2 Raja-raja 12:9-15

12:9 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  12:11 They would then hand over ⁴  the silver that had been weighed to the construction foremen ⁵  assigned to the Lord’s temple. They hired carpenters and builders to work on the Lord’s temple, 12:12 as well as masons and stonecutters. They bought wood and chiseled stone to repair the damage to the Lord’s temple and also paid for all the other expenses. ⁶  12:13 The silver brought to the Lord’s temple was not used for silver bowls, trimming shears, basins, trumpets, or any kind of gold or silver implements. 12:14 It was handed over ⁷  to the foremen who used it to repair the Lord’s temple. 12:15 They did not audit the treasurers who disbursed ⁸  the funds to the foremen, for they were honest. ⁹ 

[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 Lord.” The order of the clauses has been rearranged in the translation to make better sense in English, since it seems more logical to count the money before bagging it (cf. NIV, NCV, NRSV, NLT).

[12:11]  ⁴ tn Heb “would give.”

[12:11]  ⁵ tn Heb “doers of the work.”

[12:12]  ⁶ tn Heb “and for all that which was going out concerning the house for repair.”

[12:14]  ⁷ tn Heb “was given.”

[12:15]  ⁸ tn Heb “gave.”

[12:15]  ⁹ tn Heb “and they did not conduct a reckoning of the men who gave the silver into their hand to give to the doers of the work, for in honesty they were working.”