II Kings 12:15
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No accounting was required from the men who received the money to pay the workmen, because they acted with integrity.
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No return was required of the inspectors as to the money handed over to them, because they were convinced of their honesty.
Open source ↗This chapter gives us the history of the reign of Joash, which does not answer to that glorious beginning of it which we had an account of in the foregoing chapter; he was not so illustrious at forty years old as he was at seven, yet his reign is to be reckoned one of the better sort, and appears much worse in Chronicles (2 Chr. 24) than it does here, for there we find the blood of one of God's prophets laid at his door; here we are only told, I. That he did well while Jehoiada lived (Kg2 12:1-3). II. That he was careful and active to repair the temple (Kg2 12:4-16). III. That after a mean compact with Hazael (Kg2 12:17, Kg2 12:18) he died ingloriously (Kg2 12:19-21).
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But they need not account for the money put into their hands, since they work with integrity.”
Beloved, you are faithful in what you are doing for the brothers, and especially since they are strangers to you.
And the men did the work faithfully. The Levites overseeing them were Jahath and Obadiah, descendants of Merari, and Zechariah and Meshullam, descendants of Kohath. Other Levites, all skilled with musical instruments,
Then I put my brother Hanani in charge of Jerusalem, along with Hananiah the commander of the fortress, because he was a faithful man who feared God more than most.
Jesus also said to His disciples, “There was a rich man whose manager was accused of wasting his possessions.
Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom the master has put in charge of his household, to give the others their food at the proper time?