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and the king must needs send for the high priest Joiada; Why hast thou been at no pains, he asked, to make the Levites collect money throughout Juda and Jerusalem, the same money which the Lord’s servant Moses bade all Israel devote to the needs of the tabernacle?✻ (2 Chronicles 24, 6)
Gladly did chieftains and common folk together come in with their gifts for the Lord’s treasury, piling the chest high till it was full. (2 Chronicles 24, 10)
When the Levites saw that a great sum was amassed, it was time they should take it into the royal presence. The king’s secretary would come in, and with him one that was appointed by the high priest; together they poured out the money that was in the chest, which they then put back in its place. Every day this was done, and the great sum thus collected (2 Chronicles 24, 11)
At last the divine spirit fell on the high priest Zacharias, that was son to Joiada; full in the presence of the people he stood up and gave them a message from the Lord God: What means it that you so transgress the Lord’s command, to your peril, forsaking him, and by him forsaken? (2 Chronicles 24, 20)
and when they left him, they left him a prey to heavy sickness. Then, in vengeance for the murder of the high priest’s son, courtiers of his own conspired against him and slew him in his bed. So dying, he received burial in the Keep of David, but not in the burying-place of the kings. (2 Chronicles 24, 25)
Close at his heels the high priest Azarias entered, and eighty priests with him, strong men all, (2 Chronicles 26, 17)
He it was built the high gate that leads into the Lord’s house, and added much to the Ophel wall; (2 Chronicles 27, 3)
Never a high hill or a mountain slope or a leafy wood but Achaz must do sacrifice and offer incense there. (2 Chronicles 28, 4)
The priests were too few in number to flay so many burnt-offerings at once, and the Levites must needs help them to finish their task, till such time as more priests should have rid themselves of defilement; such cleansing is an easier matter for Levite than for priest.✻ (2 Chronicles 29, 34)
Then, on the fourteenth day of the second month, they slew the paschal victim. Priest and Levite, cleansed of their defilement at last, offered burnt-sacrifice in the Lord’s house, (2 Chronicles 30, 15)
So, amid great rejoicing, for seven days together, all the Israelites assembled at Jerusalem kept the feast of unleavened bread. Day by day priest and Levite stood there praising the Lord as best their music might; (2 Chronicles 30, 21)
Glad was Juda that day, glad were priest and Levite, and new-comers from Israel, and men of alien birth from Israel’s domain and Juda’s alike; (2 Chronicles 30, 25)
