KJV King James Version
But it was [so, that] in the three and twentieth year of king Jehoash the priests had not repaired the breaches of the house.
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2 Kings 12:6
But it was [so, that] in the three and twentieth year of king Jehoash the priests had not repaired the breaches of the house.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
By the twenty-third year of the reign of Joash, however, the priests had not yet repaired the damage to the temple.
WEB World English Bible
But it was so, that in the three and twentieth year of king Jehoash the priests had not repaired the breaches of the house.
ASV American Standard Version
But it was so, that in the three and twentieth year of king Jehoash the priests had not repaired the breaches of the house.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And it cometh to pass, in the twenty and third year of king Jehoash, the priests have not strengthened the breach of the house,
Surrounding context — 2 Kings 12
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.
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 cometh into the house of the LORD: and the priests that kept the door put therein all the money [that was] brought into the house of the LORD.
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וַיְהִ֗יH1961 · ha.yahto beבִּשְׁנַ֨תH8141 · sha.nehyearעֶשְׂרִ֧יםH6242 · es.rimtwentyוְשָׁלֹ֛שׁH7969 · sha.loshthreeשָׁנָ֖הH8141 · sha.nehyearלַמֶּ֣לֶךְH4428 · me.lekhkingיְהוֹאָ֑שׁH3060 · ye.ho.ashJehoashלֹֽא־H3808 · lonotחִזְּק֥וּH2388 · cha.zaqto strengthen: strengthenהַכֹּהֲנִ֖יםH3548 · ko.henpriestאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]בֶּ֥דֶקH919 · be.deqbreachהַבָּֽיִת׃H1004 · betplace
Cross-references
Isaiah 56:10-12His watchmen [are] blind: they are all ignorant, they [are] all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.Malachi 1:10Who [is there] even among you that would shut the doors [for nought]? neither do ye kindle [fire] on mine altar for nought. I have no pleasure in you, saith the LORD of hosts, neither will I accept an offering at your hand.2 Chronicles 29:34But the priests were too few, so that they could not flay all the burnt offerings: wherefore their brethren the Levites did help them, till the work was ended, and until the [other] priests had sanctified themselves: for the Levites [were] more upright in heart to sanctify themselves than the priests.1 Peter 5:2Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight [thereof], not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;1 Samuel 2:29-30Wherefore kick ye at my sacrifice and at mine offering, which I have commanded [in my] habitation; and honourest thy sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the chiefest of all the offerings of Israel my people?Philippians 2:21For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ’s.
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