2 Chronicles 29:31-33

29:31 Hezekiah said, “Now you have consecrated yourselves ¹  to the Lord. Come and bring sacrifices and thank offerings ²  to the Lord’s temple.” So the assembly brought sacrifices and thank offerings, and whoever desired to do so ³  brought burnt sacrifices.

29:32 The assembly brought a total of 70 bulls, 100 rams, and 200 lambs as burnt sacrifices to the Lord, ⁴  29:33 and 600 bulls and 3,000 sheep ⁵  were consecrated.

2 Chronicles 29:1

Hezekiah Consecrates the Temple

29:1 Hezekiah was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. ⁶  His mother was Abijah, ⁷  the daughter of Zechariah.

2 Chronicles 29:6-9

29:6 For our fathers were unfaithful; they did what is evil in the sight of ⁸  the Lord our God and abandoned him! They turned ⁹  away from the Lord’s dwelling place and rejected him. ¹⁰  29:7 They closed the doors of the temple porch and put out the lamps; they did not offer incense or burnt sacrifices in the sanctuary of the God of Israel. 29:8 The Lord was angry at Judah and Jerusalem and made them an appalling object of horror at which people hiss out their scorn, ¹¹  as you can see with your own eyes. 29:9 Look, our fathers died violently ¹²  and our sons, daughters, and wives were carried off ¹³  because of this.

2 Chronicles 29:17

29:17 On the first day of the first month they began consecrating; by the eighth day of the month they reached the porch of the Lord’s temple. ¹⁴  For eight more days they consecrated the Lord’s temple. On the sixteenth day of the first month they were finished.

Ezra 1:6

1:6 All their neighbors assisted ¹⁵  them with silver utensils, ¹⁶  gold, equipment, animals, and expensive gifts, not to mention ¹⁷  all the voluntary offerings.

Ezra 2:68-69

2:68 When they came to the Lord’s temple in Jerusalem, some of the family leaders ¹⁸  offered voluntary offerings for the temple of God in order to rebuild ¹⁹  it on its site. 2:69 As they were able, ²⁰  they gave to the treasury for this work 61,000 drachmas ²¹  of gold, 5,000 minas ²²  of silver, and 100 priestly robes. ²³ 

Ezra 7:16

7:16 along with all the silver and gold that you may collect ²⁴  throughout all the province of Babylon and the contributions of the people and the priests for the temple of their God which is in Jerusalem.

Ezra 8:25-35

8:25 and I weighed out to them the silver, the gold, and the vessels intended for the temple of our God – items that the king, his advisers, his officials, and all Israel who were present had contributed. 8:26 I weighed out to them ²⁵  650 talents of silver, silver vessels worth 100 talents, ²⁶  100 talents of gold, 8:27 20 gold bowls worth 1,000 darics, and two exquisite vessels of gleaming bronze, as valuable as gold. 8:28 Then I said to them, “You are holy to the Lord, just as these vessels are holy. The silver and the gold are a voluntary offering to the Lord, the God of your fathers. 8:29 Be careful with them and protect them, until you weigh them out before the leading priests and the Levites and the family leaders of Israel in Jerusalem, ²⁷  in the storerooms of the temple of the Lord.”

8:30 Then the priests and the Levites took charge of ²⁸  the silver, the gold, and the vessels that had been weighed out, to transport them to Jerusalem to the temple of our God.

8:31 On the twelfth day of the first month we began traveling from the Ahava Canal to go to Jerusalem. The hand of our God was on us, and he delivered us from our enemy and from bandits ²⁹  along the way. 8:32 So we came to Jerusalem, and we stayed there for three days. 8:33 On the fourth day we weighed out the silver, the gold, and the vessels in the house of our God into the care ³⁰  of Meremoth son of Uriah, the priest, and Eleazar son of Phinehas, who were accompanied by Jozabad son of Jeshua and Noadiah son of Binnui, who were Levites. 8:34 Everything was verified ³¹  by number and by weight, and the total weight was written down at that time.

8:35 The exiles who were returning from the captivity offered burnt offerings to the God of Israel – twelve bulls for all Israel, ninety-six rams, seventy-seven male lambs, along with twelve male goats as a sin offering. All this was a burnt offering to the Lord.

Nehemiah 7:70-72

7:70 Some of the family leaders ³²  contributed to the work. The governor contributed to the treasury 1,000 gold drachmas, ³³  50 bowls, and 530 priestly garments. 7:71 Some of the family leaders gave to the project treasury 20,000 gold drachmas and 2,200 silver minas. 7:72 What the rest of the people gave amounted to 20,000 gold drachmas, 2,000 silver minas, and 67 priestly garments.

Psalms 45:12

45:12 Rich people from Tyre ³⁴ 

will seek your favor by bringing a gift. ³⁵ 

Acts 2:44-45

2:44 All who believed were together and held ³⁶  everything in common, 2:45 and they began selling ³⁷  their property ³⁸  and possessions and distributing the proceeds ³⁹  to everyone, as anyone had need.

Acts 4:34-35

4:34 For there was no one needy ⁴⁰  among them, because those who were owners of land or houses were selling ⁴¹  them ⁴²  and bringing the proceeds from the sales 4:35 and placing them at the apostles’ feet. The proceeds ⁴³  were distributed to each, as anyone had need.

[29:31]  ¹ tn Heb “filled your hand.”

[29:31]  ² tn Or “tokens of thanks.”

[29:31]  ³ tn Heb “and all who were willing of heart.”

[29:32]  ⁴ tn Heb “and the number of burnt sacrifices which the assembly brought was seventy bulls, one hundred rams, two hundred lambs; for a burnt sacrifice to the Lord were all these.”

[29:33]  ⁵ tn The Hebrew term צֹאן (ts’on) denotes smaller livestock in general; depending on context it can refer to sheep only or goats only, but there is nothing in the immediate context here to specify one or the other.

[29:1]  ⁶ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[29:1]  ⁷ tn The parallel passage in 2 Kgs 18:2 has “Abi.”

[29:6]  ⁸ tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

[29:6]  ⁹ tn Heb “turned their faces.”

[29:6]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and turned the back.”

[29:8]  ¹¹ tn Heb “and he made them [an object] of dread and devastation and hissing.”

[29:9]  ¹² tn Heb “fell by the sword.”

[29:9]  ¹³ tn Heb “are in captivity.”

[29:17]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “porch of the Lord.”

[1:6]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “strengthened their hands.”

[1:6]  ¹⁶ tc The MT reads בִּכְלֵי־כֶסֶף (bikhley khesef, “with silver vessels”). However, part of the LXX manuscript tradition reads ἐν πᾶσιν ἀργυρίῳ (en pasin arguriw), which reflects an alternate Hebrew reading of בַּכֹּל־בַּכֶּסֶף (bakkol-bakkesef, “everywhere, with silver”). The textual variant involves (1) simple omission of yod (י) between two words, a common scribal mistake; (2) haplography of the preposition bet (בּ); and (3) an alternate vocalization tradition of the first term.

[1:6]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “besides” or “in addition to.”

[2:68]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “the heads of the fathers.”

[2:68]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “cause it to stand.”

[2:69]  ²⁰ tn Heb “according to their strength.”

[2:69]  ²¹ tn The meaning of the Hebrew word דַּרְכְּמוֹנִים (darkÿmonim, cf. Neh 7:69, 70, 71) is uncertain. It may be a Greek loanword meaning “drachmas” (the view adopted here and followed also by NAB, NASB, NIV) or a Persian loanword “daric,” referring to a Persian gold coin (BDB 204 s.v. דַּרְכְּמוֹן; HALOT 232 s.v. נִים(וֹ)דַּרְכְּמֹ; cf. ASV, NRSV). For further study, see R. de Vaux, Ancient Israel, 206-9.

[2:69]  ²² sn The מָנִים (manim, cf. Neh 7:71, 72) is a measuring weight for valuable metals, equal to 1/60 of a talent or 60 shekels (BDB 584 s.v. מָנֶה; HALOT 599 s.v. מָנֶה). For further study, see R. de Vaux, Ancient Israel, 203-6.

[2:69]  ²³ tn Or “garments.”

[7:16]  ²⁴ tn Aram “find.”

[8:26]  ²⁵ tn Heb “upon their hand.”

[8:26]  ²⁶ tn Possibly “100 silver vessels worth [?] talents” or “silver vessels weighing 100 talents.”

[8:29]  ²⁷ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[8:30]  ²⁸ tn Heb “received.”

[8:31]  ²⁹ tn Heb “from the hand of the enemy and the one who lies in wait.” Some modern English versions render the latter phrase as “ambushes” (cf. NASB, NRSV).

[8:33]  ³⁰ tn Heb “upon the hand of.”

[8:34]  ³¹ tn The words “everything was verified” are not in the Hebrew text but have been supplied in the translation for clarity.

[7:70]  ³² tn Heb “the heads of the fathers.”

[7:70]  ³³ tn Heb “darics” (also in vv. 71, 72).

[45:12]  ³⁴ map For location see Map1 A2; Map2 G2; Map4 A1; JP3 F3; JP4 F3.

[45:12]  ³⁵ tn Heb “and a daughter of Tyre with a gift, your face they will appease, the rich of people.” The phrase “daughter of Tyre” occurs only here in the OT. It could be understood as addressed to the bride, indicating she was a Phoenician (cf. NEB). However, often in the OT the word “daughter,” when collocated with the name of a city or country, is used to personify the referent (see, for example, “Daughter Zion” in Ps 9:14, and “Daughter Babylon” in Ps 137:8). If that is the case here, then “Daughter Tyre” identifies the city-state of Tyre as the place from which the rich people come (cf. NRSV). The idiom “appease the face” refers to seeking one’s favor (see Exod 32:11; 1 Sam 13:12; 1 Kgs 13:6; 2 Kgs 13:4; 2 Chr 33:12; Job 11:19; Ps 119:58; Prov 19:6; Jer 26:19; Dan 9:13; Zech 7:2; 8:21-22; Mal 1:9).

[2:44]  ³⁶ tn Grk “had.”

[2:45]  ³⁷ tn The imperfect verb has been translated as an ingressive (“began…”). Since in context this is a description of the beginning of the community of believers, it is more likely that these statements refer to the start of various activities and practices that the early church continued for some time.

[2:45]  ³⁸ tn It is possible that the first term for property (κτήματα, kthmata) refers to real estate (as later usage seems to indicate) while the second term (ὑπάρξεις, Juparxeis) refers to possessions in general, but it may also be that the two terms are used together for emphasis, simply indicating that all kinds of possessions were being sold. However, if the first term is more specifically a reference to real estate, it foreshadows the incident with Ananias and Sapphira in Acts 5:1-11.

[2:45]  ³⁹ tn Grk “distributing them” (αὐτά, auta). The referent (the proceeds of the sales) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[4:34]  ⁴⁰ tn Or “poor.”

[4:34]  ⁴¹ tn Grk “houses, selling them were bringing.” The participle πωλοῦντες (pwlounte") has been translated as a finite verb due to requirements of contemporary English style.

[4:34]  ⁴² tn The word “them” is not in the Greek text, but is implied. Direct objects were often omitted in Greek when clear from the context, but must be supplied for the modern English reader.

[4:35]  ⁴³ tn Grk “It” (or “They,” plural). The referent of the understood pronoun subject, the proceeds from the sales, of the verb διεδίδετο (diedideto) has been specified in the translation for clarity.