let the priests receive from each of the donors, and let them repair the house wherever any need of repairs is discovered.”
2 Kings 12:6 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 But by the twenty-third year of King Jehoash the priests had made no repairs on the house. Plus de versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 But it was so, that in the three and twentieth year of king Jehoash the priests had not repaired the breaches of the house. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But in the twenty-third year of King Joash's reign the priests had not made the needed repairs on the Lord's house. American Standard Version (1901) But it was so, that in the three and twentieth year of king Jehoash the priests had not repaired the breaches of the house. Common English Bible But by the twenty-third year of King Jehoash, the priests still hadn’t repaired the temple. Catholic Public Domain Version And yet, even until the twenty-third year of king Jehoash, the priests did not repair the surfaces of the temple. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Now till the three and twentieth year of king Joas the priests did not make the repairs of the temple. |
let the priests receive from each of the donors, and let them repair the house wherever any need of repairs is discovered.”
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.”
He assembled the priests and the Levites and said to them, “Go out to the cities of Judah and gather silver from all Israel to repair the house of your God, year by year, and see that you act quickly.” But the Levites did not act quickly.
But the priests were too few and could not skin all the burnt offerings, so, until other priests had sanctified themselves, their kindred, the Levites, helped them until the work was finished, for the Levites were more conscientious than the priests in sanctifying themselves.
Oh, that someone among you would shut the temple doors, so that you would not kindle fire on my altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you, says the Lord of hosts, and I will not accept an offering from your hands.
All of them are seeking their own interests, not those of Jesus Christ.
to tend the flock of God that is in your charge, exercising the oversight, not under compulsion but willingly, as God would have you do it, not for sordid gain but eagerly.