1 Chronicles 22:14
Good News Translation
As for the Temple, by my efforts I have accumulated almost four thousand tons of gold and nearly forty thousand tons of silver to be used in building it. Besides that, there is an unlimited supply of bronze and iron. I also have wood and stone ready, but you must get more.

New Revised Standard Version
With great pains I have provided for the house of the LORD one hundred thousand talents of gold, one million talents of silver, and bronze and iron beyond weighing, for there is so much of it; timber and stone too I have provided. To these you must add more.

Contemporary English Version
I have all the supplies you'll need to build the temple: You have more than 3,000 tons of gold and over 34,000 tons of silver. There's also plenty of wood, stone, and more bronze and iron than I could weigh. Ask for anything else you need.

New American Bible
See, with great effort I have laid up for the house of the LORD a hundred thousand talents of gold, a million talents of silver, and bronze and iron in such great quantities that they cannot be weighed. I have also laid up wood and stones, to which you must add.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Behold I in my poverty have prepared the charges of the house of the Lord, of gold a hundred thousand talents, and of silver a million of talents: but of brass, and of iron there is no weight, for the abundance surpasseth all account: timber also and stones I have prepared for all the charges.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Behold I in my poverty have prepared the charges of the house of the Lord, of gold a hundred thousand talents, and of silver a million of talents: but of brass, and of iron there is no weight, for the abundance surpasseth all account: timber also and stones I have prepared for all the charges.

trouble.

2 Corinthians 8:2 That in much experience of tribulation, they have had abundance of joy and their very deep poverty hath abounded unto the riches of their simplicity.

an hundred thousand This, at

5075l,

15s

7:5d, the talent, would amount to the sum of

507,578,125l

1 Chronicles 29:4-7 Three thousand talents of gold of the gold of Ophir: and seven thousand talents of refined silver, to overlay the walls of the temple. . . .

1 Kings 10:14 And the weight of the gold that was brought to Solomon every year, was six hundred and sixty-six talents of gold:

353l

11s

10d. the talent, would amount to

353,591,666l

13s

4d.; and both sums would amount to the sum of

868,169,791l

13s

4d.

without weight

1 Chronicles 22:3 And David prepared in abundance iron for the nails of the gates, and for the closures and joinings: and of brass an immense weight.

2 Kings 25:16 That is, two pillars, one sea, and the bases which Solomon had made in the temple of the Lord: the brass of all these vessels was without weight.

Jeremiah 52:20 And the two pillars, and one sea, and twelve oxen of brass that were under the bases, which king Solomon had made in the house of the Lord: there was no weight of the brass of all these vessels.

Context
Solomon Anointed to Build the Temple
13For then thou shalt be able to prosper, if thou keep the commandments, and judgments, which the Lord commanded Moses to teach Israel: take courage and act manfully, fear not, nor be dismayed. 14Behold I in my poverty have prepared the charges of the house of the Lord, of gold a hundred thousand talents, and of silver a million of talents: but of brass, and of iron there is no weight, for the abundance surpasseth all account: timber also and stones I have prepared for all the charges.15Thou hast also workmen in abundance, hewers of stones, and masons, and carpenters, and of all trades the most skilful in their work,…
Cross References
1 Kings 7:47
And Solomon placed all the vessels: but for its exceeding great multitude the brass could not be weighed.

1 Chronicles 22:3
And David prepared in abundance iron for the nails of the gates, and for the closures and joinings: and of brass an immense weight.

1 Chronicles 22:15
Thou hast also workmen in abundance, hewers of stones, and masons, and carpenters, and of all trades the most skilful in their work,

1 Chronicles 29:4
Three thousand talents of gold of the gold of Ophir: and seven thousand talents of refined silver, to overlay the walls of the temple.

1 Chronicles 22:13
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