Verse 4
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, Jeremiah 1:1 , whom an Arabic writer F12 Abulpharag. Hist. Dynast. p. 68. 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 2 Kings 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, 2 Chronicles 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.
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