^24:5He assembled the priests and Levites and ordered them, “Go out to the cities of Judah and collect the annual quota of silver from all Israel for repairs on the temple of your God. Be quick about it!” But the Levites delayed.

^24:6So the king summoned Jehoiada the chief priest,⁵ and said to him, “Why have you not made⁶ the Levites collect⁷ from Judah and Jerusalem the tax authorized by Moses the Lord’s servant and by the assembly of Israel at the tent containing the tablets of the law?”⁸^24:7(Wicked Athaliah and her sons had broken into God’s temple and used all the holy items of the Lord’s temple in their worship of the Baals.) ^24:8The king ordered a chest to be made and placed outside the gate of the Lord’s temple.⁹^24:9An edict was sent throughout Judah and Jerusalem requiring the people to bring to the Lord the tax that Moses, God’s servant, imposed on Israel in the wilderness.¹⁰^24:10All the officials and all the people gladly brought their silver and threw it into the chest until it was full. ^24:11Whenever the Levites brought the chest to the royal accountant and they saw there was a lot of silver, the royal scribe and the accountant of the high priest emptied the chest and then took it back to its place. They went through this routine every day and collected a large amount of silver.

^24:12The king and Jehoiada gave it to the construction foremen¹¹ assigned to the Lord’s temple. They hired carpenters and craftsmen to repair the Lord’s temple, as well as those skilled in working with iron and bronze to restore the Lord’s temple.

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Footnotes

5 Heb “Jehoiada the head”; the word “priest” not in the Hebrew text but is implied.
6 Heb “sought.”
7 Heb “bring.”
8 Heb “the tent of testimony.”
9 Heb “and the king said [it] and they made a chest and placed it in the gate of the house of the Lord outside.”
10 Heb “and they gave voice in Judah and Jerusalem to bring to the Lord the tax of Moses the servant of God upon Israel in the wilderness.”
11 Heb “doers of the work.”