2 Kings 12
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2 Kings 12:7-16

7Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and the other priests, and said unto them, Why repair ye not the breaches of the house? now therefore receive no more money of your acquaintance, but deliver it for the breaches of the house.

8And the priests consented to receive no more money of the people, neither to repair the breaches of the house.

9But Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid of it, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as one cometh into the house of Yhwh: and the priests that kept the door put therein all the money that was brought into the house of Yhwh.1

10And it was so, when they saw that there was much money in the chest, that the king’s scribe and the high priest came up, and they put up in bags, and told the money that was found in the house of Yhwh.23

11And they gave the money, being told, into the hands of them that did the work, that had the oversight of the house of Yhwh: and they laid it out to the carpenters and builders, that wrought upon the house of Yhwh,4

12And to masons, and hewers of stone, and to buy timber and hewed stone to repair the breaches of the house of Yhwh, and for all that was laid out for the house to repair it.5

13Howbeit there were not made for the house of Yhwh bowls of silver, snuffers, basons, trumpets, any vessels of gold, or vessels of silver, of the money that was brought into the house of Yhwh:

14But they gave that to the workmen, and repaired therewith the house of Yhwh.

15Moreover they reckoned not with the men, into whose hand they delivered the money to be bestowed on workmen: for they dealt faithfully.

16The trespass money and sin money was not brought into the house of Yhwh: it was the priests’.

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Notes

  1. 1. 2 Kings 12:9 door: Heb. threshold. ↩
  2. 2. 2 Kings 12:10 scribe: or, secretary. ↩
  3. 3. 2 Kings 12:10 put…: Heb. bound up. ↩
  4. 4. 2 Kings 12:11 laid…: Heb. brought it forth. ↩
  5. 5. 2 Kings 12:12 was…: Heb. went forth. ↩

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