2 Kings 12:6
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“By the twenty-third year of the reign of Joash, however, the priests had not yet repaired the damage to the temple.”
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“By the twenty-third year of the reign of Joash, however, the priests had not yet repaired the damage to the temple.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“But it was so, that in the three and twentieth year of king Jehoash the priests had not repaired the breaches of the house.”
King James Version · Public Domain“But it was so, that in the three and twentieth year of king Jehoash the priests had not repaired the breaches of the house.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“And it cometh to pass, in the twenty and third year of king Jehoash, the priests have not strengthened the breach of the house,”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo 2 Kings 12:6 — 6 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 1 Samuel 2:29Why then do you kick at My sacrifice and offering that I have prescribed for My dwelling place? You have honored your sons more than Me by fattening yourselves with the best of all the offerings of My people Israel.’
- 2 Chronicles 29:34However, since there were not enough priests to skin all the burnt offerings, their Levite brothers helped them until the work was finished and until the priests had been consecrated. For the Levites had been more diligent in consecrating themselves than the priests had been.
- Isaiah 56:10Israel’s watchmen are blind, they are all oblivious; they are all mute dogs, they cannot bark; they are dreamers lying around, loving to slumber.
- Malachi 1:10“Oh, that one of you would shut the temple doors, so that you would no longer kindle useless fires on My altar! I take no pleasure in you,” says the LORD of Hosts, “and I will accept no offering from your hands.
- Philippians 2:21For all the others look after their own interests, not those of Jesus Christ.
- 1 Peter 5:2Be shepherds of God’s flock that is among you, watching over them not out of compulsion, but because it is God’s will; not out of greed, but out of eagerness;
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