2 Kings 12:8 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁸ So the priests agreed that they should take no more money from the people, and that they should not 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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁸ And the priests were forbidden to take any more money of the people, and to make the repairs of the house.

2 Kings 12:8 Cross References

2 Kings 12:7

Therefore King Jehoash summoned Jehoiada the priest and the other priests and said to them, “Why are you not repairing the house? Now therefore take no more money from your acquaintances, but hand it over for the repair of the house.”

2 Kings 12:9

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

2 Kings 22:4

“Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may reckon the amount of the money which has been brought into the house of the Lord, which the keepers of the threshold have collected from the people;

2 Chronicles 24:8

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