"All things come to Thee, and of Thine own have we given Thee."--_1
Chronicles 29:14._
DAVID had grown to be a very old man, near to his death; but, before he
died, he called all the princes of his people together at Jerusalem,
and asked them all to bring offerings to help to build a beautiful
house, to be a Temple to the Lord their God. So all the people brought
what precious things they could, to add to what the king had prepared;
and a great quantity was ready--all willingly offered.
[Illustration: DAVID'S THREE MIGHTY MEN.--2 Sam. 23:16, 17.]
Then good King David stood up and made his offering. "All things come
of Thee," he said, "and of Thine own have we given Thee." And he
thanked and blessed the Lord God, who had been with him all his life;
and he blessed his people Israel, and showed them his son Solomon, who
was to reign after him; and he gave Solomon a charge to build the
Temple of the Lord, and bade them all serve the Lord with all their
might. And the crown was set on Solomon's head, and he was king; and
David died at a good old age. He was the shepherd boy who came to be a
king, and who first sung so many of the beautiful Psalms that are still
our best words for praising God.
[Illustration: SOLOMON ANOINTED KING.--1 Kings 1:39.]