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2 Kings 12:5

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Let every priest receive it from his constituency, and let it be used to repair any damage found in the temple.”

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

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

KJV

Let the priests take it to them, every man of his acquaintance: and let them repair the breaches of the house, wheresoever any breach shall be found.

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This verse in 2 Kings 12

Commentary

4 notes on this verse
The collection was not to be made in Jerusalem only, but in all “the cities of Judah” 2Ch 24:5; the various priests and Levites being collectors in their own neighborhoods. Breaches - The word in the original includes every kind and degree of ruin or dilapidation.

This site's exposition

cometh into any man’s heart

on 2 Kings 12:4-6

Jehoash names three streams of temple money in one breath, the assessed price of every soul numbered, the valuation price set on a vow, and whatever a man's own heart moves him to bring, the same threefold shape the law gave census money and vow redemption. The priests are told to collect it from their own acquaintance and repair the house wherever a breach is found, a plan built on personal trust rather than any office of accounting. Twenty three years pass and the breaches still stand, the money gathered but the work not done.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

Let the priests take it to them, every man of his acquaintance,....

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

Justly did their great Lord sue them for this permissive waste, and by his judgments recover locum vastatum--for dilapidations (as the law speaks), when this neglected temple was laid even with the ground. The king himself was (as it should seem) the first and forwardest man that took care for the repair of it.

The words behind it

16 Hebrew words

Every 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.

  • יִקְח֤וּlet them take

    yikchuH3947 →966 times

  • לָהֶם֙<for> themselves

    lahem

  • הַכֹּ֣הֲנִ֔יםthe priests

    hakohanimH3548 →750 times

  • אִ֖ישׁeach

    ʾishH376 →1663 times

  • מֵאֵ֣תfrom with

    meetH854 →929 times

  • מַכָּר֑וֹacquaintance his

    makaroH4378 →

  • וְהֵ֗םand they

    vehemH1992 →553 times

  • יְחַזְּקוּ֙they will repair

    yechazekuH2388 →291 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • בֶּ֣דֶק[the] damage of

    bedekH919 →10 times

  • הַבַּ֔יִתthe house

    habayitH1004 →2046 times

  • לְכֹ֛לto every

    lekholH3605 →5413 times

  • אֲשֶׁר־where

    ʾasher-H834 →5497 times

  • יִמָּצֵ֥אit will be found

    yimatze'H4672 →455 times

  • שָׁ֖םthere

    shamH8033 →834 times

  • בָּֽדֶק׃ פdamage

    badekH919 →10 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

6 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Isaiah 58:12Your people will rebuild the ancient ruins; you will restore the age-old foundations; you will be called Repairer of the Breach, Restorer of the Streets of Dwelling.3 works2 Kings 22:5And let them deliver it into the hands of the supervisors of those doing the work on the house of the LORD, who in turn are to give it to the workmen repairing the damages to the house of the LORD—3 works1 Kings 11:27and this is the account of his rebellion against the king. Solomon had built the supporting terraces and repaired the gap in the wall of the city of his father David.2 works2 Kings 12:12masons, and stonecutters. They also purchased timber and dressed stone to repair the damage to the house of the LORD, and they paid the other expenses of the temple repairs.2 works2 Chronicles 24:5So he gathered the priests and Levites and said, “Go out to the cities of Judah and collect the money due annually from all Israel, to repair the house of your God. Do it quickly.” The Levites, however, did not make haste.2 works2 Chronicles 24:7For the sons of that wicked woman Athaliah had broken into the house of God and had even used the sacred objects of the house of the LORD for the Baals.1 works

The walk

8 stops

Each 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

    Isaiah 58:12

    Your people will rebuild the ancient ruins; you will restore the age-old foundations; you will be called Repairer of the Breach, Restorer of the Streets of Dwelling.

    it leads to

    • Isaiah 61:4

      They will rebuild the ancient ruins; they will restore the places long devastated; they will renew the ruined cities, the desolations of many generations.

    • Amos 9:14

      I will restore My people Israel from captivity; they will rebuild and inhabit the ruined cities. They will plant vineyards and drink their wine; they will make gardens and eat their fruit.

    • Ezekiel 36:33

      This is what the Lord GOD says: On the day I cleanse you from all your iniquities, I will cause the cities to be resettled and the ruins to be rebuilt.

    • Amos 9:11

      “In that day I will restore the fallen tent of David. I will repair its gaps, restore its ruins, and rebuild it as in the days of old,

    • Nehemiah 2:17

      Then I said to them, “You see the trouble we are in. Jerusalem lies in ruins, and its gates have been burned down. Come, let us rebuild the wall of Jerusalem, so that we…

  • Through

    1 Kings 11:27

    and this is the account of his rebellion against the king. Solomon had built the supporting terraces and repaired the gap in the wall of the city of his father David.

    it leads to

    • 1 Kings 9:24

      As soon as Pharaoh’s daughter had come up from the City of David to the palace that Solomon had built for her, he built the supporting terraces.

    • 1 Kings 9:15

      This is the account of the forced labor that King Solomon imposed to build the house of the LORD, his own palace, the supporting terraces, and the wall of Jerusalem, as well as Hazor,…

  • Through

    2 Kings 12:12

    masons, and stonecutters. They also purchased timber and dressed stone to repair the damage to the house of the LORD, and they paid the other expenses of the temple repairs.

    it leads to

    • 2 Kings 22:5–6

      And let them deliver it into the hands of the supervisors of those doing the work on the house of the LORD, who in turn are to give it to the workmen repairing the…

About 2 Kings

Elijah Ascends to Heaven in a Chariot of Fire, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Elijah Ascends to Heaven in a Chariot of Fire, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
2 Kings: the study guide →Read 2 Kings 12 →

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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