Discovery Box2 Kings 12:10 
Context12:10 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
Context16:10 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
Context22:4 “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
Context22:8 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
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.
