2 Chronicles 24:4-6

New American Standard Bible 1995

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 ^[c]annually, and you shall do the matter 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 levy fixed by Moses the servant of the Lord on the congregation of Israel ^(D)for the tent of the testimony?”