2 Kings 12:8 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁸ So the priests agreed that they would neither accept more silver from the people nor repair the house.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ And the priests consented to receive no more money of the people, neither to repair the breaches of the house.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ And the priests consented to receive no more money from the people, nor to repair the breaches of the house.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ And the priests consented that they should take no more money from the people, neither repair the breaches of the house.

Common English Bible

⁸ The priests agreed that they wouldn’t take any more money from the people nor be responsible for temple repairs.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ And so the priests were prohibited from accepting any more money from the people to repair the surfaces of the house.

2 Kings 12:8 Cross References

2 Kings 12:7

Therefore King Jehoash summoned the priest Jehoiada with the other priests and said to them, “Why are you not repairing the house? Now therefore do not accept any more silver from your donors but hand it over for the repair of the house.”

2 Kings 12:9

Then the priest Jehoiada took a chest, made a hole in its lid, and set it beside the altar on the right side as one entered the house of the Lord; the priests who guarded the threshold put in it all the silver that was brought into the house of the Lord.

2 Kings 22:4

“Go up to the high priest Hilkiah and have him add up the entire sum of the silver that has been brought into the house of the Lord that the keepers of the threshold have collected from the people;

2 Chronicles 24:8

So the king gave command, and they made a chest and set it outside the gate of the house of the Lord.