¹⁹ The vessels that have been given you for the service of the house of your God, you shall deliver before the God of Jerusalem.

¹⁷ At that time Jerusalem shall be called the throne of the Lord, ^(A)and all nations shall gather to it, ^(B)to the presence of the Lord in Jerusalem, and they shall no more stubbornly follow their own evil heart.

³³ On the fourth day, within the house of our God, the silver and the gold and the vessels were ^(A)weighed into the hands of ^(B)Meremoth the priest, son of Uriah, and with him was Eleazar the son of Phinehas, and with them were the Levites, ^(C)Jozabad the son of Jeshua and Noadiah the son of ^(D)Binnui. ³⁴ The whole was counted and weighed, and the weight of everything was recorded.

²⁷ 20 bowls of gold worth 1,000 darics,^[a] and two vessels of fine bright bronze as precious as gold. ²⁸ And I said to them, ^(A)“You are holy to the Lord, and ^(B)the vessels are holy, and the silver and the gold are a freewill offering to the Lord, the God of your fathers. ²⁹ Guard them and keep them until you weigh them before the chief priests and the Levites and the heads of fathers' houses in Israel at Jerusalem, ^(C)within the chambers of the house of the Lord.” ³⁰ So the priests and the Levites ^(D)took over the weight of the silver and the gold and the vessels, to bring them to Jerusalem, to the house of our God.

¹⁹ And they spoke of the God of Jerusalem as they spoke of the gods of the peoples of the earth, which are the work of men's hands.