gSee 1 Kgs. 9:28
kSee ch. 27:25-31
Numbers 29:39
39“These you shall offer to the Lord at your aappointed feasts, in addition to your bvow offerings and your freewill offerings, for your burnt offerings, and for your grain offerings, and for your drink offerings, and for your peace offerings.”Deuteronomy 12:6
6and there you shall bring your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, cyour tithes and the contribution that you present, your vow offerings, your freewill offerings, and the dfirstborn of your herd and of your flock.1 Chronicles 29:3-8
3Moreover, 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: 4 e3,000 talents ▼▼A talent was about 75 pounds or 34 kilograms
of gold, of the gold of gOphir, and 7,000 talents of refined silver, for overlaying the walls of the house, ▼▼Septuagint; Hebrew houses
5and for all the work to be done by craftsmen, gold for the things of gold and silver for the things of silver. Who then will offer willingly, consecrating himself ▼▼Or ordaining himself; Hebrew filling his hand
today to the Lord?” 6Then jthe leaders of fathers’ houses made their freewill offerings, as did also the leaders of the tribes, the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, and kthe officers over the king’s work. 7They gave for the service of the house of God 5,000 talents and 10,000 ldarics ▼
▼A daric was a coin weighing about 1/4 ounce or 8.5 grams
of gold, 10,000 talents of silver, 18,000 talents of bronze and 100,000 talents of iron. 8And whoever had precious stones gave them to the treasury of the house of the Lord, in the care of nJehiel the Gershonite. 2 Chronicles 35:7-8
7Then Josiah contributed to the lay people, as Passover offerings for all who were present, lambs and young goats from the flock to the number of 30,000, and 3,000 bulls; othese were from the king’s possessions. 8And his officials contributed willingly to the people, to the priests, and to the Levites. pHilkiah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, the chief officers of the house of God, gave to the priests for the Passover offerings 2,600 Passover lambs and 300 bulls.Ezra 2:68-69
68 qSome of the heads of families, when they came to the house of the Lord that is in Jerusalem, made freewill offerings for the house of God, to erect it on its site. 69According to their ability they gave to rthe treasury of the work 61,000 darics ▼▼A daric was a coin weighing about 1/4 ounce or 8.5 grams
of gold, 5,000 minas ▼▼A mina was about 1 1/4 pounds or 0.6 kilogram
of silver, and 100 priests’ garments.
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