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because the wicked Athaliah’s subjects had broken into the True God’s temple and used its dedicated contents to worship the Baals.[a]

Since the priests and Levites do not collect the money as Joash commands them, he finds another way to collect the money.

He had a chest placed outside the Eternal’s temple near the gate and told everyone in Judah and Jerusalem to bring the money that Moses, the servant of the True God, commanded Israel to bring to the Eternal while they were in the desert.

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Footnotes

  1. 24:7 This verse is placed before verse 5 to aid in the continuity of the passage.

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