2 Kings 12:16
Also they took no account of the men into whose hands they gave the money to give to the workmen, for they acted faithfully.
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
The trespass money and sin money was not brought into the house of the LORD: it was the priests’.
In Context
15for they were to give it to the workmen, and they repaired therewith the house of the Lord.
Cross References
Leviticus 4:24And he shall lay his hand on the head of the kid, and they shall kill it in the place where they kill the victims for whole burnt offerings before the Lord; it is a sin offering.
Leviticus 5:15The soul which shall be really unconscious, and shall sin unwillingly in any of the holy things of the Lord, shall even bring to the Lord for his transgression, a ram of the flock without blemish, valued according to shekels of silver according to the shekel of the sanctuary, for his transgression wherein he transgressed.
Numbers 5:8But if a man have no near kinsman, so as to make satisfaction for his trespass to him, the trespass offering paid to the Lord shall be for the priest, besides the ram of atonement, by which he shall make atonement with it for him.
Numbers 18:19Every special offering of the holy things, whatsoever the children of Israel shall specially offer to the Lord, I have given to thee and to thy sons and to thy daughters with thee, a perpetual ordinance: it is a covenant of salt forever before the Lord, for thee and thy seed after thee.
Hosea 4:8They will devour the sins of my people, and will set their hearts on their iniquities.
Matthew Henry on 2 Kings 12:5-17
The Repairing of the Temple. ( b. c. 853.) 4 And Jehoash said to the priests, All the money of the dedicated things that is brought into the house of the Lord , even the money of every one that passeth the account, the money that every man is set at, and all the money that cometh into any man's heart to bring into the house of the Lord , 5 Let the priests take it to them, every man of his acquaintance: and let them repair the breaches of the house, wheresoever any breach shall be found. 6 But it was so, that in… Read the whole commentary →