2 Chronicles 24:8

8 Then the king commanded, and they made a chest and put it at the gate outside the house of Yahweh.

2 Chronicles 24:8 Meaning and Commentary

2 Chronicles 24:8

And at the king's commandment they made a chest
(See Gill on 2 Kings 12:9).

2 Chronicles 24:8 In-Context

6 So the king called Jehoiada the chief, and he said to him, "Why have you not required the Levites to bring from Judah and Jerusalem the tax of Moses, the servant of Yahweh, and [of] the assembly of Israel for the tent of the testimony?"

7 For the sons of the wicked Athaliah had broken into the house of God and had used all the holy vessels of the house of Yahweh for the Baals.

8 Then the king commanded, and they made a chest and put it at the gate outside the house of Yahweh.

9 And {they issued a proclamation} in Judah and in Jerusalem to bring to Yahweh the tax [that] Moses the servant of God [had levied] upon Israel in the wilderness.

10 And all the princes and all the people rejoiced, and they brought [their tax] and threw [it] into the chest until [it was] finished.