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So the king summoned Jehoiada the chief priest,[a] and said to him, “Why have you not made[b] the Levites collect[c] from Judah and Jerusalem the tax authorized by Moses the Lord’s servant and by the assembly of Israel at the tent containing the tablets of the law?”[d] (Wicked Athaliah and her sons had broken into God’s temple and used all the holy items of the Lord’s temple in their worship of the Baals.) The king ordered a chest to be made and placed outside the gate of the Lord’s temple.[e]

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 24:6 tn Heb “Jehoiada the head”; the word “priest” not in the Hebrew text but is implied.
  2. 2 Chronicles 24:6 tn Heb “demanded of.”
  3. 2 Chronicles 24:6 tn Heb “to bring.”
  4. 2 Chronicles 24:6 tn Heb “the tent of testimony.”
  5. 2 Chronicles 24:8 tn Heb “and the king said [it] and they made a chest and placed it in the gate of the house of the Lord outside.”