◄ 2 Kings 12:16 ►
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Good News Translation
The money given for the repayment offerings and for the offerings for sin was not deposited in the box; it belonged to the priests.

New Revised Standard Version
The money from the guilt offerings and the money from the sin offerings was not brought into the house of the LORD; it belonged to the priests.

Contemporary English Version
The fines that had to be paid along with the sacrifices to make things right and the sacrifices for sin did not go to the temple. This money belonged only to the priests.

New American Bible
The funds from reparation offerings and from purification offerings, however, were not brought to the house of the LORD; they belonged to the priests.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But the money for trespass, and the money for sins, they brought not into the temple of the Lord, because it was for the priests.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But the money for trespass, and the money for sins, they brought not into the temple of the Lord, because it was for the priests.

trespass money

Leviticus 5:15-18 If any one shall sin through mistake, transgressing the ceremonies in those things that are sacrificed to the Lord, he shall offer for his offence a ram without blemish out of the flocks, that may be bought for two sicles, according to the weight of the sanctuary. . . .

Leviticus 7:7 As the sacrifice for sin is offered, so is also that for a trespass: the same shall be the law of both these sacrifices. It shall belong to the priest that offereth it.

Numbers 5:8-10 But if there be no one to receive it, they shall give it to the Lord, and it shall be the priest's, besides the ram that is offered for expiation, to be an atoning sacrifice. . . .

Numbers 18:8,9 And the Lord said to Aaron: Behold I have given thee the charge of my firstfruits. All things that are sanctified by the children of Israel, I have delivered to thee and to thy sons for the priestly office, by everlasting ordinances. . . .

Hosea 4:8 They shall eat the sins of my people, and shall lift up their souls to their iniquity.

Context
Joash Repairs the Temple
…15And they reckoned not with the men that received the money to distribute it to the workmen, but they bestowed it faithfully. 16But the money for trespass, and the money for sins, they brought not into the temple of the Lord, because it was for the priests.
Cross References
Leviticus 4:24
And he shall put his hand upon the head thereof: and when he hath immolated it in the place where the holocaust is wont to be slain before the Lord, because it is for sin,

Leviticus 4:29
And he shall put his hand upon the head of the victim that is for sin: and shall immolate it in the place of the holocaust.

Leviticus 5:15
If any one shall sin through mistake, transgressing the ceremonies in those things that are sacrificed to the Lord, he shall offer for his offence a ram without blemish out of the flocks, that may be bought for two sicles, according to the weight of the sanctuary.

Leviticus 7:7
As the sacrifice for sin is offered, so is also that for a trespass: the same shall be the law of both these sacrifices. It shall belong to the priest that offereth it.

Numbers 18:19
All the firstfruits of the sanctuary which the children of Israel offer to the Lord, I have given to thee and to thy sons and daughters, by a perpetual ordinance. It is a covenant of salt for ever before the Lord, to thee and to thy sons.

2 Kings 12:15
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