Repairing the Temple

Then(A) Joash said to the priests, “All the dedicated money brought to the Lord’s temple,(B) census money,(C) money from vows,(D) and all money voluntarily given(E) for the Lord’s temple,

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Joash said to the priests, “Collect(A) all the money that is brought as sacred offerings(B) to the temple of the Lord—the money collected in the census,(C) the money received from personal vows and the money brought voluntarily(D) to the temple.

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Then Jehoiada the priest took a chest,(A) bored a hole in its lid, and set it beside the altar on the right side as one enters the Lord’s temple; in it the priests who guarded the threshold put all the money brought into the Lord’s temple.(B) 10 Whenever they saw there was a large amount of money in the chest, the king’s secretary(C) and the high priest would go to the Lord’s temple and count the money found there and tie it up in bags.(D)

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Jehoiada the priest took a chest and bored a hole in its lid. He placed it beside the altar, on the right side as one enters the temple of the Lord. The priests who guarded the entrance(A) put into the chest all the money(B) that was brought to the temple of the Lord. 10 Whenever they saw that there was a large amount of money in the chest, the royal secretary(C) and the high priest came, counted the money that had been brought into the temple of the Lord and put it into bags.

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