Verse 5
2 Chronicles 24:5
Darby Translation
5
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 (Elohim) from year to year, and ye shall hasten the matter. But the Levites hastened it not.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יִּקְבֹּץ֮ אֶת הַ/כֹּהֲנִ֣ים וְ/הַ/לְוִיִּם֒ וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר לָ/הֶ֡ם צְא֣וּ לְ/עָרֵ֪י יְהוּדָ֟ה וְ/קִבְצוּ֩ מִ/כָּל יִשְׂרָאֵ֨ל כֶּ֜סֶף לְ/חַזֵּ֣ק אֶת בֵּ֣ית אֱלֹֽהֵי/כֶ֗ם מִ/דֵּ֤י שָׁנָה֙ בְּ/שָׁנָ֔ה וְ/אַתֶּ֖ם תְּמַהֲר֣וּ לַ/דָּבָ֑ר וְ/לֹ֥א מִֽהֲר֖וּ הַֽ/לְוִיִּֽם
English Translation
And he gathered the priests and the Levites and said to them, "Go out to the cities of Judah and gather from all Israel silver to strengthen the house of your God year by year, and you hasten to the matter, and the Levites did not hurry."
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Chapter 24 Context
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Joash was seven years old when he began to reign; and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem; and his m...
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And Joash did what was right in the sight of Jehovah all the days of Jehoiada the priest.
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And Jehoiada took for him two wives; and he begot sons and daughters.
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And it came to pass after this, that Joash was minded to renew the house of Jehovah.
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And he gathered together the priests and the Levites, and said to them, Go out to the cities of Juda...
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And the king called for Jehoiada the chief, and said to him, Why hast thou not required of the Levit...
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For the wicked Athaliah [and] her sons had devastated the house of God (Elohim); and also all the ha...
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And the king commanded, and they made a chest, and set it at the gate of the house of Jehovah withou...
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and they made a proclamation through Judah and Jerusalem, to bring to Jehovah the tribute of Moses t...
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And all the princes and all the people rejoiced, and brought in and cast into the chest, until they...
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And it came to pass at the time the chest was brought for the king's control by the hand of the Levi...
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And the king and Jehoiada gave it to such as did the work of the service of the house of Jehovah, an...
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So the workmen wrought, and the work was perfected by them, and they set the house of God (Elohim) i...
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And when they had finished, they brought the rest of the money before the king and Jehoiada; and the...
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And Jehoiada grew old and was full of days, and he died; he was a hundred and thirty years old when...
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And they buried him in the city of David among the kings, because he had done good in Israel, both t...
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And after the death of Jehoiada the princes of Judah came and made obeisance to the king; then the k...
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And they forsook the house of Jehovah the God (Elohim) of their fathers, and served the Asherahs and...
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And he sent prophets among them to bring them again to Jehovah, and they testified against them; but...
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And the Spirit of God (Elohim) came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest; and he stood up a...
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And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the command of the king in the court o...
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And king Joash remembered not the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but slew his s...
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And it came to pass at the end of the year [that] the army of Syria came up against him; and they en...
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Truly with a small company of men came the army of the Syrians, but Jehovah delivered a very great a...
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And when they had departed from him (for they left him in great diseases), his own servants conspire...
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And these are they that conspired against him: Zabad the son of Shimeath an Ammonitess, and Jehozaba...
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And as to his sons, and the greatness of the burdens [laid] upon him, and the building of the house...
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