Discovery Box2 Kings 12:5-8 
Context12:5 The priests should receive the silver they need from the treasurers and repair any damage to the temple they discover.” 1
12:6 By the twenty-third year of King Jehoash’s reign the priests had still not repaired the damage to the temple. 12:7 So King Jehoash summoned Jehoiada the priest along with the other priests, and said to them, “Why have you not repaired the damage to the temple? Now, take no more silver from your treasurers unless you intend to use it to repair the damage.” 2 12:8 The priests agreed 3 not to collect silver from the people and relieved themselves of personal responsibility for the temple repairs. 4
2 Kings 12:12
Context12:12 as well as masons and stonecutters. They bought wood and chiseled stone to repair the damage to the Lord’s temple and also paid for all the other expenses. 5
1 tn Heb “Let the priests take for themselves, each from his treasurer, and let them repair the damage of the temple, with respect to all the damage that is found there.” The word מַכָּר (makar), translated here “treasurer,” occurs only in this passage. Some suggest it means “merchant” or “benefactor.” Its usage in Ugaritic texts, where it appears in a list of temple officials, suggests that it refers in this context to individuals who were in charge of disbursing temple funds.
2 tn Heb “Now, do not take silver from your treasurers, because for the damages to the temple you must give it.”
3 tn Outside of this passage the verb אוּת (’ut) appears only in Gen 34:15-22.
4 tn Heb “and not to repair the damages to the temple.” This does not mean that the priests were no longer interested in repairing the temple. As the following context makes clear, the priests decided to hire skilled workers to repair the damage to the temple, rather than trying to make the repairs themselves.
5 tn Heb “and for all that which was going out concerning the house for repair.”
