2 Kings 22:4
Good News Translation
"Go to the High Priest Hilkiah and get a report on the amount of money that the priests on duty at the entrance to the Temple have collected from the people.

New Revised Standard Version
“Go up to the high priest Hilkiah, and have him count the entire sum of the money that has been brought into the house of the LORD, which the keepers of the threshold have collected from the people;

Contemporary English Version
and ask Hilkiah the high priest to collect from the guards all the money that the people have donated.

New American Bible
“Go to the high priest Hilkiah and have him calculate the valuables that have been brought to the house of the LORD, which the doorkeepers have collected from the people.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Go to Helcias, the high priest, that the money may be put together which is brought into the temple of the Lord, which the doorkeepers of the temple have gathered of the people.

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Go to Helcias, the high priest, that the money may be put together which is brought into the temple of the Lord, which the doorkeepers of the temple have gathered of the people.

Hilkiah.

1 Chronicles 6:13 Sellum begot Helcias, and Helcias begot Azarias,

1 Chronicles 9:11 And Azarias the son of Helcias, the son of Mosollam, the son of Sadoc, the son of Maraioth, the son of Achitob, high priest of the house of God.

2 Chronicles 34:9-18 And they came to Helcias the high priest: and received of him the money which had been brought into the house of the Lord, and which the Levites and porters had gathered together from Manasses, and Ephraim, and all the remnant of Israel, and from all Juda, and Benjamin, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, . . .

that he may.

sum the silver.

2 Kings 12:4,8-11 And Joas said to the priests: all the money of the sanctified things, which is brought into the temple of the Lord by those that pass, which is offered for the price of a soul, and which of their own accord, and of their own free heart, they bring into the temple of the Lord: . . .

2 Chronicles 24:8-12 And the king commanded, and they made a chest: and set it by the gate of the house of the Lord on the outside. . . .

Mark 12:41,42 And Jesus sitting over against the treasury, beheld how the people cast money into the treasury. And many that were rich cast in much. . . .

the keepers.

1 Chronicles 9:19 But Sellum the son of Core, the son of Abiasaph, the son of Core, with his brethren and his father's house, the Corites were over the works of the service, keepers of the gates of the tabernacle: and their families in turns were keepers of the entrance of the camp of the Lord.

1 Chronicles 26:13-19 And they cast lots equally, both little and great, by their families for every one of the gates. . . .

2 Chronicles 8:14 And he appointed according to the order of David his father the offices of the priests in their ministries: and the Levites in their order to give praise, and minister before the priests according to the duty of every day: and the porters in their divisions by gate and gate: for so David the man of God had commanded.

Nehemiah 11:19 And the porters, Accub, Telmon, and their brethren, who kept the doors: a hundred seventy-two.

Psalm 84:4 Blessed are they that dwell in thy house, O Lord: they shall praise thee for ever and ever.

door.

Context
Funding the Temple Repairs
3And in the eighteenth year of king Josias, the king sent Saphan, the son of Assia, the son of Messulam, the scribe of the temple of the Lord, saying to him: 4Go to Helcias, the high priest, that the money may be put together which is brought into the temple of the Lord, which the doorkeepers of the temple have gathered of the people.5And let it be given to the workmen by the overseers of the house of the Lord: and let them distribute it to those that work in the temple of the Lord, to repair the temple:…
Cross References
2 Kings 12:4
And Joas said to the priests: all the money of the sanctified things, which is brought into the temple of the Lord by those that pass, which is offered for the price of a soul, and which of their own accord, and of their own free heart, they bring into the temple of the Lord:

2 Kings 12:9
And Joiada, the high priest, took a chest, and bored a hole in the top, and set it by the altar at the right hand of them that came into the house of the Lord; and the priests that kept the doors, put therein all the money that was brought to the temple of the Lord.

2 Kings 12:10
And when they saw that there was very much money in the chest, the king's scribe, and the high priest, came up, and poured it out, and counted the money that was found in the house of the Lord.

2 Kings 18:18
And they called for the king: and there went out to them Eliacim, the son of Helcias, who was over the house, and Sobna, the scribe, and Joahe, the son of Asaph, the recorder.

2 Kings 22:3
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