusalem.’”
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10You counted the houses in Jerusalem, and demolished houses so you could have material to reinforce the wall.
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5While they are watching, dig a hole in the wall and carry your belongings out through it.
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5You have not gone up in the breaks in the wall, nor repaired a wall for the house of Israel that it would stand strong in the battle on the day of the LORD.
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9‘You expected a large harvest, but instead there was little. And when you would bring it home, I would blow it right away. Why?’ asks the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.‘Because my temple remains in ruins, thanks to each of you favoring his own house!
- Lev 14:42-432 verses68%
42They are then to take other stones and replace those stones, and he is to take other plaster and replaster the house.
43“If the infection returns and breaks out in the house after he has pulled out the stones, scraped the house, and it is replastered,
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3Each of you will go straight through the gaps in the walls; you will be thrown out toward Harmon.” The LORD is speaking!
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5Here then, this is what the LORD of Heaven’s Armies has said:‘Think carefully about what you are doing.
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12They replied,“We will return these things, and we will no longer demand anything from them. We will do just as you say.” Then I called the priests and made the wealthy and the officials swear to do what had been promised.
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17Let the priests, those who serve the LORD, weep from the vestibule all the way back to the altar. Let them say,“Have pity, O LORD, on your people; please do not turn over your inheritance to be mocked, to become a proverb among the nations. Why should it be said among the peoples,“Where is their God?”
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5Furthermore let the gold and silver vessels of the temple of God, which Nebuchadnezzar brought from the temple in Jerusalem and carried to Babylon, be returned and brought to their proper place in the temple in Jerusalem. Let them be deposited in the temple of God.’
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15He said to him,“Take these vessels and go deposit them in the temple in Jerusalem, and let the house of God be rebuilt in its proper location.”
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9Shaphan the scribe went to the king and reported,“Your servants melted down the silver in the temple and handed it over to the construction foremen assigned to the LORD’s temple.”
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36Everyone who remains in your house will come to bow before him for a little money and for a scrap of bread. Each will say,‘Assign me to a priestly task so I can eat a scrap of bread.’”
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12When the wall has collapsed, people will ask you,“Where is the whitewash you coated it with?”
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12The king ordered Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam son of Shaphan, Achbor son of Micaiah, Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah the king’s servant,