14 yea, because, who 'am' I, and who 'are' my people, that we retain power to offer thus willingly? but of Thee 'is' the whole, and out of Thy hand we have given to Thee; 15 for sojourners we 'are' before Thee, and settlers, like all our fathers; as a shadow 'are' our days on the land, and there is none abiding. 16 'O Jehovah our God, all this store that we have prepared to build to Thee a house, for Thy holy name, 'is' out of Thy hand, and of Thee 'is' the whole.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on 1 Chronicles 29:14-16
Commentary on 1 Chronicles 29:10-19
(Read 1 Chronicles 29:10-19)
We cannot form a right idea of the magnificence of the temple, and the buildings around it, about which such quantities of gold and silver were employed. But the unsearchable riches of Christ exceed the splendour of the temple, infinitely more than that surpassed the meanest cottage on earth. Instead of boasting of these large oblations, David gave solemn thanks to the Lord. All they gave for the Lord's temple was his own; if they attempted to keep it, death would soon have removed them from it. They only use they could make of it to their real advantage, was, to consecrate it to the service of Him who gave it.