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Very elderly Jehoiada places a wooden chest with a slot beside altar at right of entrance; threshold priests drop silver into it.
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2 Kings 12:10

The chest by the altar

Joash Repairs the House · 2 Kings 12

Story guide: Jehoiada installs a chest so offerings can reach the repairs.

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10Then Jehoiada the priest took a chest, bored a hole in its lid, and placed it beside the altar, on the right as one enters the temple of Yahweh. The priests who guarded the entrance put into it all the money brought to the temple of Yahweh.

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