O Lord our God, all this abundance that we have provided for building you a house for your holy name comes from your hand and is all your own.
A Psalm of David. The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof, the world and those who dwell therein,
“But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able thus to offer willingly? For all things come from you, and of your own have we given you.
The first came before him, saying, ‘Lord, your mina has made ten minas more.’
And she did not know that it was I who gave her the grain, the wine, and the oil, and who lavished on her silver and gold, which they used for Baal.
Azariah the chief priest, who was of the house of Zadok, answered him, “Since they began to bring the contributions into the house of the Lord, we have eaten and had enough and have plenty left, for the Lord has blessed his people, so that we have this large amount left.”
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