2 Tawarikh 24:4-7

24:4 Joash was determined to repair the Lord’s temple. ¹  24:5 He 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.

24:6 So the king summoned Jehoiada the chief priest, ²  and said to him, “Why have you not made ³  the Levites collect ⁴  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?” ⁵  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.)

[24:4]  ¹ tn Heb “and it was, later, there was with the heart of Joash to repair the house of the Lord.”

[24:6]  ² tn Heb “Jehoiada the head”; the word “priest” not in the Hebrew text but is implied.

[24:6]  ³ tn Heb “sought.”

[24:6]  ⁴ tn Heb “bring.”

[24:6]  ⁵ tn Heb “the tent of testimony.”