2 Kings 12:10

10 It was so, when they saw that there was much money in the chest, that the king's Sofer and the Kohen Gadol came up, and they put up in bags and counted the money that was found in the house of the LORD.

2 Kings 12:10 Meaning and Commentary

2 Kings 12:10

And it was so, when they saw that there was much money in the
chest
Which might easily be guessed at by the number of the people which contributed:

that the king's and the high priest came up;
to the temple; the high priest did not choose to come alone, lest he should be suspected, but to have the king's secretary with him, that the money might be taken out of the chest, and told in the presence of them both: in ( 2 Chronicles 24:11 ) instead of the "high priest", it is the "high priest's officer", which the Targum there calls the Sagan of the high priest, or his deputy, who, perhaps, attended when the high priest could not:

and they put up in bags, and told the money that was found in the house
of the Lord;
that is, they poured the money out of the chest, or emptied it, as in ( 2 Chronicles 24:11 ) and counted it, and very likely set down the sum in writing, and put it up in bags, very probably sealed.

2 Kings 12:10 In-Context

8 The Kohanim consented that they should take no [more] money from the people, neither repair the breaches of the house.

9 But Yehoiada the Kohen took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid of it, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as one comes into the house of the LORD: and the Kohanim who kept the threshold put therein all the money that was brought into the house of the LORD.

10 It was so, when they saw that there was much money in the chest, that the king's Sofer and the Kohen Gadol came up, and they put up in bags and counted the money that was found in the house of the LORD.

11 They gave the money that was weighed out into the hands of those who did the work, who had the oversight of the house of the LORD: and they paid it out to the carpenters and the builders, who worked on the house of the LORD,

12 and to the masons and the stone cutters, and for buying timber and hewn stone to repair the breaches of the house of the LORD, and for all that was laid out for the house to repair it.