All the leaders and all the people rejoiced and brought their tax and dropped it into the chest until it was full.
2 Chronicles 24:9 - New Revised Standard Version A proclamation was made throughout Judah and Jerusalem to bring in for the Lord the tax that Moses the servant of God laid on Israel in the wilderness. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And they made a proclamation through Judah and Jerusalem to bring in for the Lord the tax that Moses the servant of God laid upon Israel in the wilderness. American Standard Version (1901) And they made a proclamation through Judah and Jerusalem, to bring in for Jehovah the tax that Moses the servant of God laid upon Israel in the wilderness. Common English Bible Then a proclamation was issued throughout Judah and Jerusalem requiring the people to bring to the LORD the tax that God’s servant Moses had imposed on Israel in the wilderness. Catholic Public Domain Version And they proclaimed, in Judah and Jerusalem, that each one should bring to the Lord the money that Moses, the servant of God, appointed in the desert, concerning all of Israel. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And they made a proclamation in Juda and Jerusalem, that every man should bring to the Lord the money which Moses the servant of God appointed for all Israel in the desert. |
All the leaders and all the people rejoiced and brought their tax and dropped it into the chest until it was full.
So the king summoned Jehoiada the chief, and said to him, “Why have you not required the Levites to bring in from Judah and Jerusalem the tax levied by Moses, the servant of the Lord, on the congregation of Israel for the tent of the covenant?”
In the first year of King Cyrus of Persia, in fulfillment of the word of the Lord spoken by Jeremiah, the Lord stirred up the spirit of King Cyrus of Persia so that he sent a herald throughout all his kingdom and also declared in a written edict:
When you take a census of the Israelites to register them, at registration all of them shall give a ransom for their lives to the Lord, so that no plague may come upon them for being registered.