7. Now the sons of that wicked woman Athaliah had broken into the temple of God and had used even its sacred objects for the Baals.
8. At the king’s command, a chest was made and placed outside, at the gate of the temple of the Lord.
9. A proclamation was then issued in Judah and Jerusalem that they should bring to the Lord the tax that Moses the servant of God had required of Israel in the wilderness.
10. All the officials and all the people brought their contributions gladly, dropping them into the chest until it was full.