2 Kings 12:10

12:10 When they saw the chest was full of silver, the royal secretary 1  and the high priest counted the silver that had been brought to the Lord’s temple and bagged it up. 2 

2 Kings 16:10

16:10 When King Ahaz went to meet with King Tiglath-pileser of Assyria in Damascus, he saw the altar there. 3  King Ahaz sent to Uriah the priest a drawing of the altar and a blueprint for its design. 4 

2 Kings 22:4

22:4 “Go up to Hilkiah the high priest and have him melt down 5  the silver that has been brought by the people to the Lord’s temple and has been collected by the guards at the door.

2 Kings 22:8

22:8 Hilkiah the high priest informed Shaphan the scribe, “I found the law scroll in the Lord’s temple.” Hilkiah gave the scroll to Shaphan and he read it.

1 tn Heb “the king’s scribe.”

2 tn Heb “went up and tied [it] and counted the silver that was found in the house of the Lord.” The order of the clauses has been rearranged in the translation to make better sense in English, since it seems more logical to count the money before bagging it (cf. NIV, NCV, NRSV, NLT).

3 tn Heb “in Damascus.”

4 tn Heb “the likeness of the altar and its pattern for all its work.”

5 tc The MT has וְיַתֵּם (vÿyattem), “and let them add up” (Hiphil of תָּמָם [tammam], “be complete”), but the appearance of הִתִּיכוּ (hitikhu), “they melted down” (Hiphil of נָתַךְ [natakh], “pour out”) in v. 9 suggests that the verb form should be emended to וְיַתֵּךְ (vÿyattekh), “and let him melt down” (a Hiphil of נָתַךְ [natakh]). For a discussion of this and other options see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 281.