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Douay-Rheims Bible

2 Kings 12:8

And the priests were forbidden to take any more money of the people, and to make the repairs of the house.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Church and State;   Israel, Prophecies Concerning;   Jehoiada;   Joash;   Liberality;   Money;   Temple;   Treasure-Houses;   Zeal, Religious;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Money;   Temple, the First;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Temple;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Jehoash;   Temple;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Zeal;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Jerusalem;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Kings, 1 and 2;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Government;   Jerusalem;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Joash ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Joash;   Temple;  

Encyclopedias:

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

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
So the priests agreed that they would receive no silver from the people and would not be the ones to repair the temple’s damage.
Hebrew Names Version
The Kohanim consented that they should take no [more] money from the people, neither repair the breaches of the house.
King James Version
And the priests consented to receive no more money of the people, neither to repair the breaches of the house.
English Standard Version
So the priests agreed that they should take no more money from the people, and that they should not repair the house.
New Century Version
The priests agreed not to take any more money from the people and not to repair the Temple themselves.
New English Translation
The priests agreed not to collect silver from the people and relieved themselves of personal responsibility for the temple repairs.
Amplified Bible
So the priests agreed that they would receive no [more] money from the people, nor [be responsible to] repair the damages of the house.
New American Standard Bible
The priests then agreed that they would not take any more money from the people, nor would they repair damage to the house.
Geneva Bible (1587)
So the Priestes consented to receiue no more money of the people, neither to repaire the decayed places of the Temple.
Legacy Standard Bible
So the priests agreed that they would take no more money from the people, nor repair the damages of the house.
Contemporary English Version
The priests agreed that they would not collect any more money or be in charge of the temple repairs.
Complete Jewish Bible
So King Y'ho'ash summoned Y'hoyada the cohen and the other cohanim and said to them, "Why aren't you repairing the damaged places in the house? Therefore, you are no longer to take money from those who contribute it personally to you; you must hand it over to be used for repairing the damage in the house."
Darby Translation
And the priests consented to receive no money of the people, and that they should only repair the breaches of the house.
Easy-to-Read Version
The priests agreed to stop taking money from the people, but they also decided not to repair the Temple.
George Lamsa Translation
So the priests agreed not to receive any more money from the people, nor to repair the breaches of the house.
Good News Translation
The priests agreed to this and also agreed not to make the repairs in the Temple.
Lexham English Bible
So the priests agreed not to take money from the people and not to repair the damage to the temple.
Literal Translation
And the priests consented not to receive silver from the people, nor to strengthen the breach of the house.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And the prestes agreed to take no money of the people, and to repayre the decaye of the house.
American Standard Version
And the priests consented that they should take no more money from the people, neither repair the breaches of the house.
Bible in Basic English
So the priests made an agreement to take no more money from the people, and not to make good what was damaged in the house.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the priestes consented to receaue no more money of the people, except to repaire the decayed places of the temple.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and for the other priests, and said unto them: 'Why repair ye not the breaches of the house? now therefore take no longer money from them that bestow it upon you, but deliver it for the breaches of the house.'
King James Version (1611)
And the priests consented to receiue no more money of the people, neither to repaire the breaches of the house.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the priests consented to receive no more money of the people, and not to repair the breaches of the house.
English Revised Version
And the priests consented that they should take no [more] money from the people, neither repair the breaches of the house.
Berean Standard Bible
So the priests agreed they would not receive money from the people and that they would not repair the temple themselves.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the prestis weren forbodun to take more the money of the puple, and to reparele the hilyngis of the hows.
Young's Literal Translation
And the priests consent not to receive money from the people, nor to strengthen the breach of the house,
Update Bible Version
And the priests consented that they should take no [more] money from the people, neither repair the breaches of the house.
Webster's Bible Translation
And the priests consented to receive no [more] money of the people, neither to repair the breaches of the house.
World English Bible
The priests consented that they should take no [more] money from the people, neither repair the breaches of the house.
New King James Version
And the priests agreed that they would neither receive more money from the people, nor repair the damages of the temple.
New Living Translation
So the priests agreed not to accept any more money from the people, and they also agreed to let others take responsibility for repairing the Temple.
New Life Bible
So the religious leaders agreed that they should take no more money from the people. And they agreed that they should not do the work that was needed on the house.
New Revised Standard
So the priests agreed that they would neither accept more money from the people nor repair the house.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
The priests therefore consented, not to take silver from the people, and not to repair the breaches of the house.
Revised Standard Version
So the priests agreed that they should take no more money from the people, and that they should not repair the house.
THE MESSAGE
The priests agreed not to take any more money or to be involved in The Temple renovation.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
So the priests agreed that they would take no more money from the people, nor repair the damages of the house.

Contextual Overview

4 And Joas said to the priests: all the money of the sanctified things, which is brought into the temple of the Lord by those that pass, which is offered for the price of a soul, and which of their own accord, and of their own free heart, they bring into the temple of the Lord: 5 Let the priests take it according to their order and repair the house, wheresoever they shall see any thing that wanteth repairing. 6 Now till the three and twentieth year of king Joas the priests did not make the repairs of the temple. 7 And king Joas called Joiada, the high priest, and the priests, saying to them: Why do you not repair the temple? Take you, therefore, money no more according to your order, but restore it for the repairing of the temple. 8 And the priests were forbidden to take any more money of the people, and to make the repairs of the house. 9 And Joiada, the high priest, took a chest, and bored a hole in the top, and set it by the altar at the right hand of them that came into the house of the Lord; and the priests that kept the doors, put therein all the money that was brought to the temple of the Lord. 10 And when they saw that there was very much money in the chest, the king’s scribe, and the high priest, came up, and poured it out, and counted the money that was found in the house of the Lord. 11 And they gave it out by number and measure into the hands of them that were over the builders of the house of the Lord: and they laid it out to the carpenters, and the masons, that wrought in the house of the Lord, 12 And made the repairs: and to them that cut stones, and to buy timber, and stones to be hewed, that the repairs of the house of the Lord might be completely finished, and wheresoever there was need of expenses to uphold the house. 13 But there were not made of the same money for the temple of the Lord, bowls, or fleshhooks, or censers, or trumpets, or any vessel of gold and silver, of the money that was brought into the temple of the Lord:

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 22:4 - sum the silver 2 Chronicles 24:8 - at the king's

Cross-References

Genesis 4:26
But to Seth also was born a son, whom he called Enos: this man began to call upon the name of the Lord.
Genesis 12:12
And that when the Egyptians shall see thee, they will say: She is his wife: and they will kill me, and keep thee.
Genesis 12:14
And when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians saw the woman that she was very beautiful.
Genesis 12:15
And the princes told Pharao, and praised her before him: and the woman was taken into the house of Pharao.
Genesis 12:16
And they used Abram well for her sake. And he had sheep and oxen and he asses, and men servants, and maid servants, and she asses, and camels.
Genesis 13:4
In the place of the altar which he had made before, and there he called upon the name of the Lord.
Genesis 21:33
And Abimelech and Phicol, the general of his army, arose and returned to the land of the Palestines. But Abraham planted a grove in Bersabee, and there called upon the name of the Lord God eternal.
Genesis 28:19
And he called the name of the city Bethel, which before was called Luza.
Genesis 35:3
Arise, and let us go up to Bethel, that we may make there an altar to God; who heard me in the day of my affliction, and accompanied me in my journey.
Joshua 7:2
And when Josue sent men from Jericho against Hai, which is beside Bethaven, on the east side of the town of Bethel, he said to them: Go up, and view the country: and they fulfilled his command, and viewed Hai.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the priests consented to receive no [more] money of the people,.... And delivered up what they had:

neither to repair the breaches of the house; being very willing to be stop both services, and especially since they seemed to be suspected.


 
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