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Then Joiada set up officers to look after the Lord’s temple; but under the direction of those priests and Levites to whom David had assigned their tasks there, in offering burnt-sacrifice to the Lord as Moses bade them, and singing praise after David’s own fashion. (2 Chronicles 23, 18)
And now Joas had a mind to put the Lord’s house in repair. (2 Chronicles 24, 4)
He summoned priests and Levites, and bade them go round the cities of Juda, collecting money from all that were of Israel’s race every year, so as to repair the temple of the Lord their God; and this he would have them do with all speed. But the Levites went about their work slowly, (2 Chronicles 24, 5)
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)
Then the king bade them have a chest made, and this they put by the outer gate of the Lord’s house. (2 Chronicles 24, 8)
And word went round Juda and Jerusalem that each man was to pay the tax Moses enjoined on all Israel, out in the desert. (2 Chronicles 24, 9)
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)
was paid over by the king and Joiada to the master-builders, who hired stone-cutters with it, and other craftsmen, to repair the Lord’s house; workers, too, in iron and bronze, so as to prop up what was like to fall down. (2 Chronicles 24, 12)
Busily these men went about their tasks, till the breach was healed under their hands, and the building restored to its former state; the house stood firm once more. (2 Chronicles 24, 13)
but at last he grew old, and the full tale of his years was complete; he died at the age of a hundred and thirty. (2 Chronicles 24, 15)
But now that he was dead, the chieftains of Juda came in to do the king reverence, and with their smooth speech won him over to another mind; (2 Chronicles 24, 17)
still he would send them prophets, to bring them back to him, but their protest went unheeded. (2 Chronicles 24, 19)
