⁵ let the priests take it themselves, each from his constituency; and let them repair the ^[a]damages of the temple, wherever any dilapidation is found.”

⁵ Then he gathered the priests and the Levites, and said to them, “Go out to the cities of Judah, and ^(A)gather from all Israel money to repair the house of your God from year to year, and see that you do it quickly.”

However the Levites did not do it quickly.

⁵ And let them ^(A)deliver it into the hand of those doing the work, who are the overseers in the house of the Lord; let them give it to those who are in the house of the Lord doing the work, to repair the damages of the house— ⁶ to carpenters and builders and masons—and to buy timber and hewn stone to repair the house.

¹² and to masons and stonecutters, and for buying timber and hewn stone, to ^(A)repair the damage of the house of the Lord, and for all that was paid out to repair the temple.

²⁷ And this is what caused him to rebel against the king: ^(A)Solomon had built the Millo and ^[a]repaired the damages to the City of David his father.

⁷ For ^(A)the sons of Athaliah, that wicked woman, had broken into the house of God, and had also presented all the ^(B)dedicated things of the house of the Lord to the Baals.