KJV King James Version
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:
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2 Kings 22:4
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:
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
“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.
WEB World English Bible
“Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may sum the money which is brought into the house of Yahweh, which the keepers of the threshold have gathered of the people.
ASV American Standard Version
Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may sum the money which is brought into the house of Jehovah, which the keepers of the threshold have gathered of the people:
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
‘Go up unto Hilkiah the high priest, and he doth complete the silver that is brought into the house of Jehovah, that the keepers of the threshold have gathered from the people,
Surrounding context — 2 Kings 22
1 Josiah [was] eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty and one years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name [was] Jedidah, the daughter of Adaiah of Boscath.
2 And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in all the way of David his father, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left.
3 And 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,
4 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:
5 And let them deliver it into the hand of the doers of the work, that have the oversight of the house of the LORD: and let them give it to the doers of the work which [is] in the house of the LORD, to repair the breaches of the house,
6 Unto carpenters, and builders, and masons, and to buy timber and hewn stone to repair the house.
7 Howbeit there was no reckoning made with them of the money that was delivered into their hand, because they dealt faithfully.
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עֲלֵ֗הH5927 · a.lahto ascend: riseאֶל־H413 · elto(wards)חִלְקִיָּ֙הוּ֙H2518 · chil.qiy.yahHilkiahהַכֹּהֵ֣ןH3548 · ko.henpriestהַגָּד֔וֹלH1419 · ga.dolgreat: largeוְיַתֵּ֣םH8552 · ta.mamto finishאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]הַכֶּ֔סֶףH3701 · ke.sephsilver: moneyהַמּוּבָ֖אH935 · boto come (in): comeבֵּ֣יתH1004 · betplaceיְהוָ֑הH3068 · ye.ho.vahLORDאֲשֶׁ֥רH834 · a.sherwhichאָסְפ֛וּH622 · a.saphto gatherשֹׁמְרֵ֥יH8104 · sha.marto keep: obeyהַסַּ֖ףH5592 · saphbasinמֵאֵ֥תH854 · etwithהָעָֽם׃H5971 · ampeople
Cross-references
2 Kings 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,1 Chronicles 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;Nehemiah 11:19Moreover the porters, Akkub, Talmon, and their brethren that kept the gates, [were] an hundred seventy and two.Psalm 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 Chronicles 6:13And Shallum begat Hilkiah, and Hilkiah begat Azariah,2 Chronicles 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.2 Kings 12:8-11And the priests consented to receive no [more] money of the people, neither to repair the breaches of the house.2 Chronicles 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 Chronicles 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.2 Chronicles 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.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.1 Chronicles 26:13-19And they cast lots, as well the small as the great, according to the house of their fathers, for every gate.
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