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2 Kings 12:9

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Then the priest Jehoiada took a chest,  bored a hole in its lid, and set it beside the altar on the right side as one enters the Lord’s temple; the priests who guarded the threshold put into the chest all the silver that was brought to the Lord’s temple.

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Sitting  opposite the temple treasury,  he watched how the crowd dropped money into the treasury. Many rich  people were putting in large sums.


He  looked up and saw the rich dropping their offerings into the temple treasury.


and I brought them into the temple of the Lord to a chamber occupied by the sons of Hanan son of Igdaliah, a man of God,  who had a chamber near the officials’ chamber, which was above the chamber of Maaseiah son of Shallum the doorkeeper.


The priests, Shebaniah, Joshaphat, Nethanel, Amasai, Zechariah, Benaiah, and Eliezer, were to blow trumpets  before the ark of God. Obed-edom and Jehiah were also to be gatekeepers for the ark.


The captain of the guards also took away Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the priest of the second rank, and the three doorkeepers.


With them were their relatives second in rank: Zechariah, Jaaziel,  Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattithiah, Eliphelehu, Mikneiah, and the gatekeepers Obed-edom and Jeiel.


The captain of the guards  also took away Seraiah  the chief priest, Zephaniah  the priest of the second rank, and the three doorkeepers.


Then the king commanded the high priest Hilkiah  and the priests of the second rank  and the doorkeepers to bring out of the Lord’s sanctuary all the articles made for Baal, Asherah, and all the stars in the sky.  He burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron and carried their ashes to Bethel.


‘Go up to the high priest Hilkiah so that he may total up the silver brought into the Lord’s temple #– #the silver the doorkeepers have collected from the people.


So the priests agreed that they would receive no silver from the people and would not be the ones to repair the temple’s damage.





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