1 Chronicles 9:13

9:13 Their relatives, who were leaders of their families, numbered 1,760. They were capable men who were assigned to carry out the various tasks of service in God’s temple. ¹ 

1 Chronicles 9:27

9:27 They would spend the night in their posts all around God’s sanctuary, ²  for they were assigned to guard it and would open it with the key every morning.

1 Chronicles 22:2

David Orders a Temple to Be Built

22:2 David ordered the resident foreigners in the land of Israel to be called together. He appointed some of them to be stonecutters to chisel stones for the building of God’s temple.

1 Chronicles 28:12

28:12 He gave him ³  the blueprints of all he envisioned ⁴  for the courts of the Lord’s temple, all the surrounding rooms, the storehouses of God’s temple, and the storehouses for the holy items.

1 Chronicles 29:7

29:7 They donated for the service of God’s temple 5,000 talents ⁵  and ten thousand darics ⁶  of gold, 10,000 talents of silver, 18,000 talents of bronze, and 100,000 talents of iron.

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¹ tn Heb “capable [for] the work of the task of the house of God.”

² tn Heb “in the house of God.”

³ tn The words “he gave him” are supplied in the translation for clarity and for stylistic reasons.

⁴ tn Heb “the pattern of all which was in the spirit with him.”

⁵ tn See the note on the word “talents” in 19:6. Using the “light” standard talent of 67.3 lbs. (30.6 kg) as the standard for calculation, the people donated 168.3 tons (153,000 kg) of gold, 336.5 tons (306,000 kg) of silver, 605.7 tons (550,800 kg) of bronze, and 3,365 tons (3,060,000 kg) of iron.

⁶ tn On the “daric” as a unit of measure, see BDB 204 s.v. דַּרְכְּמוֹן. Some have regarded the daric as a minted coin, perhaps even referring to the Greek drachma, but this is less likely.

sn The daric was a unit of weight perhaps equal to between 8 and 9 grams (just under one-third of an ounce), so 10,000 darics of gold would weigh between 80 and 90 kilograms (between 176 and 198 pounds).