2 Chronicles 24:4-14
1599 Geneva Bible
4 ¶ And afterward it came into Joash’s mind to renew the house of the Lord.
5 And he assembled the Priests and the Levites, and said to them, Go out unto the cities of Judah, and gather of all [a]Israel money to repair the house of your God, from year to year, and haste the thing, but the Levites hasted not.
6 Therefore the king called Jehoiada the [b]chief, and said unto him, Why hast thou not required of the Levites to bring in out of Judah and Jerusalem (A)the tax of Moses the servant of the Lord, and of the Congregation of Israel, for the Tabernacle of the testimony?
7 For [c]wicked Athaliah, and her children brake up the house of God: and all the things that were dedicated for the house of the Lord, did they bestow upon Baal.
8 Therefore the king commanded, (B)and they made a chest, and set it at the gate of the house of the Lord without.
9 And they made proclamation through Judah and Jerusalem, to bring unto the Lord (C)the tax of Moses the servant of God, laid upon Israel in the wilderness.
10 And all the princes and all the people rejoiced, and brought in, and cast into the chest, until they had finished.
11 And when it was time, [d]they brought the chest unto the King’s officer by the hand of the Levites: and when they saw that there was much silver, then the King’s Scribe (and one appointed by the high Priest) came and emptied the chest, and took it, and carried it to his place again: thus they did day by day, and gathered silver in abundance.
12 And the King and [e]Jehoiada gave it to such as did the labor and work in the house of the Lord, and hired masons and carpenters to repair the house of the Lord: they gave it also to workers of iron and brass, to repair the house of the Lord.
13 So the workmen wrought, and the work [f]amended through their hands: and they restored the house of God to his state, and strengthened it.
14 And when they had finished it, they brought the rest of the silver before the king and Jehoiada, and he made thereof [g]vessels for the house of the Lord, even vessels to minister, both mortars and incense cups, and vessels of gold, and of silver: and they offered burnt offerings in the house of the Lord continually all the days of Jehoiada.
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- 2 Chronicles 24:5 He meaneth not the ten tribes, but only the two tribes of Judah and Benjamin.
- 2 Chronicles 24:6 For he was the high Priest.
- 2 Chronicles 24:7 The Scriptures doth term her thus, because she was a cruel murderer, and a blasphemous idolatress.
- 2 Chronicles 24:11 Such as were faithful men, whom the king had appointed for that matter.
- 2 Chronicles 24:12 Signifying that this thing was done by advice and counsel, and not by any one man’s affection.
- 2 Chronicles 24:13 Hebrew, a medicine was upon the work, meaning it was repaired.
- 2 Chronicles 24:14 For the wicked kings his predecessors, and Athaliah had destroyed the vessels of the Temple, or turned them to the use of their idols.
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