* the king's.
  19:2  22:3,12  2Sa 8:17  20:25 
 * scribe.  or, secretary.  put up.  Heb. bound up.
  5:23 
 * in bags.
   Sir J. Chardin informs us, "it is a custom of Persia always to
   seal up bags of money; and the money of the king's treasure is
   not told, but is received by bags sealed up."  These are what
   are called in the East purses; each of which, as Maillet
   informs us, contains money to the amount of 1,500; livres, or
   about 63(9c2e) of our money.  The money thus collected for the
   reparation of the temple, seems, in like manner, to have been
   reckoned in bags of equal value to each other; as we can
   scarcely imagine the placing it in bags would otherwise have
   been mentioned.  The value of a Jewish purse is unknown; but
   the bags mentioned in ch. 5:23, amounted to a talent.