2 Kings 12:10

10 cumque viderent nimiam pecuniam esse in gazofilacio ascendebat scriba regis et pontifex effundebantque et numerabant pecuniam quae inveniebatur in domo Domini

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 prohibitique sunt sacerdotes ultra accipere pecuniam a populo et instaurare sarta tecta domus

9 et tulit Ioiada pontifex gazofilacium unum aperuitque foramen desuper et posuit illud iuxta altare ad dexteram ingredientium domum Domini mittebantque in eo sacerdotes qui custodiebant ostia omnem pecuniam quae deferebatur ad templum Domini

10 cumque viderent nimiam pecuniam esse in gazofilacio ascendebat scriba regis et pontifex effundebantque et numerabant pecuniam quae inveniebatur in domo Domini

11 et dabant eam iuxta numerum atque mensuram in manu eorum qui praeerant cementariis domus Domini qui inpendebant eam in fabris lignorum et in cementariis his qui operabantur in domo Domini

12 et sarta tecta faciebant et in his qui caedebant saxa et ut emerent ligna et lapides qui excidebantur ita ut impleretur instauratio domus Domini in universis quae indigebant expensa ad muniendam domum