◄ 2 Kings 12:8 ►
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Good News Translation
The priests agreed to this and also agreed not to make the repairs in the Temple.

New Revised Standard Version
So the priests agreed that they would neither accept more money from the people nor repair the house.

Contemporary English Version
The priests agreed that they would not collect any more money or be in charge of the temple repairs.

New American Bible
So the priests agreed that they would neither take funds from the people nor make the repairs on the temple.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the priests were forbidden to take any more money of the people, and to make the repairs of the house.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the priests were forbidden to take any more money of the people, and to make the repairs of the house.

Context
Joash Repairs the Temple
…7And king Joas called Joiada, the high priest, and the priests, saying to them: Why do you not repair the temple? Take you, therefore, money no more according to your order, but restore it for the repairing of the temple. 8And the priests were forbidden to take any more money of the people, and to make the repairs of the house.9And Joiada, the high priest, took a chest, and bored a hole in the top, and set it by the altar at the right hand of them that came into the house of the Lord; and the priests that kept the doors, put therein all the money that was brought to the temple of the Lord.…
Cross References
2 Kings 12:7
And king Joas called Joiada, the high priest, and the priests, saying to them: Why do you not repair the temple? Take you, therefore, money no more according to your order, but restore it for the repairing of the temple.

2 Kings 12:9
And Joiada, the high priest, took a chest, and bored a hole in the top, and set it by the altar at the right hand of them that came into the house of the Lord; and the priests that kept the doors, put therein all the money that was brought to the temple of the Lord.

2 Kings 12:7
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