Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may sum the silver which is brought into the house of the LORD, which the keepers of the door have gathered of the people:
Parallel translations
- WEB “Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may count the money which is brought into Yahweh’s house, which the keepers of the threshold have gathered of the people.
- BSB “Go up to Hilkiah the high priest and have him count the money that has been brought into the house of the LORD, which the doorkeepers have collected from the people.
- NKJV “Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may count the money which has been brought into the house of the Lord, which the doorkeepers have gathered from the people.
- NASB “Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, and have him count all the money brought into the house of the Lord, which the doorkeepers have collected from the people.
- NLT “Go to Hilkiah the high priest and have him count the money the gatekeepers have collected from the people at the Lord’s Temple.
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Quick answer
Josiah instructs Hilkiah the high priest to count the money collected for the temple. The king orders an honest reckoning of the people's gifts.
Overview
The king directs that the offerings gathered by the doorkeepers be tallied by the high priest for temple repairs. The careful handling of the people's gifts reflects integrity in God's service. This concern for restoring the house of worship sets the stage for the discovery of the law and the reformation that follows.
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Cross-references · 12
- 2 Kgs 12:4And Jehoash said to the priests, All the money of the dedicated things that is brought into the house of the LORD, even the money of every one that passeth the account, the money that every man is set at, and all the money that cometh into any man’s heart to bring into the house of the LORD,
- Neh 11:19Moreover the porters, Akkub, Talmon, and their brethren that kept the gates, were an hundred seventy and two.
- 1 Chr 9:19And Shallum the son of Kore, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, and his brethren, of the house of his father, the Korahites, were over the work of the service, keepers of the gates of the tabernacle: and their fathers, being over the host of the LORD, were keepers of the entry.
- 1 Chr 6:13And Shallum begat Hilkiah, and Hilkiah begat Azariah,
- 2 Chr 8:14And he appointed, according to the order of David his father, the courses of the priests to their service, and the Levites to their charges, to praise and minister before the priests, as the duty of every day required: the porters also by their courses at every gate: for so had David the man of God commanded.
- Ps 84:10For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
- 1 Chr 9:11And Azariah the son of Hilkiah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Zadok, the son of Meraioth, the son of Ahitub, the ruler of the house of God;
- 2 Chr 24:8–12And at the king’s commandment they made a chest, and set it without at the gate of the house of the LORD.
- 1 Chr 26:13–19And they cast lots, as well the small as the great, according to the house of their fathers, for every gate.
- 2 Kgs 12:8–11And the priests consented to receive no more money of the people, neither to repair the breaches of the house.
- Mark 12:41–42And Jesus sat over against the treasury, and beheld how the people cast money into the treasury: and many that were rich cast in much.
- 2 Chr 34:9–18And when they came to Hilkiah the high priest, they delivered the money that was brought into the house of God, which the Levites that kept the doors had gathered of the hand of Manasseh and Ephraim, and of all the remnant of Israel, and of all Judah and Benjamin; and they returned to Jerusalem.
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