Matthew Poole and continuators on 2 Chronicles 24:5

5 And he gathered together the priests and the 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 haste the matter. Howbeit the Levites hastned it not.

i. e. Of all the Israelites that were in the Kingdom of Judah. See Ch. 15. 17. and 21. 2.

Either 1. repair part of it every year till the reparations be perfected: Or 2. gather it from year to year, [illegible: 1 word] you get such a sum as may suffice for the work; for he supposed one or two years collection would not suffice for the work, whether it were that collection of half a shekel for every man, of which see Exod. 30. 12, 13. 2 Kings 12. 14. Or a voluntary contribution required for the present exigence of the Temple by virtue of the command and example of Moses, who made such a collection for the building of the Tabernacle, Exod. 35. 5. See also Nehem. 10. 32. which he thought would not be any great sum, because of the great iniquity and impiety which yet had reigned for many years, and yet continued in the generality of the people of the Land, the Levites not excepted, as the last clause of this Verse shews.