2 Kings 12:4

And Jehoash said to the priests, All the money of the dedicated things that is brought into the house of the LORD, even the money of every one that passeth the account, the money that every man is set at, and all the money that cometh into any man’s heart to bring into the house of the LORD,

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
Jehoash	יְהוֹאָ֜שׁ ye.ho.'Ash	H3060	Jehoash · proper noun, a man's name
said	וַיֹּ֨אמֶר vai.Yo.mer	H559	to say (used with great latitude) · conjunction + verb, qal sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular
priests	הַכֹּהֲנִ֗ים ha.ko.ha.Nim	H3548	literally one officiating · definite article + noun, common masculine plural absolute
money	כֶּ֨סֶף Ke.sef	H3701	silver (from its pale color) · noun, common masculine singular construct
things	הַקֳּדָשִׁ֜ים ha.ko.da.Shim	H6944	a sacred place or thing · definite article + noun, common masculine plural absolute
brought	יוּבָ֤א yu.Va'	H935	to go or come (in a wide variety of applications) · verb, hophal imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Cross-references

2 Kings 22:4 Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may sum the silver which is brought into the house of the LORD, which the keepers of the door have…
Exodus 30:12-16 When thou takest the sum of the children of Israel after their number, then shall they give every man a ransom for his soul unto the LORD, w…
Exodus 35:5 Take ye from among you an offering unto the LORD: whosoever is of a willing heart, let him bring it, an offering of the LORD; gold, and silv…
Exodus 35:29 The children of Israel brought a willing offering unto the LORD, every man and woman, whose heart made them willing to bring for all manner…
1 Chronicles 29:3-9 Moreover, because I have set my affection to the house of my God, I have of mine own proper good, of gold and silver, which I have given to…
Exodus 35:22 And they came, both men and women, as many as were willing hearted, and brought bracelets, and earrings, and rings, and tablets, all jewels…
Exodus 25:1-2 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Exodus 36:3 And they received of Moses all the offering, which the children of Israel had brought for the work of the service of the sanctuary, to make…

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on 2 Kings 12:4-16

We have here an account of the repairing of the temple in the reign of Joash. I. It seems, the temple had gone out of repair. Though Solomon built it very strong, of the best materials and in the best manner, yet in time it went to decay, and there were breaches found in it (Kg2 12:5), in the roofs, or walls, or floors, the ceiling, or wainscoting, or windows, or the partitions of the courts. Even temples themselves are the worse for the wearing; but the heavenly temple will never wax old. Yet it was not only the teeth of time that made these breaches, the sons of Athaliah had broken up the house of God (Ch2 24:7), and, out of enmity to the service of the temple, had damaged the buildings of…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 2 Kings 12:4

Jehoash said to the priests, &c.--There is here given an account of the measures which the young king took for repairing the temple by the levying of taxes: 1. "The money of every one that passeth the account," namely, half a shekel, as "an offering to the Lord" (Exo 30:13). 2. "The money that every man is set at," that is, the redemption price of every one who had devoted himself or any thing belonging to him to the Lord, and the amount of which was estimated according to certain rules (Lev 27:1-8). 3. Free will or voluntary offerings made to the sanctuary. The first two were paid annually (see Ch2 24:5).

Adam Clarke on 2 Kings 12:4

All the money of the dedicated things - From all this account we find that the temple was in a very ruinous state; the walls were falling down, some had perhaps actually fallen, and there was no person so zealous for the pure worship of God, as to exert himself to shore up the falling temple! The king himself seems to have been the first who noticed these dilapidations, and took measures for the necessary repairs. The repairs were made from the following sources: 1. The things which pious persons had dedicated to the service of God. 2. The free-will offerings of strangers who had visited Jerusalem: the money of every one that passeth. 3. The half-shekel which the males were obliged to pay fr…

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The Church Fathers

"The money for the assessment." [The Scripture] uses [this term] for the money which is voluntarily given by the people for the "assessment" of their own person and whose payment has survived from the time of Moses who, after the [Israelites] were counted in the census, prescribed that four zouzē should be deducted from each of them. This form of contribution was perpetuated up to the days of our Lord as a memory of the kindness of God toward them. But at the time of our Lord they only gave two zouzē, because they had become poor.
— Ishodad of Merv, BOOKS OF SESSIONS 2 KINGS 12:4

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Dictionary and topics

Jehoash — Jehovah-given. (1.) The son of King Ahaziah. While yet an infant, he was saved from the general massacre of the family by his aunt Jehosheba, and was apparently the only surviving descendant of…
Tribute — A tax imposed by a king on his subjects (2 Sam. 20:24; 1 Kings 4:6; Rom. 13:6). In Matt. 17:24-27 the word denotes the temple rate (the “didrachma,” the “half-shekel,” as rendered by the R.V.) which…
Church · HOUSE OF THE LOR — HOUSE OF THE LOR
Dedication · Things dedicated to God: Applied to the repair and maintenance of the temple — Things dedicated to God: Applied to the repair and maintenance of the temple
Jehoiada · .Directs the repairs of the temple — .Directs the repairs of the temple
Joash · .Repaired the temple — .Repaired the temple
Money · Silver used as — Silver used as
Temple, The First · Historical notices of: Repaired by Jehoash at the institution of Jehoiada — Historical notices of: Repaired by Jehoash at the institution of Jehoiada
Treasure-Houses · General references — General references

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

2 Kings 12:4

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on 2 Kings 12:4-16

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 2 Kings 12:4

Adam Clarke on 2 Kings 12:4

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

2 Kings 12:4

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on 2 Kings 12:4-16

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 2 Kings 12:4

Adam Clarke on 2 Kings 12:4

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

John Gill on 2 Kings 12:4

Keil & Delitzsch on 2 Kings 12:4-5

Tyndale Open Study Notes on 2 Kings 12:4-8

Rashi on 2 Kings 12:3