Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Kings 12:16
The trespass money and sin money was not brought into the house of the LORD: it was the priests.
16. The trespass money ] R.V. The money for the guilt offerings. ‘Guilt offering’ was adopted by R.V. in Lev 5:1-6 and throughout the law for the ‘trespass-offering’ of A.V., to accord with the verb and the adjective which are rendered in that leading passage ‘to be guilty’ and ‘guilty’. ‘Trespass money’ occurs nowhere else but in this verse.
sin money ] R.V. the money for the sin-offering. On this see Lev 5:7-12. ‘Sin money’ is found nowhere else.
it was the priests ’] See Lev 14:13. ‘For as the sin-offering is the priest’s, so is the trespass (R.V. guilt) offering’.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
The trespass money and the sin money – In all cases of injury done to another, a man was bound by the Law to make compensation, to the sufferer, if possible; if not, to his nearest kinsman. If the man was dead and had left no kinsman, then the compensation was to be made to the priest Num 5:8. This would form a part of the trespass and sin money. The remainder would accrue from the voluntary gifts made to the priests by those who came to make atonement for sins or trespasses Num 5:10. On the difference between sins and trespasses, see Lev 5:14 note.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
i.e. It was not employed towards the reparation of the house, because, as it follows, it was the priests; it was given to them for their private use and maintenance.
Quest. If this reason was weighty, how could the money of them that passed the account, or the money that every man was set at, be thus employed, as they were, 2Ki 12:4, for these also may seem to have been the priests?
Answ. They were not appropriated to the priests, but for the service of the tabernacle of the congregation, as is said of the former, Exo 30:16; or, for the Lord, Lev 27:2,9,14,23.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
The trespass money and sin money was not brought into the house of the Lord,…. Which was the money persons at a distance sent for their trespass and sin offerings instead of cattle, with which the sacrifices were bought; and what remained of the money was not brought into the temple, and made use of in the above manner:
it was the priest’s; the overplus of it, and such of the sacrifices which by the law were appropriated to them.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
The money obtained from trespass-offerings and sin-offerings was not brought into the house of Jehovah, i.e., was not applied to the repairing of the temple, but was left for the priests. In the case of the trespass-offering compensation had to be made for the earthly debt according to the valuation of the priest, with the addition of a fifth in money; and this was assigned to the priests not only in the case of a committed against Jehovah, but also when a neighbour had been injured in his property, if he had died in the meantime (see at Lev 5:16 and Num 5:9). On the other hand, in the case of the sin-offerings the priests received no money according to the law. Most of the commentators therefore assume, that those who lived at a distance had sent money to the priests, that they might offer sin-offerings with it, and what money as over they had retained for themselves. But there is not the slightest trace of any such custom, which is quite at variance with the idea of the sin-offering. It may probably have become a customary thing in the course of time, for those who presented these offerings to compensate the officiating priest for his trouble by a free-will gift.
Fuente: Keil & Delitzsch Commentary on the Old Testament
(16) The.The definite article should be omitted.
Trespass money and sin money.See Lev. V. 15-18; Num. 5:8; Lev. 6:26-29.
Was not brought.Was not wont to be brought i.e., put into the chest for the restoration fund.
It was the priests.Literally to the priests they (these moneys) used to fall, or continued to accrue. The general sense is that the priests were not deprived of their lawful revenues by the new arrangement. They received their ancient dues from the trespass and sin offerings. The change initiated by Jehoash consisted in this, that henceforth gifts intended for the sanctuary itself were kept apart from the gifts intended for the priesthood.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
16. Trespass money and sin money Money brought to the priests as a trespass offering or a sin offering, according to the law of Lev 5:15-19. See also Lev 7:7, and Num 18:9.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
2Ki 12:16 The trespass money and sin money was not brought into the house of the LORD: it was the priests’.
Ver. 16. The trespass money. ] Which was for omissions.
And sin money.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
trespass. Hebrew. ‘ashah. App-44.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
trespass money: Lev 5:15-18, Lev 7:7, Num 5:8-10, Num 18:8, Num 18:9, Hos 4:8
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
2Ki 12:16. The trespass-money and sin-money, &c. Besides the money paid to the priests for trespasses committed in holy things it is thought that persons living at a distance sent money to the priests to purchase trespass- offerings and sin-offerings, and sacrifice them in their names: and, as they commonly sent more than the sacrifices cost, the surplus became a perquisite, under the name of trespass-money and sin-money. Scott. This money was not employed toward the reparation of the house, because, as it follows, it was the priests: it was given to them for their private use and maintenance.