¹¹ King David dedicated^(A) these articles to the Lord, as he had done with the silver and gold from all the nations he had subdued:

⁵¹ When all the work King Solomon had done for the temple of the Lord was finished, he brought in the things his father David had dedicated^(A)—the silver and gold and the furnishings^(B)—and he placed them in the treasuries of the Lord’s temple.

² With all my resources I have provided for the temple of my God—gold^(A) for the gold work, silver for the silver, bronze for the bronze, iron for the iron and wood for the wood, as well as onyx for the settings, turquoise,^[a](B) stones of various colors, and all kinds of fine stone and marble—all of these in large quantities.^(C)

¹⁴ “I have taken great pains to provide for the temple of the Lord a hundred thousand talents^[a] of gold, a million talents^[b] of silver, quantities of bronze and iron too great to be weighed, and wood and stone. And you may add to them.^{(A) 15} You have many workers: stonecutters, masons and carpenters,^(B) as well as those skilled in every kind of work ¹⁶ in gold and silver, bronze and iron—craftsmen^(C) beyond number. Now begin the work, and the Lord be with you.”

¹¹ King David dedicated these articles to the Lord, as he had done with the silver and gold he had taken from all these nations: Edom^(A) and Moab, the Ammonites and the Philistines, and Amalek.^(B)