2 Chronicles 24:6-8

The Voice

⁷because the wicked Athaliah’s subjects had broken into the True God’s temple and used its dedicated contents to worship the Baals.^[a]

⁶so Joash rebuked Jehoiada the chief priest for not properly leading them.

Joash (to Jehoiada): Why have you not obeyed my request and required the Levites to collect money from Judah and Jerusalem? Moses, the Eternal’s servant, decided that all Israel should pay this money each year to provide for the tent of the covenant law.

Since the priests and Levites do not collect the money as Joash commands them, he finds another way to collect the money.

⁸He had a chest placed outside the Eternal’s temple near the gate

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