1 Chronicles 29:4 meaning and explanation

three thousand talents of gold (the gold of Ophir) and seven thousand talents of refined silver, to overlay the walls of the buildings,

1 Chronicles 29:4, Berean Standard Bible

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David is speaking to the assembled leaders of Israel, telling them what he has personally set aside for the temple his son Solomon will build. The gold of Ophir was a byword for the finest gold, since Ophir was a distant source of treasure in the Old Testament.

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