2 Kings 12:8-11
took a chest 2Chr 24:8-14; Mark 12:41 beside 2Chr 24:10 the priests 2Kgs 22:4, 2Kgs 23:4, 2Kgs 25:18; 1Chr 15:18, 1Chr 15:24; Jer 35:4, Jer 52:24 door Heb. threshold, Ps 84:10 *marg. the king's 2Kgs 19:2, 2Kgs 22:3, 2Kgs 22:12; 2Sam 8:17, 2Sam 20:25 scribe or, secretary put up Heb. bound up, 2Kgs 5:23 in bags Sir J. Chardin informs us, "it is a custom of Persia always to seal up bags of money; and the money of the king's treasure is not told, but is received by bags sealed up." These are what are called in the East purses; each of which, as Maillet informs us, contains money to the amount of 1,500 livres, or about 63£. of our money. The money thus collected for the reparation of the temple, seems, in like manner, to have been reckoned in bags of equal value to each other; as we can scarcely imagine the placing it in bags would otherwise have been mentioned. The value of a Jewish purse is unknown; but the bags mentioned in 2Kgs 5:23, amounted to a talent. gave the money 2Kgs 22:5-6; 2Chr 24:11-12, 2Chr 34:9-11 laid it out Heb. brought it forth
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