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2 Kings 12:11 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" They gave the money that was weighed out into the hands of those who did the work, who had the oversight of the LORD’s house; and they paid it out to the carpenters and the builders who worked on the LORD’s house, "

2 Kings 12:11

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9 But 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 the LORD’s house; and the priests who kept the threshold put all the money that was brought into the LORD’s house into it.

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

11 They gave the money that was weighed out into the hands of those who did the work, who had the oversight of the LORD’s house; and they paid it out to the carpenters and the builders who worked on the LORD’s house,

12 and to the masons and the stone cutters, and for buying timber and cut stone to repair the damage to the LORD’s house, and for all that was laid out for the house to repair it.

13 But there were not made for the LORD’s house cups of silver, snuffers, basins, trumpets, any vessels of gold or vessels of silver, of the money that was brought into the LORD’s house;

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2 Chronicles 34:10

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"They delivered it into the hands of the workmen who had the oversight of the LORD’s house; and the workmen who labored in the LORD’s house gave it to mend and repair the house."

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2 Chronicles 34:17

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"They have emptied out the money that was found in the LORD’s house, and have delivered it into the hand of the overseers and into the hand of the workmen.”"

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2 Kings 22:5

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"Let them deliver it into the hand of the workers who have the oversight of the LORD’s house; and let them give it to the workers who are in the LORD’s house, to repair the damage to the house,"

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2 Kings 22:9

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"Shaphan the scribe came to the king, and brought the king word again, and said, “Your servants have emptied out the money that was found in the house, and have delivered it into the hands of the workmen who have the oversight of the LORD’s house.”"

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1 Chronicles 26:27

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"They dedicated some of the plunder won in battles to repair the LORD’s house."

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Ezra 8:30

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"So the priests and the Levites received the weight of the silver, the gold, and the vessels, to bring them to Jerusalem to the house of our God."

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2 Kings 12:1

"Jehoash began to reign in the seventh year of Jehu, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Zibiah of Beersheba."

2 Kings 12:2

"Jehoash did that which was right in the LORD’s eyes all his days in which Jehoiada the priest instructed him."

2 Kings 12:3

"However, the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places."

2 Kings 12:4

"Jehoash said to the priests, “All the money of the holy things that is brought into the LORD’s house, in current money, the money of the people for whom each man is evaluated, and all the money that it comes into any man’s heart to bring into the LORD’s house,"

2 Kings 12:5

"let 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 Kings 12:6

"But it was so, that in the twenty-third year of King Jehoash the priests had not repaired the damage to the house."

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