2 Chronicles 24:9
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.
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- 2 Chr 24:6 : 6 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?”
- Matt 17:24-27 : 24 The Temple Tax After they arrived in Capernaum, the collectors of the temple tax came to Peter and said,“Your teacher pays the double drachma tax, doesn’t he?” 25 He said,“Yes.” When Peter came into the house, Jesus spoke to him first,“What do you think, Simon? From whom do earthly kings collect tolls or taxes– from their sons or from foreigners?” 26 After he said,“From foreigners,” Jesus said to him,“Then the sons are free. 27 But so that we don’t offend them, go to the lake and throw out a hook. Take the first fish that comes up, and when you open its mouth, you will find a four drachma coin. Take that and give it to them for me and you.”
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- 2 Chr 24:5-62 verses83%
5He 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.
6So 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?”
- 2 Chr 24:10-112 verses79%
10All the officials and all the people gladly brought their silver and threw it into the chest until it was full.
11Whenever 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.
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8The king ordered a chest to be made and placed outside the gate of the LORD’s temple.
- Exod 35:4-52 verses74%
4Willing Workers Moses spoke to the whole community of the Israelites,“This is the word that the LORD has commanded:
5‘Take an offering for the LORD. Let everyone who has a willing heart bring an offering to the LORD: gold, silver, bronze,
- 2 Chr 34:9-102 verses74%
9They went to Hilkiah the high priest and gave him the silver that had been brought to God’s temple. The Levites who guarded the door had collected it from the people of Manasseh and Ephraim and from all who were left in Israel, as well as from all the people of Judah and Benjamin and the residents of Jerusalem.
10They handed it over to the construction foremen assigned to the LORD’s temple. They in turn paid the temple workers to restore and repair it.
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29The Israelites brought a freewill offering to the LORD, every man and woman whose heart was willing to bring materials for all the work that the LORD through Moses had commanded them to do.
- Exod 25:1-33 verses73%
1The Materials for the Sanctuary The LORD spoke to Moses:
2“Tell the Israelites to take an offering for me; from every person motivated by a willing heart you are to receive my offering.
3This is the offering you are to accept from them: gold, silver, bronze,
- 2 Chr 31:4-63 verses73%
4He ordered the people living in Jerusalem to contribute the portion prescribed for the priests and Levites so they might be obedient to the law of the LORD.
5When the edict was issued, the Israelites freely contributed the initial portion of their grain, wine, olive oil, honey, and all the produce of their fields. They brought a tenth of everything, which added up to a huge amount.
6The Israelites and people of Judah who lived in the cities of Judah also contributed a tenth of their cattle and sheep, as well as a tenth of the holy items consecrated to the LORD their God. They brought them and placed them in many heaps.
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5So they took what Moses had commanded to the front of the Meeting Tent and the whole congregation presented them and stood before the LORD.
- 2 Kgs 12:9-102 verses72%
9Jehoiada the priest took a chest and drilled a hole in its lid. He placed it on the right side of the altar near the entrance of the LORD’s temple. The priests who guarded the entrance would put into it all the silver brought to the LORD’s temple.
10When they saw the chest was full of silver, the royal secretary and the high priest counted the silver that had been brought to the LORD’s temple and bagged it up.
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3and they received from Moses all the offerings the Israelites had brought to do the work for the service of the sanctuary, and they still continued to bring him a freewill offering each morning.
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41So Moses gave the tribute, which was the LORD’s raised offering, to Eleazar the priest, as the LORD commanded Moses.
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4Jehoash said to the priests,“I place at your disposal all the consecrated silver that has been brought to the LORD’s temple, including the silver collected from the census tax, the silver received from those who have made vows, and all the silver that people have voluntarily contributed to the LORD’s temple.
- Exod 36:5-62 verses71%
5and told Moses,“The people are bringing much more than is needed for the completion of the work which the LORD commanded us to do!”
6Moses instructed them to take his message throughout the camp, saying,“Let no man or woman do any more work for the offering for the sanctuary.” So the people were restrained from bringing any more.
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12Then all of Judah brought the tithe of the grain, the new wine, and the olive oil to the storerooms.
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25he commanded the Levites who carried the ark of the LORD’s covenant,
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54So Moses and Eleazar the priest received the gold from the commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds and brought it into the tent of meeting as a memorial for the Israelites before the LORD.
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32Moses said,“This is what the LORD has commanded:‘Fill an omer with it to be kept for generations to come, so that they may see the food I fed you in the wilderness when I brought you out from the land of Egypt.’”
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17They melted down the silver in the LORD’s temple and handed it over to the supervisors and the construction foremen.”
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14When they took out the silver that had been brought to the LORD’s temple, Hilkiah the priest found the law scroll the LORD had given to Moses.
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4“Go up to Hilkiah the high priest and have him melt down the silver that has been brought by the people to the LORD’s temple and has been collected by the guards at the door.
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6And there you must take your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the personal offerings you have prepared, your votive offerings, your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks.
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9The Presentation of First Fruits The LORD spoke to Moses:
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44On that day men were appointed over the storerooms for the contributions, first fruits, and tithes, to gather into them from the fields of the cities the portions prescribed by the law for the priests and the Levites, for the people of Judah took delight in the priests and Levites who were ministering.
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24Everyone making an offering of silver or bronze brought it as an offering to the LORD, and everyone who had acacia wood for any work of the service brought it.
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21Everyone whose heart stirred him to action and everyone whose spirit was willing came and brought the offering for the LORD for the work of the tent of meeting, for all its service, and for the holy garments.
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16“This is what the LORD has commanded:‘Each person is to gather from it what he can eat, an omer per person according to the number of your people; each one will pick it up for whoever lives in his tent.’”
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12They brought the captives and the spoils and the plunder to Moses, to Eleazar the priest, and to the Israelite community, to the camp on the rift valley plains of Moab, along the Jordan River across from Jericho.
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9You are to bring the Levites before the tent of meeting and assemble the entire community of the Israelites.
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25The Distribution of Spoils Then the LORD spoke to Moses:
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38which the LORD commanded Moses on Mount Sinai on the day he commanded the Israelites to present their offerings to the LORD in the desert of Sinai.
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19All the silver and gold, as well as bronze and iron items, belong to the LORD. They must go into the LORD’s treasury.”
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1Regulations for the Lampstand and Table of Bread The LORD spoke to Moses:
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25Instructions for the Levites The LORD spoke to Moses:
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40(30:1) So Moses told the Israelites everything, just as the LORD had commanded him.
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1Sabbath Regulations Moses assembled the whole community of the Israelites and said to them,“These are the things that the LORD has commanded you to do.
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7So Moses came and summoned the elders of Israel. He set before them all these words that the LORD had commanded him,
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4Anyone who survives in any of those places where he is a resident foreigner must be helped by his neighbors with silver, gold, equipment, and animals, along with voluntary offerings for the temple of God which is in Jerusalem.’”