²⁴ Hezekiah king of Judah provided^(A) a thousand bulls and seven thousand sheep and goats for the assembly, and the officials provided them with a thousand bulls and ten thousand sheep and goats. A great number of priests consecrated themselves.

³⁴ The priests, however, were too few to skin all the burnt offerings;^(A) so their relatives the Levites helped them until the task was finished and until other priests had been consecrated,^(B) for the Levites had been more conscientious in consecrating themselves than the priests had been.

⁷ Josiah provided for all the lay people who were there a total of thirty thousand lambs and goats for the Passover offerings,^(A) and also three thousand cattle—all from the king’s own possessions.^(B)

⁸ His officials also contributed^(C) voluntarily to the people and the priests and Levites. Hilkiah,^(D) Zechariah and Jehiel, the officials in charge of God’s temple, gave the priests twenty-six hundred Passover offerings and three hundred cattle.

⁸ This is why it^[a] says:

¹⁷ It will be the duty of the prince to provide the burnt offerings, grain offerings and drink offerings at the festivals, the New Moons^(A) and the Sabbaths^(B)—at all the appointed festivals of Israel. He will provide the sin offerings,^[a] grain offerings, burnt offerings and fellowship offerings to make atonement for the Israelites.^(C)

³ They had not been able to celebrate it at the regular time because not enough priests had consecrated^(A) themselves and the people had not assembled in Jerusalem.

³ Besides, in my devotion to the temple of my God I now give my personal treasures of gold and silver for the temple of my God, over and above everything I have provided^(A) for this holy temple: ⁴ three thousand talents^[a] of gold (gold of Ophir)^(B) and seven thousand talents^[b] of refined silver,^(C) for the overlaying of the walls of the buildings, ⁵ for the gold work and the silver work, and for all the work to be done by the craftsmen. Now, who is willing to consecrate themselves to the Lord today?”

⁶ Then the leaders of families, the officers of the tribes of Israel, the commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds, and the officials^(D) in charge of the king’s work gave willingly.^{(E) 7} They^(F) gave toward the work on the temple of God five thousand talents^[c] and ten thousand darics^[d] of gold, ten thousand talents^[e] of silver, eighteen thousand talents^[f] of bronze and a hundred thousand talents^[g] of iron. ⁸ Anyone who had precious stones^(G) gave them to the treasury of the temple of the Lord in the custody of Jehiel the Gershonite.^{(H) 9} The people rejoiced at the willing response of their leaders, for they had given freely and wholeheartedly^(I) to the Lord. David the king also rejoiced greatly.