1 Chronicles 29:14
Good News Translation
"Yet my people and I cannot really give you anything, because everything is a gift from you, and we have only given back what is yours already.

New Revised Standard Version
“But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to make this freewill offering? For all things come from you, and of your own have we given you.

Contemporary English Version
But why should we be happy that we have given you these gifts? They belong to you, and we have only given back what is already yours.

New American Bible
“But who am I, and who are my people, that we should have the means to contribute so freely? For everything is from you, and what we give is what we have from you.

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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

who am I

Genesis 32:10 I am not worthy of the least of all thy mercies, and of thy truth which thou hast fulfilled to thy servant. With my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I return with two companies.

2 Samuel 7:18 And David went in, and sat before the Lord, and said: Who am I, O Lord God, and what is my house, that thou hast brought me thus far?

Daniel 4:30 The same hour the word was fulfilled upon Nabuchodonosor, and he was driven away from among men, and did eat grass, like an ox, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven: till his hairs grew like the feathers of eagles, and his nails like birds' claws.

1 Corinthians 15:9,10 For I am the least of the apostles, who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. . . .

2 Corinthians 3:5 Not that we are sufficient to think any thing of ourselves, as of ourselves: but our sufficiency is from God.

2 Corinthians 12:9-11 And he said to me: My grace is sufficient for thee: for power is made perfect in infirmity. Gladly therefore will I glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may dwell in me. . . .

that we should

Psalm 115:1 Not to us, O Lord, not to us; but to thy name give glory.

Revelation 4:10 The four and twenty ancients fell down before him that sitteth on the throne and adored him that liveth for ever and ever and cast their crowns before the throne, saying:

1 Chronicles 29:9 And the people rejoiced, when they promised their offerings willingly: because they offered them to the Lord with all their heart: and David the king rejoiced also with a great joy.

Philippians 2:12 Wherefore, my dearly beloved, (as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only but much more now in my absence) with fear and trembling work out your salvation.

James 1:17 Every best gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change nor shadow of alteration.

all things

Genesis 28:22 And this stone, which I have set up for a title, shall be called the house of God: and of all things that thou shalt give to me, I will offer tithes to thee.

Psalm 50:10-12 For all the beasts of the woods are mine: the cattle on the hills, and the oxen. . . .

Romans 11:36 For of him, and by him, and in him, are all things: to him be glory for ever. Amen.

1 Corinthians 16:2 On the first day of the week, let every one of you put apart with himself, laying up what it shall well please him: that when I come, the collections be not then to be made.

of thine own [heb] of thine hand

Context
David's Prayer of Blessing
13Now therefore our God we give thanks to thee, and we praise thy glorious name. 14Who 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.15For we are sojourners before thee, and strangers, as were all our fathers. I Our days upon earth are as a shadow, and there is no stay.…
Cross References
1 Chronicles 29:13
Now therefore our God we give thanks to thee, and we praise thy glorious name.

1 Chronicles 29:15
For we are sojourners before thee, and strangers, as were all our fathers. I Our days upon earth are as a shadow, and there is no stay.

Haggai 2:8
The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the Lord of hosts.

1 Chronicles 29:13
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