2 Kings 12:13

However, the money brought into the house of the LORD was not used for making silver basins, wick trimmers, sprinkling bowls, trumpets, or any articles of gold or silver for the house of the LORD.

Berean Standard Bible

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Study note

Setting — The biblical narrator records the administrative directive during King Joash’s temple restoration campaign, specifying how the collected repair funds were to be handled.

The words — The Hebrew phrase לֹא יֵעָשֶׂה (lo’ ye’aseh) literally translates “it was not made,” forming the grammatical core of the verse’s restriction.

The thread — This funding restriction intersects with 2 Chronicles 24:14, which notes surplus money being used to craft temple articles, and echoes the earlier creation of such vessels in 1 Kings 7:48.

Why it lands — The text explicitly mandates that designated sacred funds must cover structural maintenance and labor costs rather than liturgical metalwork.

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The Hebrew words

King James Version

Howbeit there were not made for the house of the Lord bowls of silver, snuffers, basons, trumpets, any vessels of gold, or vessels of silver, of the money that was brought into the house of the Lord:

Cross-references

2 Chronicles 24:14 When they were finished, they brought the rest of the money to the king and Jehoiada, and with it were made articles for the house of the LORD—utensils for the service and for the burnt offerings, dishes, and other objects of gold and silver. Throughout the days of Jehoiada, burnt offerings were presented regularly in the house of the LORD.
1 Kings 7:48 Solomon also made all the furnishings for the house of the LORD: the golden altar; the golden table on which was placed the Bread of the Presence;
Numbers 7:13 His offering was one silver platter weighing a hundred and thirty shekels, and one silver bowl weighing seventy shekels, both according to the sanctuary shekel and filled with fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;
Numbers 10:2 “Make two trumpets of hammered silver to be used for calling the congregation and for having the camps set out.
Ezra 1:9 This was the inventory: 30 gold dishes, 1,000 silver dishes, 29 silver utensils,