2 Kings 12:8 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and for the other priests, and said unto them, Why repair ye not the breaches of the house? now therefore take no more money from your acquaintance, but deliver it for the breaches of the house.

2 Kings 12:9

But 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 cometh into the house of the LORD: and the priests that kept the door put therein 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 sum the money which is brought into the house of the LORD, which the keepers of the door have gathered of the people:

2 Chronicles 24:8

So the king commanded, and they made a chest, and set it without at the gate of the house of the LORD.