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2 Kings 12:7

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Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and for the other priests, and said to them, “Why don’t you repair the damage to the house? Now therefore take no more money from your treasurers, but deliver it for repair of the damage to the house.”

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2 Kings 12:7 in other translations

Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and for the other priests, and said unto them, Why repair ye not the breaches of the house? now therefore take no more money from your acquaintance, but deliver it for the breaches of the house.

2 Kings 12:7 · American Standard Version

2 Kings 12:7 in context

  1. 5let the priests take it to them, each man from his donor; and they shall repair the damage to the house, wherever any damage is found.”
  2. 6But it was so, that in the twenty-third year of king Jehoash the priests had not repaired the damage to the house.
  3. 7Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and for the other priests, and said to them, “Why don’t you repair the damage to the house? Now therefore take no more money from your treasurers, but deliver it for repair of the damage to the house.”
  4. 8The priests consented that they should take no more money from the people, and not repair the damage to the house.
  5. 9But Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and bored a hole in its lid, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as one comes into Yahweh’s house; and the priests who kept the threshold put all the money that was brought into Yahweh’s house into it.