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Repairing the Temple

Then(A) Joash said to the priests, ‘All the dedicated silver brought to the Lord’s temple,(B) census silver,(C) silver from vows,(D) and all silver voluntarily given(E) for the Lord’s temple –  each priest is to take it from his assessor[a] and repair whatever damage is found in the temple.’[b](F)

But by the twenty-third year(G) of the reign of King Joash, the priests had not repaired the damage[c] to the temple.(H)

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Footnotes

  1. 12:5 Hb obscure
  2. 12:5 Lit repair the breach of the temple wherever there is found a breach
  3. 12:6 Lit breach in 2Kg 12:5–12