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1 Chronicles 29:7 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 7. 7And gave for the service of the house of God of gold five thousand talents and ten thousand drams, and of silver ten thousand talents, and of brass eighteen thousand talents, and one hundred thousand talents of iron.
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Quick Meaning
Records the gold, silver, bronze, iron, and darics placed in the temple treasury.
Read It With
- 1 Chronicles 29:6–29:9
Records the gold, silver, bronze, iron, and darics placed in the temple treasury. Read 1 Chronicles 29:7 within 29:6–29:9. The complete unit records: Household chiefs, tribal leaders, commanders, and royal officials contribute large amounts through Jehiel's treasury, and the people and David rejoice at willing hearts.
Why This Verse Appears Here
The response widens the gift beyond David while keeping named custodians and willingness visible. In this exact position, the line beginning “And gave for the service of the house of God of gold five thousand…” records the gold, silver, bronze, iron, and darics placed in the temple treasury.
Follow the Context
- Household chiefs, tribal leaders, commanders, and royal officials contribute large amounts through Jehiel's treasury, and the people and David rejoice at willing hearts.
- The response widens the gift beyond David while keeping named custodians and willingness visible.
Phrase-by-Phrase Explanation
“And gave for the service of the house of God of gold five thousand…”
In plain language: Records the gold, silver, bronze, iron, and darics placed in the temple treasury.
The line beginning “And gave for the service of the house of God of gold five thousand…” records the gold, silver, bronze, iron, and darics placed in the temple treasury.
Why it matters: The wording carries a material literary, historical, temple, royal-power, violence, ethnic, illness, gender, exile, reception, or misuse boundary.
How certain? probableWhat This Verse Is Not Saying
The offering does not authorize coercive giving, public shaming, fabricated totals, buying favor, or leaders pressuring people who cannot afford gifts.
What Remains True
Records the gold, silver, bronze, iron, and darics placed in the temple treasury. This concrete detail supports a bounded truth: Worship requires ordered, truthful, skilled, and accountable service, while sacred office, beauty, or scale never determines a person's worth.
How It Can Shape Life
- Because this verse records the gold, silver, bronze, iron, and darics placed in the temple treasury, keep it inside 29:6–29:9, compare its Samuel-Kings relationship honestly, protect affected people from coercion or stigma, and apply only the accountable principle the complete unit supports.
Teach It Back
Explain why 1 Chronicles 29:7 records the gold, silver, bronze, iron, and darics placed in the temple treasury. Use 29:6–29:9, paraphrase “And gave for the service of the house of God of gold five thousand…,” state one source or reconstruction limit, identify one person or group power can obscure, and reject one conclusion this verse does not authorize.
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Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read 1 Chronicles 29:6–29:9 — Leaders give willingly and the people rejoiceSources used for this Verse Lens
How certain is this explanation? probable
Where care is needed
1 Chronicles 29:7 remains within this thought-unit limit: The narrative praises willingness but does not reveal every contributor's means, source of wealth, dissent, or the accounting outcome; modern fundraising must supply safeguards the text does not narrate.
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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Supports: Exact KJV wording, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage for this thought unit.
Exact location: 1 Chronicles 29:6–29:9, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: 1 Chronicles
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Hebrew wording, morphology, names, clauses, regnal formulas, temple vocabulary, older-English controls, and translation limits.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/1Chr.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 29:6–29:9
Open source ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible Full Notes: 1 Chronicles
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press; STEP Bible presentation, 2019 edition; current web presentation
Supports: Unit-bounded translation comparisons and only those lexical, textual, grammatical, numerical, historical, and parallel-passage notes attached to these verses.
Exact location: STEP Bible NET2full, 1 Chronicles 29:6–29:9, verse-attached translation and translator notes
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