1 Chr 19:6 When the Ammonites saw that they had become a stench to David, Hanun and the Ammonites sent 1,000 talents [1] of silver to hire chariots and horsemen from Mesopotamia, from Aram-maacah, and from Zobah. 7 They hired 32,000 chariots and the king of Maacah with his army, who came and encamped before Medeba.
With 1000 talents of silver, they hired 32000 chariots. Imaging you have 100,000 talents of gold. By today price CBOT (Chicago Board of Trade), Gold is about 1000USD and Silver is about 20USD per ounce. 100,000 talents of gold is about 5,000,000 talents of silver, you can hire 160,000,000 chariots!
What will you do with this much of gold?
1 Chr 22:14 With great pains I have provided for the house of the Lord 100,000 talents [1] of gold, a million talents of silver, and bronze and iron beyond weighing, for there is so much of it; timber and stone, too, I have provided.
David use them to build the house for the Lord.
Two things: God has blessed David with so so much and in addition to that peace. Basically, he has no deed for the gold to hire chariots - a further saving! Image the reserve the land has in excess to what was to be use for the temple. Just an equivalent of gold is enough to accelerate growth by today standard an economy. What a blessing!
The next is David don't sting on God. He gave back to God for His glory and for His honour!
The Lord will bless and bless beyond what you can imagine - do not short change God. To give another prespective, 1 talent is equal to 720 ounce. Also not taking into account inflation, that 100,000 talents would be 72,000,000 ounce or worth 72,000,000,000USD. If counting inflation, dating from 1000B.C, the amount would be some 1000 Trillion USD! That sum was only reserve for building the temple, surely the treasury has more gold.
Look beyond the blessing - the right heart like David and no wonder God call David a man after His own heart. David was definetely richer than the richest men today combine, but he gave all for the building of a temple for God. Imagine that amount for charity, you can save the world and eradicate poverty, why did David not do so? Give glory and honour back to God - seek first the kingdom of God! Giving to charity is all about yourself - glory and honour to me. Nobody will go unnotice if you donate 1 Trillion USD to charity even if you choose to remain annoynomous.
Wow! and amem
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what a revealation!
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