2 Kings 12:5

Green's Literal Translation

even the priests shall take to themselves, each man from his friend; and they shall repair the breach of the house, in all places where a breach may be found.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
each priest is to take it from his assessor and repair whatever damage is found in the temple.”

Hebrew Names Version
let the Kohanim take it to them, every man from his acquaintance; and they shall repair the breaches of the house, wherever any breach shall be found.

King James Version
Let the priests take it to them, every man of his acquaintance: and let them repair the breaches of the house, wheresoever any breach shall be found.

English Standard Version
let the priests take, each from his donor, and let them repair the house wherever any need of repairs is discovered."

New Century Version
Each priest will take the money from the people he serves. Then the priests must repair any damage they find in the Temple."

New English Translation
The priests should receive the silver they need from the treasurers and repair any damage to the temple they discover."

Amplified Bible
let the priests receive such contributions for themselves, each from his acquaintance; and they shall repair any breach in the house of the LORD, wherever a breach is found."

New American Standard Bible
the priests are to take it for themselves, each from his acquaintance; and they shall repair damage to the house wherever any damage is found."

Geneva Bible (1587)
Let the Priestes take it to them, euery man of his acquaintance: and they shall repaire the broken places of the house, wheresoeuer any decay is founde.

Legacy Standard Bible
let the priests take it for themselves, each from his acquaintance; and they shall repair the damages of the house wherever any damage may be found."

Contemporary English Version
and use it to repair the temple. You priests can contribute your own money too."

Complete Jewish Bible
Y'ho'ash said to the cohanim, "All the funds for sacred purposes which are brought to the house of Adonai — the half-shekel tax, the taxes on persons in a man's household, and all the offerings anyone voluntarily brings to the house of Adonai —

Darby Translation
let the priests take it, every man of his acquaintance; and let them repair the breaches of the house, wherever any breach is found.

George Lamsa Translation
Let the priests receive it, every man from him who has decided to give; and let them spend it for the repairing of the house, wherever a breach to be repaired shall be found in it.

Good News Translation
Each priest was to be responsible for the money brought by those he served, and the money was to be used to repair the Temple, as needed.

Lexham English Bible
let the priests take for themselves, each from his treasurers, and let them repair the breach of the temple for every place where damage is found."

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
let the prestes take it vnto them, euery one his porcion: with that shall they repayre the decaye in the house of the LORDE, where they fynde that there is eny decaye.

American Standard Version
let the priests take it to them, every man from his acquaintance; and they shall repair the breaches of the house, wheresoever any breach shall be found.

Bible in Basic English
Let the priests take, every man from his friends and neighbours, to make good what is damaged in the house, wherever it is to be seen.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Let the priestes take it to them, euery man of his acquayntaunce, to repayre the broken places of the house wheresoeuer any decaye is founde.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And Jehoash said to the priests: 'All the money of the hallowed things that is brought into the house of the LORD, in current money, the money of the persons for whom each man is rated, all the money that cometh into any man's heart to bring into the house of the LORD,

King James Version (1611)
Let the priests take it to them, euery man of his acquaintance, and let them repaire the breaches of the house, wheresoeuer any breach shalbe found.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
let the priests take it to themselves, every man from the proceeds of his sale: and they shall repair the breaches of the house in all places wheresoever a breach shall be found.

English Revised Version
let the priests take it to them, every man from his acquaintance: and they shall repair the breaches of the house, wheresoever any breach shall be found.

Berean Standard Bible
Let every priest receive it from his constituency, and let it be used to repair any damage found in the temple."

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And `the preestis reparele the hilyngis of the hows, if thei seen ony thing nedeful in reparelyng.

Young's Literal Translation
do the priests take to them, each from his acquaintance, and they strengthen the breach of the house, in all [places] where there is found a breach.'

Update Bible Version
let the priests take it to them, every man from his acquaintance; and they shall repair the breaches of the house, wherever any breach shall be found.

Webster's Bible Translation
Let the priests take [it] to them, every man of his acquaintance: and let them repair the breaches of the house, wherever any breach shall be found.

World English Bible
let the priests take it to them, every man from his acquaintance; and they shall repair the breaches of the house, wherever any breach shall be found.

New King James Version
let the priests take it themselves, each from his constituency; and let them repair the damages of the temple, wherever any dilapidation is found."

New Living Translation
Let the priests take some of that money to pay for whatever repairs are needed at the Temple."

New Life Bible
the religious leaders may take this money. Each leader should take it from those whom he knows. And they should use it to build the house again in the places where it has been broken and destroyed.

New Revised Standard
let the priests receive from each of the donors; and let them repair the house wherever any need of repairs is discovered."

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
let the priests take to them, every one from his acquaintance, - and let, them, repair the breaches of the house, wheresoever there may be found a breach.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Let the priests take it according to their order and repair the house, wheresoever they shall see any thing that wanteth repairing.

Revised Standard Version
let the priests take, each from his acquaintance; and let them repair the house wherever any need of repairs is discovered."

New American Standard Bible (1995)
let the priests take it for themselves, each from his acquaintance; and they shall repair the damages of the house wherever any damage may be found."

Contextual Overview

⁴ And Joash said to the priests, All the silver of the devoted things that is brought into the house of Jehovah, the silver coming over, each man the silver of his valuation, all the silver that comesupon any man's heart to bring into the houseof Jehovah, ⁵ even the priests shall take to themselves, each man from his friend; and they shall repair the breach of the house, in all places where a breach may be found. ⁶ And it happened, in the twenty third year of King Joash, that the priests had not repaired the breach of the house. ⁷ And King Joash called to Jehoiada the priest, and the priests, and said to them, Why have you not repaired the breach of the house? And now, do not receive any silver from your friends, but give it for the breach of the house. ⁸ And the priests consented not to receive silver from the people, nor to strengthen the breach of the house. ⁹ And Jehoiada the priest took a chest and cut a hole in its lid, and put it near the altar, on the right side, as one comes into the house of Jehovah, and the priests who kept the door put in it all the silver brought into the house of Jehovah. ¹⁰ And it happened, when they saw that the silver in the chest was plentiful, that a scribe of the king, and the high priest went up, and they bound it up, and counted the silver found in the house of Jehovah. ¹¹ And they weighed silver into the hands of those doing the work, those overseeing the house of Jehovah; and they gave it, weighed it out, to the craftsmen in wood, and to the builders who were working on the house of Jehovah, ¹² and to the masons, and the stone cutters, and to buy wood and cut stone to strengthen the breach of the house of Jehovah; and for all that went out on the house, to make it strong. ¹³ However, there were not made for the house of Jehovah basins of silver, snuffers, bowls, trumpets, any vessels of gold or vessels of silver, of the silver brought into the house of Jehovah;

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Let the priests: 2 Chronicles 24:5

let them repair: 2 Kings 12:12, 2 Kings 22:5, 2 Kings 22:6, 1 Kings 11:27, 2 Chronicles 24:7, Isaiah 58:12

Cross-References

Genesis 10:19
And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as you come to Gerar, as far as Gaza, as you go in towards Sodom and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, even to Lasha.

Genesis 11:31
And Terah took his son Abram, and Lot, Haran's son, his grandson and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram's wife. And he went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldeans to go into the land of Canaan. And they came to Haran and lived there.

Genesis 12:5
And Abram took his wife Sarai, and his brother's son, Lot, and all their substance that they had gained, and the persons they had gotten in Haran. And they went out to go into the land of Canaan. And they came into the land of Canaan.

Genesis 12:8
And he moved from there to a mountain on the east of Bethel, and stretched his tent with Bethel toward the sea, and Ai on the east. And he built an altar there to Jehovah, and called on the name of Jehovah.

Genesis 12:9
And Abram pulled up stakes , going on and pulling up stakes toward the Negeb.

Genesis 14:14
And when Abram heard that his brother was captured, even then he led out his trained men, born of his household, three hundred and eighteen. And they pursued as far as Dan.

Genesis 14:21
And the king of Sodom said to Abram, Give me the persons and take the goods for yourself.

Acts 7:4
Then going out from the land of the Chaldeans, he lived in Haran. And after his father died, God moved him from there into this land in which you now live.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Let the priests take it to them, every man of his acquaintance,.... Of those that were most known by them; for the priests had cities assigned them in several parts of the land, and they that dwelt with them in them, or in the parts adjacent to them, were best known by them; and they were sent into all the cities, some to one and some to another, where they were most acquainted, to collect money, both what was due by law, and what the people should freely give, see 2 Chronicles 24:5

and let them repair the breaches of the house, wheresoever any breach shall be found: that is, of the temple, which, according to the Jewish chronology i, had been built but one hundred and fifty five years; and being built very strong, would have needed no considerable repairs as yet, but that it had been broken up and misused by Athaliah and her sons, 2 Chronicles 24:7.

i Seder Olam Rabba, c. 18.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The collection was not to be made in Jerusalem only, but in all “the cities of Judah” 2 Chronicles 24:5; the various priests and Levites being collectors in their own neighborhoods.

Breaches - The word in the original includes every kind and degree of ruin or dilapidation.