1 Chronicles 29:1–8

Gifts for Building the Temple

29^*King David announced to the whole assembly: “My son Solomon is the one whom God has chosen, but he is still young and lacks experience. The work to be done is tremendous, because this is not a palace for people but a temple for the Lord God. ^2*I have made every effort to prepare materials for the Temple—gold, silver, bronze, iron, timber, precious stones and gems, stones for mosaics, and quantities of marble. ³Over and above all this that I have provided, I have given silver and gold from my personal property because of my love for God’s Temple. ⁴I have given more than a hundred tonnes of the finest gold and almost two hundred and forty tonnes of pure silver for decorating the walls of the Temple ⁵and for all the objects which the skilled workers are to make. Now who else is willing to give a generous offering to the Lord?”

⁶Then the heads of the clans, the officials of the tribes, the commanders of the army, and the administrators of the royal property volunteered to give ⁷the following for the work on the Temple: more than 170 tonnes of gold, over 340 tonnes of silver, almost 620 tonnes of bronze, and more than 3,400 tonnes of iron. ⁸Those who had precious stones gave them to the temple treasury, which was administered by Jehiel of the Levite clan of Gershon.