14:024:002 And Joash did that which was right in the
sight of the lord
all
the days of Jehoiada the priest.
14:024:003 And Jehoiada took for him two wives; and
he begat sons and
daughters.
14:024:004 And it came to pass after this, that Joash
was minded to
repair
the house of the lord.
14:024:005 And he gathered together the priests and
the Levites, and said
to
them, Go out unto the cities of Judah, and gather of
all
Israel
money to repair the house of your God from year to
year,
and see that ye hasten the matter. Howbeit the
Levites
hastened
it not.
14:024:006 And the king called for Jehoiada the chief,
and said unto him,
Why
hast thou not required of the Levites to bring in out
of
Judah
and out of Jerusalem the collection, according to the
commandment
of Moses the servant of the lord, and of the
congregation
of Israel, for the tabernacle of witness?
14:024:007 For the sons of Athaliah, that wicked woman,
had broken up the
house
of God; and also all the dedicated things of the house
of
the lord did they bestow upon Baalim.
14:024:008 And at the king’s commandment they
made a chest, and set it
without
at the gate of the house of the lord.
14:024:009 And they made a proclamation through Judah
and Jerusalem, to
bring
in to the lord the collection that Moses the servant
of
God
laid upon Israel in the wilderness.
14:024:010 And all the princes and all the people
rejoiced, and brought
in,
and cast into the chest, until they had made an end.
14:024:011 Now it came to pass, that at what time
the chest was brought
unto
the king’s office by the hand of the Levites,
and when
they
saw that there was much money, the king’s scribe
and the
high
priest’s officer came and emptied the chest,
and took it,
and
carried it to his place again. Thus they did day
by day,
and
gathered money in abundance.
14:024:012 And the king and Jehoiada gave it to such
as did the work of
the
service of the house of the lord, and hired masons
and
carpenters
to repair the house of the lord, and also such
as
wrought
iron and brass to mend the house of the lord.
14:024:013 So the workmen wrought, and the work was
perfected by them,
and
they set the house of God in his state, and strengthened
it.
14:024:014 And when they had finished it, they brought
the rest of the
money
before the king and Jehoiada, whereof were made vessels
for
the house of the lord, even vessels to minister,
and to
offer
withal, and spoons, and vessels of gold and silver.
And
they
offered burnt offerings in the house of the lord
continually
all the days of Jehoiada.


