2 Kings 12:7

And king Joas called Jodae the priest, and the other priests, and said to them, Why have you⌃ not repaired the + 12:7 Gr. breach. breaches of the house? now then receive no more money from your sales, for you⌃ shall give it to repair the breaches of the house.

LXX2012 (US English)

In The King James Version

Then 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.

In Context

6And it came to pass in the twenty-third year of king Joas the priests had not repaired the breaches of the house.

8And the priests consented to receive no more money of the people, and not to repair the breaches of the house.

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Cross References

2 Kings 12:2And Joas did that which was right in the sight of the Lord all the days that Jodae the priest instructed him.

2 Chronicles 23:1And in the eighth year Jodae strengthened himself, and took the captains of hundreds, Azarias the son of Joram, and Ismael the son of Joanan, and Azarias the son of Obed, and Maasaeas the son of Adia, and Elisaphan the son of Zacharias, with him to the house of the Lord.

2 Chronicles 24:16And they buried him with the kings in the city of David, because he had dealt well with Israel, and with God and his house.

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 →

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