2 Kings 12:6
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Now till the three and twentieth year of king Joas the priests did not make the repairs of the temple.

1 Samuel 2:29,30 Why have you kicked away my victims, and my gifts which I commanded to be offered in the temple: and thou hast rather honoured thy sons than me, to eat the firstfruits of every sacrifice of my people Israel? . . .

2 Chronicles 29:34 But the priests were few, and were not enough to flay the holocausts: wherefore the Levites their brethren helped them, till the work was ended, and priests were sanctified, for the Levites are sanctified with an easier rite than the priests.

Isaiah 56:10-12 His watchmen are all blind, they are all ignorant: dumb dogs not able to bark, seeing vain things, sleeping and loving dreams. . . .

Malachi 1:10 Who is there among you, that will shut the doors, and will kindle the fire on my altar gratis? I have no pleasure in you, saith the Lord of hosts: and I will not receive a gift of your hand.

Philippians 2:21 For all seek the things that are their own not the things that are Jesus Christ's.

1 Peter 5:2 Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking care of it, not by constraint but willingly, according to God: not for filthy lucre's sake but voluntarily:

Context
Joash Repairs the Temple
5Let the priests take it according to their order and repair the house, wheresoever they shall see any thing that wanteth repairing. 6Now till the three and twentieth year of king Joas the priests did not make the repairs of the temple.7And king Joas called Joiada, the high priest, and the priests, saying to them: Why do you not repair the temple? Take you, therefore, money no more according to your order, but restore it for the repairing of the temple.…
Cross References
2 Kings 12:5
Let the priests take it according to their order and repair the house, wheresoever they shall see any thing that wanteth repairing.

2 Kings 12:7
And king Joas called Joiada, the high priest, and the priests, saying to them: Why do you not repair the temple? Take you, therefore, money no more according to your order, but restore it for the repairing of the temple.

2 Chronicles 24:5
And he assembled the priests, and the Levites, and said to them: Go out to the cities of Juda, and gather of all Israel money to repair the temple of your God, from year to year: and do this with speed: but the Levites were negligent.

Lexicon
But
וַיְהִ֗י (way·hî)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

by the twenty-third
עֶשְׂרִ֧ים (‘eś·rîm)
Number - common plural
Strong's Hebrew 6242: Twenty, twentieth

year
בִּשְׁנַ֨ת (biš·naṯ)
Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 8141: A year

of the reign
לַמֶּ֣לֶךְ (lam·me·leḵ)
Preposition-l, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4428: A king

of Joash,
יְהוֹאָ֑שׁ (yə·hō·w·’āš)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3060: Joash -- 'Yah is strong', the name of several Israelites

the priests
הַכֹּהֲנִ֖ים (hak·kō·hă·nîm)
Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 3548: Priest

had not
לֹֽא־ (lō-)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's Hebrew 3808: Not, no

repaired
חִזְּק֥וּ (ḥiz·zə·qū)
Verb - Piel - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 2388: To fasten upon, to seize, be strong, obstinate, to bind, restrain, conquer

the damage
בֶּ֥דֶק (be·ḏeq)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 919: A fissure, rent, breach

to the temple.
הַבָּֽיִת׃ (hab·bā·yiṯ)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1004: A house


Additional Translations
But by the twenty-third year of the reign of Joash, the priests had not repaired the damage to the temple.But it was so, that in the three and twentieth year of king Jehoash the priests had not repaired the breaches of the house.

But it was so, that in the three and twentieth year of king Jehoash the priests had not repaired the breaches of the house.

And it came to pass in the twenty-third year of king Joas the priests had not repaired the breaches of the house.

And it was [so that] in the twenty-third year of king Jehoash, the priests had not repaired the breaches of the house.

But it was so, that in the three and twentieth year of king Jehoash the priests had not repaired the breaches of the house.

But it was so, that in the three and twentieth year of king Jehoash the priests had not repaired the breaches of the house.

But it was so, that in the three and twentieth year of king Jehoash the priests had not repaired the breaches of the house.

And it cometh to pass, in the twenty and third year of king Jehoash, the priests have not strengthened the breach of the house,
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