KJV King James Version
And it was [so], when they saw that [there was] much money in the chest, that the king’s scribe and the high priest came up, and they put up in bags, and told the money that was found in the house of the LORD.
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2 Kings 12:10
And it was [so], when they saw that [there was] much money in the chest, that the king’s scribe and the high priest came up, and they put up in bags, and told the money that was found in the house of the LORD.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Whenever they saw that there was a large amount of money in the chest, the royal scribe and the high priest would go up, count the money brought into the house of the LORD, and tie it up in bags.
WEB World English Bible
It was so, when they saw that there was much money in the chest, that the king’s scribe and the high priest came up, and they put up in bags and counted the money that was found in the house of Yahweh.
ASV American Standard Version
And it was so, when they saw that there was much money in the chest, that the king’s scribe and the high priest came up, and they put up in bags and counted the money that was found in the house of Jehovah.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And it cometh to pass, at their seeing that the money is abundant in the chest, that there goeth up a scribe of the king, and of the high priest, and they bind it up, and count the money that is found in the house of Jehovah,
Surrounding context — 2 Kings 12
7 Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and the [other] priests, and said unto them, Why repair ye not the breaches of the house? now therefore receive no [more] money of your acquaintance, but deliver it for the breaches of the house.
8 And the priests consented to receive no [more] money of the people, neither to repair the breaches of the house.
9 But Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid of it, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as one cometh into the house of the LORD: and the priests that kept the door put therein all the money [that was] brought into the house of the LORD.
10 And it was [so], when they saw that [there was] much money in the chest, that the king’s scribe and the high priest came up, and they put up in bags, and told the money that was found in the house of the LORD.
11 And they gave the money, being told, into the hands of them that did the work, that had the oversight of the house of the LORD: and they laid it out to the carpenters and builders, that wrought upon the house of the LORD,
12 And to masons, and hewers of stone, and to buy timber and hewed stone to repair the breaches of the house of the LORD, and for all that was laid out for the house to repair [it].
13 Howbeit there were not made for the house of the LORD bowls of silver, snuffers, basons, trumpets, any vessels of gold, or vessels of silver, of the money [that was] brought into the house of the LORD:
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וַֽיְהִי֙H1961 · ha.yahto beכִּרְאוֹתָ֔םH7200 · ra.ahto see: seeכִּֽי־H3588 · kiforרַ֥בH7227 · ravmanyהַכֶּ֖סֶףH3701 · ke.sephsilver: moneyבָּֽאָר֑וֹןH727 · a.ronarkוַיַּ֨עַלH5927 · a.lahto ascend: riseסֹפֵ֤רH5608 · sa.pharto recountהַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙H4428 · me.lekhkingוְהַכֹּהֵ֣ןH3548 · ko.henpriestהַגָּד֔וֹלH1419 · ga.dolgreat: largeוַיָּצֻ֙רוּ֙H6696 · tsurto confineוַיִּמְנ֔וּH4487 · ma.nahto countאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]הַכֶּ֖סֶףH3701 · ke.sephsilver: moneyהַנִּמְצָ֥אH4672 · ma.tsato findבֵית־H1004 · betplaceיְהוָֽה׃H3068 · ye.ho.vahLORD
Cross-references
2 Samuel 8:17And Zadok the son of Ahitub, and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, [were] the priests; and Seraiah [was] the scribe;2 Kings 22:12And the king commanded Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Achbor the son of Michaiah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asahiah a servant of the king’s, saying,2 Kings 19:2And he sent Eliakim, which [was] over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.2 Kings 5:23And Naaman said, Be content, take two talents. And he urged him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of garments, and laid [them] upon two of his servants; and they bare [them] before him.2 Kings 22:3-4And it came to pass in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, [that] the king sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, the son of Meshullam, the scribe, to the house of the LORD, saying,2 Samuel 20:25And Sheva [was] scribe: and Zadok and Abiathar [were] the priests:
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