2 Reis 22:4

4 “Vá ao sumo sacerdote Hilquias e mande-o ajuntar a prata que foi trazida ao templo do SENHOR, que os guardas das portas recolheram 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 o SENHOR aprova e andou nos caminhos de Davi, seu predecessor, sem desviar-se nem para a direita nem para a esquerda.

3 No décimo oitavo ano do seu reinado, o rei Josias enviou o secretário Safã, filho de Azalias e neto de Mesulão, ao templo do SENHOR, dizendo:

4 “Vá ao sumo sacerdote Hilquias e mande-o ajuntar a prata que foi trazida ao templo do SENHOR, que os guardas das portas recolheram do povo.

5 Eles deverão entregar a prata aos homens nomeados para supervisionar a reforma do templo, para poderem pagar os trabalhadores que fazem os reparos no templo do SENHOR:

6 os carpinteiros, os construtores e os pedreiros. Além disso comprarão madeira e pedras lavradas para os reparos no templo.