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5 and he gathered together the preastes & the Leuites, and sayd to them: go out vnto the cyties of Iuda, & gather of all Israell money, to repayre the house of youre God from yere to yere, and se that ye hast the thynge: howbeit the Leuites were slacke.
6 And the kyng called Iehoiada that was the chefest and sayd vnto hym. Why requirest thou not of the Leuites to brynge in, out of Iuda & Ierusalem, the collection of money accordynge to the commaundement of Moses the seruaunt of the Lorde and the congregacion of Israel shulde offre it for the tabernacle of wytnesse.
7 For wycked Athaliahu and her chyldren brake vp the house of God, and all the thynges that were dedicat for the house of the Lorde dyd they bestowe for Bealim.
8 And at the kinges commaundement, they made a chest, & set it without at the gate of the house of the Lorde
9 and made proclamacyon thorowe Iuda and Ierusalem, to bryng into the Lorde the taxacion of money, that Moses the seruaunt of God set vpon Israel in the wyldernesse.
10 And the Lordes and all the people reioysed, and brought in, and cast into the chest, vntill it was full.
11 And it fortuned, that at the same tyme they brought in the chest (vnto them which were in the kynges busynesse) by the hande of the Leuites. And when they sawe that there was moche money, the kynges scrybe (and one appoynted by the hye preast) came, and emptied the chest, and toke it, and caryed it to his place agayne: thus they dyd daye by daye, and gathered moche money.
12 And the kynge & Iehoiada gaue it to soch as dyd the laboure and worke in the house of the Lorde, and hyred masons and carpenters to repayre the house of the Lorde, and so dyd they artificers in yron and brasse, to mende the house of the Lorde.
13 And so the worckmen wrought, and the worcke mended thorowe theyr handes: and they made the house of God as it ought to be, and strengthed it.
14 And when they had finisshed it, they brought the rest of the moneye before the kyng and Iehoiada, and ther with were made vessels for the house of the Lorde: euen vessels to ministre withall, and to serue for burnt offerynges: chargers and spones, vessels of golde and syluer. And they offered burntofferynges in the house of the Lorde continuallye all the dayes of Iehoiada.