2 Krønikebok 24:5

Det Norsk Bibelselskap

Og han samlet prestene og levittene og sa til dem: Dra ut til byene i Juda og samle inn penger fra hele Israel til å utbedre eders Guds hus efter som det trenges fra år til år, og skynd eder med å gjøre dette! Men levittene skyndte sig ikke dermed.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

gather of all Israel: 2 Chronicles 29:3, 2 Chronicles 34:8, 2 Chronicles 34:9, 2 Kings 12:4, 2 Kings 12:5

Howbeit: 2 Kings 12:6, 2 Kings 12:7

Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 21:2 - Israel 2 Chronicles 24:4 - repair Nehemiah 10:33 - all the work

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he gathered together the priests and Levites,.... To communicate his mind unto, and give them a charge and instructions:

and said unto them, go out unto the cities of Judah, and gather of all Israel money to repair the house of your God from year to year; what money he means is more fully explained in 2 Kings 12:4,

and see that ye haste the matter; for he was very desirous of having this work accomplished, it being the place of the worship of God, and where he had been preserved in his infancy:

howbeit, the Levites hastened it not; either through negligence in them to collect the money, or backwardness in the people to give, or through an avaricious disposition to keep it, and use it for themselves; so that it was delayed unto the twenty third year of his reign 2 Kings 12:6.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Chronicles 24:5. Gather of all Israel money — As the temple was the property of the whole nation, and the services performed in it were for the salvation of the people at large, it was right that each should come forward on an occasion of this kind, and lend a helping hand. This is the first instance of such a general collection for building or repairing a house of God.

From year to year — It must have been in a state of great dilapidation, when it required such annual exertions to bring it into a thorough state of repair.