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2 Kings 12:7

Then King Iehoash called for Iehoiada the Priest, and the other Priestes, and sayd vnto them, Why repaire yee not the ruines of the Temple? nowe therefore receiue no more money of your acquaintance, except yee deliuer it to repaire the ruines of the Temple.

Geneva Bible 1599

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

6Yet in the three and twentieth yeere of King Iehoash the Priestes had not mended that which was decayed in the Temple.

8So the Priestes consented to receiue no more money of the people, neither to repaire the decayed places of the Temple.

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Cross References

2 Kings 12:2And Iehoash did that which was good in the sight of the Lord all his time that Iehoiada the Priest taught him.

2 Chronicles 23:1And in the seuenth yeere Iehoiada waxed bolde, and tooke the captaines of hundreths, to wit, Azariah the sonne of Ieroham, and Ishmael the sonne of Iehohanan, and Azariah the sonne of Obed, and Maasiah the sonne of Adaiah, and Elishaphat the sonne of Zichri in couenant with him.

2 Chronicles 24:16And they buried him in the citie of Dauid with the kings, because he had done good in Israel, and toward 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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