Chest

How Nave’s arranged it

• For money2 Kings 12:92 Chronicles 24:8–11

The passages, in Bible order (2)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 2 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. 2 Kings 12:9

   Then Jehoiada the priest took a chest, bored a hole in its lid, and set it beside the altar on the right side as one enters the house of the LORD. There the priests who guarded the threshold put all the money brought into the house of the LORD.

   ›Commentary on 2 Kings 12:92 voices

   “But Jehoiada the priest took a chest,....

   “The priests that kept the door - The north door into the priests’ court Eze 40:35-43 seems to be intended, not the door of the temple building. The chest must have been placed a little to the right of this north door, between it and the altar of burnt-offering, so that the people could see it from the doorway. The people were not ordinarily allowed to go within the doorway into this court, which belonged to the priests and Levites only.

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2. 2 Chronicles 24:8–11

   At the king’s command a chest was made and placed outside, at the gate of the house of the LORD.

   ›Commentary on 2 Chronicles 24:8–111 voice

   “Among the Hebrews, intramural interment was prohibited in every city but Jerusalem, and there the exception was made only to the royal family and persons of eminent merit, on whom the distinction was conferred of being buried in the city of David, among the kings, as in the case of Jehoiada.

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