12:9 Jehoiada the priest took a chest and drilled a hole in its lid. He placed it on the right side of the altar near the entrance of 1 the Lord’s temple. The priests who guarded the entrance would put into it all the silver brought to the Lord’s temple. 12:10 When they saw the chest was full of silver, the royal secretary 2 and the high priest counted the silver that had been brought to the Lord’s temple and bagged it up. 3 12:11 They would then hand over 4 the silver that had been weighed to the construction foremen 5 assigned to the Lord’s temple. They hired carpenters and builders to work on the Lord’s temple,
1 tn Heb “on the right side of the altar as a man enters.”
2 tn Heb “the king’s scribe.”
3 tn Heb “went up and tied [it] and counted the silver that was found in the house of the
4 tn Heb “would give.”
5 tn Heb “doers of the work.”