2 Kings 12:5 “Let every priest receive it from his constituency, and let it be used…”

2 Kings 12:5

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

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.

World English Bible

let the priests take it to them, each man from his donor; and they shall repair the damage to the house, wherever any damage is found.”

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.

Geneva Bible 1599

Let the Priestes take it to them, euery man of his acquaintance: and they shall repaire the broken places of the house, wheresoeuer any decay is founde.

Darby Translation

let the priests take it, every man of his acquaintance; and let them repair the breaches of the house, wherever any breach is found.

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.'

Bible in Basic English

Let the priests take, every man from his friends and neighbours, to make good what is damaged in the house, wherever it is to be seen.

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Cross references

“Let the priests”

2 Chronicles 24:5

2 Chronicles 24:5 · BSB

So he gathered the priests and Levites and said, “Go out to the cities of Judah and collect the money due annually from all Israel, to repair the house of your God. Do it quickly.” The Levites, however, did not make hast…

“let them repair”

Isaiah 58:12 2 Kings 12:12 1 Kings 11:27 2 Chronicles 24:7 2 Kings 22:5 2 Kings 22:6

Isaiah 58:12 · BSB

Your people will rebuild the ancient ruins; you will restore the age-old foundations; you will be called Repairer of the Breach, Restorer of the Streets of Dwelling.

2 Kings 12:12 · BSB

masons, and stonecutters. They also purchased timber and dressed stone to repair the damage to the house of the LORD, and they paid the other expenses of the temple repairs.

1 Kings 11:27 · BSB

and this is the account of his rebellion against the king. Solomon had built the supporting terraces and repaired the gap in the wall of the city of his father David.

2 Chronicles 24:7 · BSB

For the sons of that wicked woman Athaliah had broken into the house of God and had even used the sacred objects of the house of the LORD for the Baals.

2 Kings 22:5 · BSB

And let them deliver it into the hands of the supervisors of those doing the work on the house of the LORD, who in turn are to give it to the workmen repairing the damages to the house of the LORD—

2 Kings 22:6 · BSB

to the carpenters, builders, and masons—to buy timber and dressed stone to repair the temple.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

4Then 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.

6By the twenty-third year of the reign of Joash, however, the priests had not yet repaired the damage to the temple.

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