David's Offering, Prayer and Death

David gives three thousand talents of gold of Ophir and seven thousand of refined silver from his own treasure. "And who then is willing to consecrate his service this day unto the LORD?" The leaders give 5,000 talents and 10,000 darics of gold. "Then the people rejoiced, for that they offered willingly."

"Blessed be thou, LORD God of Israel our father, for ever and ever. Thine, O LORD, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine… But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort? for all things come of thee, and of thine own have we given thee."

"And they made Solomon the son of David king the second time, and anointed him unto the LORD to be the chief governor, and Zadok to be priest." "Then Solomon sat on the throne of the LORD as king instead of David his father." David dies after forty years. "Now the acts of David the king, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of Samuel the seer, and in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the book of Gad the seer."

Darics

The leaders give "ten thousand drams" (adarkonim), usually understood as Persian darics, coins first minted under Darius I (c. 515 BC). Their mention in David's time is an anachronism that points to the Chronicler's Persian-period setting.

The Lord's Prayer doxology

"Thine… is the greatness, and the power, and the glory" (29:11) is echoed in the doxology added to the Lord's Prayer in many manuscripts of Matthew 6:13.

Records of Samuel, Nathan and Gad

The "books" of three prophets are named as sources. They may refer to parts of our books of Samuel, or to lost works. No separate text survives. See the passage page.