²⁸ and ^(A)has extended lovingkindness to me before the king and his counselors and before all the king’s mighty princes. Thus I was strengthened according to ^(B)the hand of Yahweh my God upon me, and I gathered ^[a]chief men from Israel to go up with me.

²⁵ and I ^(A)weighed out to them ^(B)the silver, the gold, and the utensils, the contribution for the house of our God which the king and ^(C)his counselors and his princes and all Israel present there had offered.