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The Darby Translation

2 Kings 12:15

And they did not reckon with the men into whose hand they gave the money to be bestowed on workmen; for they dealt faithfully.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Church and State;   Honesty;   Integrity;   Israel, Prophecies Concerning;   Jehoiada;   Joash;   Money;   Zeal, Religious;   Thompson Chain Reference - Business;   Business Life;   Faithfulness;   Fidelity;   Honesty;   Integrity;   Social Duties;   Virtues;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Faithfulness;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Jehoash;   Temple;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Deliver;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Zeal;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Jerusalem;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Honesty;   Kings, 1 and 2;   Masons;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Government;   Jerusalem;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Joash ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Joash;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Judah;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Worker;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Parashiyyot, the Four;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
No accounting was required from the men who received the silver to pay those doing the work, since they worked with integrity.
Hebrew Names Version
Moreover they didn't demand an accounting from the men into whose hand they delivered the money to give to those who did the work; for they dealt faithfully.
King James Version
Moreover they reckoned not with the men, into whose hand they delivered the money to be bestowed on workmen: for they dealt faithfully.
English Standard Version
And they did not ask for an accounting from the men into whose hand they delivered the money to pay out to the workmen, for they dealt honestly.
New Century Version
They did not demand to know how the money was spent, because the workers were honest.
New English Translation
They did not audit the treasurers who disbursed the funds to the foremen, for they were honest.
Amplified Bible
Moreover, they did not require an accounting from the men into whose hands they placed the money to be paid to those who did the work, for they acted in good faith.
New American Standard Bible
Moreover, they did not require an accounting from the men into whose hands they gave the money to pay to those who did the work, because they acted faithfully.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Moreouer, they reckoned not with the men, into whose handes they deliuered that money to be bestowed on workemen: for they dealt faithfully.
Legacy Standard Bible
Moreover, they did not require an accounting from the men into whose hand they paid the money in order to pay those who did the work, for they were doing it faithfully.
Contemporary English Version
The men in charge were honest, so no one had to keep track of the money.
Complete Jewish Bible
because they gave the money to those doing the work, thus restricting its use to repairing the damage in the house of Adonai .
Easy-to-Read Version
Those who were in charge of paying the workers did not have to give a report of how they spent the money, because they could be trusted.
George Lamsa Translation
Moreover they did not ask an accounting from the men to whom they delivered the money to give it to the workmen; for they dealt faithfully in paying out the repair money.
Good News Translation
The men in charge of the work were thoroughly honest, so there was no need to require them to account for the funds.
Lexham English Bible
They did not have to settle accounts with the men into whose hands they placed the money to give to the workers, for they were dealing honestly.
Literal Translation
And they did not reckon with the men into whose hand they gave the silver, to give to those doing the work, for they were dealing with faithfulness.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The men also that the money was delyuered vnto, for to geue the workmen, neded not to make eny acomptes, but did their busynes vpon credence.
American Standard Version
Moreover they reckoned not with the men, into whose hand they delivered the money to give to them that did the work; for they dealt faithfully.
Bible in Basic English
And they did not get any statement of accounts from the men to whom the money was given for the workmen, for they made use of it with good faith.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Moreouer, they reckened not with the men into whose handes they deliuered that money to be bestowed on workme: for they did their busines faithfully:
JPS Old Testament (1917)
for they gave that to them that did the work, and repaired therewith the house of the LORD.
King James Version (1611)
Moreouer, they reckned not with the men, into whose hand they deliuered the money to be bestowed on workmen: for they dealt faithfully.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Also they took no account of the men into whose hands they gave the money to give to the workmen, for they acted faithfully.
English Revised Version
Moreover they reckoned not with the men, into whose hand they delivered the money to give to them that did the work: for they dealt faithfully.
Berean Standard Bible
No accounting was required from the men who received the money to pay the workmen, because they acted with fidelity.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And rekenyng was not maad to these men that token monei, that thei schulden deele it to crafti men; but thei tretiden it in feith.
Young's Literal Translation
and they do not reckon with the men into whose hand they give the money to give to those doing the work, for in faithfulness they are dealing.
Update Bible Version
Moreover they didn't reckon with the men, into whose hand they delivered the money to give to those that did the work; for they dealt faithfully.
Webster's Bible Translation
Moreover, they reckoned not with the men, into whose hand they delivered the money to be bestowed on workmen: for they dealt faithfully.
World English Bible
Moreover they didn't demand an accounting from the men into whose hand they delivered the money to give to those who did the work; for they dealt faithfully.
New King James Version
Moreover they did not require an account from the men into whose hand they delivered the money to be paid to workmen, for they dealt faithfully.
New Living Translation
No accounting of this money was required from the construction supervisors, because they were honest and trustworthy men.
New Life Bible
And they did not ask the men who paid those who did the work how the money was spent. For they were men of honor.
New Revised Standard
They did not ask an accounting from those into whose hand they delivered the money to pay out to the workers, for they dealt honestly.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And they used not to reckon with the men into whose hands they gave the silver, to give it to the doers of the work, because, with faithfulness, were, they, dealing.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And they reckoned not with the men that received the money to distribute it to the workmen, but they bestowed it faithfully.
Revised Standard Version
And they did not ask an accounting from the men into whose hand they delivered the money to pay out to the workmen, for they dealt honestly.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Moreover, they did not require an accounting from the men into whose hand they gave the money to pay to those who did the work, for they dealt faithfully.

Contextual Overview

4 And Jehoash said to the priests, All the money of the hallowed things that is brought into the house of Jehovah, the money of every one that passes [the account], the money at which every man is valued, [and] all the money that comes into any man's heart to bring into the house of Jehovah, 5 let the priests take it, every man of his acquaintance; and let them repair the breaches of the house, wherever any breach is found. 6 And it was [so that] in the twenty-third year of king Jehoash, the priests had not repaired the breaches of the house. 7 Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and the priests, and said to them, Why have ye not repaired the breaches of the house? And now receive no money of your acquaintances, but give it for the breaches of the house. 8 And the priests consented to receive no money of the people, and that they should only repair the breaches of the house. 9 And Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as one comes into the house of Jehovah; and the priests that kept the door put into it all the money brought into the house of Jehovah. 10 And it came to pass when they saw that there was much money in the chest, that the king's scribe and the high priest came up, and they tied up and counted the money that was found in the house of Jehovah. 11 And they gave the money, weighed out into the hands of them that did the work, who were appointed over the house of Jehovah; and they laid it out to the carpenters and builders that wrought upon the house of Jehovah, 12 and to masons, and hewers of stone, and to buy timber and hewn stone to repair the breaches of the house of Jehovah, and for all that had to be laid out on the house for repairs. 13 However there were not made for the house of Jehovah basons of silver, knives, bowls, trumpets, nor any utensil of gold or utensil of silver, of the money that was brought [into] the house of Jehovah;

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

they reckoned: 2 Kings 22:7

for they dealt: 2 Chronicles 34:12, Nehemiah 7:2, Matthew 24:45, Luke 16:1, Luke 16:10, Luke 16:11, 1 Corinthians 4:2, 1 Corinthians 4:3, 3 John 1:5

Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 31:12 - the dedicated Ezra 7:18 - whatsoever Nehemiah 13:13 - counted John 12:6 - the bag

Cross-References

Genesis 12:2
And I will make of thee a great nation, and bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing.
Genesis 12:4
And Abram departed as Jehovah had said to him. And Lot went with him. And Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed out of Haran.
Genesis 12:5
And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their possessions that they had acquired, and the souls that they had obtained in Haran, and they went out to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came.
Genesis 12:16
And he treated Abram well on her account; and he had sheep, and oxen, and he-asses, and bondmen, and bondwomen, and she-asses, and camels.
Genesis 20:2
And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister. And Abimelech the king of Gerar sent and took Sarah.
Genesis 40:2
And Pharaoh was wroth with his two chamberlains—with the chief of the cup-bearers and with the chief of the bakers;
Genesis 41:1
And it came to pass at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed, and behold, he stood by the river.
Exodus 2:5
And the daughter of Pharaoh went down to bathe in the river; and her maids went along by the river's side. And she saw the ark in the midst of the sedge, and sent her handmaid and fetched it.
Exodus 2:15
And Pharaoh heard of this matter, and sought to slay Moses. But Moses fled from before Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian. And he sat by the well.
1 Kings 3:1
And Solomon allied himself by marriage with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh's daughter, and brought her into the city of David, until he had ended building his own house, and the house of Jehovah, and the wall of Jerusalem round about.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Moreover, they reckoned not with the men into whose hand they delivered the money to be bestowed on the workmen,.... That is, the king's secretary and the high priest, or his officer, never called to account the overseers of the workmen, to whom they committed the money to pay them with; never examined how they laid it out, and for what:

for they dealt faithfully; they saw they acted such an honest and upright part, and such an high opinion had they of them, that they never examined their accounts, or called for their bills.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Kings 12:15. They reckoned not with the men — They placed great confidence in them, and were not disappointed, for they dealt faithfully.


 
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