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so the king summoned Jehoiada, the head of the project,[a] and said to him, “Why have you not required the Levites to collect from Judah and Jerusalem the tax which Moses, the servant of the Lord, established with the congregation of Israel for the Tent of Testimony?”[b]

(Because Athaliah was wicked, her sons had broken into the House of God and used all the dedicated things of the House of the Lord for the Baals.)

The king gave a command that a chest was to be made and set outside the gate of the House of the Lord.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 24:6 Or the head priest
  2. 2 Chronicles 24:6 Apparently based on Exodus 30:13
  3. 2 Chronicles 24:8 The parallel in 2 Kings 12:9 says that the chest was near the altar.