World English Bible
"The priests consented that they should take no [more] money from the people, neither repair the breaches of the house."
— 2 Kings 12:8, World English Bible
“And the priests consented to receive no more money of the people, neither to repair the breaches of the house.”
“And the priests consented that they should take no more money from the people, neither repair the breaches of the house. ”
“The priests agreed not to collect silver from the people and relieved themselves of personal responsibility for the temple repairs.”
“And the priests were forbidden to take any more money of the people, and to make the repairs of the house.”
“So the priests made an agreement to take no more money from the people, and not to make good what was damaged in the house.”
“And the priests consented to receive no more money of the people, neither to repair the breaches of the house.”
let the priests take it to them, every man from his acquaintance; and they shall repair the breaches of the house, wherever any breach shall be found."
But it was so, that in the three and twentieth year of king Jehoash the priests had not repaired the breaches of the house.
Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and for the [other] priests, and said to them, "Why don't you repair the breaches of the house? Now therefore take no more money from your treasurers, but deliver it for the breaches of the house."
The priests consented that they should take no [more] money from the people, neither repair the breaches of the house.
But Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and bored a hole in its lid, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as one comes into the house of Yahweh: and the priests who kept the threshold put therein all the money that was brought into the house of Yahweh.
It was so, when they saw that there was much money in the chest, that the king's scribe and the high priest came up, and they put up in bags and counted the money that was found in the house of Yahweh.
They gave the money that was weighed out into the hands of those who did the work, who had the oversight of the house of Yahweh: and they paid it out to the carpenters and the builders, who worked on the house of Yahweh,