2 Kings 12:4

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2 Kings 12:2–6 · Berean Standard Bible

2 And Joash did what was right in the eyes of the LORD all the days he was instructed by Jehoiada the priest.

3 Nevertheless, the high places were not removed; the people continued sacrificing and burning incense there.

4 Then Joash said to the priests, “Collect all the money brought as sacred gifts into the house of the LORD—the census money, the money from vows, and the money brought voluntarily into the house of the LORD.

5 Let every priest receive it from his constituency, and let it be used to repair any damage found in the temple.”

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

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2 Kings 22:4

“Go up to Hilkiah the high priest and have him count the money that has been brought into the house of the LORD, which the doorkeepers have collected from the people.

2 Chronicles 29:4

Then he brought in the priests and Levites and gathered them in the square on the east side.

2 Chronicles 29:5

“Listen to me, O Levites,” he said. “Consecrate yourselves now and consecrate the house of the LORD, the God of your fathers. Remove from the Holy Place every impurity.

2 Chronicles 29:6

For our fathers were unfaithful and did evil in the sight of the LORD our God. They abandoned Him, turned their faces away from the dwelling place of the LORD, and turned their backs on Him.

2 Chronicles 29:7

They also shut the doors of the portico and extinguished the lamps. They did not burn incense or present burnt offerings in the Holy Place of the God of Israel.

2 Chronicles 29:8

Therefore, the wrath of the LORD has fallen upon Judah and Jerusalem, and He has made them an object of terror, horror, and mockery, as you can see with your own eyes.

2 Chronicles 29:9

For behold, this is why our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and daughters and wives are in captivity.

2 Chronicles 29:10

Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with the LORD, the God of Israel, so that His fierce anger will turn away from us.

2 Chronicles 29:11

Now, my sons, do not be negligent, for the LORD has chosen you to stand before Him, to serve Him, to minister before Him, and to burn incense.”

2 Chronicles 35:2

He appointed the priests to their duties and encouraged them in the service of the house of the LORD.

2 Kings 12:18

So King Joash of Judah took all the sacred objects dedicated by his fathers—Jehoshaphat, Jehoram, and Ahaziah, the kings of Judah—along with his own consecrated items and all the gold found in the treasuries of the house of the LORD and the royal palace, and he sent them to Hazael king of Aram. So Hazael withdrew from Jerusalem.

1 Kings 7:1

Solomon, however, took thirteen years to complete the construction of his entire palace.

1 Chronicles 18:11

and King David dedicated these to the LORD, along with the silver and gold he had carried off from all these nations—from Edom and Moab, and from the Ammonites, Philistines, and Amalekites.

2 Chronicles 15:18

And he brought into the house of God the silver and gold articles that he and his father had dedicated.

2 Chronicles 31:12

And they faithfully brought in the contributions, tithes, and dedicated gifts. Conaniah the Levite was the officer in charge of them, and his brother Shimei was second.

Leviticus 5:15

“If someone acts unfaithfully and sins unintentionally against any of the LORD’s holy things, he must bring his guilt offering to the LORD: an unblemished ram from the flock, of proper value in silver shekels according to the sanctuary shekel; it is a guilt offering.

Leviticus 5:16

Regarding any holy thing he has harmed, he must make restitution by adding a fifth of its value to it and giving it to the priest, who will make atonement on his behalf with the ram as a guilt offering, and he will be forgiven.

Leviticus 27:12

The priest shall set its value, whether high or low; as the priest values it, the price will be set.

Leviticus 27:13

If, however, the owner decides to redeem the animal, he must add a fifth to its value.

Leviticus 27:14

Now if a man consecrates his house as holy to the LORD, then the priest shall value it either as good or bad. The price will stand just as the priest values it.

Leviticus 27:15

But if he who consecrated his house redeems it, he must add a fifth to the assessed value, and it will belong to him.

Leviticus 27:16

If a man consecrates to the LORD a parcel of his land, then your valuation shall be proportional to the seed required for it—fifty shekels of silver for every homer of barley seed.

Leviticus 27:17

If he consecrates his field during the Year of Jubilee, the price will stand according to your valuation.

Leviticus 27:18

But if he consecrates his field after the Jubilee, the priest is to calculate the price in proportion to the years left until the next Year of Jubilee, so that your valuation will be reduced.

Leviticus 27:19

And if the one who consecrated the field decides to redeem it, he must add a fifth to the assessed value, and it shall belong to him.

Leviticus 27:20

If, however, he does not redeem the field, or if he has sold it to another man, it may no longer be redeemed.

Leviticus 27:21

When the field is released in the Jubilee, it will become holy, like a field devoted to the LORD; it becomes the property of the priests.

Leviticus 27:22

Now if a man consecrates to the LORD a field he has purchased, which is not a part of his own property,

Leviticus 27:23

then the priest shall calculate for him the value up to the Year of Jubilee, and the man shall pay the assessed value on that day as a sacred offering to the LORD.

Leviticus 27:24

In the Year of Jubilee the field shall return to the one from whom it was bought—the original owner of the land.

Leviticus 27:25

Every valuation will be according to the sanctuary shekel, twenty gerahs to the shekel.

Leviticus 27:26

But no one may consecrate a firstborn of the livestock, because a firstborn belongs to the LORD. Whether it is an ox or a sheep, it is the LORD’s.

Leviticus 27:27

But if it is among the unclean animals, then he may redeem it according to your valuation and add a fifth of its value. If it is not redeemed, then it shall be sold according to your valuation.

Leviticus 27:31

If a man wishes to redeem part of his tithe, he must add a fifth to its value.

Exodus 30:12

“When you take a census of the Israelites to number them, each man must pay the LORD a ransom for his life when he is counted. Then no plague will come upon them when they are numbered.

Exodus 30:13

Everyone who crosses over to those counted must pay a half shekel, according to the sanctuary shekel, which weighs twenty gerahs. This half shekel is an offering to the LORD.

Exodus 30:14

Everyone twenty years of age or older who crosses over must give this offering to the LORD.

Exodus 30:15

In making the offering to the LORD to atone for your lives, the rich shall not give more than a half shekel, nor shall the poor give less.

Exodus 30:16

Take the atonement money from the Israelites and use it for the service of the Tent of Meeting. It will serve as a memorial for the Israelites before the LORD to make atonement for your lives.”

2 Chronicles 24:9

And a proclamation was issued in Judah and Jerusalem that they were to bring to the LORD the tax imposed by Moses the servant of God on Israel in the wilderness.

2 Chronicles 24:10

All the officers and all the people rejoiced and brought their contributions, and they dropped them in the chest until it was full.

Leviticus 27:2

“Speak to the Israelites and say to them, ‘When someone makes a special vow to the LORD involving the value of persons,

Leviticus 27:3

if the valuation concerns a male from twenty to sixty years of age, then your valuation shall be fifty shekels of silver, according to the sanctuary shekel.

Leviticus 27:4

Or if it is a female, then your valuation shall be thirty shekels.

Leviticus 27:5

And if the person is from five to twenty years of age, then your valuation for the male shall be twenty shekels, and for the female ten shekels.

Leviticus 27:6

Now if the person is from one month to five years of age, then your valuation for the male shall be five shekels of silver, and for the female three shekels of silver.

Leviticus 27:7

And if the person is sixty years of age or older, then your valuation shall be fifteen shekels for the male and ten shekels for the female.

Leviticus 27:8

But if the one making the vow is too poor to pay the valuation, he is to present the person before the priest, who shall set the value according to what the one making the vow can afford.

Exodus 25:1

Then the LORD said to Moses,

Exodus 25:2

“Tell the Israelites to bring Me an offering. You are to receive My offering from every man whose heart compels him.

Exodus 35:5

Take from among you an offering to the LORD. Let everyone whose heart is willing bring an offering to the LORD: gold, silver, and bronze;

Exodus 35:22

So all who had willing hearts, both men and women, came and brought brooches and earrings, rings and necklaces, and all kinds of gold jewelry. And they all presented their gold as a wave offering to the LORD.

Exodus 35:29

So all the men and women of the Israelites whose hearts prompted them brought a freewill offering to the LORD for all the work that the LORD through Moses had commanded them to do.

Exodus 36:3

They received from Moses all the contributions that the Israelites had brought to carry out the service of constructing the sanctuary. Meanwhile, the people continued to bring freewill offerings morning after morning,

1 Chronicles 29:3

Moreover, because of my delight in the house of my God, I now give for it my personal treasures of gold and silver, over and above all that I have provided for this holy temple:

1 Chronicles 29:4

three thousand talents of gold (the gold of Ophir) and seven thousand talents of refined silver, to overlay the walls of the buildings,

1 Chronicles 29:5

for the gold work and the silver work, and for all the work to be done by the craftsmen. Now who will volunteer to consecrate himself to the LORD today?”

1 Chronicles 29:6

Then the leaders of the households, the officers of the tribes of Israel, the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, and the officials in charge of the king’s work gave willingly.

1 Chronicles 29:7

Toward the service of God’s house they gave 5,000 talents and 10,000 darics of gold, 10,000 talents of silver, 18,000 talents of bronze, and 100,000 talents of iron.

1 Chronicles 29:8

Whoever had precious stones gave them to the treasury of the house of the LORD, under the care of Jehiel the Gershonite.

1 Chronicles 29:9

And the people rejoiced at the willing response of their leaders, for they had given to the LORD freely and wholeheartedly. And King David also rejoiced greatly.

1 Chronicles 29:17

I know, my God, that You test the heart and delight in uprightness. All these things I have given willingly and with an upright heart, and now I have seen Your people who are present here giving joyfully and willingly to You.

Ezra 1:6

And all their neighbors supported them with articles of silver and gold, with goods and livestock, and with valuables, in addition to all their freewill offerings.

Ezra 2:69

According to their ability, they gave to the treasury for this work 61,000 darics of gold, 5,000 minas of silver, and 100 priestly garments.

Ezra 7:16

together with all the silver and gold you may find in all the province of Babylon, as well as the freewill offerings of the people and priests to the house of their God in Jerusalem.

Ezra 8:25

and I weighed out to them the contribution of silver and gold and the articles that the king, his counselors, his leaders, and all the Israelites there had offered for the house of our God.

Ezra 8:26

I weighed out into their hands 650 talents of silver, articles of silver weighing 100 talents, 100 talents of gold,

Ezra 8:27

20 gold bowls valued at 1,000 darics, and two articles of fine polished bronze, as precious as gold.

Ezra 8:28

Then I told them, “You are holy to the LORD, and these articles are holy. The silver and gold are a freewill offering to the LORD, the God of your fathers.

Luke 21:4

For they all contributed out of their surplus, but she out of her poverty has put in all she had to live on.”