2 Chronicles 24:5–12

⁵Then he gathered the priests and the Levites, and said to them, “Go out to the cities of Judah, and ^cgather 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. ^6dSo the king called Jehoiada the chief priest, and said to him, “Why have you not required the Levites to bring in from Judah and from Jerusalem the collection, according to the commandment of ^eMoses the servant of the Lord and of the assembly of Israel, for the ^ftabernacle of witness?” ⁷For ^gthe sons of Athaliah, that wicked woman, had broken into the house of God, and had also presented all the ^hdedicated things of the house of the Lord to the Baals.

⁸Then at the king’s command ⁱthey made a chest, and set it outside at the gate of the house of the Lord. ⁹And they made a proclamation throughout Judah and Jerusalem to bring to the Lord ^jthe collection that Moses the servant of God had imposed on Israel in the wilderness. ¹⁰Then all the leaders and all the people rejoiced, brought their contributions, and put them into the chest until all had given. ¹¹So it was, at that time, when the chest was brought to the king’s official by the hand of the Levites, and ^kwhen they saw that there was much money, that the king’s scribe and the high priest’s officer came and emptied the chest, and took it and returned it to its place. Thus they did day by day, and gathered money in abundance.

¹²The king and Jehoiada gave it to those who did the work of the service of the house of the Lord; and they hired masons and carpenters to ^lrepair the house of the Lord, and also those who worked in iron and bronze to restore the house of the Lord.