Devine Scripture

2 Kings 12:8

2 Kings chapter 12 · verse 8 in three public-domain English translations with scriptural context

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

And the priests consented that they should take no more money from the people, neither repair the breaches of the house.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

And the priests consented to receive no more money of the people, neither to repair the breaches of the house.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

And the priests consented that they should take no more money from the people, neither repair the breaches of the house.

Context

v.7Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and for the other priests, and said unto them, Why repair ye not the breaches of the house? now therefore take no more money from your acquaintance, but deliver it for the breaches of the house.

v.8This passage

v.9But Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid of it, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as one cometh into the house of Jehovah: and the priests that kept the threshold put therein all the money that was brought into the house of Jehovah.