Verse 24

The gold used for all the different work done for the holy place, the gold which was given, was twenty-nine talents, and seven hundred and thirty shekels in weight, by the scale of the holy place.

Referenced Verses

  • Lev 27:25 : 25 And let all your values be based on the shekel of the holy place, that is, twenty gerahs to the shekel.
  • Num 3:47 : 47 Will be five shekels for every one, by the scale of the holy place (the shekel is twenty gerahs);
  • Num 18:16 : 16 Payment is to be made for these when they are a month old, at the value fixed by you, a price of five shekels by the scale of the holy place, that is, twenty gerahs to the shekel.
  • 1 Chr 22:14-16 : 14 Now see, poor though I am, I have got ready for the house of the Lord a hundred thousand talents of gold and a million talents of silver; and a weight of brass and iron greater than may be measured; and wood and stone have I made ready, and you may put more to it. 15 And you have a great number of workmen, cutters and workers of stone and wood, and experts in every sort of work, 16 In gold and silver and brass and iron more than may be numbered. Up! then, and to work; and may the Lord be with you.
  • 1 Chr 29:2-7 : 2 Now as far as I am able, I have made ready what is needed for the house of my God; the gold for the things of gold, and the silver for the silver things, and the brass for the brass things, iron for the things of iron, and wood for the things of wood; beryls and jewels to be framed, and stones of different colours for ornament; all sorts of stones of great price, and polished building-stone, as much as is needed and more. 3 And because this house of God is dear to me, I give my private store of gold and silver to the house of my God, in addition to all I have got ready for the holy house; 4 Even three thousand talents of gold of Ophir and seven thousand talents of the best silver, for plating the walls of the house: 5 Gold for the gold things, and silver for the silver things, and for every sort of work to be done by the expert workmen. Who then will come forward, offering himself this day for the Lord's work? 6 Then the heads of families and the chiefs of the tribes of Israel, and the captains of thousands and of hundreds, with the controllers of the king's business, freely gave themselves; 7 And they gave for the use of the house of the Lord, five thousand talents and ten thousand darics of gold, and ten thousand talents of silver, and eighteen thousand talents of brass, and a hundred thousand talents of iron.
  • Hag 2:8 : 8 The silver is mine and the gold is mine, says the Lord of armies.
  • Exod 25:2 : 2 Say to the children of Israel that they are to make me an offering; from every man who has the impulse in his heart take an offering for me.
  • Exod 29:24 : 24 And put them all on the hands of Aaron and of his sons, to be waved for a wave offering before the Lord.
  • Exod 30:13-14 : 13 And this is what they are to give; let every man who is numbered give half a shekel, by the scale of the holy place: (the shekel being valued at twenty gerahs:) this money is an offering to the Lord. 14 Everyone who is numbered, from twenty years old and over, is to give an offering to the Lord.
  • Exod 30:24 : 24 And of cassia, five hundred shekels' weight measured by the scale of the holy place, and of olive oil a hin:
  • Exod 35:22 : 22 They came, men and women, all who were ready to give, and gave pins and nose-rings and finger-rings and neck-ornaments, all of gold; everyone gave an offering of gold to the Lord.
  • Lev 5:15 : 15 If anyone is untrue, sinning in error in connection with the holy things of the Lord, let him take his offering to the Lord, a male sheep from the flock, without any mark, of the value fixed by you in silver by shekels, by the scale of the holy place.
  • Lev 27:3 : 3 And you will put the value of a male from twenty years to sixty years old at fifty shekels of silver, by the scale of the holy place.