2 Kings 12:15
The men who supervised the work always did things honestly, so the king’s secretary and the Supreme Priest never required that the supervisors report what they had spent the money for.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
In Context
14All that money was given to the men who were doing the work of repairing the temple.
Cross References
2 Kings 22:7But the men who supervise the work will not be required to make a report on the money that is given to them, saying what they spent it for, because those men are completely honest.”
Nehemiah 7:2I appointed two men to help me to govern Jerusalem, my brother Hanani and Hananiah who was the commander of the fortress in Jerusalem. Hananiah always did his work reliably, and he revered God more than most other people do.
Luke 16:1Jesus also said to his disciples, “Once there was a rich man who had a household manager. One day he was told { someone told him} that the manager was managing the rich man’s money badly.
1 Corinthians 4:2With respect to doing that, those who are given work are required {give others some work to do require them} to do that work faithfully.
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 →