KJV 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.
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2 Kings 12:5
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.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Let every priest receive it from his constituency, and let it be used to repair any damage found in the temple.”
WEB 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.”
ASV 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.
YLT 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.’
Surrounding context — 2 Kings 12
2 And Jehoash did [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD all his days wherein Jehoiada the priest instructed him.
3 But the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
4 And Jehoash said to the priests, All the money of the dedicated things that is brought into the house of the LORD, [even] the money of every one that passeth [the account], the money that every man is set at, [and] all the money that cometh into any man’s heart to bring into the house of the LORD,
5 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.
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 the [other] priests, and said unto them, Why repair ye not the breaches of the house? now therefore receive no [more] money of your acquaintance, but deliver it for the breaches of the house.
8 And the priests consented to receive no [more] money of the people, neither to repair the breaches of the house.
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Original-language word links
These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
יִקְח֤וּH3947 · la.qachto take: takeלָהֶם֙H9038 · hemthemהַכֹּ֣הֲנִ֔יםH3548 · ko.henpriestאִ֖ישׁH376 · ishmanמֵאֵ֣תH854 · etwithמַכָּר֑וֹH4378 · mak.karacquaintanceוְהֵ֗םH1992 · hem.mahthey(masc.)יְחַזְּקוּ֙H2388 · cha.zaqto strengthen: strengthenאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]בֶּ֣דֶקH919 · be.deqbreachהַבַּ֔יִתH1004 · betplaceלְכֹ֛לH3605 · kolallאֲשֶׁר־H834 · a.sherwhichיִמָּצֵ֥אH4672 · ma.tsato findשָׁ֖םH8033 · shamthereבָּֽדֶק׃ פH919 · be.deqbreach
Cross-references
Isaiah 58:12And [they that shall be] of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.2 Kings 22:5-6And let them deliver it into the hand of the doers of the work, that have the oversight of the house of the LORD: and let them give it to the doers of the work which [is] in the house of the LORD, to repair the breaches of the house,1 Kings 11:27And this [was] the cause that he lifted up [his] hand against the king: Solomon built Millo, [and] repaired the breaches of the city of David his father.2 Chronicles 24:5And he gathered together the priests and the Levites, and said to them, Go out unto the cities of Judah, and gather of all Israel money to repair the house of your God from year to year, and see that ye hasten the matter. Howbeit the Levites hastened [it] not.2 Kings 12:12And to masons, and hewers of stone, and to buy timber and hewed stone to repair the breaches of the house of the LORD, and for all that was laid out for the house to repair [it].2 Chronicles 24:7For the sons of Athaliah, that wicked woman, had broken up the house of God; and also all the dedicated things of the house of the LORD did they bestow upon Baalim.
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