1 Crónicas 29:16

16 Oh SEÑOR Dios nuestro, toda esta abundancia que hemos aparejado para edificar Casa a tu santo Nombre, de tu mano es, y todo es tuyo

1 Crónicas 29:16 Meaning and Commentary

1 Chronicles 29:16

O Lord our God, all this store that we have prepared
Of gold, silver that he and his people had provided and contributed: the gold, according to Jacob Leon ^F18, amounted to 59,766 tons of gold, and 46,123 gilders, each ton to be reckoned at least 1000 pounds sterling; the silver, reduced to the value of gold, made 46,337 tons, and two hundred and fifty gilders; but both, according to Witsius ^F19, amounted to 20,585 tons of gold; and if the talents were talents of the sanctuary, and they double the common talents, as some say they were, it was as much more, and may well be expressed by

all this store,
besides the brass, iron

to build thee an house for thine holy name;
to perform holy and religious worship in it, for the glory of his name: cometh of

thine hand, and [is] all thine own:
this he repeats, that God might have all the glory of all they had and did.

---

FOOTNOTES:

F18 Relation of Memorable Things in the Tabernacle and Temple, ch. 3. p. 14, 15.
F19 Miscellan. tom. 2. p. 258.

1 Crónicas 29:16 In-Context

14 Porque ¿quién soy yo, y quién es mi pueblo, para que pudiéramos ofrecer de nuestra voluntad cosas semejantes? Porque todo es tuyo, y lo recibido de tu mano te damos

15 Porque nosotros, extranjeros y advenedizos somos delante de ti, como todos nuestros padres; y nuestros días son como sombra sobre la tierra, y no hay otra esperanza

16 Oh SEÑOR Dios nuestro, toda esta abundancia que hemos aparejado para edificar Casa a tu santo Nombre, de tu mano es, y todo es tuyo

17 Yo sé, oh Dios mío, que tú escudriñas los corazones, y que la rectitud te agrada; por eso yo con rectitud de mi corazón voluntariamente te he ofrecido todo esto; y ahora he visto con alegría que tu pueblo, que aquí se ha hallado ahora, ha dado liberalmente

18 SEÑOR, Dios de Abraham, de Isaac, y de Israel, nuestros padres, conserva perpetuamente esta voluntad en los pensamientos del corazón de tu pueblo, y encamina su corazón a ti