Exodus 25:2

God told Israel to bring a freewill offering, given by everyone whose heart was willing. The materials for God's dwelling come from glad, voluntary generosity.

Cross-references · 14

• 2 Cor 9:7Let each man give according as he has determined in his heart; not grudgingly, or under compulsion; for God loves a cheerful giver.
• Neh 11:2The people blessed all the men who willingly offered themselves to dwell in Jerusalem.
• Ezra 2:68Some of the heads of fathers’ households, when they came to Yahweh’s house which is in Jerusalem, offered willingly for God’s house to set it up in its place.
• Ezra 1:6All those who were around them strengthened their hands with vessels of silver, with gold, with goods, with animals, and with precious things, besides all that was willingly offered.
• Ezra 7:16and all the silver and gold that you will find in all the province of Babylon, with the freewill offering of the people, and of the priests, offering willingly for the house of their God which is in Jerusalem;
• Ezra 3:5and afterward the continual burnt offering, the offerings of the new moons, of all the set feasts of Yahweh that were consecrated, and of everyone who willingly offered a freewill offering to Yahweh.
• Ps 110:3Your people offer themselves willingly in the day of your power, in holy array. Out of the womb of the morning, you have the dew of your youth.
• 1 Chr 29:1–30David the king said to all the assembly, “Solomon my son, whom alone God has chosen, is yet young and tender, and the work is great; for the palace is not for man, but for Yahweh God.
• Num 18:24For the tithe of the children of Israel, which they offer as a wave offering to Yahweh, I have given to the Levites for an inheritance. Therefore I have said to them, ‘Among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance.’”
• Deut 16:16–17Three times in a year all of your males shall appear before Yahweh your God in the place which he chooses: in the feast of unleavened bread, in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tents. They shall not appear before Yahweh empty.
• Judg 5:9My heart is toward the governors of Israel, who offered themselves willingly among the people. Bless Yahweh!
• Exod 35:4–29Moses spoke to all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, “This is the thing which Yahweh commanded, saying,
• Num 7:3–88and they brought their offering before Yahweh, six covered wagons, and twelve oxen; a wagon for every two of the princes, and for each one an ox: and they presented them before the tabernacle.
• 2 Cor 8:11–12But now complete the doing also, that as there was the readiness to be willing, so there may be the completion also out of your ability.

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