2 Kings 12:5
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.
2 Kings 12:5 in other translations
| BSB | Let every priest receive it from his constituency, and let it be used to repair any damage found in the temple.” |
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| WEB | 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.” |
| ASV | 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. |
| YLT | 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.' |
| DARBY | let the priests take it, every man of his acquaintance; and let them repair the breaches of the house, wherever any breach is found. |
| BBE | 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. |
| Webster | Let the priests take it to them, every man of his acquaintance: and let them repair the breaches of the house, wherever any breach shall be found. |
What does 2 Kings 12:5 mean?
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 2 Kings 12:1-16
It is a great mercy to young people, especially to all young men of rank, like Jehoash, to have those about them who will instruct them to do what is right in the sight of the Lord; and they do wisely and well for themselves, when willing to be counselled and ruled. The temple was out of repair; Jehoash orders the repair of the temple. The king was zealous. God requires those who have power, to use it for the…
2 Kings 12:5 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for 2 Kings 12:5
- Isaiah 58:12
And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.
- 1 Kings 11:27
And this was the cause that he lifted up his hand against the king: Solomon built Millo, and repaired the breaches of the city of David his father.
- 2 Chronicles 24:5
And he gathered together the priests and the Levites, and said to them, Go out unto the cities of Judah, and gather of all Israel money to repair the house of your God from year to year, and see that ye hasten the matter. Howbeit the Levites hastened it not.
- 2 Kings 22:5-6
And let them deliver it into the hand of the doers of the work, that have the oversight of the house of the Lord: and let them give it to the doers of the work which is in the house of the Lord, to repair the breaches of the house, Unto carpenters, and builders, and masons, and to buy timber and hewn stone to repair the house.
- 2 Kings 12:12
And to masons, and hewers of stone, and to buy timber and hewed stone to repair the breaches of the house of the Lord, and for all that was laid out for the house to repair it.
- 2 Chronicles 24:7
For the sons of Athaliah, that wicked woman, had broken up the house of God; and also all the dedicated things of the house of the Lord did they bestow upon Baalim.
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Context
- 2 Kings 12:4
And Jehoash said to the priests, All the money of the dedicated things that is brought into the house of the Lord, even the money of every one that passeth the account, the money that every man is set at, and all the money that cometh into any man’s heart to bring into the house of the Lord,
- 2 Kings 12:5
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.
- 2 Kings 12:6
But it was so, that in the three and twentieth year of king Jehoash the priests had not repaired the breaches of the house.
2 Kings 12:5 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Recíbanlo los sacerdotes, cada uno de sus familiares, y reparen los portillos del templo donde quiera que se hallare abertura. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et Joas dit aux sacrificateurs: Tout l’argent des choses saintes qui est apporté dans la maison de l’ Éternel, l’argent de tout homme qui passe par le dénombrement, l’argent des âmes selon l’estimation de chacun, tout argent qu’il monte au cœur de chacun d’apporter dans la maison de l’ Éternel, |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | sollen die Priester an sich nehmen, ein jeder von seinen Bekannten; und sie selbst sollen das Baufällige des Hauses ausbessern, alles, was daselbst Baufälliges gefunden wird. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | accipiant illam sacerdotes juxta ordinem suum, et instaurent sartatecta domus, si quid necessarium viderint instauratione. |