2 Kings 12:5

World English Bible (2000)

let the priests take it to them, every man from his acquaintance; and they shall repair the breaches of the house, wherever any breach shall be found."

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  • Isa 58:12 : 12 Those who shall be of you shall build the old waste places; you shall raise up the foundations of many generations; and you shall be called The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.
  • 1 Kgs 11:27 : 27 This was the reason why he lifted up his hand against the king: Solomon built Millo, and repaired the breach of the city of David his father.
  • 2 Kgs 12:12 : 12 and to the masons and the stone cutters, and for buying timber and cut stone to repair the breaches of the house of Yahweh, and for all that was laid out for the house to repair it.
  • 2 Kgs 22:5-6 : 5 Let them deliver it into the hand of the workmen who have the oversight of the house of Yahweh; and let them give it to the workmen who are in the house of Yahweh, to repair the breaches of the house, 6 to the carpenters, and to the builders, and to the masons, and for buying timber and cut stone to repair the house.
  • 2 Chr 24:5 : 5 He gathered together the priests and the Levites, and said to them, "Go out to the cities of Judah, and gather money to repair the house of your God from all Israel from year to year. See that you expedite this matter." However the Levites didn't do it right away.
  • 2 Chr 24:7 : 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 Yahweh did they bestow on the Baals.

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  • 2 Kgs 12:6-12
    7 verses
    87%

    6But it was so, that in the three and twentieth year of king Jehoash the priests had not repaired the breaches of the house.

    7Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and for the [other] priests, and said to them, "Why don't you repair the breaches of the house? Now therefore take no more money from your treasurers, but deliver it for the breaches of the house."

    8The priests consented that they should take no [more] money from the people, neither repair the breaches of the house.

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

    10It was so, when they saw that there was much money in the chest, that the king's scribe and the high priest came up, and they put up in bags and counted the money that was found in the house of Yahweh.

    11They gave the money that was weighed out into the hands of those who did the work, who had the oversight of the house of Yahweh: and they paid it out to the carpenters and the builders, who worked on the house of Yahweh,

    12and to the masons and the stone cutters, and for buying timber and cut stone to repair the breaches of the house of Yahweh, and for all that was laid out for the house to repair it.

  • 2 Kgs 22:4-6
    3 verses
    84%

    4"Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may sum the money which is brought into the house of Yahweh, which the keepers of the threshold have gathered of the people.

    5Let them deliver it into the hand of the workmen who have the oversight of the house of Yahweh; and let them give it to the workmen who are in the house of Yahweh, to repair the breaches of the house,

    6to the carpenters, and to the builders, and to the masons, and for buying timber and cut stone to repair the house.

  • 2 Chr 24:4-6
    3 verses
    77%

    4It happened after this, that Joash was minded to restore the house of Yahweh.

    5He gathered together the priests and the Levites, and said to them, "Go out to the cities of Judah, and gather money to repair the house of your God from all Israel from year to year. See that you expedite this matter." However the Levites didn't do it right away.

    6The king called for Jehoiada the chief, and said to him, "Why haven't you required of the Levites to bring in the tax of Moses the servant of Yahweh, and of the assembly of Israel, out of Judah and out of Jerusalem, for the tent of the testimony?"

  • 2 Kgs 12:4
    77%

    4Jehoash said to the priests, "All the money of the holy things that is brought into the house of Yahweh, in current money, the money of the persons for whom each man is rated, and all the money that it comes into any man's heart to bring into the house of Yahweh,

  • 2 Chr 34:9-11
    3 verses
    75%

    9They came to Hilkiah the high priest, and delivered the money that was brought into the house of God, which the Levites, the keepers of the threshold, had gathered of the hand of Manasseh and Ephraim, and of all the remnant of Israel, and of all Judah and Benjamin, and of the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

    10They delivered it into the hand of the workmen who had the oversight of the house of Yahweh; and the workmen who labored in the house of Yahweh gave it to mend and repair the house;

    11even to the carpenters and to the builders gave they it, to buy cut stone, and timber for couplings, and to make beams for the houses which the kings of Judah had destroyed.

  • 2 Kgs 12:14-16
    3 verses
    73%

    14for they gave that to those who did the work, and repaired therewith the house of Yahweh.

    15Moreover they didn't demand an accounting from the men into whose hand they delivered the money to give to those who did the work; for they dealt faithfully.

    16The money for the trespass offerings, and the money for the sin offerings, was not brought into the house of Yahweh: it was the priests'.

  • 2 Chr 24:11-13
    3 verses
    73%

    11It was so, that whenever the chest was brought to the king's officers by the hand of the Levites, and when they saw that there was much money, the king's scribe and the chief priest's officer came and emptied the chest, and took it, and carried it to its place again. Thus they did day by day, and gathered money in abundance.

    12The king and Jehoiada gave it to such as did the work of the service of the house of Yahweh; and they hired masons and carpenters to restore the house of Yahweh, and also such as worked iron and brass to repair the house of Yahweh.

    13So the workmen worked, and the work of repairing went forward in their hands, and they set up the house of God in its state, and strengthened it.

  • Isa 58:12
    71%

    12Those who shall be of you shall build the old waste places; you shall raise up the foundations of many generations; and you shall be called The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.

  • Amos 6:11
    70%

    11"For, behold, Yahweh commands, and the great house will be smashed to pieces, and the little house into bits.

  • 2 Chr 34:17
    70%

    17They have emptied out the money that was found in the house of Yahweh, and have delivered it into the hand of the overseers, and into the hand of the workmen."

  • Neh 3:20-22
    3 verses
    70%

    20After him Baruch the son of Zabbai earnestly repaired another portion, from the turning [of the wall] to the door of the house of Eliashib the high priest.

    21After him repaired Meremoth the son of Uriah the son of Hakkoz another portion, from the door of the house of Eliashib even to the end of the house of Eliashib.

    22After him repaired the priests, the men of the Plain.

  • Neh 3:28
    69%

    28Above the horse gate repaired the priests, everyone over against his own house.

  • Lev 14:45
    69%

    45He shall break down the house, its stones, and its timber, and all the house's mortar. He shall carry them out of the city into an unclean place.

  • Num 5:9-10
    2 verses
    69%

    9Every heave offering of all the holy things of the children of Israel, which they present to the priest, shall be his.

    10Every man's holy things shall be his: whatever any man gives the priest, it shall be his.'"

  • Ezra 1:4
    69%

    4Whoever is left, in any place where he lives, let the men of his place help him with silver, with gold, with goods, and with animals, besides the freewill offering for the house of God which is in Jerusalem.'"

  • Isa 22:10
    69%

    10You numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and you broke down the houses to fortify the wall.

  • Ezek 12:5
    69%

    5Dig through the wall in their sight, and carry your stuff out that way.

  • Ezek 13:5
    68%

    5You have not gone up into the gaps, neither built up the wall for the house of Israel, to stand in the battle in the day of Yahweh.

  • Hag 1:9
    68%

    9"You looked for much, and, behold, it came to little; and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why?" says Yahweh of Armies, "Because of my house that lies waste, while each of you is busy with his own house.

  • Lev 14:42-43
    2 verses
    68%

    42They shall take other stones, and put them in the place of those stones; and he shall take other mortar, and shall plaster the house.

    43"If the plague comes again, and breaks out in the house, after he has taken out the stones, and after he has scraped the house, and after it was plastered;

  • Amos 4:3
    68%

    3You will go out at the breaks in the wall, everyone straight before her; and you will cast yourselves into Harmon," says Yahweh.

  • Hag 1:5
    68%

    5Now therefore this is what Yahweh of Armies says: Consider your ways.

  • Neh 5:12
    67%

    12Then they said, "We will restore them, and will require nothing of them; so will we do, even as you say." Then I called the priests, and took an oath of them, that they would do according to this promise.

  • Joel 2:17
    67%

    17Let the priests, the ministers of Yahweh, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, "Spare your people, Yahweh, and don't give your heritage to reproach, that the nations should rule over them. Why should they say among the peoples, 'Where is their God?'"

  • Ezra 6:5
    67%

    5Also let the gold and silver vessels of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took forth out of the temple which is at Jerusalem, and brought to Babylon, be restored, and brought again to the temple which is at Jerusalem, everyone to its place; and you shall put them in the house of God.

  • Ezra 5:15
    67%

    15and he said to him, 'Take these vessels, go, put them in the temple that is in Jerusalem, and let the house of God be built in its place.'

  • 2 Kgs 22:9
    67%

    9Shaphan the scribe came to the king, and brought the king word again, and said, "Your servants have emptied out the money that was found in the house, and have delivered it into the hand of the workmen who have the oversight of the house of Yahweh."

  • 1 Sam 2:36
    67%

    36It shall happen, that everyone who is left in your house shall come and bow down to him for a piece of silver and a loaf of bread, and shall say, "Please put me into one of the priests' offices, that I may eat a morsel of bread."'"

  • Ezek 13:12
    67%

    12Behold, when the wall has fallen, shall it not be said to you, Where is the plaster with which you have plastered it?

  • 2 Kgs 22:12
    67%

    12The king commanded Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Achbor the son of Micaiah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah the king's servant, saying,