2 Chronicles 24:8

And at the king's order they made a chest, and placed it at the gate of the house of the Lord on the outside.

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

And at the king’s commandment they made a chest, and set it without at the gate of the house of the LORD.

In Context

7For the sons of the wicked 'Athalyahu have made breaches [in] the house of God; and also the holy things of the house of the Lord have they applied to the Be'alim.

9And they made a proclamation through Judah and Jerusalem, to bring in to the Lord the contribution [fixed by] Moses the servant of God upon Israel in the wilderness.

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Cross References

2 Kings 12:8(12:9) And the priests consented neither to take any more money from the people, nor to repair the breaches of the house.

Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 24:2-15

The Temple Repaired. ( b. c. 855.) 1 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. 2 And Joash did that which was right in the sight of the Lord all the days of Jehoiada the priest. 3 And Jehoiada took for him two wives; and he begat sons and daughters. 4 And it came to pass after this, that Joash was minded to repair the house of the Lord . 5 And he gathered together the priests and the Levites, and said to them, Go out… Read the whole commentary →

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