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2 Kings 12:4

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Then  Joash said to the priests, ‘All the dedicated silver brought to the Lord’s temple,  census silver,  silver from vows,  and all silver voluntarily given  for the Lord’s temple #– #

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‘Go up to the high priest Hilkiah so that he may total up the silver brought into the Lord’s temple #– #the silver the doorkeepers have collected from the people.


Take  up an offering among you for the Lord. Let everyone whose heart is willing bring this as the Lord’s offering: gold, silver, and bronze;


So the Israelites brought a freewill offering to the Lord, all the men and women whose hearts prompted them to bring something for all the work that the Lord, through Moses, had commanded to be done.


Both men and women came; all who had willing hearts brought brooches, earrings, rings, necklaces, and all kinds of gold jewellery #– #everyone who presented a presentation offering of gold to the Lord.


For all these people have put in gifts out of their surplus, but she out of her poverty has put in all she had to live on.’


and all the silver and gold you receive throughout the province of Babylon, together with the freewill offerings given by the people and the priests to the house of their God in Jerusalem.


Based on what they could give, they gave 61,000 gold coins,  3 tonnes  of silver, and 100 priestly garments to the treasury  for the project.


All their neighbours supported them  , with silver articles, gold, goods, livestock, and valuables, in addition to all that was given as a freewill offering.


He appointed the priests to their responsibilities and encouraged them to serve in the Lord’s temple.


The offering, the tenth, and the dedicated things were brought faithfully. Conaniah the Levite was the officer in charge of them, and his brother Shimei was second.


He brought his father’s consecrated gifts and his own consecrated gifts into God’s temple: silver, gold, and utensils.


I know, my God, that you test the heart  and that you are pleased with what is right.  I have willingly given all these things with an upright heart, and now I have seen your people who are present  here giving joyfully and  willingly to you.


So King Joash of Judah took all the items consecrated by himself and by his ancestors #– #Judah’s kings Jehoshaphat, Jehoram, and Ahaziah #– #as well as all the gold found in the treasuries of the Lord’s temple and in the king’s palace, and he sent them to King Hazael of Aram.  Then Hazael withdrew from Jerusalem.


Solomon completed his entire palace complex after thirteen years of construction.


If a man decides to redeem any part of this tenth, he must add a fifth to its value.


They took from Moses’s presence all the contributions that the Israelites had brought for the task of making the sanctuary. Meanwhile, the people continued to bring freewill offerings morning after morning.


King David also dedicated these to the Lord, along with the silver and gold he had carried off from all the nations #– #from Edom, Moab, the Ammonites, the Philistines, and the Amalekites.


each priest is to take it from his assessor  and repair whatever damage is found in the temple.’  ,


However, the people were sacrificing on the high places,  because until that time a temple for the Lord’s name  had not been built.


Solomon loved the Lord   by walking in the statutes of his father David,  but he also sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.


Yet the high places were not taken away, and the people continued sacrificing and burning incense on the high places.


Yet the high places were not taken away; the people continued sacrificing and burning incense on the high places.


He sacrificed and burned incense  on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.


They burned incense there on all the high places just like the nations that the Lord had driven out before them had done. They did evil things, angering the Lord.





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