7. For the wicked Athaliah and her sons had damaged the house of God and had even turned over to the Baals the holy things of the Lord’s house.
8. At the king’s command, therefore, they made a chest, which they put outside the gate of the Lord’s house.
9. They had it proclaimed throughout Judah and Jerusalem that the tax which Moses, the servant of God, had imposed on Israel in the wilderness should be brought to the Lord.
10. All the princes and the people rejoiced; they brought what was asked and cast it into the chest until it was filled.