2 Kings 12:4

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And 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,

Said to the priests

2 Kings 22:4

2 Chronicles 29:4

2 Chronicles 35:2

The money

2 Chronicles 31:12

Dedicated things

Leviticus 5:15

Leviticus 27:12

Even the money

2 Kings 22:4

Exodus 30:12

2 Chronicles 24:9

That every man is set at

Leviticus 27:2

And all the money

Bible References

Said to the priests

“Go up to Hilkiah the high priest that he may count the money brought in to the house of the Lord which the doorkeepers have gathered from the people.

He brought in the priests and the Levites and gathered them into the square on the east.

He set the priests in their offices and encouraged them in the service of the house of the Lord.

The money

Jehoash king of Judah took all the sacred things that Jehoshaphat and Jehoram and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own sacred things and all the gold that was found among the treasuries of the house of the Lord and of the king’s house, and sent them to Hazael king of Aram. Then he went away from Jerusalem.

Now Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house.

King David also dedicated these to the Lord with the silver and the gold which he had carried away from all the nations: from Edom, Moab, the sons of Ammon, the Philistines, and from Amalek.

He brought into the house of God the dedicated things of his father and his own dedicated things: silver and gold and utensils.

They faithfully brought in the contributions and the tithes and the consecrated things; and Conaniah the Levite was the officer in charge of them and his brother Shimei was second.

Dedicated things

“If a person acts unfaithfully and sins unintentionally against the Lord’s holy things, then he shall bring his guilt offering to the Lord: a ram without defect from the flock, according to your valuation in silver by shekels, in terms of the shekel of the sanctuary, for a guilt offering.

The priest shall value it as either good or bad; as you, the priest, value it, so it shall be.

Even the money

“Go up to Hilkiah the high priest that he may count the money brought in to the house of the Lord which the doorkeepers have gathered from the people.

“When you take a census of the sons of Israel to number them, then each one of them shall give a ransom for himself to the Lord, when you number them, so that there will be no plague among them when you number them.

They made a proclamation in Judah and Jerusalem to bring to the Lord

the levy fixed by Moses the servant of God on Israel in the wilderness.

That every man is set at

“Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘When a man makes a difficult vow, he shall be valued according to your valuation of persons belonging to the Lord.

And all the money

Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

‘Take from among you a contribution to the Lord; whoever is of a willing heart, let him bring it as the Lord’s

contribution: gold, silver, and bronze,

They received from Moses all the contributions which the sons of Israel had brought to perform the work in the construction of the sanctuary. And they still continued bringing to him freewill offerings every morning.

Moreover, in my delight in the house of my God, the treasure I have of gold and silver, I give to the house of my God, over and above all that I have already provided for the holy temple,

All those about them

encouraged them with articles of silver, with gold, with goods, with cattle and with valuables, aside from all that was given as a freewill offering.

According to their ability they gave to the treasury for the work 61,000 gold drachmas and 5,000 silver minas and 100 priestly garments.

with all the silver and gold which you find in the whole province of Babylon, along with the freewill offering of the people and of the priests, who offered willingly for the house of their God which is in Jerusalem;

and I weighed out to them the silver, the gold and the utensils, the offering for the house of our God which the king and his counselors and his princes and all Israel present there had offered.

for they all out of their surplus put into the offering; but she out of her poverty put in all that she had to live on.”