Sinai2 Kings 12:8
American Standard Version
And the priests consented that they should take no more money from the people, neither repair the breaches of the house.
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2 Kings 12:8 in other translations
The priests consented that they should take no more money from the people, and not repair the damage to the house.
2 Kings 12:8 in context
- 6But it was so, that in the three and twentieth year of king Jehoash the priests had not repaired the breaches of the house.
- 7Then 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 more money from your acquaintance, but deliver it for the breaches of the house.
- 8And the priests consented that they should take no more money from the people, neither repair the breaches of the house.
- 9But 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 cometh into the house of Jehovah: and the priests that kept the threshold put therein all the money that was brought into the house of Jehovah.
- 10And 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 up in bags and counted the money that was found in the house of Jehovah.