◄ 2 Chronicles 24:8 ►
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Good News Translation
The king ordered the Levites to make a box for contributions and to place it at the Temple gate.

New Revised Standard Version
So the king gave command, and they made a chest, and set it outside the gate of the house of the LORD.

Contemporary English Version
Joash gave orders for a wooden box to be made and had it placed outside, near the gate of the temple.

New American Bible
At the king’s command, therefore, they made a chest, which they put outside the gate of the LORD’s house.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the king commanded, and they made a chest: and set it by the gate of the house of the Lord on the outside.

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And the king commanded, and they made a chest: and set it by the gate of the house of the Lord on the outside.

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2 Kings 12:8,9 And the priests were forbidden to take any more money of the people, and to make the repairs of the house. . . .

Mark 12:41 And Jesus sitting over against the treasury, beheld how the people cast money into the treasury. And many that were rich cast in much.

Context
Joash Repairs the Temple
…7For that wicked woman Athalia, and her children have destroyed the house of God, and adorned the temple of Baal with all the things that had been dedicated in the temple of the Lord. 8And the king commanded, and they made a chest: and set it by the gate of the house of the Lord on the outside.9And they made a proclamation in Juda and Jerusalem, that every man should bring to the Lord the money which Moses the servant of God appointed for all Israel, in the desert.…
Cross References
2 Kings 12:9
And Joiada, the high priest, took a chest, and bored a hole in the top, and set it by the altar at the right hand of them that came into the house of the Lord; and the priests that kept the doors, put therein all the money that was brought to the temple of the Lord.

2 Chronicles 24:9
And they made a proclamation in Juda and Jerusalem, that every man should bring to the Lord the money which Moses the servant of God appointed for all Israel, in the desert.

2 Chronicles 24:7
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