2 Chronicles 24:4-6

New American Standard Bible

Faithless Priests

⁴ Now it came about after this that Joash ^[a]decided ^(A)to restore the house of the Lord. ⁵ He gathered the priests and Levites and said to them, “Go out to the cities of Judah and collect money from all ^(B)Israel to ^[b]repair the house of your God annually, and you shall ^[c]do the work quickly.” But the Levites did not act quickly. ⁶ So 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 ^(C)the ^[d]contribution of Moses, the servant of the Lord, and the congregation of Israel, ^(D)for the tent of the testimony?”