2 Chronicles 24:4

4 After this Jo'ash decided to restore the house of the LORD.

2 Chronicles 24:4 Meaning and Commentary

2 Chronicles 24:4

And it came to pass after this
After his marriage, when he was about twenty or twenty one years of age, perhaps:

that Joash was minded to repair the house of the Lord;
which in some places might be fallen to decay, having been built one hundred and fifty years or more, and in others defaced by Athaliah, and needed ornamenting, see ( 2 Kings 12:4 ) .

2 Chronicles 24:4 In-Context

2 And Jo'ash did what was right in the eyes of the LORD all the days of Jehoi'ada the priest.
3 Jehoi'ada got for him two wives, and he had sons and daughters.
4 After this Jo'ash decided to restore the house of the LORD.
5 And he gathered the priests and the Levites, and said to them, "Go out to the cities of Judah, and gather from all Israel money to repair the house of your God from year to year; and see that you hasten the matter." But the Levites did not hasten it.
6 So the king summoned Jehoi'ada the chief, and said to him, "Why have you not required the Levites to bring in from Judah and Jerusalem the tax levied by Moses, the servant of the LORD, on the congregation of Israel for the tent of testimony?"
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