2 Kings 12:11

11 They gave the money which 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;

2 Kings 12:11 Meaning and Commentary

2 Kings 12:11

And they gave the money, being told, into the hands of them
that did the work, that had the oversight of the house of the Lord,
&c.] Who were appointed overseers of the workmen employed in the repairs of the temple; which overseers were laymen, and not priests, they being discharged from any concern in the repairs: this money "told", Kimchi interprets of its being coined; he supposes money coined and uncoined to be brought, which was put in separate bags; and that, which was not coined, they coined it before they delivered it to the overseers to pay the workmen with:

and they laid it out to the carpenters and builders that wrought upon
the house of the Lord;
paid them with it, some that wrought in cutting the timber, and others in building with it.

2 Kings 12:11 In-Context

9 But Jehoiada the priest took a chest and bored a hole in its lid and put it beside the altar, on the right side as one comes into the house of the LORD ; and the priests who guarded the threshold put in it all the money which was brought into the house of the LORD .

10 When they saw that there was much money in the chest, the king's scribe and the high priest came up and tied it in bags and counted the money which was found in the house of the LORD .

11 They gave the money which 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 stonecutters , and for buying timber and hewn stone to repair the damages to the house of the LORD , and for all that was laid out for the house to repair it.

13 But there were not made for the house of the LORD silver cups, snuffers, bowls, trumpets, any vessels of gold, or vessels of silver from the money which was brought into the house of the LORD ;

Footnotes

• [a]. Lit "brought"