1 Chronicles 29
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The people bring gifts for building the temple
1David told the crowd:#1 Ch 22.5.
God chose my son Solomon to build the temple, but Solomon is young and has no experience. This is not just any building—this is the temple for the LORD God! 2That's why I have done my best to get everything Solomon will need to build it—gold, silver, bronze, iron, wood, onyx, turquoise, coloured gems, all kinds of precious stones, and marble.
3Besides doing all that, I have promised to give part of my own gold and silver as a way of showing my love for God's temple. 4More than a hundred tonnes of my finest gold and almost two hundred and forty tonnes of my silver will be used to decorate its walls 5and to make the gold and silver objects. Now, who else will show their dedication to the LORD by giving gifts for building his temple?
6After David finished speaking, the family leaders, the tribal leaders, the army commanders, and the government officials voluntarily gave gifts 7for the temple. These gifts included more than a hundred and seventy tonnes of gold, over three hundred and forty tonnes of silver, six hundred and twenty tonnes of bronze, and more than three thousand four hundred tonnes of iron. 8Everyone who owned precious stones also donated them to the temple treasury, where Jehiel from the Levite clan of Gershon guarded them.
9David and the people were very happy that so much had been given to the LORD, and they all celebrated.
David praises the LORD
10Then, in front of everyone, David sang praises to the LORD:
I praise you for ever, LORD! You are the God our ancestor Jacob#29.10 Jacob: See the note at 1.34. worshipped. 11Your power is great, and your glory is seen everywhere in heaven and on earth. You are king of the entire world,#Mt 6.13. 12and you rule with strength and power. You make people rich and powerful and famous. 13We thank you, our God, and praise you.
14But why should we be happy that we have given you these gifts? They belong to you, and we have only given back what is already yours. 15We are only foreigners living here on earth for a while, just as our ancestors were. And we will soon be gone, like a shadow that suddenly disappears.
16Our LORD God, we have brought all these things for building a temple to honour you. They belong to you, and you gave them to us. 17But we are happy, because everyone has voluntarily given you these things. You know what is in everyone's heart, and you are pleased when people are honest. 18Always make us eager to give, and help us be faithful to you, just as our ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob faithfully worshipped you. 19And give Solomon the desire to obey your laws and teachings completely, and the desire to build the temple for which I have provided these gifts.
20David then said to the people, “Now it's your turn to praise the LORD, the God your ancestors worshipped!” So everyone praised the LORD, and they bowed down to honour him and David their king.
Solomon is crowned king
21The next day, the Israelites slaughtered a thousand bulls, a thousand rams, and a thousand lambs, and they offered them as sacrifices to please the LORD,#29.21 sacrifices to please the LORD: See the note at 16.1. along with offerings of wine. 22The people were very happy, and they ate and drank there at the LORD's altar.
That same day, Solomon was crowned king. The people celebrated and poured olive oil on Solomon's head to show that he would be their next king. They also poured oil on Zadok's head to show that he was their priest.
23So Solomon became king after David his father. Solomon was successful, and everyone in Israel obeyed him.#1 K 2.12. 24Every official and every soldier, as well as all David's other sons, were loyal to him. 25The LORD made Solomon a great king, and the whole nation was amazed at how famous he was. In fact, no other king of Israel was as great as Solomon.
The death of David
26David the son of Jesse was king of Israel 27for forty years. He ruled from Hebron for seven years and from Jerusalem for thirty-three years.#2 S 5.4,5; 1 Ch 3.4. 28David was rich and respected and lived to be an old man. Then he died, and his son Solomon became king.
29Everything David did while he was king is included in the history written by the prophets Samuel, Nathan, and Gad. 30They wrote about his powerful rule and about the things that happened not only to him, but also to Israel and the other nations.
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1 Paralipomenon 29
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1And king David said to all the assembly: Solomon, my son, whom alone God hath chosen, is as yet young and tender; and the work is great, for a house is prepared not for man, but for God.
2And I with all my ability have prepared the expenses for the house of my God. Gold for vessels of gold, and silver for vessels of silver, brass for things of brass, iron for things of iron, wood for things of wood: and onyx stones, and stones like alabaster, and of divers colours, and all manner of precious stones, and marble of Paros in great abundance.
3Now over and above the things which I have offered into the house of my God I give, of my own proper goods, gold and silver for the temple of my God, beside what things I have prepared for the holy house.
4Three thousand talents of gold of the gold of Ophir: and seven thousand talents of refined silver, to overlay the walls of the temple.
5And gold for wheresoever there is need of gold: and silver for wheresoever there is need of silver, for the works to be made by the hands of the artificers. Now if any man is willing to offer, let him fill his hand to-day, and offer what he pleaseth to the Lord.
6Then the heads of the families, and the princes of the tribes of Israel, and the captains of thousands, and of hundreds, and the overseers of the king's possessions promised,
7And they gave for the works of the house of the Lord: of gold, five thousand talents, and ten thousand solids: of silver, ten thousand talents: and of brass, eighteen thousand talents: and of iron, a hundred thousand talents.
8And all they that had stones gave them to the treasures of the house of the Lord, by the hand of Jahiel the Gersonite.
9And the people rejoiced, when they promised their offerings willingly: because they offered them to the Lord with all their heart. And David the king rejoiced also with a great joy.
10And he blessed the Lord before all the multitude; and he said: Blessed art thou, O Lord, the God of Israel, our father from eternity to eternity.
11Thine, O Lord, is magnificence, and power, and glory, and victory: and to thee is praise. For all that is in heaven, and in earth, is thine. Thine is the kingdom, O Lord, and thou art above all princes.
12Thine are riches, and thine is glory: thou hast dominion over all. In thy hand is power and might: in thy hand greatness, and the empire of all things.
13Now therefore, our God we give thanks to thee: and we praise thy glorious name.
14Who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to promise thee all these things? All things are thine: and we have given thee what we received of thy hand.
15For we are sojourners before thee, and strangers, as were all our fathers. Our days upon earth are as a shadow: and there is no stay.
16O Lord our God, all this store that we have prepared to build thee a house for thy holy name is from thy hand: and all things are thine.
17I know, my God, that thou provest hearts, and lovest simplicity. Wherefore I also in the simplicity of my heart have joyfully offered all these things: and I have seen with great joy thy people, which are here present, offer thee their offerings.
18O Lord God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep for ever this will of their heart: and let this mind remain always for the worship of thee.
19And give to Solomon my son a perfect heart, that he may keep thy commandments, thy testimonies, and thy ceremonies, and do all things: and build the house, for which I have provided the charges.
20And David commanded all the assembly: Bless ye the Lord our God. And all the assembly blessed the Lord the God of their fathers. And they bowed themselves and worshipped God, and then the king.
21And they sacrificed victims to the Lord: and they offered holocausts the next day, a thousand bullocks, a thousand rams, a thousand lambs, with their libations, and with every thing prescribed most abundantly for all Israel.
22And they ate, and drank before the Lord that day with great joy. And they anointed the second time Solomon the son of David. And they anointed him to the Lord to be prince, and Sadoc to be high priest.
23And Solomon sat on the throne of the Lord as king instead of David his father. And he pleased all: and all Israel obeyed him.
24And all the princes, and men of power, and all the sons of king David gave their hand, and were subject to Solomon the king.
25And the Lord magnified Solomon over all Israel: and gave him the glory of a reign, such as no king of Israel had before him.
26So David the son of Isai reigned over all Israel.
27And the days that he reigned over Israel were forty years: in Hebron he reigned seven years: and in Jerusalem three and thirty years.
28And he died in a good age, full of days, and riches, and glory. And Solomon his son reigned in his stead.
29Now the acts of king David first and last are written in the book of Samuel the seer, and in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the book of Gad the seer:
30And of all his reign, and his valour, and of the times that passed under him, either in Israel, or in all the kingdoms of the countries.
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