Moreover, because I have [a]delight in the house of my God, I have of mine own gold and silver, which I have given to the house of my God, beside all that I have prepared for the house of the Sanctuary,

Even [b]three thousand talents of gold of the gold of Ophir, and seven thousand talents of fined silver to overlay the walls of the houses.

The gold for the things of gold, and the silver for things of silver, and for all the work by the hands of artificers: and who is [c]willing [d]to fill his hand today unto the Lord?

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Chronicles 29:3 His great zeal toward the furtherance of the Temple made him to spare no expenses, but to bestow his own peculiar treasure.
  2. 1 Chronicles 29:4 He showeth what he had of his own store for the Lord’s house.
  3. 1 Chronicles 29:5 He was not only liberal himself, but provoked others to set forth the works of God.
  4. 1 Chronicles 29:5 Or, to offer.

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