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King James Version (1611 Edition)

2 Chronicles 24:8

And at the kings commandement they made a chest, and set it without, at the gate of the house of the Lord.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Chest;   Jehoiada;   Joash;   Liberality;   Priest;   Temple;   Thompson Chain Reference - Chests;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Gates;   Temple, the First;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Jehoash;   Jehoiada;   Levite;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Chest;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Jerusalem;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Chronicles, Books of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Chronicles, I;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Bag ;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Jehoiada ;   Joash ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Tax taxing taxation;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Chest;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Chest;   Jehoash;   Jehoiada;   Jesus Christ (Part 2 of 2);   Tax;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Joash;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
At the king’s command a chest was made and placed outside the gate of the Lord’s temple.
Hebrew Names Version
So the king commanded, and they made a chest, and set it outside at the gate of the house of the LORD.
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 .
English Standard Version
So the king commanded, and they made a chest and set it outside the gate of the house of the Lord .
New Century Version
King Joash commanded that a box for contributions be made. They put it outside, at the gate of the Temple of the Lord .
New English Translation
The king ordered a chest to be made and placed outside the gate of the Lord 's temple.
Amplified Bible
So at the king's command they made a chest and set it outside by the gate of the house of the LORD.
New American Standard Bible
So the king commanded, and they made a chest and set it outside by the gate of the house of the LORD.
World English Bible
So the king commanded, and they made a chest, and set it outside at the gate of the house of Yahweh.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Therefore the King commaunded, and they made a chest, and set it at the gate of the house of the Lord without.
Legacy Standard Bible
So the king said the word, and they made a chest and put it outside by the gate of the house of Yahweh.
Berean Standard Bible
At the king's command a chest was made and placed outside, at 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.
Complete Jewish Bible
Then, at the king's order, they made a box and placed it outside the entrance to the house of Adonai .
Darby Translation
And the king commanded, and they made a chest, and set it at the gate of the house of Jehovah without,
Easy-to-Read Version
King Joash gave a command for a box to be made and put outside the gate at the Lord 's Temple.
George Lamsa Translation
And at the kings commandment, they made a chest, and set it outside the gate of the house of the LORD.
Good News Translation
The king ordered the Levites to make a box for contributions and to place it at the Temple gate.
Lexham English Bible
Then the king commanded, and they made a chest and put it at the gate outside the house of Yahweh.
Literal Translation
And the king commanded, and they made one chest, and put it at the gate of the house of Jehovah outside;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Then commaunded the kynge to make a chest, and to set it without at the intraunce of the house of the LORDE:
American Standard Version
So the king commanded, and they made a chest, and set it without at the gate of the house of Jehovah.
Bible in Basic English
So at the king's order they made a chest and put it outside the doorway of the house of the Lord.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And at the kinges commaundement they made a chest, and set it without at the gate of the house of the Lorde:
JPS Old Testament (1917)
So the king commanded, and they made a chest, and set it without at the gate of the house of the LORD.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the king said, Let a box be made, and let it be put at the gate of the house of the Lord without.
English Revised Version
So the king commanded, and they made a chest, and set it without at the gate of the house of the LORD.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor the kyng comaundide, and thei maden an arke, and settiden it bisidis the yate of the Lord with out forth.
Update Bible Version
So the king commanded, and they made a chest, and set it outside at the gate of the house of Yahweh.
Webster's Bible Translation
And at the king's commandment they made a chest, and set it without at the gate of the house of the LORD.
New King James Version
Then at the king's command they made a chest, and set it outside at the gate of the house of the LORD.
New Living Translation
So now the king ordered a chest to be made and set outside the gate leading to the Temple of the Lord .
New Life Bible
So the king had them make a box and set it outside by the gate of the Lord's house.
New Revised Standard
So the king gave command, and they made a chest, and set it outside the gate of the house of the Lord .
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So the king bade them , and they made a certain chest, - and set it in the gate of the house of Yahweh, outside.
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.
Revised Standard Version
So the king commanded, and they made a chest, and set it outside the gate of the house of the LORD.
Young's Literal Translation
And the king speaketh, and they make one chest, and put it at the gate of the house of Jehovah without,
THE MESSAGE
Following the king's orders, they made a chest and placed it at the entrance to The Temple of God . Then they sent out a tax notice throughout Judah and Jerusalem: "Pay the tax that Moses the servant of God set when Israel was in the wilderness."
New American Standard Bible (1995)
So the king commanded, and they made a chest and set it outside by the gate of the house of the LORD.

Contextual Overview

1 Ioash was seuen yeeres old when he beganne to reigne; and he reigned fortie yeeres in Ierusalem: his mothers name also was Zibiah, of Beer-sheba. 2 And Ioash did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, all the dayes of Iehoiada the Priest. 3 And Iehoiada tooke for him two wiues, and he begat sonnes and daughters. 4 And it came to passe after this that Ioash was minded to repaire the house of the Lord. 5 And hee gathered together the priests and the Leuites, and saide to them, Go out vnto the cities of Iudah, and gather of all Israel money to repaire the house of your God from yeere to yere, and see that ye haste the matter: howbeit the Leuites hastened it not. 6 And the king called for Iehoiada the chiefe, and saide vnto him, Why hast thou not required of the Leuites to bring in out of Iudah and out of Ierusalem, the collection, according to the commandement of Moses the seruant of the Lord, and of the Congregation of Israel, for the tabernacle of Witnesse? 7 For the sonnes of Athaliah that wicked woman, had broken vp the house of God, and also all the dedicate things of the house of the Lord, did they bestow vpon Baalim. 8 And at the kings commandement they made a chest, and set it without, at the gate of the house of the Lord. 9 And they made a proclamation through Iudah & Ierusalem, to bring in to the Lord, the collection that Moses the seruant of God laid vpon Israel in the wildernesse. 10 And all the Princes and all the people reioyced, and brought in, and cast into the chest, vntill they had made an ende.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

at the king's: 2 Kings 12:8, 2 Kings 12:9, Mark 12:41

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 22:4 - sum the silver

Cross-References

Genesis 24:4
But thou shalt go vnto my countrey, and to my kinred, and take a wife vnto my sonne Isaac.
Genesis 24:6
And Abraham said vnto him, Beware thou, that thou bring not my sonne thither againe.
Genesis 24:17
And the seruant ranne to meete her, and said, Let mee (I pray thee) drinke a little water of thy pitcher.
Genesis 24:20
And she hasted and emptied her pitcher into the trough, and ranne againe vnto the well to draw water, and drew for all his camels.
Numbers 30:5
But if her father disallow her in the day that he heareth; not any of her vowes or of her bonds, wherewith she hath bound her soule, shall stand: and the Lord shall forgiue her, because her father disallowed her.
Numbers 30:8
But if her husband disallowe her on the day that he heard it, then he shall make her vowe which she vowed, and that which she vttered with her lippes wherewith shee bound her soule, of none effect, and the Lord shall forgiue her.
Joshua 9:20
This we will doe to them; wee will euen let them liue, lest wrath be vpon vs, because of the oath which wee sware vnto them.
John 8:32
And ye shall know the Trueth, and the Trueth shall make you free.
Acts 7:2
And hee said, Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken: The God of glory appeared vnto our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charran,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And at the king's commandment they made a chest,....

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Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Chronicles 24:8. They made a chest2 Kings 12:4, &c.


 
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