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What does 2 Kings 12:8 mean?

"The priests consented that they should take no more money from the people, and not repair the damage to the house."

— 2 Kings 12:8 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

5

let the priests take it to them, each man from his donor; and they shall repair the damage to the house, wherever any damage is found.”

6

But it was so, that in the twenty-third year of king Jehoash the priests had not repaired the damage to the house.

7

Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and for the other priests, and said to them, “Why don’t you repair the damage to the house? Now therefore take no more money from your treasurers, but deliver it for repair of the damage to the house.”

8

The priests consented that they should take no more money from the people, and not repair the damage to the house.

9

But 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 Yahweh’s house; and the priests who kept the threshold put all the money that was brought into Yahweh’s house into it.

10

When they saw that there was much money in the chest, the king’s scribe and the high priest came up, and they put it in bags and counted the money that was found in Yahweh’s house.

11

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

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