Chapter 29

Gifts for the Temple.^{[a] 1} King David then said to the whole assembly, “My son, Solomon, is the one whom God has chosen. He is young and inexperienced, and the task is great. This is not a palace for a human, but it is for the Lord God.

² “I have made preparations for the temple of the Lord, my God, with all my resources: the gold, the golden objects, the silver, the silver objects, the bronze, the bronze objects, the iron, the iron objects, the wood, the wood objects, the stone, the onyx for settings, the glistening stones of various colors, all types of precious stones, and marble, all of them in great quantities.

³ “Moreover, in my devotion to the temple of my God, I have given gold and silver from my own possessions for the temple of my God in addition to everything that I have prepared for the holy temple. ⁴ This includes three thousand talents of gold (gold of Ophir) and seven thousand talents of refined silver to be used for overlaying the walls of the buildings. ⁵ It is also for the gold and the gold objects, the silver and the silver objects, and all types of work to be done by the craftsmen. Now, who is willing today to consecrate himself to the Lord?”

⁶ The leaders of the ancestral clans and the tribes of Israel, the captains of the thousands and the hundreds, and the supervisors of the king’s work gave willingly. ⁷ They gave five thousand talents and ten thousand darics^[b] of gold, ten thousand talents of silver, eighteen thousand talents of bronze, and one hundred thousand talents of iron. ⁸ Any of those who had found precious stones gave them to the treasury of the temple of the Lord through Jehiel the Gershonite. ⁹ The people rejoiced because they had willingly responded and had given with their whole hearts to the Lord, and King David also rejoiced greatly.

^10 [c]David praised the Lord in front of the whole assembly, and David said:

²⁰ David then said to the whole assembly, “Praise the Lord, your God!” The whole assembly praised the Lord, the God of their fathers. They bowed down their heads, and they fell prostrate before the Lord and the king.

²¹ On the next day they made sacrifices to the Lord and offered burnt offerings to the Lord: one thousand bulls, one thousand rams, and one thousand lambs. There were drink offerings and other sacrifices in abundance for all of Israel. ²² They ate and drank before the Lord that day with great joy.^[d]

Then they acknowledged Solomon, the son of David, as king a second time, and they anointed him before the Lord to be ruler and Zadok to be priest. ²³ Solomon sat on the throne of the Lord in the place of David, his father. He prospered and everyone in Israel obeyed him. ²⁴ All of the leaders and mighty men and all of King David’s sons paid obeisance to King Solomon. ²⁵ The Lord exalted Solomon greatly before all of Israel, and he bestowed upon him majesty and royal dignity as no king in Israel had ever had before him.

²⁶ David, the son of Jesse, reigned over all of Israel. ²⁷ He ruled over Israel for forty years. He reigned for seven years in Hebron, and he reigned for thirty-three years in Jerusalem. ²⁸ He died at a good, old age in the fullness of his years. He had enjoyed wealth and honor. Then Solomon, his son, reigned in his stead.

^29 [e]As for the other deeds of King David, from the beginning to the end, they are written in the Book of Samuel the Seer, the Book of Nathan the Prophet, and in the Book of Gad the Seer, ³⁰ along with all of the details of his reign and his might and his own times and those of Israel and of all the kingdoms of the other lands.