2 Kings 12:7
“Then king Iehoash called for Iehoiada the priest, and the other priests, and saide vnto them, Why repaire ye not the breaches of the house? now therefore receiue no more money of your acquaintance, but deliuer it for the breaches of the house.”
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2 Kings 12:7 Context
5Let the priests take it to them, euery man of his acquaintance, and let them repaire the breaches of the house, wheresoeuer any breach shalbe found. 6But it was so that in the three and twentieth yeere of king Iehoash, the priests had not repaired the breaches of the house. 7Then king Iehoash called for Iehoiada the priest, and the other priests, and saide vnto them, Why repaire ye not the breaches of the house? now therefore receiue no more money of your acquaintance, but deliuer it for the breaches of the house. 8And the priests consented to receiue no more money of the people, neither to repaire the breaches of the house. 9But Iehoiada the priest tooke a chest, and bored a hole in the lid of it, and set it beside the Altar, on the right side, as one commeth into the house of the Lord, and the priests that kept the doore, put therein all the money that was brought into the house of the Lord.
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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.
- King James Version
Then King Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and for the {other} priests and said to them, "Why do you not repair the damages of the house? Now therefore take no {more} money from your acquaintances, but pay it for the damages of the house."
- New American Standard Version (1995)