2 Kings 12:16
in 2 Kings 12The money from the guilt offerings and sin offerings was not brought into the house of the LORD; it belonged to the priests.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
The money for the trespass-offerings, and the money for the sin-offerings, was not brought into the house of Jehovah: it was the priests’.
KJV
The trespass money and sin money was not brought into the house of the Lord: it was the priests’.
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This verse in 2 Kings 12
Commentary
5 notes on this verseA commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
The trespass money and the sin money - In all cases of injury done to another, a man was bound by the Law to make compensation, to the sufferer, if possible; if not, to his nearest kinsman. If the man was dead and had left no kinsman, then the compensation was to be made to the priest Num 5:8. This would form a part of the trespass and sin money. The remainder would accrue from the voluntary gifts made to the priests by those who came to make atonement for sins or trespasses Num 5:
This site's exposition
they reckoned not with the men
on 2 Kings 12:15-16
The overseers who received the money were never called to account, and the reason given is the reason itself: for they dealt faithfully, the chest's whole audit resting on proven trust rather than inspection. Bede reads the same verse as a standing pattern for how a house of God ought to treat honest stewards. A separate stream, the trespass money and the sin money owed under the law, stayed with the priests and never entered this fund, the chapter keeping the two revenues distinct rather than folding one into the other.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
The trespass-money and the sin-money (which were given to them by that law, Lev. v. 15, 16 ) were reserved to them. Let not the servants of the temple be starved under colour of repairing the breaches of it. For laying out the money that was raised.
The trespass money and sin money was not brought into the house of the Lord,.... Which was the money persons at a distance sent for their trespass and sin offerings instead of cattle, with which the sacrifices were bought; and what remained of the money was not brought into the temple, and made use of in the above manner: it was the priest's; the overplus of it, and such of the sacrifices which by the law were appropriated to them.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
Howbeit there were not made . . . bowls, &c.--When the repairs of the temple had been completed, the surplus was appropriated to the purchase of the temple furniture.
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
They did not demand and accounting from the men. The supervisors would not make an accounting with the treasurers that the supervisors would give the money—continually—into whose hand to give it to the workers, because they were not suspect in their eyes, for they worked with integrity.
This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.
Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 3 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.
The words behind it
10 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| כֶּ֤סֶף | kesef | money of | H3701 → | 403 times |
| אָשָׁם֙ | ʾasham | guilt offering | H817 → | |
| וְכֶ֣סֶף | vekhesef | and money of | H3701 → | 403 times |
| חַטָּא֔וֹת | chataot | sin offerings | H2403 → | 295 times |
| לֹ֥א | lo' | not | H3808 → | 5168 times |
| יוּבָ֖א | yuva' | it was brought | H935 → | 2568 times |
| בֵּ֣ית | beit | [the] house of | H1004 → | 2046 times |
| יְהוָ֑ה | yahweh | Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
| לַכֹּהֲנִ֖ים | lakohanim | to the priests | H3548 → | 750 times |
| יִהְיֽוּ׃ פ | yihyu | they belonged | H1961 → | 3559 times |
כֶּ֤סֶףmoney of
kesefH3701 →403 times
אָשָׁם֙guilt offering
ʾashamH817 →
וְכֶ֣סֶףand money of
vekhesefH3701 →403 times
חַטָּא֔וֹתsin offerings
chataotH2403 →295 times
לֹ֥אnot
lo'H3808 →5168 times
יוּבָ֖אit was brought
yuva'H935 →2568 times
בֵּ֣ית[the] house of
beitH1004 →2046 times
יְהוָ֑הYahweh
yahwehH3068 →6520 times
לַכֹּהֲנִ֖יםto the priests
lakohanimH3548 →750 times
יִהְיֽוּ׃ פthey belonged
yihyuH1961 →3559 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Leviticus 4:29He is to lay his hand on the head of the sin offering and slaughter it at the place of the burnt offering.
it leads to
- Leviticus 4:24
He is to lay his hand on the head of the goat and slaughter it at the place where the burnt offering is slaughtered before the LORD. It is a sin offering.
- Leviticus 4:4
He must bring the bull to the entrance to the Tent of Meeting before the LORD, lay his hand on the bull’s head, and slaughter it before the LORD.
- Leviticus 4:15
The elders of the congregation are to lay their hands on the bull’s head before the LORD, and it shall be slaughtered before the LORD.
- Leviticus 1:4
He is to lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering, so it can be accepted on his behalf to make atonement for him.
- Hebrews 10:4–14
because it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
- Leviticus 4:24
Through
Leviticus 7:7The guilt offering is like the sin offering; the same law applies to both. It belongs to the priest who makes atonement with it.
it leads to
- Leviticus 6:25–26
“Tell Aaron and his sons that this is the law of the sin offering: In the place where the burnt offering is slaughtered, the sin offering shall be slaughtered before the LORD; it is…
- Leviticus 14:13
Then he is to slaughter the lamb in the sanctuary area where the sin offering and burnt offering are slaughtered. Like the sin offering, the guilt offering belongs to the priest; it is most…
- 1 Corinthians 9:13
Do you not know that those who work in the temple eat of its food, and those who serve at the altar partake of its offerings?
- Leviticus 6:25–26
About 2 Kings
This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Bede, Thirty Questions on the Book of Kings; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.