2 Kings 12:8

8 And the priests consented to receive no more money from the people, neither to repair the breaches of the house.

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

7 Then King Joash called for Jehoiada the priest and the other priests, and said unto them, "Why repair ye not the breaches of the house? Now therefore receive no more money from your acquaintance, but deliver it for the breaches of the house."

8 And the priests consented to receive no more money from the people, neither to repair the breaches of the house.

9 But Jehoiada the priest took a chest and bored a hole in the lid of it, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as one cometh into the house of the LORD; and the priests who kept the door put therein all the money that was brought into the house of the LORD.

10 And it was so, when they saw that there was much money in the chest, that the king's scribe and the high priest came up, and they put it up in bags, and counted the money that was found in the house of the LORD.