2 Chronicles 24:5
3 Jehoiada took for himself two wives, and he had sons and daughters.
4 Some time later, Joash set his heart on repairing the house of the LORD.
So he gathered the priests and Levites and said, “Go out to the cities of Judah and collect the money due annually from all Israel, to repair the house of your God. Do it quickly.” The Levites, however, did not make haste.
6 So the king called Jehoiada the high priest and said, “Why have you not required the Levites to bring from Judah and Jerusalem the tax imposed by Moses the servant of the LORD and by the assembly of Israel for the Tent of the Testimony?”
7 For the sons of that wicked woman Athaliah had broken into the house of God and had even used the sacred objects of the house of the LORD for the Baals.
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- BSB
- So he gathered the priests and Levites and said, “Go out to the cities of Judah and collect the money due annually from all Israel, to repair the house of your God. Do it quickly.” The Levites, however, did not make haste.
- KJV
- 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.
- WEB
- He gathered together the priests and the Levites, and said to them, “Go out to the cities of Judah, and gather money to repair the house of your God from all Israel from year to year. See that you expedite this matter.” However the Levites didn’t do it right away.
- ASV
- 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.
- DARBY
- And he gathered together the priests and the Levites, and said to them, Go out to the cities of Judah and collect of all Israel money for the repair of the house of your God from year to year, and ye shall hasten the matter. But the Levites hastened it not.
- BLB
- And he gathered the priests and the Levites, and he said to them, “Go out to the cities of Judah, and gather from all Israel silver to repair the house of your⁺ God sufficiently year by year, and you⁺, hurry to the matter.” But the Levites hurried not.
- ÅB
- Og han samlet prestene og levittene og sa til dem: Dra ut til byene i Juda og samle inn penger fra hele Israel til å utbedre deres Guds hus etter som det trenges fra år til år, og skynd dere med å gjøre dette! Men levittene skyndte seg ikke dermed.
- OTB
- Og han samlet prestene og levittene og sa til dem: “Gå ut til byene i Juda og samle inn penger fra hele Israel for å reparere huset til deres Gud årlig, og dere skal gjøre arbeidet raskt.” Men levittene handlet ikke raskt.
- B1930
- Og han samlet prestene og levittene og sa til dem: Dra ut til byene i Juda og samle inn penger fra hele Israel til å utbedre eders Guds hus efter som det trenges fra år til år, og skynd eder med å gjøre dette! Men levittene skyndte sig ikke dermed.
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Original text and word study
Cross references
2 Kings 12:4–7
Then Joash said to the priests, “Collect all the money brought as sacred gifts into the house of the LORD—the census money, the money from vows, and the money brought voluntarily into the house of the LORD.
Read in context2 Chronicles 29:3
In the first month of the first year of his reign, Hezekiah opened and repaired the doors of the house of the LORD.
Read in context2 Chronicles 34:8–9
Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, in order to cleanse the land and the temple, Josiah sent Shaphan son of Azaliah, Maaseiah the governor of the city, and Joah son of Joahaz, the recorder, to repair the house of the LORD his God.
Read in context2 Chronicles 21:2
Jehoram’s brothers, the sons of Jehoshaphat, were Azariah, Jehiel, Zechariah, Azariah, Michael, and Shephatiah; these were all sons of Jehoshaphat king of Israel.
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