NET Bible
"The king ordered a chest to be made and placed outside the gate of the LORD’s temple."
— 2 Chronicles 24:8, NET Bible
“And at the king’s commandment they made a chest, and set it without at the gate of the house of the Lord.”
“So the king commanded, and they made a chest, and set it without at the gate of the house of Jehovah. ”
“So the king commanded, and they made a chest, and set it outside at the gate of the house of Yahweh.”
“And the king commanded, and they made a chest: and set it by the gate of the house of the Lord on the outside.”
“So at the king's order they made a chest and put it outside the doorway of the house of the Lord.”
“And at the king’s commandment they made a chest, and set it without at the gate of the house of the Lord.”
He assembled the priests and Levites and ordered them,“Go out to the cities of Judah and collect the annual quota of silver from all Israel for repairs on the temple of your God. Be quick about it!” But the Levites delayed.
So the king summoned Jehoiada the chief priest, and said to him,“Why have you not made the Levites collect from Judah and Jerusalem the tax authorized by Moses the LORD’s servant and by the assembly of Israel at the tent containing the tablets of the law?”
(Wicked Athaliah and her sons had broken into God’s temple and used all the holy items of the LORD’s temple in their worship of the Baals.)
The king ordered a chest to be made and placed outside the gate of the LORD’s temple.
An edict was sent throughout Judah and Jerusalem requiring the people to bring to the LORD the tax that Moses, God’s servant, imposed on Israel in the wilderness.
All the officials and all the people gladly brought their silver and threw it into the chest until it was full.
Whenever the Levites brought the chest to the royal accountant and they saw there was a lot of silver, the royal scribe and the accountant of the high priest emptied the chest and then took it back to its place. They went through this routine every day and collected a large amount of silver.