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14 Now, look, I have made every effort to supply what is needed to build the Lord’s temple.[a] I have stored up 100,000 talents[b] of gold, 1,000,000 talents[c] of silver, and so much bronze and iron it cannot be weighed, as well as wood and stones. Feel free to add more! 15 You also have available many workers, including stonecutters, masons, carpenters,[d] and an innumerable array of workers who are skilled 16 in using gold, silver, bronze, and iron.[e] Get up and begin the work! May the Lord be with you!”

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Chronicles 22:14 tn Heb “and look, in my affliction [or perhaps, “poverty”] I have supplied for the house of the Lord.”
  2. 1 Chronicles 22:14 tn See the note on the word “talents” in 19:6.
  3. 1 Chronicles 22:14 tn Heb “a thousand thousands.”
  4. 1 Chronicles 22:15 tn Heb “craftsmen of stone and wood.”
  5. 1 Chronicles 22:16 tn Heb “and every kind of skilled one in all work, concerning gold, concerning silver, and concerning bronze, and concerning iron, there is no numbering.”