Dict: easton - Money-changer

easton:

Money-changer @ kjv@Matthew:21:12; kjv@Mark:11:15; kjv@John:2:15). Every Israelite from twenty years and upwards had to pay kjv@Exodus:30:13-15) into the sacred treasury half a shekel every year as an offering to Jehovah, and that in the exact Hebrew half-shekel piece. There was a class of men, who frequented the temple courts, who exchanged at a certain premium foreign moneys for these half-shekels to the Jews who came up to Jerusalem from all parts of the world. (
See PASSOVER.) When our Lord drove the traffickers out of the temple, these money-changers fared worst. Their tables were overturned and they themselves were expelled.