Priests and Levites Raise Money for Temple repair:
2 Chronicles 24:4. And it happened after this that Joash purposed to repair the House of the LORD*. 5. And he gathered together the priests and the Levites and said to them, Go out to the cities of Judah and gather money from all Israel to repair the House of your God from year to year and see that you hasten the matter. But the Levites did not hasten. 6. And the king called for Jehoiada the chief and said to him, Why have you not required of the Levites to bring in the collection out of Judah and out of Jerusalem, according to the commandment of Moses the servant of the LORD* and of the congregation of Israel for the Tent of Testimony? 7. 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* they bestowed upon baalim.
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