Verse 16
2 Kings 12:16
World English Bible, British Edition
16
The money for the trespass offerings and the money for the sin offerings
was not brought into the LORD’s house. It was the priests’.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וְ/לֹ֧א יְחַשְּׁב֣וּ אֶת הָ/אֲנָשִׁ֗ים אֲשֶׁ֨ר יִתְּנ֤וּ אֶת הַ/כֶּ֨סֶף֙ עַל יָדָ֔/ם לָ/תֵ֖ת לְ/עֹשֵׂ֣י הַ/מְּלָאכָ֑ה כִּ֥י בֶ/אֱמֻנָ֖ה הֵ֥ם עֹשִֽׂים
English Translation
And they shall not count the men who give the money into their hands to give to the workers, for they are doing their work faithfully.
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Chapter 12 Context
1
Jehoash began to reign in the seventh year of Jehu, and he reigned forty
years in Jerusalem. His mot...
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2
Jehoash did that which was right in the LORD’s eyes all his days in which
Jehoiada the priest instru...
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3
However, the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed
and burnt incense in the h...
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4
Jehoash said to the priests, “All the money of the holy things
that is brought into the LORD’s house...
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5
let the priests take it to them, each man from his donor; and they shall
repair the damage to the ho...
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6
But it was so, that in the twenty-third year of King Jehoash the
priests had not repaired the damage...
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7
Then King Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and for the other priests,
and said to them, “Why...
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8
The priests consented that they should take no more money from
the people, and not repair the damage...
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9
But Jehoiada the priest took a chest and bored a hole in its lid, and
set it beside the altar, on th...
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10
When they saw that there was much money in the chest, the king’s scribe
and the high priest came up,...
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11
They gave the money that was weighed out into the hands of those who
did the work, who had the overs...
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12
and to the masons and the stone cutters, and for buying timber and
cut stone to repair the damage to...
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13
But there were not made for the LORD’s house cups of silver, snuffers,
basins, trumpets, any vessels...
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14
for they gave that to those who did the work, and repaired the LORD’s
house with it.
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15
Moreover they didn’t demand an accounting from the men into whose hand
they delivered the money to g...
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16
The money for the trespass offerings and the money for the sin offerings
was not brought into the LO...
17
Then Hazael king of Syria went up and fought against Gath, and
took it; and Hazael set his face to g...
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18
Jehoash king of Judah took all the holy things that Jehoshaphat and
Jehoram and Ahaziah, his fathers...
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19
Now the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, aren’t
they written in the book of the chron...
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20
His servants arose and made a conspiracy, and struck Joash at the house
of Millo, on the way that go...
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21
For Jozacar the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad the son of Shomer, his
servants, struck him, and he d...
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