1 Chronicles 29:14
◄  1 Chronicles 29:14  ►
New International Version (©2011)
"But who am I, and who are my people, that we should be able to give as generously as this? Everything comes from you, and we have given you only what comes from your hand.

New Living Translation (©2007)
But who am I, and who are my people, that we could give anything to you? Everything we have has come from you, and we give you only what you first gave us!

English Standard Version (©2001)
“But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able thus to offer willingly? For all things come from you, and of your own have we given you.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"But who am I and who are my people that we should be able to offer as generously as this? For all things come from You, and from Your hand we have given You.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
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.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
But who am I, and who are my people, that we should be able to give as generously as this? For everything comes from You, and we have given You only what comes from Your own hand.

International Standard Version (©2012)
But who am I, and who are my people, that we make such voluntary offerings as these? For all things come from you, and from your own hand we are giving to you.

NET Bible (©2006)
"But who am I and who are my people, that we should be in a position to contribute this much? Indeed, everything comes from you, and we have simply given back to you what is yours.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
But who am I and who are my people that you enable us to give so generously? Everything comes from you. We give you only what has come from your hands.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
But who am I, and who are my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly as this? for all things come from you, and of your own have we given you.

American King James Version
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 you, and of your own have we given you.

American Standard Version
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.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to promise thee all these things? all things are thine: and we have given thee what we received of thy hand.

Darby Bible Translation
But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer willingly after this manner? for all is of thee, and of that which is from thy hand have we given thee.

English Revised Version
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.

Webster's Bible Translation
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 from thee, and of thy own have we given thee.

World English Bible
But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly as this? For all things come from you, and of your own have we given you.

Young's Literal Translation
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;

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

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.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

But who am I,.... Originally dust and ashes, a sinful creature, unworthy to receive anything from God, and of having the honour of doing anything for him:

and what is my people: subject to him, the least of all people, separated from the nations round about them, and despised by them:

that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort? that they, who were a poor people, some years ago brought out of Egyptian bondage, should now be possessed of such an affluence, and have such a generous heart and liberal spirit given them, as to contribute in so large and liberal a manner as they had done; all was owing to the goodness of God to them, and the efficacy of his grace upon them:

for all things come of thee; all good things, temporal and spiritual; the Lord is the fountain of goodness, and Father of mercies:

and of thine own have we given thee; for there is nothing a man has but he has received from the Lord, and therefore can give nothing to him but his own, see Romans 11:35.

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David's Prayer of Praise
…13Now therefore, our God, we thank you, and praise your glorious name. 14But 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 you, and of your own have we given you. 15For we are strangers before you, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding. …

1 Chronicles 29:13 Now, our God, we give you thanks, and praise your glorious name.
1 Chronicles 29:15 We are foreigners and strangers in your sight, as were all our ancestors. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.
Haggai 2:8 The silver is mine and the gold is mine,' declares the LORD Almighty.