1 Chronicles 22:14

22:14 Now, look, I have made every effort to supply what is needed to build the Lord’s temple. ¹  I have stored up 100,000 talents ²  of gold, 1,000,000 ³  talents of silver, and so much bronze and iron it cannot be weighed, as well as wood and stones. Feel free to add more!

1 Chronicles 26:20

Supervisors of the Storehouses

26:20 Their fellow Levites were in charge of the storehouses ⁴  in God’s temple and the storehouses containing consecrated items.

1 Chronicles 26:26-27

26:26 Shelomith ⁵  and his relatives were in charge of all the storehouses containing the consecrated items dedicated by King David, the family leaders who led units of a thousand and a hundred, and the army officers. 26:27 They had dedicated some of the plunder taken in battles to be used for repairs on the Lord’s temple.

1 Chronicles 29:14

29:14 “But who am I and who are my people, that we should be in a position to contribute this much? ⁶  Indeed, everything comes from you, and we have simply given back to you what is yours. ⁷ 

Exodus 35:5

35:5 ‘Take ⁸  an offering for the Lord. Let everyone who has a willing heart ⁹  bring ¹⁰  an offering to the Lord: ¹¹  gold, silver, bronze,

Exodus 35:21-24

35:21 Everyone ¹²  whose heart stirred him to action ¹³  and everyone whose spirit was willing ¹⁴  came and brought the offering for the Lord for the work of the tent of meeting, for all its service, and for the holy garments. ¹⁵  35:22 They came, men and women alike, ¹⁶  all who had willing hearts. They brought brooches, earrings, rings and ornaments, all kinds of gold jewelry, ¹⁷  and everyone came who waved ¹⁸  a wave offering of gold to the Lord.

35:23 Everyone who had ¹⁹  blue, purple, or ²⁰  scarlet yarn, fine linen, goats’ hair, ram skins dyed red, or fine leather ²¹  brought them. ²²  35:24 Everyone making an offering of silver or bronze brought it as ²³  an offering to the Lord, and everyone who had acacia wood ²⁴  for any work of the service brought it. ²⁵ 

Joshua 6:19

6:19 All the silver and gold, as well as bronze and iron items, belong to the Lord. ²⁶  They must go into the Lord’s treasury.”

Joshua 6:2

6:2 The Lord told Joshua, “See, I am about to defeat Jericho for you, ²⁷  along with its king and its warriors.

Joshua 8:11-12

8:11 All the troops that were with him marched up and drew near the city. ²⁸  They camped north of Ai on the other side of the valley. ²⁹  8:12 He took five thousand men and set an ambush west of the city between Bethel ³⁰  and Ai.

Joshua 8:1

Israel Conquers Ai

8:1 The Lord told Joshua, “Don’t be afraid and don’t panic! ³¹  Take the whole army with you and march against Ai! ³²  See, I am handing over to you ³³  the king of Ai, along with his people, city, and land.

Joshua 7:1-2

Achan Sins and is Punished

7:1 But the Israelites disobeyed the command about the city’s riches. ³⁴  Achan son of Carmi, son of Zabdi, ³⁵  son of Zerah, from the tribe of Judah, stole some of the riches. ³⁶  The Lord was furious with the Israelites. ³⁷ 

7:2 Joshua sent men from Jericho ³⁸  to Ai (which is located near Beth Aven, east of Bethel ³⁹ ) and instructed them, “Go up and spy on the land.” So the men went up and spied on Ai.

Joshua 12:18

12:18 the king of Aphek (one),

the king of Lasharon (one),

Joshua 12:2

12:2 King Sihon of the Amorites who lived ⁴⁰  in Heshbon and ruled from Aroer (on the edge of the Arnon Valley) – including the city in the middle of the valley ⁴¹  and half of Gilead – all the way to the Jabbok Valley bordering Ammonite territory.

Joshua 5:1

5:1 When all the Amorite kings on the west side of the Jordan and all the Canaanite kings along the seacoast heard how the Lord had dried up the water of the Jordan before the Israelites while they ⁴²  crossed, they lost their courage and could not even breathe for fear of the Israelites. ⁴³ 

Micah 4:13

4:13 “Get up and thresh, Daughter Zion!

For I will give you iron horns; ⁴⁴ 

I will give you bronze hooves,

and you will crush many nations.” ⁴⁵ 

You will devote to the Lord the spoils you take from them,

and dedicate their wealth to the sovereign Ruler ⁴⁶  of the whole earth. ⁴⁷ 

[22:14]  ¹ tn Heb “and look, in my affliction [or perhaps, “poverty”] I have supplied for the house of the Lord.”

[22:14]  ² tn See the note on the word “talents” in 19:6.

[22:14]  ³ tn Heb “a thousand thousands.”

[26:20]  ⁴ tn Or “treasuries.”

[26:26]  ⁵ tc The MT reads “Shelomoth”; the name is spelled “Shelomith” in the marginal reading (Qere) of v. 25.

[29:14]  ⁶ tn Heb “that we should retain strength to contribute like this.”

[29:14]  ⁷ tn Heb “and from you we have given to you.”

[35:5]  ⁸ tn Heb “from with you.”

[35:5]  ⁹ tn “Heart” is a genitive of specification, clarifying in what way they might be “willing.” The heart refers to their will, their choices.

[35:5]  ¹⁰ tn The verb has a suffix that is the direct object, but the suffixed object is qualified by the second accusative: “let him bring it, an offering.”

[35:5]  ¹¹ tn The phrase is literally “the offering of Yahweh”; it could be a simple possessive, “Yahweh’s offering,” but a genitive that indicates the indirect object is more appropriate.

[35:21]  ¹² tn Heb “man.”

[35:21]  ¹³ tn The verb means “lift up, bear, carry.” Here the subject is “heart” or will, and so the expression describes one moved within to act.

[35:21]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “his spirit made him willing.” The verb is used in Scripture for the freewill offering that people brought (Lev 7).

[35:21]  ¹⁵ tn Literally “the garments of holiness,” the genitive is the attributive genitive, marking out what type of garments these were.

[35:22]  ¹⁶ tn The expression in Hebrew is “men on/after the women,” meaning men with women, to ensure that it was clear that the preceding verse did not mean only men. B. Jacob takes it further, saying that the men came after the women because the latter had taken the initiative (Exodus, 1017).

[35:22]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “all gold utensils.”

[35:22]  ¹⁸ tn The verb could be translated “offered,” but it is cognate with the following noun that is the wave offering. This sentence underscores the freewill nature of the offerings people made. The word “came” is supplied from v. 21 and v. 22.

[35:23]  ¹⁹ tn The text uses a relative clause with a resumptive pronoun for this: “who was found with him,” meaning “with whom was found.”

[35:23]  ²⁰ tn The conjunction in this verse is translated “or” because the sentence does not intend to say that each person had all these things. They brought what they had.

[35:23]  ²¹ tn See the note on this phrase in Exod 25:5.

[35:23]  ²² tn Here “them” has been supplied.

[35:24]  ²³ tn This translation takes “offering” as an adverbial accusative explaining the form or purpose of their bringing things. It could also be rendered as the direct object, but that would seem to repeat without much difference what had just been said.

[35:24]  ²⁴ sn U. Cassuto notes that the expression “with whom was found” does not rule out the idea that these folks went out and cut down acacia trees (Exodus, 458). It is unlikely that they had much wood in their tents.

[35:24]  ²⁵ tn Here “it” has been supplied.

[6:19]  ²⁶ tn Heb “it is holy to the Lord.”

[6:2]  ²⁷ tn Heb “I have given into your hand Jericho.” The Hebrew verb נָתַתִּי (natatti, “I have given”) is probably best understood as a perfect of certitude, indicating the certainty of the action. The Hebrew pronominal suffix “your” is singular, being addressed to Joshua as the leader and representative of the nation. To convey to the modern reader what is about to happen and who is doing it, the translation “I am about to defeat Jericho for you” has been used.

[8:11]  ²⁸ tn Heb “All the people of war who were with him went up and approached and came opposite the city.”

[8:11]  ²⁹ tn Heb “and the valley [was] between them and Ai.”

[8:12]  ³⁰ map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.

[8:1]  ³¹ tn Or perhaps “and don’t get discouraged!”

[8:1]  ³² tn Heb “Take with you all the people of war and arise, go up against Ai!”

[8:1]  ³³ tn Heb “I have given into our hand.” The verbal form, a perfect, is probably best understood as a perfect of certitude, indicating the certainty of the action.

[7:1]  ³⁴ tn Heb “But the sons of Israel were unfaithful with unfaithfulness concerning what was set apart [to the Lord].”

[7:1]  ³⁵ tn 1 Chr 2:6 lists a “Zimri” (but no Zabdi) as one of the five sons of Zerah (cf. also 1 Chr 7:17, 18).

[7:1]  ³⁶ tn Heb “took from what was set apart [to the Lord].”

[7:1]  ³⁷ tn Heb “the anger of the Lord burned against the sons of Israel.”

[7:2]  ³⁸ map For location see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1.

[7:2]  ³⁹ map For the location of Bethel see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.

[12:2]  ⁴⁰ tn Or perhaps, “reigned.”

[12:2]  ⁴¹ tc The MT reads here, “and the middle of the valley,” but the reading “the city in the middle of valley” can be reconstructed on the basis of Josh 13:9, 16.

[5:1]  ⁴² tc Another textual tradition has, “while we crossed.”

[5:1]  ⁴³ tn Heb “their heart[s] melted and there was no longer in them breathe because of the sons of Israel.”

[4:13]  ⁴⁴ tn Heb “I will make your horn iron.”

[4:13]  ⁴⁵ sn Jerusalem (Daughter Zion at the beginning of the verse; cf. 4:8) is here compared to a powerful ox which crushes the grain on the threshing floor with its hooves.

[4:13]  ⁴⁶ tn Or “the Lord” (so many English versions); Heb “the master.”

[4:13]  ⁴⁷ tn Heb “and their wealth to the master of all the earth.” The verb “devote” does double duty in the parallelism and is supplied in the second line for clarification.