2 Chronicles 24:5-7

New International Reader's Version

⁵ He called together the priests and Levites. He said to them, “Go to the towns of Judah. Collect the money that the nation of Israel owes every year. Use it to repair the temple of your God. Do it now.” But the Levites didn’t do it right away.

⁶ So the king sent for Jehoiada the chief priest. He said to him, “Why haven’t you required the Levites to bring in the tax from Judah and Jerusalem? It was set up by the Lord’s servant Moses and the whole community of Israel. It was used for the tent where the tablets of the covenant law were kept.”

⁷ The children of that evil woman Athaliah had broken into God’s temple. They had used even its sacred objects for the gods that were named Baal.