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¹ Furthermore David the king said unto all the congregation, Solomon my son, whom alone God hath chosen, [is yet] young and tender, and the work [is] great: for the palace [is] not for man, but for theTherefore it should be excellent in all points.LORD God.

² Now I haue prepared with all my power for the house of my God, golde for vessels of golde, and siluer for them of siluer, and brasse for things of brasse, yron for things of yron, & wood for things of wood, and onix stones, and stones to be set, and carbuncle stones and of diuers colours, and all precious stones, and marble stones in aboundance.

³ Moreover, because I have set myHis great zeal for the furtherance of the temple made him spare no expenses, but to bestow his own peculiar treasure.affection to the house of my God, I have of mine own proper good, of gold and silver, [which] I have given to the house of my God, over and above all that I have prepared for the holy house,

⁴ [Even]He shows what he had of his own store for the Lord's house.three thousand talents of gold, of the gold of Ophir, and seven thousand talents of refined silver, to overlay the walls of the houses [withal]:

⁵ The gold for [things] of gold, and the silver for [things] of silver, and for all manner of work [to be made] by the hands of artificers. And who [then] isHe was not only liberal himself but provoked others to set forth the work of God.willing to consecrate his service this day unto the LORD?

⁶ So the princes of the families, and the princes of the tribes of Israel, and the captaines of thousands and of hundreths, with the rulers of the Kings worke, offred willingly,

⁷ And they gaue for the seruice of the house of God fiue thousande talents of golde, and ten thousand pieces, and ten thousand talents of siluer, and eighteene thousand talents of brasse, and one hundreth thousand talents of yron.

⁸ And they with whom [precious] stones wereMeaning, they who had any.found gave [them] to the treasure of the house of the LORD, by the hand of Jehiel the Gershonite.

⁹ Then the people rejoiced, for that they offered willingly, because withThat is, with good courage and without hypocrisy.perfect heart they offered willingly to the LORD: and David the king also rejoiced with great joy.

¹⁰ Wherefore David blessed the LORD before all the congregation: and David said, Blessed [be] thou, LORD God ofWho revealed yourself to our father Jacob.Israel our father, for ever and ever.

¹¹ Thine, O Lord, is greatnesse & power, and glory, and victorie & praise: for all that is in heauen and in earth is thine: thine is the kingdome, O Lord, and thou excellest as head ouer all.

¹² Both riches and honour come of thee, and thou reignest ouer all, and in thine hand is power and strength, and in thine hande it is to make great, and to giue strength vnto all.

¹³ Now therefore our God, we thanke thee, and prayse thy glorious Name.

¹⁴ But who [am] I, and what [is] my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort? for all thingsWe gave you nothing of our own, but that which we have received from you: for whether the gifts are corporal or spiritual, we receive them all from God, and therefore must give him the glory.[come] of thee, and of thine own have we given thee.

¹⁵ For we [are]Therefore we have this land loaned to us for a time.strangers before thee, and sojourners, as [were] all our fathers: our days on the earth [are] as a shadow, and [there is] none abiding.

¹⁶ O Lorde our God, all this abundance that we haue prepared to buylde thee an house for thine holy Name, is of thine hand & all is thine.

¹⁷ I knowe also, my God, that thou tryest the heart, and hast pleasure in righteousnesse: I haue offred willingly in the vprightnesse of mine heart all these things: now also haue I seene thy people which are found here, to offer vnto thee willingly with ioy.

¹⁸ O LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this for ever in theContinue then in his good mind, that they may serve you willingly.imagination of the thoughts of the heart of thy people, and prepare their heart unto thee:

¹⁹ And giue vnto Salomon my sonne a perfit heart to keepe thy commaundements, thy testimonies, and thy statutes, and to doe all things, and to builde the house which I haue prepared.

²⁰ And David said to all the congregation, Now bless the LORD your God. And all the congregation blessed the LORD God of their fathers, and bowed down their heads, and worshipped the LORD, and theThat is, revered the king.king.

²¹ And they sacrificed sacrifices unto the LORD, and offered burnt offerings unto the LORD, on the morrow after that day, [even] a thousand bullocks, a thousand rams, [and] a thousand lambs, with theirMeaning, all kinds of liquor which they mingled with their sacrifices, as wine, oil, etc.drink offerings, and sacrifices in abundance for all Israel:

²² And they did eate and drinke before the Lord the same day with great ioy, and they made Salomon the sonne of Dauid King the seconde time, and anoynted him prince before the Lord, and Zadok for the hie Priest.

²³ Then Solomon sat on theThis declares that the kings of Judah were figures of Christ, who was the true anointed, and to whom God gave the chief government of all things.throne of the LORD as king instead of David his father, and prospered; and all Israel obeyed him.

²⁴ And all the princes and men of power, and all the sonnes of King Dauid submitted them selues vnder King Salomon.

²⁵ And the Lord magnified Salomon in dignitie, in the sight of all Israel, and gaue him so glorious a kingdome, as no King had before him in Israel.

²⁶ Thus Dauid the sonne of Ishai reigned ouer all Israel.

²⁷ And the space that he reigned ouer Israel, was fourtie yeere: seuen yeere reigned he in Hebron, and three and thirtie yeere reigned he in Ierusalem:

²⁸ And he dyed in a good age, full of dayes, riches and honour, and Salomon his sonne reigned in his steade.

²⁹ Now the acts of David the king, first and last, behold, they [are] written in the book of Samuel the seer, and in the book ofThe books of Nathan and Gad are thought to have been lost in the captivity.Nathan the prophet, and in the book of Gad the seer,

³⁰ With all his reign and his might, and theMeaning the troubles and griefs.times that went over him, and over Israel, and over all the kingdoms of the countries.