2 Kings 12:9-10
Context12:9 Jehoiada the priest took a chest and drilled a hole in its lid. He placed it on the right side of the altar near the entrance of 1 the Lord’s temple. The priests who guarded the entrance would put into it all the silver brought to the Lord’s temple. 12:10 When they saw the chest was full of silver, the royal secretary 2 and the high priest counted the silver that had been brought to the Lord’s temple and bagged it up. 3


[12:9] 1 tn Heb “on the right side of the altar as a man enters.”
[12:10] 2 tn Heb “the king’s scribe.”
[12:10] 3 tn Heb “went up and tied [it] and counted the silver that was found in the house of the