📖WEB · 2 Kings 12:16
What does 2 Kings 12:16 mean?
"The money for the trespass offerings, and the money for the sin offerings was not brought into Yahweh’s house. It was the priests’."
— 2 Kings 12:16 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
But there were not made for Yahweh’s house cups of silver, snuffers, basins, trumpets, any vessels of gold, or vessels of silver, of the money that was brought into Yahweh’s house;
for they gave that to those who did the work, and repaired Yahweh’s house with it.
Moreover 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.
The money for the trespass offerings, and the money for the sin offerings was not brought into Yahweh’s house. It was the priests’.
Then Hazael king of Syria went up, and fought against Gath, and took it; and Hazael set his face to go up to Jerusalem.
Jehoash king of Judah took all the holy things that Jehoshaphat and Jehoram and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own holy things, and all the gold that was found in the treasures of Yahweh’s house, and of the king’s house, and sent it to Hazael king of Syria; and he went away from Jerusalem.
Now the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
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