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John Gill's Exposition on 2 Kings 22:4
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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, etc.] Who had an apartment in the temple; there was an Hilkiah, a priest, in those times, who was the father of Jeremiah the prophet, (<240101>Jeremiah 1:1,2), whom an Arabic writer f255 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 <121209>2 Kings 12:9,10), 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, (<143409>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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