2 Kings 12:8

8 The priests consented that they should take no more money from the people, and not repair the damage to 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 twenty-third year of King Jehoash the priests had not repaired the damage to the house.

7 Then King Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and for the other priests, and said to them, “Why aren’t you repairing the damage to the house? Now therefore take no more money from your treasurers, but deliver it for repair of the damage to the house.”

8 The priests consented that they should take no more money from the people, and not repair the damage to the house.

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

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