Happy Mother's Day to All! The Interesting Irony Continues

Our next reference using the word "gather" is in 2 Chronicles 24:5 and the story of king Joash. Verse 5 is where "gather" appears but the first few verses frame the circumstance for us:

"Joash was seven years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Zibiah of Beer-sheba. And Joash did that which was right in the sight of the Lord all the days of Jehoiada the priest. And Jehoiada took for him two wives; and he begat sons and daughters. And it came to pass after this, that Joash was minded to repair the house of the Lord. And he gathered together the priests and Levites, and said to 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, and see that ye hasten the matter. Howbeit the Levites hastened not." (2 Chronicles 24:1-5)

We see the theme of Temple repair, gathering of Israel (including priests and Levites)and restoration of Covenant worship repeated again in this passage.
The pattern continues.