2 Kings 12:8

8 So the priests agreed that they would not receive money from the people and that they would not repair the temple themselves.

2 Kings 12:8 Meaning and Commentary

2 Kings 12:8

And the priests consented to receive no [more] money of the
people
And delivered up what they had:

neither to repair the breaches of the house;
being very willing to be stop both services, and especially since they seemed to be suspected.

2 Kings 12:8 In-Context

6 By the twenty-third year of the reign of Joash, however, the priests had not yet repaired the damage to the temple.

7 So King Joash called Jehoiada and the other priests and said, “Why have you not repaired the damage to the temple? Now, therefore, take no more money from your constituency, but hand it over for the repair of the temple.”

8 So the priests agreed that they would not receive money from the people and that they would not repair the temple themselves.

9 Then Jehoiada the priest took a chest, bored a hole in its lid, and set it beside the altar on the right side as one enters the house of the LORD. There the priests who guarded the threshold put all the money brought into the house of the LORD.

10 Whenever they saw that there was a large amount of money in the chest, the royal scribe and the high priest would go up, count the money brought into the house of the LORD, and tie it up in bags.