²⁴ Then I set apart twelve of the leading priests to be with Sherebiah and Hashabiah and ten of their brothers with them. ²⁵ I weighed out for them the silver and the gold and the vessels—the special contribution for the house of our God, which had been contributed by the king and his advisors and officials and by all the Israelites who were present there.

²⁶ I weighed out and placed into their hands six hundred fifty talents^[a] of silver, silver vessels worth one hundred talents, one hundred talents of gold, ²⁷ and twenty gold bowls worth one thousand darics,^[b] and two finely polished bronze vessels, as precious as gold.

²⁸ Then I said to them, “You are holy to the Lord, and the vessels are holy. The silver and the gold are a freewill offering to the Lord, the God of our fathers. ²⁹ Guard them carefully until you weigh them again in front of the leaders of the priests and Levites and the leaders of the families^[c] of Israel in Jerusalem, before placing them into the storerooms of the House of the Lord.”

³⁰ So the priests and the Levites received the full weight of the silver and the gold and the vessels in order to bring them to Jerusalem to the house of our God.