2 Kings 12:5

Updated 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.

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."

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.

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.'

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 Jehoash said to the priests, All the money of the hallowed things that is brought into the house of Yahweh, in current money, the money of the persons for whom each man is rated, and all the money that it comes into any man's heart to bring into the house of Yahweh, ⁵ 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. ⁶ But it was so, that in the three and twentieth year of king Jehoash the priests had not repaired the breaches of the house. ⁷ Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and for the [other] priests, and said to them, Why aren't you repairing the breaches of the house? now therefore take no [more] money from your acquaintance, but deliver it for the breaches of the house. ⁸ And the priests consented that they should take no [more] money from the people, neither repair the breaches of the house. ⁹ But Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid of it, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as one comes into the house of Yahweh: and the priests that kept the threshold put therein all the money that was brought into the house of Yahweh. ¹⁰ And it was so, when they saw that there was much money in the chest, that the king's scribe and the high priest came up, and they put in bags and counted the money that was found in the house of Yahweh. ¹¹ And they gave the money that was weighed out into the hands of those that did the work, that had the oversight of the house of Yahweh: and they paid it out to the carpenters and the builders, that wrought on the house of Yahweh, ¹² and to the masons and the hewers of stone, and for buying timber and cut stone to repair the breaches of the house of Yahweh, and for all that was laid out for the house to repair it. ¹³ But there were not made for the house of Yahweh cups of silver, snuffers, basins, trumpets, any vessels of gold, or vessels of silver, of the money that was brought into the house of Yahweh;

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 Canaanite was from Sidon, as you go toward Gerar, to Gaza; as you go toward Sodom and Gomorrah and Admah and Zeboiim, to Lasha.

Genesis 11:31
And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran, his son's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife; and he had them go out from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came to Haran, and dwelt there.

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

Genesis 12:8
And he removed from there to the mountain on the east of Beth-el, and pitched his tent, having Beth-el on the west, and Ai on the east: and there he built an altar to Yahweh, and called on the name of Yahweh.

Genesis 12:9
And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the South.

Genesis 14:14
And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he mobilized his trained men, born in his house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued as far as Dan.

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

Acts 7:4
Then he came out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and dwelt in Haran: and from there, when his father was dead, [God] removed him into this land, wherein you now dwell:

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.