◄ 2 Kings 12:14 ►
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Good News Translation
It was all used to pay the workers and to buy the materials used in the repairs.

New Revised Standard Version
for that was given to the workers who were repairing the house of the LORD with it.

Contemporary English Version
It went only to pay for repairs.

New American Bible
Instead, they were given to the workers, and with them they repaired the house of the LORD.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For it was given to them that did the work, that the temple of the Lord might be repaired.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For it was given to them that did the work, that the temple of the Lord might be repaired.

Context
Joash Repairs the Temple
…13But there were not made of the same money for the temple of the Lord, bowls, or fleshhooks, or censers, or trumpets, or any vessel of gold and silver, of the money that was brought into the temple of the Lord: 14For it was given to them that did the work, that the temple of the Lord might be repaired.15And they reckoned not with the men that received the money to distribute it to the workmen, but they bestowed it faithfully.…
Cross References
2 Kings 12:13
But there were not made of the same money for the temple of the Lord, bowls, or fleshhooks, or censers, or trumpets, or any vessel of gold and silver, of the money that was brought into the temple of the Lord:

2 Kings 12:15
And they reckoned not with the men that received the money to distribute it to the workmen, but they bestowed it faithfully.

2 Kings 12:13
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