And Jehoash said to the priests, (A)“All the money of the dedicated gifts that are brought into the house of the Lord—each man’s (B)census[a] money, each man’s (C)assessment money—and all the money that [b]a man (D)purposes in his heart to bring into the house of the Lord, let the priests take it themselves, each from his constituency; and let them repair the [c]damages of the temple, wherever any dilapidation is found.”

Now it was so, by the twenty-third year of King Jehoash, (E)that the priests had not repaired the damages of the temple.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 12:4 Lit. the money coming over
  2. 2 Kings 12:4 any man’s heart prompts him to bring
  3. 2 Kings 12:5 Lit. breaches

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