2 Chronicles 24:4

4 post quae placuit Ioas ut instauraret domum Domini

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 fecitque quod bonum est coram Domino cunctis diebus Ioiadae sacerdotis

3 accepit autem ei Ioiadae uxores duas e quibus genuit filios et filias

4 post quae placuit Ioas ut instauraret domum Domini

5 congregavitque sacerdotes et Levitas et dixit eis egredimini ad civitates Iuda et colligite de universo Israhel pecuniam ad sarta tecta templi Dei vestri per singulos annos festinatoque hoc facite porro Levitae egere neglegentius

6 vocavitque rex Ioiadae principem et dixit ei quare non tibi fuit curae ut cogeres Levitas inferre de Iuda et de Hierusalem pecuniam quae constituta est a Mose servo Domini ut inferret eam omnis multitudo Israhel in tabernaculum testimonii