2 Chronicles 35:8

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Summary

And his princes gave willingly unto the people, to the priests, and to the Levites: Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel, rulers of the house of God, gave unto the priests for the passover offerings two thousand and six hundred small cattle, and three hundred oxen.

His princes

Willingly

2 Corinthians 8:12

2 Corinthians 9:7

Rulers

Acts 5:26

Bible References

His princes

Then Hezekiah made answer and said, Now that you have given yourselves to the Lord, come near and take offerings and praise-offerings into the house of the Lord. So all the people took in offerings and praise-offerings: and those whose hearts were moved, took in burned offerings.

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;

And all their neighbours gave them help with offerings of vessels of silver and gold and goods and beasts and things of great value, in addition to what was freely offered.

And some of the heads of families, when they came to the house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem, gave freely of their wealth for the building up of the house of God in its place:

As well as all the silver and gold which you get from the land of Babylon, together with the offering of the people and of the priests, freely given for the house of their God, which is in Jerusalem:

And gave to them by weight the silver and the gold and the vessels, all the offering for the house of our God which the king and his wise men and his captains and all Israel there present had given:

And some of the heads of families gave money for the work. The Tirshatha gave into the store a thousand darics of gold, fifty basins, five hundred and thirty priests' robes.

And the daughters of Tyre will be there with an offering; those who have wealth among the people will be looking for your approval.

And all those who were of the faith kept together, and had all things in common;

And no one among them was in need; for everyone who had land or houses, exchanging them for money, took the price of them,

Willingly

For if there is a ready mind, a man will have God's approval in the measure of what he has, and not of what he has not.

Let every man do after the purpose of his heart; not giving with grief, or by force: for God takes pleasure in a ready giver.

Rulers

In the past Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, had been ruler over them; may the Lord be with him!

And there were more chiefs among the sons of Eleazar than among the sons of Ithamar; and this is how they were grouped: of the sons of Eleazar there were sixteen, all heads of families; and of the sons of Ithamar, heads of families, there were eight.

Shemaiah the Nehelamite sent a letter in his name to Zephaniah, the son of Maaseiah the priest, saying,

And while they were talking to the people, the priests and the captain of the Temple and the Sadducees came up to them,

Then the captain and some of the police went and took them, but not violently, for fear that they might be stoned by the people.