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2 Kings 12:6

Joash

4 Then Joash said to the priests, “Collect all the money brought as sacred gifts into the house of the LORD—the census money, the money from vows, and the money brought voluntarily into the house of the LORD.

5 Let every priest receive it from his constituency, and let it be used to repair any damage found in the temple.”

By the twenty-third year of the reign of Joash, however, the priests had not yet repaired the damage to the temple.

7 So King Joash called Jehoiada and the other priests and said, “Why have you not repaired the damage to the temple? Now, therefore, take no more money from your constituency, but hand it over for the repair of the temple.”

8 So the priests agreed that they would not receive money from the people and that they would not repair the temple themselves.

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BSB
By the twenty-third year of the reign of Joash, however, the priests had not yet repaired the damage to the temple.
KJV
But it was so, that in the three and twentieth year of king Jehoash the priests had not repaired the breaches of the house.
WEB
But it was so, that in the twenty-third year of King Jehoash the priests had not repaired the damage to the house.
ASV
But it was so, that in the three and twentieth year of king Jehoash the priests had not repaired the breaches of the house.
DARBY
And it was [so that] in the twenty-third year of king Jehoash, the priests had not repaired the breaches of the house.
BLB
And it was by the twentieth year and third year of King Jehoash, [that] the priests had not strengthened the breach of the house.
ÅB
Men i kong Joas' tre og tyvende år hadde prestene enda ikke bøtt husets brøst.
OTB
Men det skjedde at i det tjuetredje året til kong Joasj, hadde prestene ikke reparert skaden på huset.
B1930
Men i kong Joas' tre og tyvende år hadde prestene ennu ikke bøtt husets brøst.

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Cross references

  • Malachi 1:10

    “Oh, that one of you would shut the temple doors, so that you would no longer kindle useless fires on My altar! I take no pleasure in you,” says the LORD of Hosts, “and I will accept no offering from your hands.

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  • 1 Samuel 2:29–30

    Why then do you kick at My sacrifice and offering that I have prescribed for My dwelling place? You have honored your sons more than Me by fattening yourselves with the best of all the offerings of My people Israel.’

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  • Philippians 2:21

    For all the others look after their own interests, not those of Jesus Christ.

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  • Isaiah 56:10–12

    Israel’s watchmen are blind, they are all oblivious; they are all mute dogs, they cannot bark; they are dreamers lying around, loving to slumber.

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  • 2 Chronicles 29:34

    However, since there were not enough priests to skin all the burnt offerings, their Levite brothers helped them until the work was finished and until the priests had been consecrated. For the Levites had been more diligent in consecrating themselves than the priests had been.

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  • 1 Peter 5:2

    Be shepherds of God’s flock that is among you, watching over them not out of compulsion, but because it is God’s will; not out of greed, but out of eagerness;

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