2 Reis 22:4

4 Sobe a Hilquias, o sumo sacerdote, para que faça a soma do dinheiro que se tem trazido para a casa do Senhor, o qual os guardas da entrada têm recebido do povo;

2 Reis 22:4 Meaning and Commentary

2 Kings 22:4

Go up to Hilkiah the high priest
Who had an apartment in the temple; there was an Hilkiah, a priest, in those times, who was the father of Jeremiah the prophet, ( Jeremiah 1:1 Jeremiah 1:2 ) , whom an Arabic writer ^F12 takes to be the same with this; but it is not likely:

that he may sum the silver which is brought into the house of the Lord
which the people voluntarily offered for the repairing of it; this he would have the priest take an account of, that the sum total might be known; his meaning is, that he should take it out of the chest in which it was put, and count it, that it might be known what it amounted to; see ( 2 Kings 12:9 2 Kings 12:10 ) , some understand this of melting and coining the silver thus given

which the keepers of the door have gathered of the people:
who were Levites, ( 2 Chronicles 34:9 ) , either porters of the door, or rather the treasurers, as the Targum; the keepers of the vessels of the sanctuary, that had the care of them, as the Jewish commentators generally interpret it.

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FOOTNOTES:

F12 Abulpharag. Hist. Dynast. p. 68.

2 Reis 22:4 In-Context

2 Ele fez o que era reto aos olhos do Senhor; e andou em todo o camimho de Davi, seu pai, não se apartando dele nem para a direita nem para a esquerda.

3 No ano décimo oitavo do rei Josias, o rei mandou o escrivão Safã, filho de Azalias, filho de Mesulão, � casa do Senhor, dizendo-lhe:

4 Sobe a Hilquias, o sumo sacerdote, para que faça a soma do dinheiro que se tem trazido para a casa do Senhor, o qual os guardas da entrada têm recebido do povo;

5 e que só entreguem na mão dos mestres de obra que estão encarregados da casa do Senhor; e que estes o dêem aos que fazem a obra, aos que estão na casa do Senhor para repararem os estragos da casa,

6 aos carpinteiros, aos edificadores, e aos pedreiros. e que comprem madeira e pedras lavradas, a fim de repararem a casa.