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2 Kings 12:5

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

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

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Some of you will rebuild the ancient ruins; you will restore the foundations laid long ago; you will be called the repairer of broken walls, the restorer of streets where people live.


So he gathered the priests and Levites and said, ‘Go out to the cities of Judah and collect silver from all Israel to repair the temple of your God as needed year by year,  and do it quickly.’ However, the Levites did not hurry.


the masons, and the stonecutters #– #and would use it to buy timber and quarried stone to repair the damage to the Lord’s temple  and for all expenses for temple repairs.


and this is the reason he rebelled against the king: Solomon had built the supporting terraces  and repaired the opening in the wall of the city of his father David.


For the sons of that wicked Athaliah broke into the Lord’s temple and even used the sacred things of the Lord’s temple for the Baals.’


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 #– #


But by the twenty-third year  of the reign of King Joash, the priests had not repaired the damage  to the temple.


Everyone who is registered must pay half a shekel  according to the sanctuary shekel (twenty gerahs to the shekel). This half shekel is a contribution to the Lord.


‘Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When someone makes a special vow  to the Lord that involves the assessment of people,


The firstborn of every living thing, human or animal, presented to the Lord belongs to you. But you must certainly redeem a human firstborn,  and redeem the firstborn of an unclean animal.


‘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.


Then the leaders of the households, the leaders of the tribes of Israel, the commanders of thousands and of hundreds,  and the officials in charge of the king’s work  gave willingly.


Then the people rejoiced because of their leaders’ willingness to give, for they had given to the Lord wholeheartedly.  King David also rejoiced greatly.





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