1 Kings 7:51
51Thus all the work that King Solomon did on the house of the Lord was finished. And Solomon brought in athe things that David his father had dedicated, the silver, the gold, and the vessels, and stored them in the treasuries of the house of the Lord.1 Chronicles 22:14
14With great pains I have provided for the house of the Lord b100,000 talents ▼▼A talent was about 75 pounds or 34 kilograms
of gold, a million talents of silver, and dbronze and iron beyond weighing, for there is so much of it; timber and stone, too, I have provided. To these you must add. 1 Chronicles 26:20-28
Treasurers and Other Officials
20And of the Levites, Ahijah had charge of ethe treasuries of the house of God and the treasuries of the dedicated gifts. 21The sons of Ladan, the sons of the Gershonites belonging to Ladan, the heads of the fathers’ houses belonging to Ladan the Gershonite: fJehieli. ▼▼The Hebrew of verse 21 is uncertain
22 hThe sons of Jehieli, Zetham, and Joel his brother, were in charge of the treasuries of the house of the Lord. 23 iOf the Amramites, the Izharites, the Hebronites, and the Uzzielites— 24and jShebuel the son of Gershom, son of Moses, was chief officer in charge of the treasuries. 25His brothers: from kEliezer were his son Rehabiah, and his son lJeshaiah, and his son Joram, and his son Zichri, and his son mShelomoth. 26This Shelomoth and his brothers were in charge of all the treasuries of the dedicated gifts that David the king and the heads of the fathers’ houses and the officers of the thousands and the hundreds and the commanders of the army nhad dedicated. 27From spoil won in battles they dedicated gifts for the maintenance of the house of the Lord. 28Also all that oSamuel the seer and Saul the son of Kish and Abner the son of Ner and Joab the son of Zeruiah had dedicated—all dedicated gifts were in the care of pShelomoth ▼
▼Hebrew Shelomith
and his brothers. Ezra 8:25-34
25And I weighed out to them the rsilver and the gold and the vessels, the offering for the house of our God that the king and his scounselors and his lords and all Israel there present had offered. 26 tI weighed out into their hand 650 talents ▼▼A talent was about 75 pounds or 34 kilograms
of silver, and silver vessels worth 200 talents, ▼▼Revocalization; the number is missing in the Masoretic Text
and 100 talents of gold, 2720 bowls of gold worth 1,000 darics, ▼▼A daric was a coin weighing about 1/4 ounce or 8.5 grams
and two vessels of fine bright bronze as precious as gold. 28And I said to them, x“You are holy to the Lord, and ythe vessels are holy, and the silver and the gold are a freewill offering to the Lord, the God of your fathers. 29Guard 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, zwithin the chambers of the house of the Lord.” 30So the priests and the Levites aatook over the weight of the silver and the gold and the vessels, to bring them to Jerusalem, to the house of our God. 31Then we departed from the river Ahava abon the twelfth day of the first month, to go to Jerusalem. acThe hand of our God was on us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy and from ambushes by the way. 32 adWe came to Jerusalem, and there we remained three days. 33On the fourth day, within the house of our God, the silver and the gold and the vessels were aeweighed into the hands of afMeremoth the priest, son of Uriah, and with him was Eleazar the son of Phinehas, and with them were the Levites, agJozabad the son of Jeshua and Noadiah the son of ahBinnui. 34The whole was counted and weighed, and the weight of everything was recorded.
Nehemiah 7:71-72
71And some of the heads of fathers’ houses gave into the treasury of the work 20,000 darics of gold and 2,200 minas of silver. 72 aiAnd what the rest of the people gave was 20,000 darics of gold, 2,000 minas of silver, and 67 priests’ garments.
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