2 Kings 12:6 - Easy To Read Version

{But the priests did not do the repairs.} In the 23rd year that Joash was king, the priests {still} had not repaired the temple.

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King 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.

2 Kings 12:6 Tagairtí Cros

2 Kings 12:7

So king Joash called for Jehoiada the priest and the {other} priests. Joash said to Jehoiada and the other priests, “Why haven’t you repaired the temple? Stop taking money from the people you serve. Stop using that money. That money must be used to repair the temple.”

2 Chronicles 24:5

Joash called the priests and the Levites together. He said to them, “Go out to the towns of Judah and gather the money all the people of Israel pay every year. Use that money to build again your God’s temple. Hurry and do this.” But the Levites didn’t hurry.

2 Chronicles 29:34

But there were not enough priests to skin and cut up all the animals for the burnt offerings. So their relatives, the Levites, helped them until the work was finished and until other priests could make themselves ready for holy service. The Levites were more serious about making themselves ready to serve the Lord. They were more serious than the priests.

Malachi 1:10

“Surely, some of you priests could close the temple doors and light the fires correctly. I am not pleased with you. I will not accept your gifts.” The Lord All-Powerful said these things.

Philippians 2:21

Other people are interested only in their own lives. They are not interested in the work of Christ Jesus.

1 Peter 5:2

take care of the group of people that you are responsible for. They are God’s flock. {\cf2\super [31]} Watch over that flock because you want to, not because you are forced to do it. That is how God wants it. Do it because you are happy to serve, not because you want money.