Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
The priests that kept the door - The north door into the priests' court Ezekiel 40:35-43 seems to be intended, not the door of the temple building. The chest must have been placed a little to the right of this north door, between it and the altar of burnt-offering, so that the people could see it from the doorway. The people were not ordinarily allowed to go within the doorway into this court, which belonged to the priests and Levites only.
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing 2 Kings 12:9:
2 Kings 11:3
2 Kings 22:4
2 Kings 22:9
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