2 Chronicles 24:8

Therefore, the king instructed, and they made an ark. And they placed it beside the gate of the house of the Lord, on the outside.

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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 that very impious woman Athaliah and her sons have destroyed the house of God, and they have adorned the shrine of Baal from all the things that had been sanctified in the temple of the Lord.”

9And they proclaimed, in Judah and Jerusalem, that each one should bring to the Lord the money that Moses, the servant of God, appointed in the desert, concerning all of Israel.

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Cross References

2 Kings 12:8And so the priests were prohibited from accepting any more money from the people to repair the surfaces 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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