Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible (1898)
RECORD'ER, the annalist of the king, and also his councillor, and an officer who stood thus very high in the kingdom, as is manifest from the commissions entrusted to him, such as representing the king and superintending temple-repairs. Compare 2 Sam 8:16; 2 Sam 20:24; 1 Kgs 4:3; 2 Kgs 18:18, 2 Kgs 18:37; 2 Chr 34:8.