Then (A)the leaders of fathers' houses made their freewill offerings, as did also the leaders of the tribes, the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, and (B)the officers over the king's work. They gave for the service of the house of God 5,000 talents and 10,000 (C)darics[a] of gold, 10,000 talents of silver, 18,000 talents of bronze and 100,000 talents of iron. And whoever had precious stones gave them to the treasury of the house of the Lord, in the care of (D)Jehiel the Gershonite.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Chronicles 29:7 A daric was a coin weighing about 1/4 ounce or 8.5 grams

68 (A)Some of the heads of families, when they came to the house of the Lord that is in Jerusalem, made freewill offerings for the house of God, to erect it on its site.

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