2 Kings 22:4
22:4 “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.
Exodus 30:12-16
30:12 “When you take a census
of the Israelites according to their number,
then each man is to pay a ransom
for his life to the
Lord when you number them,
so that there will be no plague among them when you number them.
30:13 Everyone who crosses over to those who are numbered
is to pay this: a half shekel
according to the shekel of the sanctuary
(a shekel weighs twenty gerahs). The half shekel is to be an offering
to the
Lord.
30:14 Everyone who crosses over to those numbered, from twenty years old and up, is to pay an offering to the
Lord.
30:15 The rich are not to increase it,
and the poor are not to pay less than the half shekel when giving
the offering of the
Lord, to make atonement
for your lives.
30:16 You are to receive the atonement money
from the Israelites and give it for the service
of the tent of meeting. It will be a memorial
for the Israelites before the
Lord, to make atonement
for your lives.”
Exodus 30:2
30:2 Its length is to be a foot and a half
and its width a foot and a half; it will be square. Its height is to be three feet,
with its horns of one piece with it.
Exodus 24:9-10
24:9 Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and the seventy elders of Israel went up,
24:10 and they saw the God of Israel. Under his feet there was something like a pavement made of sapphire, clear like the sky itself.