2 Kings 12:16

¹⁴ But they gave that to the workmen, and repaired therewith the house of the LORD.

¹⁵ Moreover they reckoned not with the men, into whose hand they delivered the money to be bestowed on workmen: for they dealt faithfully.

The trespass money and sin money was not brought into the house of the LORD: it was the priests’.

¹⁷ Then Hazael king of Syria went up, and fought against Gath, and took it: and Hazael set his face to go up to Jerusalem.

¹⁸ And Jehoash king of Judah took all the hallowed things that Jehoshaphat, and Jehoram, and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own hallowed things, and all the gold that was found in the treasures of the house of the LORD, and in the king’s house, and sent it to Hazael king of Syria: and he went away from Jerusalem.

Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: The money from the guilt offerings and sin offerings was not brought into the house of the LORD; it belonged to the priests.
KJV: The trespass money and sin money was not brought into the house of the LORD: it was the priests’.
WEB: The money for the trespass offerings and the money for the sin offerings was not brought into the LORD’s house. It was the priests’.
ASV: The money for the trespass-offerings, and the money for the sin-offerings, was not brought into the house of Jehovah: it was the priests`.
DARBY: The money of trespass-offerings, and the money of sin-offerings, was not brought into the house of Jehovah: it was for the priests.
BLB: The silver from the guilt offerings and the silver from the sin offerings was not brought into the house of YHWH; to the priests it belonged.

ÅB: Men skyldoffer- og syndofferpengene kom ikke inn til Herrens hus; de tilfalt prestene.
OTB: Pengene fra skyldofrene og pengene fra syndofrene ble ikke brakt inn i Herrens hus; de ble holdt av prestene.
B1930: Men skyldoffer- og syndofferpengene kom ikke inn til Herrens hus; de tilfalt prestene.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Leviticus 7:7
As the sin offering is, so is the trespass offering: there is one law for them: the priest that maketh atonement therewith shall have it.
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Leviticus 5:15–18
If a soul commit a trespass, and sin through ignorance, in the holy things of the LORD; then he shall bring for his trespass unto the LORD a ram without blemish out of the flocks, with thy estimation by shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for a trespass offering:
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Leviticus 4:24
And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the goat, and kill it in the place where they kill the burnt offering before the LORD: it is a sin offering.
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Leviticus 4:29
And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the sin offering, and slay the sin offering in the place of the burnt offering.
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Hosea 4:8
They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity.
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Numbers 5:8–10
But if the man have no kinsman to recompense the trespass unto, let the trespass be recompensed unto the LORD, even to the priest; beside the ram of the atonement, whereby an atonement shall be made for him.
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Numbers 18:8–9
And the LORD spake unto Aaron, Behold, I also have given thee the charge of mine heave offerings of all the hallowed things of the children of Israel; unto thee have I given them by reason of the anointing, and to thy sons, by an ordinance for ever.
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Numbers 18:19
All the heave offerings of the holy things, which the children of Israel offer unto the LORD, have I given thee, and thy sons and thy daughters with thee, by a statute for ever: it is a covenant of salt for ever before the LORD unto thee and to thy seed with thee.
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