2 Chronicles 24:1-14

11Joash was seven years old when he became king, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was Zibiah from Beersheba. 22Joash did what was right in the sight of the Lord all the days of Jehoiada the priest. 3Jehoiada took two wives for him, and he became the father of sons and daughters.

4Now it came about after this that Joash 3decided 4to restore the house of the Lord. 5He gathered the priests and Levites and said to them, “Go out to the cities of Judah and collect money from all 5Israel to 6repair the house of your God 7annually, and you shall do the matter quickly.” But the Levites did not act quickly. 6So the king summoned Jehoiada the chief priest and said to him, “Why have you not required the Levites to bring in from Judah and from Jerusalem 8the levy fixed by Moses the servant of the Lord on the congregation of Israel 9for the tent of the testimony?” 7For 10the sons of the wicked Athaliah had broken into the house of God and even 11used the holy things of the house of the Lord for the Baals.

8So the king commanded, and 12they made a chest and set it outside by the gate of the house of the Lord. 913They made a proclamation in Judah and Jerusalem to bring to the Lord 14the levy fixed by Moses the servant of God on Israel in the wilderness. 10All the officers and all the people rejoiced and brought in their levies and 15dropped them into the chest until they had finished. 11It came about whenever the chest was brought in to the king’s officer by the Levites, and when 16they saw that there was much money, then the king’s scribe and the chief priest’s officer would come, empty the chest, take it, and return it to its place. Thus they did daily and collected much money. 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 restore the house of the Lord, and also workers in iron and bronze to 17repair the house of the Lord. 13So the workmen labored, and the repair work progressed in their hands, and they 18restored the house of God 19according to its specifications and strengthened it. 14When they had finished, they brought the rest of the money before the king and Jehoiada; and it was made into utensils for the house of the Lord, utensils for the service and the burnt offering, and pans and utensils of gold and silver. And they offered burnt offerings in the house of the Lord continually all the days of Jehoiada.