Verse 6
2 Kings 12:6
Literal Standard Version
6
And it comes to pass, in the twenty-third year of King Jehoash, the priests have not strengthened the breach of the house,
Original Language Text
hebrew
יִקְח֤וּ לָ/הֶם֙ הַ/כֹּ֣הֲנִ֔ים אִ֖ישׁ מֵ/אֵ֣ת מַכָּר֑/וֹ וְ/הֵ֗ם יְחַזְּקוּ֙ אֶת בֶּ֣דֶק הַ/בַּ֔יִת לְ/כֹ֛ל אֲשֶׁר יִמָּצֵ֥א שָׁ֖ם בָּֽדֶק
English Translation
The priests shall take for themselves a man from their acquaintance, and they shall strengthen the repair of the house for all that is found there in the repair.
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Chapter 12 Context
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In the seventh year of Jehu, Jehoash has reigned, and he has reigned forty years in Jerusalem, and t...
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and Jehoash does that which is right in the eyes of YHWH all his days in which Jehoiada the priest d...
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only, the high places have not been removed—the people are still sacrificing and making incense in h...
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And Jehoash says to the priests, “All the money of the sanctified things that is brought into the ho...
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the priests take to themselves, each from his acquaintance, and they strengthen the breach of the ho...
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And it comes to pass, in the twenty-third year of King Jehoash, the priests have not strengthened th...
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and King Jehoash calls to Jehoiada the priest, and to the priests, and says to them, “Why are you no...
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And the priests do not consent to receive money from the people, nor to strengthen the breach of the...
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and Jehoiada the priest takes a chest, and pierces a hole in its lid, and puts it near the altar, on...
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And it comes to pass, at their seeing that the money is abundant in the chest, that there goes up a...
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and have given the weighed money into the hands of those doing the work, those inspecting the house...
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and to those repairing the wall, and to hewers of stone, and to buy wood and hewn stones to strength...
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Only, there is not made for the house of YHWH basins of silver, snuffers, bowls, trumpets, any vesse...
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for they give it to those doing the work, and they have strengthened the house of YHWH with it,
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and they do not reckon with the men into whose hand they give the money to give to those doing the w...
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The money of a trespass-offering and the money of sin-offerings is not brought into the house of YHW...
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Then Hazael king of Aram goes up and fights against Gath, and captures it, and Hazael sets his face...
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and Jehoash king of Judah takes all the sanctified things that Jehoshaphat, and Jehoram, and Ahaziah...
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And the rest of the matters of Joash and all that he did, are they not written on the scroll of the...
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And his servants rise, and make a conspiracy, and strike Joash in the house of Millo, that is going...
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Indeed, Jozachar son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad son of Shemer, his servants, have struck him, and he...
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