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10 When they saw the chest was full of silver, the royal secretary[a] and the high priest counted the silver that had been brought to the Lord’s temple and bagged it up.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 12:10 tn Heb “the king’s scribe.”
  2. 2 Kings 12:10 tn Heb “went up and tied [it] and counted the silver that was found in the house of the Lord.” The order of the clauses has been rearranged in the translation to make better sense in English, since it seems more logical to count the money before bagging it (cf. NIV, NCV, NRSV, NLT).

10 Whenever they saw that there was a large amount of money in the chest, the royal secretary(A) and the high priest came, counted the money that had been brought into the temple of the Lord and put it into bags.

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