2 Kings

Continues the story of the divided kingdoms, their decline, and eventual exile.

Chapter 12

KJV - 2 Kings 12:9

But Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid of it, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as one cometh into the house of the LORD: and the priests that kept the door put therein all the money that was brought into the house of the LORD.

Jehoiada, a priest, placed a box near the altar on the right side. He poked a hole in the lid. The temple guards put all the money given to the Lord in this box.

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