Teks -- 2 Kings 22:4 (NET)

22:4 “Go up to Hilkiah the high priest and have him melt down the silver that has been brought by the people to the Lord’s temple and has been collected by the guards at the door.

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

JFB: 2Ki 22:3-4 - in the eighteenth year of king Josiah

Previous to this period, he had commenced the work of national reformation. The preliminary steps had been already taken; not only the builders were employed, but money had been brought by all the people and received by the Levites at the door, and various other preparations had been made. But the course of this narrative turns on one interesting incident which happened in the eighteenth year of Josiah's reign, and hence that date is specified. In fact the whole land was thoroughly purified from every object and all traces of idolatry. The king now addressed himself to the repair and embellishment of the temple and gave directions to Hilkiah the high priest to take a general survey, in order to ascertain what was necessary to be done (see on 2Ch 34:8-15).

Clarke: 2Ki 22:4 - That he may sum the silver

That he may sum the silver - As Josiah began to seek the Lord as soon as he began to reign, we may naturally conclude that the worship of God that was neglected and suppressed by his father, was immediately restored; and the people began their accustomed offerings to the temple. Ten years therefore had elapsed since these offerings began; no one had, as yet, taken account of them; nor were they applied to the use for which they were given, viz., the repairing the breaches of the temple.

TSK: 2Ki 22:4 - Hilkiah // that he may // sum the silver // the keepers // door

Hilkiah : 1Ch 6:13, 1Ch 9:11; 2Ch 34:9-18

that he may : Ten years seem to have elapsed since the people began to present the accustomed offerings; yet no one had taken an account of them, nor were they applied to the purpose for which they were given.

sum the silver : 2Ki 12:4, 2Ki 12:8-11; 2Ch 24:8-12; Mar 12:41, Mar 12:42

the keepers : 1Ch 9:19, 1Ch 26:13-19; 2Ch 8:14; Neh 11:19; Psa 84:10

door : Heb. threshold

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: 2Ki 22:4 - That he may sum the silver // The keepers of the door

That he may sum the silver i.e. take an exact account how much it is, and then dispose it in manner following.

The keepers of the door were priests or Levites, as appears from 2Ki 12:9 2Ch 8:14 23:4 34:9 .

Haydock: 2Ki 22:4 - Together // Door-keepers

Together, so as to be reduced into a mass, and refined by fire. (Pagnin) ---

Septuagint, "seal up the money." Protestants, "that he may sum the silver which," &c. (Haydock) ---

Let him make all be paid up that is due, (Piscator) and cease to demand any more. ---

Door-keepers. Their office was of some consequence, 1 Paralipomenon ix. 26, 29. (Calmet)

Gill: 2Ki 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

Go up to Hilkiah the high priest,.... Who had an apartment in the temple; there was an Hilkiah, a priest, in those times, who was the father of Jeremiah the prophet, Jer 1:1, whom an Arabic writer ^l takes to be the same with this; but it is not likely:

that he may sum the silver which is brought into the house of the Lord which the people voluntarily offered for the repairing of it; this he would have the priest take an account of, that the sum total might be known; his meaning is, that he should take it out of the chest in which it was put, and count it, that it might be known what it amounted to; see 2Ki 12:9, some understand this of melting and coining the silver thus given

which the keepers of the door have gathered of the people: who were Levites, 2Ch 34:9, either porters of the door, or rather the treasurers, as the Targum; the keepers of the vessels of the sanctuary, that had the care of them, as the Jewish commentators generally interpret it.