¶ Yet in the three and twentieth year of King Jehoash the Priests had not mended that which was decayed in the Temple.

Then King Jehoash called for Jehoiada the Priest, and the other Priests, and said unto them, Why repair ye not the ruins of the Temple? now therefore [a]receive no more money of your acquaintance, except ye deliver it to repair the ruins of the Temple.

So the Priests consented to receive no more money of the people, neither to repair the decayed places of the Temple.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 12:7 He taketh from them the ordering of the money, because of their negligence.

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