Bible Cross References
offered freely
Exodus 35:5-19
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Make an offering to the LORD. Everyone who wishes to do so is to bring an offering of gold, silver, or bronze;
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fine linen; blue, purple, and red wool; cloth made of goats' hair;
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rams' skin dyed red; fine leather; acacia wood;
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oil for the lamps; spices for the anointing oil and for the sweet-smelling incense;
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carnelians and other jewels to be set in the High Priest's ephod and in his breastpiece.
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"All the skilled workers among you are to come and make everything that the LORD commanded:
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the Tent, its covering and its outer covering, its hooks and its frames, its crossbars, its posts, and its bases;
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the Covenant Box, its poles, its lid, and the curtain to screen it off;
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the table, its poles, and all its equipment; the bread offered to God;
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the lampstand for the light and its equipment; the lamps with their oil;
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the altar for burning incense and its poles; the anointing oil; the sweet-smelling incense; the curtain for the entrance of the Tent;
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the altar on which to burn offerings, with its bronze grating attached, its poles, and all its equipment; the washbasin and its base;
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the curtains for the enclosure, its posts and bases; the curtain for the entrance of the enclosure;
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the Tent pegs and ropes for the Tent and the enclosure;
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and the magnificent garments the priests are to wear when they serve in the Holy Place---the sacred clothes for Aaron the priest and for his sons."
Exodus 35:29-19
Exodus 36:3
They received from him all the offerings which the Israelites had brought for constructing the sacred Tent. But the people of Israel continued to bring Moses their offerings every morning.
Numbers 7:3-89
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brought their offerings to the LORD: six wagons and twelve oxen, a wagon for every two leaders and an ox for each leader. After they had presented them,
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the LORD said to Moses,
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"Accept these gifts for use in the work to be done for the Tent; give them to the Levites according to the work they have to do."
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So Moses gave the wagons and the oxen to the Levites.
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He gave two wagons and four oxen to the Gershonites,
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and four wagons and eight oxen to the Merarites. All their work was to be done under the direction of Ithamar son of Aaron.
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But Moses gave no wagons or oxen to the Kohathites, because the sacred objects they took care of had to be carried on their shoulders.
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The leaders also brought offerings to celebrate the dedication of the altar. When they were ready to present their gifts at the altar,
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the LORD said to Moses, "Tell them that each day for a period of twelve days one of the leaders is to present his gifts for the dedication of the altar."
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They presented their offerings in the following order: (Day: Tribe: Leader); 1st: Judah: Nahshon son of Amminadab; 2nd: Issachar: Nethanel son of Zuar; 3rd: Zebulun: Eliab son of Helon; 4th: Reuben: Elizur son of Shedeur; 5th: Simeon: Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai; 6th: Gad: Eliasaph son of Deuel; 7th: Ephraim: Elishama son of Ammihud; 8th: Manasseh: Gamaliel son of Pedahzur; 9th: Benjamin: Abidan son of Gideoni; 10th: Dan: Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai; 11th: Asher: Pagiel son of Ochran; 12th: Naphtali: Ahira son of Enan. The offerings each one brought were identical: one silver bowl weighing 50 ounces and one silver basin weighing 30 ounces, by the official standard, both of them full of flour mixed with oil for the grain offering; one gold dish weighing 4 ounces, full of incense; one young bull, one ram, and a one-year-old lamb, for the burnt offering; one goat for the sin offering; and two bulls, five rams, five goats, and five one-year-old lambs, for the fellowship offering.
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The totals of the offerings brought by the twelve leaders for the dedication of the altar were as follows: --twelve silver bowls and twelve silver basins weighing a total of 60 pounds --twelve gold dishes weighing a total of 48 ounces, filled with incense --twelve bulls, twelve rams, and twelve one-year-old lambs, plus the grain offerings that go with them, for the burnt offerings --twelve goats for the sin offerings --twenty-four bulls, sixty rams, sixty goats, sixty one-year-old lambs, for the fellowship offerings
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When Moses went into the Tent to talk with the LORD, he heard the LORD speaking to him from above the lid on the Covenant Box, between the two winged creatures.
1 Chronicles 29:5-17
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and for all the objects which the skilled workers are to make. Now who else is willing to give a generous offering to the LORD?"
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Then the heads of the clans, the officials of the tribes, the commanders of the army, and the administrators of the royal property volunteered to give
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the following for the work on the Temple: 190 tons of gold, 380 tons of silver, 675 tons of bronze, and 3,750 tons of iron.
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Those who had precious stones gave them to the Temple treasury, which was administered by Jehiel of the Levite clan of Gershon.
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The people had given willingly to the LORD, and they were happy that so much had been given. King David also was extremely happy.
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There in front of the whole assembly King David praised the LORD. He said, "LORD God of our ancestor Jacob, may you be praised forever and ever!
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You are great and powerful, glorious, splendid, and majestic. Everything in heaven and earth is yours, and you are king, supreme ruler over all.
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All riches and wealth come from you; you rule everything by your strength and power; and you are able to make anyone great and strong.
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Now, our God, we give you thanks, and we praise your glorious name.
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"Yet my people and I cannot really give you anything, because everything is a gift from you, and we have only given back what is yours already.
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You know, O LORD, that we pass through life like exiles and strangers, as our ancestors did. Our days are like a passing shadow, and we cannot escape death.
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O LORD, our God, we have brought together all this wealth to build a temple to honor your holy name, but it all came from you and all belongs to you.
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I know that you test everyone's heart and are pleased with people of integrity. In honesty and sincerity I have willingly given all this to you, and I have seen how your people who are gathered here have been happy to bring offerings to you.
Nehemiah 7:70-73
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Many of the people contributed to help pay the cost of restoring the Temple: The governor: 270 ounces of gold & 50 ceremonial bowls & 530 robes for priests; Heads of clans: 337 pounds of gold & 3,215 pounds of silver; The rest of the people: 337 pounds of gold & 2,923 pounds of silver & 67 robes for priests
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The priests, the Levites, the Temple guards, the musicians, many of the ordinary people, the Temple workers---all the people of Israel---settled in the towns and cities of Judah.
Psalm 110:3
On the day you fight your enemies, your people will volunteer. Like the dew of early morning your young men will come to you on the sacred hills.
Luke 21:1-4
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Jesus looked around and saw rich people dropping their gifts in the Temple treasury,
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and he also saw a very poor widow dropping in two little copper coins.
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He said, "I tell you that this poor widow put in more than all the others.
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For the others offered their gifts from what they had to spare of their riches; but she, poor as she is, gave all she had to live on."
2 Corinthians 8:3
I can assure you that they gave as much as they could, and even more than they could. Of their own free will
2 Corinthians 8:12
If you are eager to give, God will accept your gift on the basis of what you have to give, not on what you don't have.
2 Corinthians 9:7
You should each give, then, as you have decided, not with regret or out of a sense of duty; for God loves the one who gives gladly.
in his place
Ezra 3:3
Even though the returning exiles were afraid of the people who were living in the land, they rebuilt the altar where it had stood before. Then they began once again to burn on it the regular morning and evening sacrifices.
1 Chronicles 21:18
The angel of the LORD told Gad to command David to go and build an altar to the LORD at Araunah's threshing place.
1 Chronicles 22:1
So David said, "This is where the Temple of the LORD God will be. Here is the altar where the people of Israel are to offer burnt offerings."
2 Chronicles 3:1
King David, Solomon's father, had already prepared a place for the Temple. It was in Jerusalem, on Mount Moriah, where the LORD appeared to David, at the place which Araunah the Jebusite had used as a threshing place. King Solomon began the construction