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2 Kings 12:8 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" The priests consented that they should take no more money from the people, and not repair the damage to the house. "

2 Kings 12:8

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

7 Then King Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and for the other priests, and said to them, “Why aren’t you repairing 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.”

8 The priests consented that they should take no more money from the people, and not repair the damage to the house.

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.

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Related Verses

2 Chronicles 24:5

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"He gathered together the priests and the Levites, and said to them, “Go out to the cities of Judah, and gather money to repair the house of your God from all Israel from year to year. See that you expedite this matter.” However the Levites didn’t do it right away."

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2 Chronicles 34:9

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"They came to Hilkiah the high priest and delivered the money that was brought into God’s house, which the Levites, the keepers of the threshold, had gathered from the hands of Manasseh, Ephraim, of all the remnant of Israel, of all Judah and Benjamin, and of the inhabitants of Jerusalem."

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Ezra 6:8

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"Moreover I make a decree regarding what you shall do for these elders of the Jews for the building of this house of God: that of the king’s goods, even of the tribute beyond the River, expenses must be given with all diligence to these men, that they not be hindered."

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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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Nehemiah 5:12

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"Then they said, “We will restore them, and will require nothing of them. We will do so, even as you say.” Then I called the priests, and took an oath of them, that they would do according to this promise."

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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 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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