2 Kings 12:8 - Easy To Read Version

⁸ The priests agreed to stop taking money from the people. But they also decided not to repair the temple.

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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 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 Kings 12:9

So Jehoiada the priest took a box and made a hole in the top of it. Then Jehoiada put the box on the south side of the altar. This box was by the door where people came into the Lord’s temple. Some of the priests guarded the doorway [143] of the temple. Those priests took the money people had given to the Lord, and they put that money into that box.

2 Kings 22:4

“Go up to Hilkiah the high priest. Tell him that he must get the money that people brought to the Lord’s temple. The gatekeepers collected that money from the people.

2 Chronicles 24:8

King Joash gave a command for a box to be made and put outside the gate at the Lord’s temple. {\cf2\super [274]}