Psalm 68:29
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29 Because of your temple at Jerusalem
kings shall (A)bear gifts to you.
Psalm 76:11
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11 (A)Make your vows to the Lord your God and perform them;
let all around him (B)bring gifts
to him who (C)is to be feared,
1 Kings 10:10
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10 (A)Then she gave the king 120 talents[a] of gold, and a very great quantity of spices and precious stones. Never again came such an abundance of spices as these that the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.
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- 1 Kings 10:10 A talent was about 75 pounds or 34 kilograms
Isaiah 60:16-17
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16 (A)You shall suck the milk of nations;
you shall nurse at the breast of kings;
and you shall know that (B)I, the Lord, am your Savior
and your Redeemer, (C)the Mighty One of Jacob.
17 Instead of bronze I will bring gold,
and instead of iron I will bring silver;
instead of wood, bronze,
instead of stones, iron.
I will make your overseers peace
(D)and your taskmasters righteousness.
Isaiah 60:6-11
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6 A multitude of camels shall cover you,
the young camels of (A)Midian and (B)Ephah;
all those from (C)Sheba shall come.
(D)They shall bring gold and frankincense,
and shall bring good news, the praises of the Lord.
7 All the flocks of (E)Kedar shall be gathered to you;
the rams of (F)Nebaioth shall minister to you;
(G)they shall come up with acceptance on my altar,
(H)and I will beautify my beautiful house.
8 Who are these that fly like a cloud,
and (I)like doves to their windows?
9 For (J)the coastlands shall hope for me,
(K)the ships of Tarshish first,
(L)to bring your children from afar,
their silver and gold with them,
for the name of the Lord your God,
and for the Holy One of Israel,
because (M)he has made you beautiful.
10 (N)Foreigners shall build up your walls,
and (O)their kings shall minister to you;
for in my wrath I struck you,
but in my favor I have had mercy on you.
11 (P)Your gates shall be open continually;
day and night they shall not be shut,
(Q)that people may bring to you the wealth of the nations,
with their kings led in procession.
Psalm 45:12
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- Psalm 45:12 Hebrew daughter
- Psalm 45:12 Or The daughter of Tyre is here with gifts, the richest of people seek your favor
Ezra 7:13-28
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13 (A)I make a decree that anyone of the people of Israel or their priests or Levites in my kingdom, who freely offers to go to Jerusalem, may go with you. 14 For you are sent by the king (B)and his seven counselors to make inquiries about Judah and Jerusalem according to the Law of your God, which is in your hand, 15 and also to carry the silver and gold that the king (C)and his counselors have freely offered to the God of Israel, (D)whose dwelling is in Jerusalem, 16 (E)with all the silver and gold that you shall find in the whole province of Babylonia, and (F)with the freewill offerings of the people and the priests, vowed willingly for the house of their God that is in Jerusalem. 17 With this money, then, you shall with all diligence buy bulls, rams, and lambs, with their grain offerings and their drink offerings, and (G)you shall offer them on the altar of the house of your God that is in Jerusalem. 18 Whatever seems good to you and your brothers to do with the rest of the silver and gold, you may do, according to the will of your God. 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. 20 And whatever else is required for the house of your God, which it falls to you to provide, you may provide it out of the king's treasury.
21 “And I, Artaxerxes the king, make a decree to all the treasurers in the province Beyond the River: Whatever Ezra the priest, the scribe of the Law of the God of heaven, requires of you, let it be done with all diligence, 22 up to 100 talents[a] of silver, 100 cors[b] of wheat, 100 baths[c] of wine, 100 baths of oil, and salt without prescribing how much. 23 Whatever is decreed by the God of heaven, let it be done in full for the house of the God of heaven, lest his wrath be against the realm of the king and his sons. 24 We also notify you that it shall not be lawful to impose (H)tribute, custom, or toll on anyone of the priests, the Levites, the singers, the doorkeepers, the temple servants, or other servants of this house of God.
25 “And you, Ezra, according to the wisdom of your God that is in your hand, (I)appoint magistrates and judges who may judge all the people in the province Beyond the River, all such as know the laws of your God. (J)And those who do not know them, you shall teach. 26 Whoever will not obey the law of your God and the law of the king, let judgment be strictly executed on him, whether for death or for banishment or for confiscation of his goods or for imprisonment.”
27 (K)Blessed be the Lord, the God of our fathers, (L)who put such a thing as this into the heart of the king, to beautify the house of the Lord that is in Jerusalem, 28 (M)and who extended to me his steadfast love before the king and his counselors, and before all the king's mighty officers. I took courage, for the hand of the Lord my God was on me, and I gathered leading men from Israel to go up with me.
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1 Chronicles 29:3
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3 Moreover, in addition to all that I have provided for the holy house, I have a treasure of my own of gold and silver, and because of my devotion to the house of my God I give it to the house of my God:
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Isaiah 18:7
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7 (A)At that time tribute will be brought to the Lord of hosts
from a people (B)tall and smooth,
from a people feared near and far,
a nation mighty and conquering,
whose land the rivers divide,
to (C)Mount Zion, the place of the (D)name of the Lord of hosts.
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Nehemiah 2:8
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8 and a letter to Asaph, the keeper of the king's forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of (A)the fortress of the temple, and for the wall of the city, and for the house that I shall occupy.” And the king granted me what I asked, (B)for the good hand of my God was upon me.
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2 Chronicles 32:33
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33 And Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the (A)upper part of the tombs of the sons of David, and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem did him honor at his death. And Manasseh his son reigned in his place.
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2 Chronicles 32:23
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23 And many (A)brought gifts to the Lord to Jerusalem and precious things to Hezekiah king of Judah, so that he was exalted in the sight of all nations from that time onward.
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2 Chronicles 6:8-9
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8 But the Lord said to David my father, ‘Whereas (A)it was in your heart to build a house for my name, you did well that it was in your heart. 9 Nevertheless, it is not you who shall build the house, but your son who shall be born to you shall build the house for my name.’
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2 Chronicles 2:5-6
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5 The house that I am to build will be great, (A)for our God is greater than all gods. 6 (B)But who is able to build him a house, since (C)heaven, even highest heaven, cannot contain him? Who am I to build a house for him, except as a place to make offerings before him?
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1 Chronicles 28:10-21
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10 Be careful now, for the Lord has chosen you to build a house for the sanctuary; (A)be strong and do it.”
11 Then David gave Solomon his son the (B)plan of the (C)vestibule of the temple,[a] and of its houses, its treasuries, its upper rooms, and its inner chambers, and of the room for the (D)mercy seat; 12 and the plan of all that he had in mind for the courts of the house of the Lord, all the surrounding chambers, (E)the treasuries of the house of God, and the treasuries for dedicated gifts; 13 for the (F)divisions of the priests and of the (G)Levites, and all the work of the service in the house of the Lord; for all the vessels for the service in the house of the Lord, 14 the weight of gold for all golden vessels for each service, the weight of silver vessels for each service, 15 the weight of the golden (H)lampstands and their lamps, the weight of gold for each lampstand and its lamps, the weight of silver for a lampstand and its lamps, according to the use of each lampstand in the service, 16 the weight of gold for each table for the showbread, the silver for the silver tables, 17 and pure gold for the forks, the basins and the cups; for the golden bowls and the weight of each; for the silver bowls and the weight of each; 18 for the (I)altar of incense made of refined gold, and its weight; also his plan for the golden chariot of the (J)cherubim that spread their wings and covered the ark of the covenant of the Lord. 19 “All this he made clear to me in writing from the hand of the Lord, (K)all the work to be done according to the plan.”
20 Then David said to Solomon his son, (L)“Be strong and courageous and do it. Do not be afraid and do not be dismayed, for the Lord God, even my God, is with you. He will not leave you or forsake you, until all the work for the service of the house of the Lord is finished. 21 And behold the (M)divisions of the priests and the Levites for all the service of the house of God; and with you in all the work will be (N)every willing man who has skill for any kind of service; also the officers and all the people will be wholly at your command.”
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- 1 Chronicles 28:11 Hebrew lacks of the temple
1 Chronicles 22:7-11
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7 David said to Solomon, “My son, (A)I had it in my heart to build a house to the name of the Lord my God. 8 But the word of the Lord came to me, saying, (B)‘You have shed much blood and have waged great wars. You shall not build a house to my name, because you have shed so much blood before me on the earth. 9 Behold, a son shall be born to you who shall be a man of rest. (C)I will give him rest from all his surrounding enemies. (D)For his name shall be Solomon, and I will give peace and quiet to Israel in his days. 10 (E)He shall build a house for my name. (F)He shall be my son, and I will be his father, and I will establish his royal throne in Israel forever.’
11 “Now, my son, (G)the Lord be with you, so that you may succeed in building the house of the Lord your God, as he has spoken concerning you.
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1 Kings 10:24-25
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24 And the whole earth sought the presence of Solomon to hear his wisdom, which God had put into his mind. 25 Every one of them brought his present, articles of silver and gold, garments, myrrh,[a] spices, horses, and mules, so much year by year.
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- 1 Kings 10:25 Or armor
1 Chronicles 17:4-12
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4 “Go and tell my servant David, ‘Thus says the Lord: (A)It is not you who will build me a house to dwell in. 5 For I have not lived in a house since the day I brought up Israel to this day, (B)but I have gone from tent to tent and from dwelling to dwelling. 6 In all places where I have moved with all Israel, did I speak a word with any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to shepherd my people, saying, “Why have you not built me a house of cedar?”’ 7 Now, therefore, thus shall you say to my servant David, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, I took you from the pasture, from following the sheep, to be prince over my people Israel, 8 and I have been with you wherever you have gone and have cut off all your enemies from before you. And I will make for you a name, like the name of the great ones of the earth. 9 And I will appoint a place for my people Israel and will plant them, that they may dwell in their own place and be disturbed no more. And violent men shall waste them no more, as formerly, 10 from the time that I appointed judges over my people Israel. And I (C)will subdue all your enemies. Moreover, I declare to you that the Lord will build you a house. 11 When your days are fulfilled to walk with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring after you, one of your own sons, and I will establish his kingdom. 12 He shall build a house for me, and I will establish his throne forever.
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