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the Week of Proper 18 / Ordinary 23
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Webster's Bible Translation

2 Chronicles 24:8

And at the king's commandment 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.
King James Version (1611)
And at the kings commandement 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.
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 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 convened the priests and the Levites, and said to them, Go out to the cities of Judah, and gather from all Israel money to repair the house of your God from year to year, and see that ye hasten the matter. But the Levites hastened [it] not. 6 And the king called for Jehoiada the chief, and said to him, Why hast thou not required of the Levites to bring in out of Judah and out of Jerusalem the collection, [according to the commandment] of Moses the servant of the LORD, and of the congregation of Israel, for the tabernacle of witness? 7 For the sons of Athaliah that wicked woman, had broken up the house of God; and also all the dedicated things of the house of the LORD they bestowed upon Baalim. 8 And at the king's commandment they made a chest, and set it without at the gate of the house of the LORD. 9 And they made a proclamation through Judah and Jerusalem, to bring in to the LORD the collection [that] Moses the servant of God [laid] upon Israel in the wilderness. 10 And all the princes and all the people rejoiced, and brought in, and cast into the chest, until they had made an end.

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 to my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son Isaac.
Genesis 24:6
And Abraham said to him, Beware that thou bring not my son thither again.
Genesis 24:17
And the servant ran to meet her, and said, Let me, I pray thee, drink a little water from thy pitcher.
Genesis 24:20
And she hasted, and emptied her pitcher into the trough, and ran again to the well to draw [water], and drew for all his camels.
Numbers 30:5
But if her father shall disallow her in the day that he heareth; not any of her vows or of her bonds with which she hath bound her soul shall stand: and the LORD shall forgive her, because her father disallowed her.
Numbers 30:8
But if her husband disallowed her on the day that he heard [it]; then he shall make of no effect her vow which she vowed, and that which she uttered with her lips, with which she bound her soul: and the LORD shall forgive her.
Joshua 9:20
This we will do to them; we will even let them live, lest wrath be upon us, because of the oath which we swore to them.
John 8:32
And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
Acts 7:2
And he said, Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken; The God of glory appeared to 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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