2 Chronicles 24:1-10 ▼

1 Joash was seven years old when he became king, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was Zibiah from Beersheba.

2 And Joash did what was right in the sight of Yahweh all the days of Jehoiada the priest.

3 And Jehoiada took up two wives for him, and he became the father of sons and daughters.

4 Now it happened afterwards, that Joash had in his heart to restore the house of Yahweh.

5 And he gathered the priests and Levites and said to them, “Go out to the cities of Judah and gather money from all Israel to repair the house of your God annually, and you shall do the matter quickly.” But the Levites did not act quickly.

6 So the king called for Jehoiada the chief priest and said to him, “Why have you not required the Levites to bring in from Judah and from Jerusalem the levy fixed by Moses the servant of Yahweh on the congregation of Israel for the tent of the testimony?”

7 For the sons of the wicked Athaliah had broken into the house of God and even used the holy things of the house of Yahweh for the Baals.

8 So the king said the word, and they made a chest and put it outside by the gate of the house of Yahweh.

9 And they made a proclamation in Judah and Jerusalem to bring to Yahweh the levy fixed by Moses the servant of God on Israel in the wilderness.

10 And all the officials and all the people were glad and brought in their levies and dropped them into the chest until they had finished.