2 Kings 12:5
Good News Translation
Each priest was to be responsible for the money brought by those he served, and the money was to be used to repair the Temple, as needed.

New Revised Standard Version
let the priests receive from each of the donors; and let them repair the house wherever any need of repairs is discovered.”

Contemporary English Version
and use it to repair the temple whenever you see the need."

New American Bible
the priests may take for themselves, each from his own vendor. However, they must make whatever repairs on the temple may prove necessary.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Let the priests take it according to their order and repair the house, wheresoever they shall see any thing that wanteth repairing.

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Let the priests take it according to their order and repair the house, wheresoever they shall see any thing that wanteth repairing.

Let the priests

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.

let them repair

2 Kings 12:12 And made the repairs: and to them that cut stones, and to buy timber, and stones to be hewed, that the repairs of the house of the Lord might be completely finished, and wheresoever there was need of expenses to uphold the house.

2 Kings 22:5,6 And let it be given to the workmen by the overseers of the house of the Lord: and let them distribute it to those that work in the temple of the Lord, to repair the temple: . . .

1 Kings 11:27 And this is the cause of his rebellion against him; for Solomon built Mello, and filled up the breach of the city of David, his father.

2 Chronicles 24:7 For that wicked woman Athalia, and her children have destroyed the house of God, and adorned the temple of Baal with all the things that had been dedicated in the temple of the Lord.

Isaiah 58:12 And the places that have been desolate for ages shall be built in thee: thou shalt raise up the foundation of generation and generation: and thou shalt be called the repairer of the fences, turning the paths into rest.

Context
Joash Repairs the Temple
4And Joas said to the priests: all the money of the sanctified things, which is brought into the temple of the Lord by those that pass, which is offered for the price of a soul, and which of their own accord, and of their own free heart, they bring into the temple of the Lord: 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.…
Cross References
2 Kings 12:4
And Joas said to the priests: all the money of the sanctified things, which is brought into the temple of the Lord by those that pass, which is offered for the price of a soul, and which of their own accord, and of their own free heart, they bring into the temple of the Lord:

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

2 Kings 12:4
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