1 Chronicles 29:2
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.
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1 Chronicles 29:2
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.
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Genesis 2:11
The name of the first is Pishon, which goes round about all the land of Havilah where there is gold.
Genesis 23:15
My lord, give ear to me: the value of the land is four hundred shekels; what is that between me and you? so put your dead to rest there.
Genesis 24:22
And when the camels had had enough, the man took a gold nose-ring, half a shekel in weight, and two ornaments for her arms of ten shekels weight of gold;
Exodus 38:24
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.
1 Kings 7:48
And Solomon had all the vessels made for use in the house of the Lord: the altar of gold and the gold table on which the holy bread was placed;
1 Kings 7:49
And the supports for the lights, five on the right side and five on the left before the inmost room, of clear gold; and the flowers and the lights and all the instruments of gold;
1 Kings 7:50
And the cups and the scissors and the basins and the spoons and the fire-trays, all of gold; and the pins on which the doors were turned, the doors of the inner house, the most holy place, and the doors of the Temple, all of gold.
1 Kings 10:21
And all King Solomon's drinking-vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the Woods of Lebanon were of the best gold; not one was of silver, for no one gave a thought to silver in the days of King Solomon.
Job 28:1
Truly there is a mine for silver, and a place where gold is washed out.
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Exodus 27:19
All the instruments for the work of the House, and all its nails, and the nails of the open space are to be of brass.
Deuteronomy 28:9
The Lord will keep you as a people holy to himself, as he has said to you in his oath, if you keep the orders of the Lord your God and go on walking in his ways.
1 Kings 5:17
By the king's orders great stones, stones of high price, were cut out, so that the base of the house might be made of squared stone.
Isaiah 28:16
For this cause says the Lord God, See, I am placing in Zion as a base, a stone, a tested stone, an angle-stone which is certain and of great value: and he who has faith will not give way.
Romans 12:1
For this reason I make request to you, brothers, by the mercies of God, that you will give your bodies as a living offering, holy, pleasing to God, which is the worship it is right for you to give him.
1 Corinthians 3:11
For there is no other base for the building but that which has been put down, which is Jesus Christ.
1 Corinthians 3:17
If anyone makes the house of God unclean, God will put an end to him; for the house of God is holy, and you are his house.
1 Corinthians 6:19
Or are you not conscious that your body is a house for the Holy Spirit which is in you, and which has been given to you by God? and you are not the owners of yourselves;
Ephesians 2:20
Resting on the base of the Apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief keystone,
Ephesians 2:22
In whom you, with the rest, are united together as a living-place of God in the Spirit.
Hebrews 11:10
For he was looking for the strong town, whose builder and maker is God.
1 Peter 2:5
You, as living stones, are being made into a house of the spirit, a holy order of priests, making those offerings of the spirit which are pleasing to God through Jesus Christ.
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Exodus 28:18
The second, a ruby, a sapphire, and an onyx;
Exodus 28:19
The third, a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst;
Exodus 28:21
The jewels are to be twelve in number, for the names of the children of Israel; every jewel having the name of one of the twelve tribes cut on it as on a stamp.
Exodus 35:9
And beryls and jewels to be cut for the ephod and for the priest's bag.
Exodus 39:6
Then they made the beryl stones, fixed in twisted frames of gold and cut like the cutting of a stamp, with the names of the children of Israel.
Ezekiel 27:16
Edom did business with you because of the great number of things which you made; they gave emeralds, purple, and needlework, and the best linen and coral and rubies for your goods.
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Judges 5:30
Are they not getting, are they not parting the goods among them: a young girl or two to every man; and to Sisera robes of coloured needlework, worked in fair colours on this side and on that, for the neck of the queen?
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1 Samuel 12:23
And as for me, never will I go against the orders of the Lord by giving up my prayers for you: but I will go on teaching you the good and right way.
2 Chronicles 34:29
Then the king sent and got together all the responsible men of Judah and of Jerusalem.
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1 Samuel 15:29
And further, the Glory of Israel will not say what is false, and his purpose may not be changed: for he is not a man, whose purpose may be changed.
Jeremiah 15:2
And it will be, when they say to you, Where are we to go? then you are to say to them, The Lord has said, Such as are for death, to death; and such as are for the sword, to the sword; and such as are to be in need of food, to need of food; and such as are to be taken away prisoners, to be taken away.
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1 Kings 8:10
Now when the priests had come out of the holy place, the house of the Lord was full of the cloud,
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1 Kings 8:11
So that the priests were not able to keep their places to do their work because of the cloud, for the house of the Lord was full of the glory of the Lord.
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2 Kings 9:30
And when Jehu came to Jezreel, Jezebel had news of it; and, painting her eyes and dressing her hair with ornaments, she put her head out of the window.
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1 Chronicles 16:16
The agreement which he made with Abraham, and his oath to Isaac;
2 Chronicles 9:8
Praise be to the Lord your God whose pleasure it was to put you on the seat of his kingdom to be king for the Lord your God: because, in his love for Israel, it was the purpose of your God to make them strong for ever, he made you king over them, to be their judge in righteousness.
Ezra 9:9
For we are servants; but our God has not been turned away from us in our prison, but has had mercy on us before the eyes of the kings of Persia, to give us new strength to put up again the house of our God and to make fair its waste places, and to give us a wall in Judah and Jerusalem.
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1 Chronicles 18:8
And from Tibhath and from Cun, towns of Hadadezer, David took a great store of brass, of which Solomon made the great brass water-vessel and the brass pillars and vessels.
1 Chronicles 18:10
He sent his son Hadoram to King David, to give him words of peace and blessing, because he had overcome Hadadezer in the fight, for Hadadezer had been at war with Tou; and he gave him all sorts of vessels of gold and silver and brass.
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1 Chronicles 26:28
And everything Samuel the prophet and Saul, the son of Kish, and Abner, the son of Ner, and Joab, the son of Zeruiah, had made holy; whatever anyone had given, it was under the care of Shelomoth and his brothers.
Ezra 8:30
So the priests and the Levites took the weight of silver and gold and the vessels, to take them to Jerusalem into the house of our God.
Micah 4:13
Up! and let the grain be crushed, O daughter of Zion, for I will make your horn iron and your feet brass, and a number of peoples will be broken by you, and you will give up their increase to the Lord and their wealth to the Lord of all the earth.
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2 Samuel 7:1
Now when the king was living in his house, and the Lord had given him rest from war on every side;
2 Samuel 7:2
The king said to Nathan the prophet, See now, I am living in a house of cedar, but the ark of God is housed inside the curtains of a tent.
2 Samuel 7:3
And Nathan said to the king, Go and do whatever is in your heart; for the Lord is with you.
2 Samuel 7:4
Now that night the word of the Lord came to Nathan, saying,
2 Samuel 7:5
Go and say to my servant David, The Lord says, Are you to be the builder of a house, a living-place for me?
1 Kings 5:3
You have knowledge that David my father was not able to make a house for the name of the Lord his God, because of the wars which were round him on every side, till the Lord put all those who were against him under his feet.
1 Chronicles 17:1
Now when David was living in his house, he said to Nathan the prophet, See, I am living in a house of cedar-wood, but the ark of the Lord's agreement is under the curtains of a tent.
1 Chronicles 17:2
And Nathan said to David, Do whatever is in your heart, for God is with you.
1 Chronicles 17:3
But that same night, the word of God came to Nathan, saying,
1 Chronicles 17:4
Go and say to David my servant, The Lord says, You are not to make me a house for my living-place:
1 Chronicles 22:9
But you will have a son who will be a man of rest; and I will give him rest from wars on every side. His name will be Solomon, and in his time I will give Israel peace and quiet;
1 Chronicles 28:2
Then David the king got up and said, Give ear to me, my brothers and my people; it was my desire to put up a house, a resting-place for the ark of the Lord's agreement, and for the foot-rest of our God; and I had got material ready for the building of it.
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1 Kings 6:12
About this house which you are building: if you will keep my laws and give effect to my decisions and be guided by my rules, I will give effect to my word which I gave to David your father.
1 Chronicles 22:10
He will be the builder of a house for my name; he will be to me a son, and I will be to him a father; and I will make the seat of his rule over Israel certain for ever.
1 Chronicles 28:3
But God said to me, You are not to be the builder of a house for my name, because you are a man of war and have taken life;
2 Chronicles 6:7
Now it was in the heart of my father David to put up a house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.
2 Chronicles 6:9
But you yourself will not be the builder of the house; but your son, the offspring of your body, he it is who will put up a house for my name.
Psalms 132:1
A Song of the going up. Lord, give thought to David, and to all his troubles;
Psalms 132:2
How he made an oath to the Lord, and gave his word to the great God of Jacob, saying,
Psalms 132:3
Truly, I will not come into my house, or go to my bed,
Psalms 132:4
I will not give sleep to my eyes, or rest to my eyeballs,
Psalms 132:5
Till I have got a place for the Lord, a resting-place for the great God of Jacob.
Isaiah 60:13
The glory of Lebanon will come to you, the cypress, the plane, and the sherbin-tree together, to make my holy place beautiful; and the resting-place of my feet will be full of glory.
Acts 7:46
Who was pleasing to God; and he had a desire to make a holy tent for the God of Jacob.
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2 Chronicles 2:7
So now send me an expert worker in gold and silver and brass and iron? in purple and red and blue, and in the cutting of all sorts of ornament, to be with the expert workmen who are here in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom my father David got together.
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Job 42:14
And he gave the first the name of Jemimah, the second Keziah, and the third Keren-happuch;
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Psalms 7:2
So that he may not come rushing on my soul like a lion, wounding it, while there is no one to be my saviour.
Song of Solomon 1:1
The song of Songs, which is Solomon's.
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Psalms 45:14
She will come before the king in robes of needlework; the virgins in her train will come before you.
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Deuteronomy 6:5
And the Lord your God is to be loved with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.
2 Chronicles 31:20
This Hezekiah did through all Judah; he did what was good and right and true before the Lord his God.
2 Chronicles 31:21
And for everything he undertook, in connection with the work of the house of God and his law and orders, he got directions from God and did it with serious purpose; and things went well for him.
Ezra 8:22
For I would not, for shame, make request to the king for a band of armed men and horsemen to give us help against those who might make attacks on us on the way: for we had said to the king, The hand of our God is on his servants for good, but his power and his wrath are against all those who are turned away from him.
Nehemiah 13:14
Keep me in mind, O my God, in connection with this, and do not let the good which I have done for the house of my God and its worship go from your memory completely.
Psalms 84:10
For a day in your house is better than a thousand. It is better to be a door-keeper in the house of my God, than to be living in the tents of sin.
Psalms 122:9
Because of the house of the Lord our God, I will be working for your good.
Colossians 3:23
Whatever you do, do it readily, as to the Lord and not to men;
1 Peter 4:10
Making distribution among one another of whatever has been given to you, like true servants of the unmeasured grace of God;
1 Peter 4:11
If anyone has anything to say, let it be as the words of God; if anyone has the desire to be the servant of others, let him do it in the strength which is given by God; so that in all things God may have the glory through Jesus Christ, whose are the glory and the power for ever.
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Deuteronomy 12:6
And there you are to take your burned offerings and other offerings, and the tenth part of your goods, and the offerings to be lifted up to the Lord, and the offerings of your oaths, and those which you give freely from the impulse of your hearts, and the first births among your herds and your flocks;
2 Samuel 8:7
And David took their gold body-covers from the servants of Hadadezer and took them to Jerusalem.
2 Samuel 8:11
These King David made holy to the Lord, together with the silver and gold which he had taken from the nations he had overcome--
1 Kings 14:26
And took away all the stored wealth from the house of the Lord, and from the king's house, and all the gold body-covers which Solomon had made.
1 Chronicles 9:26
For the four chief door-keepers, who were Levites, had a special position, looking after the rooms and the store-houses of the house of God.
1 Chronicles 9:27
Their sleeping-rooms were round the house of God, for they had the care of it, and were responsible for opening it morning by morning.
1 Chronicles 9:28
Certain of them had the care of the vessels used in worship, to keep an account of them when they came in and when they were taken out again.
1 Chronicles 9:29
And some of them were responsible for the holy things and for the vessels of the holy place, and the meal and the wine and the oil and the perfume and the spices.
1 Chronicles 26:20
And the Levites their brothers were responsible for the stores of the house of God and the holy things.
1 Chronicles 26:26
Shelomoth and his brothers were responsible for all the store of holy things which David the king and the heads of families, the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and the captains of the army, had given to the Lord.
1 Chronicles 26:27
From the goods taken in war, they gave, as a holy offering, materials for the building of the house of the Lord.
1 Chronicles 28:12
And the design of all he had in his heart for the outer squares of the house of the Lord, and for the rooms all round it, and for the store-houses of the house of the Lord, and for the store-houses for the holy things;
2 Chronicles 5:1
So all the work which Solomon did for the house of the Lord was complete. And Solomon took the holy things which David his father had given, the silver and the gold and all the vessels, and put them in the store-houses of the house of God.
Proverbs 3:9
Give honour to the Lord with your wealth, and with the first-fruits of all your increase:
Malachi 3:10
Let your tenths come into the store-house so that there may be food in my house, and put me to the test by doing so, says the Lord of armies, and see if I do not make the windows of heaven open and send down such a blessing on you that there is no room for it.
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Proverbs 14:24
Their wisdom is a crown to the wise, but their foolish behaviour is round the head of the unwise.
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Psalms 51:17
The offerings of God are a broken spirit; a broken and sorrowing heart, O God, you will not put from you.
Isaiah 66:1
The Lord says, Heaven is the seat of my power, and earth is the resting-place for my feet: what sort of house will you make for me, and what place will be my resting-place?
Isaiah 66:2
For all these things my hand has made, and they are mine, says the Lord; but to this man only will I give attention, to him who is poor and broken in spirit, fearing my word.
Isaiah 66:3
He who puts an ox to death puts a man to death; he who makes an offering of a lamb puts a dog to death; he who makes a meal offering makes an offering of pig's blood; he who makes an offering of perfumes for a sign gives worship to an image: as they have gone after their desires, and their soul takes pleasure in their disgusting things;
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Exodus 35:27
And the rulers gave the beryls and the cut jewels for the ephod and the priest's bag;
1 Chronicles 29:9
Then the people were glad because their offerings were freely given, for with a true heart they freely gave what they had to the Lord; and David the king was full of joy.
1 Chronicles 29:14
But who am I and what is my people, that we have power to give so freely in this way? for all things come from you, and what we have given you is yours.
1 Chronicles 29:17
And I am conscious, my God, that you are the searcher of hearts, taking pleasure in righteousness. As for me, with an upright heart I have freely given all these things; and I have seen with joy your people who are here to make their offerings freely to you.
Haggai 2:8
The silver is mine and the gold is mine, says the Lord of armies.
Mark 12:43
And he made his disciples come to him, and said to them, Truly I say to you, This poor widow has put in more than all those who are putting money into the box:
Mark 12:44
Because they all put in something out of what they had no need for; but she out of her need put in all she had, even all her living.
2 Corinthians 3:18
But we all, with unveiled face giving back as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord who is the Spirit.
2 Corinthians 8:2
How while they were undergoing every sort of trouble, and were in the greatest need, they took all the greater joy in being able to give freely to the needs of others.
2 Corinthians 8:4
Seriously requesting us that they might have a part in this grace of being servants to the needs of the saints:
2 Corinthians 8:5
And going even farther than our hope, they first gave themselves to the Lord and to us after the purpose of God.
2 Corinthians 8:12
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.
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1 Chronicles 29:10
So David gave praise to the Lord before all the people; and David said, Praise be to you, O Lord the God of Israel, our father for ever and ever.
1 Chronicles 29:12
Wealth and honour come from you, and you are ruler over all, and in your hand is power and strength; it is in your power to make great, and to give strength to all.
Proverbs 19:22
The ornament of a man is his mercy, and a poor man is better than one who is false.
Mark 12:41
And he took a seat by the place where the money was kept, and saw how the people put money into the boxes: and a number who had wealth put in much.
Mark 12:42
And there came a poor widow, and she put in two little bits of money, which make a farthing.
Mark 14:6
But Jesus said, Let her be; why are you troubling her? she has done a kind act to me.
Mark 14:7
The poor you have ever with you, and whenever you have the desire you may do them good: but me you have not for ever.
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John 2:13
The time of the Passover of the Jews was near and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
John 2:14
And there in the Temple he saw men trading in oxen and sheep and doves, and he saw the changers of money in their seats:
John 2:15
And he made a whip of small cords and put them all out of the Temple, with the sheep and the oxen, sending in all directions the small money of the changers and overturning their tables;
John 2:16
And to those who were trading in doves he said, Take these things away; do not make my Father's house a market.
John 2:17
And it came to the minds of the disciples that the Writings say, I am on fire with passion for your house.
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1 Corinthians 3:13
Every man's work will be made clear in that day, because it will be tested by fire; and the fire itself will make clear the quality of every man's work.
1 Corinthians 3:14
If any man's work comes through the test, he will have a reward.
1 Corinthians 3:15
If the fire puts an end to any man's work, it will be his loss: but he will get salvation himself, though as by fire.
1 Corinthians 3:16
Do you not see that you are God's holy house, and that the Spirit of God has his place in you?
2 Corinthians 6:1
We then, working together with God, make our request to you not to take the grace of God to no purpose.
2 Corinthians 6:16
And what agreement has the house of God with images? for we are a house of the living God; even as God has said, I will be living among them, and walking with them; and I will be their God, and they will be my people.
Ephesians 2:10
For by his act we were given existence in Christ Jesus to do those good works which God before made ready for us so that we might do them.
1 Peter 2:4
To whom you come, as to a living stone, not honoured by men, but of great and special value to God;
Revelation 21:3
And there came to my ears a great voice out of the high seat, saying, See, the Tent of God is with men, and he will make his living-place with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them, and be their God.
Revelation 21:4
And he will put an end to all their weeping; and there will be no more death, or sorrow, or crying, or pain; for the first things have come to an end.
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Galatians 2:20
I have been put to death on the cross with Christ; still I am living; no longer I, but Christ is living in me; and that life which I now am living in the flesh I am living by faith, the faith of the Son of God, who in love for me, gave himself up for me.
Colossians 3:3
For your life on earth is done, and you have a secret life with Christ in God.
Colossians 3:4
At the coming of Christ who is our life, you will be seen with him in glory.
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