⁴ And Jehoash said to the priests, ^(A)“All the money of the dedicated gifts that are brought into the house of the Lord—each man’s ^(B)census^[a] money, each man’s ^(C)assessment money—and all the money that ^[b]a man ^(D)purposes in his heart to bring into the house of the Lord,

⁴ “Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may count the money which has been ^(A)brought into the house of the Lord, which ^(B)the doorkeepers have gathered from the people.

⁵ ‘Take from among you an offering to the Lord. ^(A)Whoever is of a willing heart, let him bring it as an offering to the Lord: ^(B)gold, silver, and bronze;

³ Moreover, because I have set my affection on the house of my God, I have given to the house of my God, over and above all that I have prepared for the holy house, my own special treasure of gold and silver: ⁴ three thousand talents of gold, of the gold of ^(A)Ophir, and seven thousand talents of refined silver, to overlay the walls of the houses; ⁵ the gold for things of gold and the silver for things of silver, and for all kinds of work to be done by the hands of craftsmen. Who then is ^(B)willing to ^[a]consecrate himself this day to the Lord?”

⁶ Then ^(C)the leaders of the fathers’ houses, leaders of the tribes of Israel, the captains of thousands and of hundreds, with ^(D)the officers over the king’s work, ^(E)offered willingly. ⁷ They gave for the work of the house of God five thousand talents and ten thousand darics of gold, ten thousand talents of silver, eighteen thousand talents of bronze, and one hundred thousand talents of iron. ⁸ And whoever had precious stones gave them to the treasury of the house of the Lord, into the hand of ^(F)Jehiel^[b] the Gershonite. ⁹ Then the people rejoiced, for they had offered willingly, because with a loyal heart they had ^(G)offered willingly to the Lord; and King David also rejoiced greatly.

²⁹ The children of Israel brought a ^(A)freewill offering to the Lord, all the men and women whose hearts were willing to bring material for all kinds of work which the Lord, by the hand of Moses, had commanded to be done.

^12 (A)“When you take the census of the children of Israel for their number, then every man shall give ^(B)a^[a] ransom for himself to the Lord, when you number them, that there may be no ^(C)plague among them when you number them. ^13 (D)This is what everyone among those who are numbered shall give: half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary ^(E)(a shekel is twenty gerahs). ^(F)The half-shekel shall be an offering to the Lord. ¹⁴ Everyone included among those who are numbered, from twenty years old and above, shall give an ^[b]offering to the Lord. ¹⁵ The ^(G)rich shall not give more and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel, when you give an offering to the Lord, to make atonement for yourselves. ¹⁶ And you shall take the atonement money of the children of Israel, and ^(H)shall ^[c]appoint it for the service of the tabernacle of meeting, that it may be ^(I)a memorial for the children of Israel before the Lord, to make atonement for yourselves.”

²² They came, both men and women, as many as had a willing heart, and brought ^(A)earrings and nose rings, rings and necklaces, all ^(B)jewelry of gold, that is, every man who made an offering of gold to the Lord.

⁴ for all these out of their abundance have put in offerings ^[a]for God, but she out of her poverty put in ^(A)all the livelihood that she had.”

²⁵ and weighed out to them ^(A)the silver, the gold, and the articles, the offering for the house of our God which the king and his counselors and his princes, and all Israel who were present, had offered. ²⁶ I weighed into their hand six hundred and fifty talents of silver, silver articles weighing one hundred talents, one hundred talents of gold, ²⁷ twenty gold basins worth a thousand drachmas, and two vessels of fine polished bronze, precious as gold. ²⁸ And I said to them, “You are ^(B)holy^[a] to the Lord; the articles are ^(C)holy also; and the silver and the gold are a freewill offering to the Lord God of your fathers.