Hope of Israel Ministries (Ecclesia of YEHOVAH):

King David's Lost Treasure and the Third Temple!

by John D. Keyser

The Judahite Historian Josephus, who lived from 37 to c. 100 A.D., reveals the primary reason why anyone would seek David's lost tomb and attempt to raid it. Like with many things involving mankind, it all boils down to acquiring as much wealth and power as possible. We certainly see this in the political scenario today! David, however, was different.

"He [speaking of David] also left behind him greater wealth than any other king, either of the Hebrews or, of other nations [including Alexander the Great, whom Josephus also wrote about], ever did.

"He was buried by his son Solomon, in Jerusalem, with great magnificence...moreover, he had great and immense wealth BURIED WITH HIM..." (Antiquities of the Jews, Book 7, Chapter 15, Sections 2 and 3).

David, Israel's third king, is arguably the Old Testament's second most important individual (the first is Moses). A man after YEHOVAH God's own heart (1 Samuel 13:14), he was blessed to acquire a massive amount of riches for Jerusalem's Temple. He collected such vast quantities of wealth, far more than needed, that an overwhelming majority of it (possibly 90%) was buried with him.

Within a short time after his death in 970 B.C., however, his tomb was forgotten. It would take more than 800 years, in a time of great suffering, for his burial location to be rediscovered -- and plundered for its wealth!

King David was a shepherd, musician, poet, warrior, statesman and ultimately the greatest human ruler who would ever reign over Israel. Few people are aware, however, how incredibly rich he was!

David's ability to accumulate incredible riches was part of YEHOVAH God's promise to make his name great (2 Samuel 7:9). YEHOVAH God knew that David's love for Him, along with his humility and faith, would allow him to be blessed with unparalleled treasures without them corrupting his character.

This article will explore how King David received his riches and also what was his rough net worth before dying at the age of seventy (2 Samuel 5:4-5). We will find that he, surpassed only by his wise son Solomon, was likely the second wealthiest person of the ancient world.

Show Me the Money

Some of David's initial cash came when, after being accepted as Israel's king, he took control of the wealth left behind by Saul (the first ruler over YEHOVAH's people, see 2 Samuel 12:7-8). His treasury really grew, however, when he and his men extracted rich booty from many of the people who either lived within or neighbored the territory given to the children of Israel.

The king was victorious in battle against Moab, Syria, Edom, the Philistines (on several occasions!), the Geshurites, the Gezrites, the Amalekites, the king of Zobah and others (1 Samuel 27, 2 Samuel 8). He also conquered the city of Jebus, which had resisted becoming an Israelite possession since the time of Joshua, and renamed it Jerusalem.

When the king and his troops marched on Jerusalem against the people of Jebus, the natives of the territory, they announced to David, "You shall not get in here; the blind and the lame can turn you back!" assuming "David cannot gain access here."

"But David did capture the fortress of Zion, which now is the City of David" (2 Samuel 5:6-7, HBFV).

David had captured the majority of the north-south (Via Maris, the Ridge Route, and the King's Highway) and east-west (Incense Route) trade routes; the routes that connected trade and information between the Egyptian and Ethiopian Superpowers in the southwest, the Syrian and Anatolian peoples in the north, the growing Empires in Mesopotamia in the east, and Arabia and Asia to the southeast. Most of the major players had to move through Israel to trade with one another. And that means lots of levee taxes on trade caravans. By the end of his reign David had become very wealthy by taxation, trade and alliance alone.

The booty from his military victories became the basis for David's riches. In at least one case, when the king was victorious over the Amalekites, the massive amount of plunder he retrieved was enough to share among at least thirteen cities (1 Samuel 30:16-31)! The Bible also seems to indicate he received tribute money each year from the Moabites and possibly others.

"And he struck Moab, and measured them with a line, casting them down to the ground. Even with two lines he measured those to put to death and with one full line those to keep alive. And the Moabites became David’s servants, bringing gifts" (2 Samuel 8:2, HBFV).

David further increased his wealth by extracting a great quantity of quality gold from Ophir (1 Chronicles 29:4), a place where Solomon would also mine vast amounts of the precious metal (1 Kings 9:28, 2 Chronicles 8:18). He also received gifts of gold, silver and other precious items from well-off individuals such as the king of Hamath.

"Now when Tou king of Hamath heard that David had struck all the army of Hadarezer king of Zobah, He sent Hadoram his son to King David to ask of his welfare and to praise him because he had fought against Hadarezer and had beaten him. For Hadarezer had war with Tou. And he sent with Hadoram all kinds of vessels of gold and silver and bronze" (1 Chronicles 18:9-10, HBFV).

Net Worth

The Bible gives us a clue regarding David's phenomenal wealth when, nearing the end of his life, he bequeaths to his son Solomon what is needed to construct the Temple:

"And, behold, in my trouble I have prepared for the house of the LORD a hundred thousand talents of gold, and a million talents of silver, and of bronze and iron without weight..." (1 Chronicles 22:14).

How much is 100,000 Biblical talents of gold worth today? One talent weighs about 75 U.S. pounds or 1,094 troy ounces. A troy ounce, which weighs roughly 10% more than a U.S. (avoirdupois) ounce, is the standard used today for trading in gold and silver. Based on this measurement, the total amount the king donated for the Temple was 109,400,000 troy ounces.

Assuming a modern gold price of $2,342.50 U.S. per troy ounce, David donated $256.27 BILLION worth of the precious metal to YEHOVAH's Temple in Jerusalem! In regards to the silver that was provided, its total value in today's world would be $29.98 billion dollars (assuming $27.40 per troy ounce).

An Incredibly Generous Gift

Amazingly, even after dedicating vast riches to YEHOVAH's house, David generously added 3,000 talents of Ophir gold (known to be finest in the world, Isaiah 13:12) and 7,000 talents of silver! This extra-special contribution was dedicated to overlaying the new Temple's walls (1 Chronicles 29:3-4) and increased his net worth by many more billions of dollars.

The value of the king's fortune, however, does not stop at more than $286.25 billion. He also collected, for Jerusalem's Temple, bronze, marble, expensive woods, onyx and other precious stones, brass, and so on "beyond number" (1 Chronicles 22:1-4, 16, 29:2). He personally owned a home specially designed and built from the finest cedar trees (2 Samuel 5:11) and, no doubt, owned still other precious possessions not recorded in Scripture.

King David, a man after YEHOVAH God's own heart (1 Samuel 13:14), was fabulously rich during his life. He generously bequeathed, as his last great offering to YEHOVAH God, the finest materials for constructing and furnishing Jerusalem's house of prayer. His net worth easily exceeded $300 billion dollars.

David ultimately accumulated so much more treasure than was needed for the Temple that a large amount of it was buried with him in his tomb.

We must also remember that his son Solomon also contributed his personal riches to the wealth stored in the tomb. Solomon avoided war and gained from what his father had built. Because of his advantageous location and control of both trade wealth and information, he was able to court the favor of other empires and made political alliances with them, hence his many wives and concubines, which were political marriages. This also gave him access to sea routes, and trade through his political allies. He introduced cyclical forced labor onto his people and brought in slave labor from other lands. Free labor built even more wealth and infrastructure but also resentment that would eventually heavily contribute to the split of the Kingdom under his son, Rehoboam.

This is why we are told that Solomon was the most wealthy king of the known ancient world. During his reign, he definitely rivaled and influenced, if not politically controlled, the power of Egypt, Arabia, Syria, and Mesopotamia. Solomon was many times more wealthy and politically connected than his father. So, along with David's wealth left over from the construction of the First Temple, it is highly likely that a large portion of Solomon's wealth is also stored in the tomb complex.

The First Tomb Raider

The first person known to have found and raided David's burial area was John Hyrcanus. John's father was Simon Thassi (Maccabee), one of the brothers of Judas Maccabee. Hyrcanus succeeded his father as High Priest after he was assassinated in 135 B.C.

The Seleucids, soon after John became High Priest, sought to regain control of Jerusalem lost during the Maccabean revolt. Led by Antiochus Sidetes, they began a several months long siege of the city (Antiquities of the Jews, Book 13, Chapter 8, Section 1).

John, aware of the suffering from the siege, negotiated a truce with Antiochus (1906 Jewish Encyclopedia article on John Hyrcanus). Along with other concessions, he agreed to pay, immediately, 3,000 talents of silver (the Jewish Encyclopedia states 300). Hyrcanus was able to quickly lay his hands on the cash needed to buy peace by raiding the wealth in David's tomb!

"And now Antiochus was so angry at what he had suffered from Simon, that he made an expedition into Judea...but Hyrcanus opened the sepulcher of David...and took thence about three thousand talents in money, and induced Antiochus...to raise the siege" (Wars of the Jews, Book 1, Chapter 2, Section 5).

"He (Hyrcanus) is said to have taken this sum from the treasure in David's sepulcher" (1906 Jewish Encyclopedia).

Herod the Great Thief

The next person to seek after the lost burial location for quick wealth is Herod the Great. Hyrcanus only raided one room of the tombs. A hundred years later, King Herod determined to pick up where Hyrcanus left off. Known for his vast building projects throughout Jerusalem and Judea, Herod had heard that Hyrcanus had left behind a tremendous amount of wealth.

Josephus related that Herod planned a raid for some time, then “he opened that sepulcher by night, and went into it, and endeavored that it should not be at all known in the city, but took only his most faithful friends with him. As for any money, he found none, as Hyrcanus had done, but that furniture of gold, and those precious goods that were laid up there; all which he took away” (Antiquities, Book 16, Chapter 7, Number 1). Herod discovered a second chamber near the king that John left untouched.

Although Josephus seems to partly contradict himself, it does appear Herod retrieved precious items and possibly some money from the tomb.

"Nay, after him [John Hyrcanus], and that many years, Herod the king opened another room, and took away a great deal of money, and yet neither of them came at the coffins of the kings themselves, for their bodies were buried under the earth so artfully, that they did not appear even to those that entered into their monuments..." (ibid., Book 7, Chapter 15, Section 3).

Why did Herod do this secretly, at night? He certainly had enough power to do as he pleased in Jerusalem. Perhaps since he was half-Judahite, his conscience prevented him from openly desecrating the tombs of the kings. Or maybe he knew that raiding the tombs in broad daylight would trigger a war with the Judahites.

Herod's Second Attempt

The success of this plunder made Herod greedier. Herod's lust and vanity knew no bounds. He tries, a second time, to find still more buried wealth even if it means raiding the chamber where both David and Solomon are laid. “[H]e had a great desire to make a more diligent search, and to go farther in, even as far as the very bodies of David and Solomon” (Antiquities, Book 16, Chapter 7, Section 1), Josephus wrote. However, as two of Herod’s guards approached the bones of David and Solomon, according to Josephus, they were killed “by a flame that burst out” on them! By all appearances, YEHOVAH God struck them dead!

This time, however, his two trusted guards sent to do his dirty work are thwarted in their efforts by what seems to be a miraculous fire!

This supernatural jolt prompted Herod to abandon the project and to erect a monument. “So he was terribly frightened, and went out, and built a propitiatory monument of that fright he had been in; and this of white stone, at the mouth of the sepulcher, and that at great expense also” (ibid). He then, it seems, covered up the path he used to access the burial location.

Perhaps Herod built a huge impenetrable door blocking access to the tombs after the frightening incident involving his two guards; maybe he erected a huge monument in front of a hinged door that was already there. In any event, the tomb was well fortified after those two robbers were struck dead.

According to Doug Ward:

"There is no way to tell how much wealth remained in David's tomb after Herod's abortive nocturnal raid. From the words of the apostle Peter's Pentecost sermon, it appears that the location of the tomb was still well-known a generation after Herod's death (Acts 2:29). The next potential threat to the tomb occurred when the armies of Rome destroyed Jerusalem, including the Second Temple, in 70 A.D. The Romans took great riches from the Temple, as memorialized on the Arch of Titus in Rome. There is no record that any of these riches came from David's tomb, however...there may have been enough riches above ground to satisfy the invaders" (Is There Buried Treasure in King David's Tomb? p. 5).

Ward goes on to say,

"There is a cryptic reference to the 'tomb of Solomon' in an account of the Bar Kochba Revolt written by the Roman historian Dio Cassius (164-235 A.D.). Dio Cassius claimed that the Judahites had received a bad omen about the outcome of the rebellion: '...nearly the whole of Judea was made desolate, a result of which the people had had forewarning before the war. For the tomb of Solomon, which the Jews [Judahites] regard as an object of veneration, fell to pieces of itself and collapsed...'" (Annals, Book 5, 69, 14).

However, this reference makes no mention of David's tomb. The burial complex was quite large and contained separate rooms for both David and Solomon, and the kingly descendants of the House of David that followed. While Dio Cassius did not detail what happened to Solomon's tomb, it is certainly possible that the extensive quarrying required in the leveling of Jerusalem by Hadrian, and the construction of Aelia Capitolina, could have damaged Solomon's burial room but spared David's.

That this distinctly possible, is found in the Tesefta -- a rabbinic work that was compiled in the 3rd century A.D.  In this work there is an indication that David's tomb survived the Roman reconstruction of Jerusalem by Hadrian and remained intact in the 2nd. century:

"All sepulchres should be cleared away, except the sepulchre of a king and the sepulchre of a prophet. Rabbi Akiva says: 'even the sepulchre of a king and the sepulchre of a prophet should be cleared away.' He was told: 'But there was at Jerusalem the Sepulchres of the House of David and the Sepuchre of Huldah the prophetess and nobody ever touched them'" (Baba Bathra 1:11-12).

When Emperor Hadrian made plans to erect a pagan temple on the site of the Jerusalem Temple ruins above the Gihon Spring the Rabbi Akiva, mentioned above, helped organize the Bar Kochba Revolt (132-135 A.D.) and was later put to death for his role in the rebellion. After Hadrian's armies put down the revolt, the emperor went ahead with his plans to rebuild the Holy City. The remains of the old city of Jerusalem were leveled, and the new pagan city of Aelia Capitolina was erected in its place.

Comments Doug Ward:

"...if the kings' [specifically David's] burial place survived Hadrian's intrusion, then it could still be intact today, because knowledge of its location was lost after the construction of Aelia Capitolina. Hundreds of years later, a new tradition developed about the location of David's tomb, but this medieval tradition is now known to be false. In particular, it places David's tomb in a portion of Jerusalem that was definitely NOT part of the old City of David" (Is There Buried Treasure in King David's Tomb? p. 6).

King David, Israel's greatest ruler, was buried with vast amounts of wealth -- of gold, silver and other valuable items. After three attempts to raid his lost tomb, however, it seems to have evaded rediscovery even into modern times. Will YEHOVAH God allow us to find it before He and the Messiah return? If it is ever found and excavated, will it still contain untold treasure or possibly possess priceless artifacts like a royal archive?

What About the Third Temple?

Many of those who speculate in Bible prophecy believe a Third Temple will be built prior to the Messiah's appearance, while others claim it will be built after the Messiah arrives. A number of these prophecy buffs point to Ezekiel 40 through 48 and emphatically state that sacrifices will once again take place in the restored Temple. What is the truth? When will the Third Temple be constructed in Jerusalem -- if at all? And what is the PURPOSE of having another Temple in the first place?

Those whose intense interest is attracted by the Temple chapters of Ezekiel, see in the establishment of the state of Israel the re-erection of the Temple, as described by Ezekiel, along with its appropriate Jewish system of worship and sacrifices. This is a standard view held by authors such as Hal Lindsay, Tim LaHay and other writers who hold to the Dispensational view promoted by the Schofield Reference Bible.

Writes Jory Steven Brooks --

"It is a foundational premise of modern Dispensational Futurism that at the end of this age the Muslim Mosque of Omar on the temple mount in Jerusalem will be torn down by the Jews, who will rebuild their temple and reinstate animal sacrifices. Why such a thing would be part of God's plan and purposes has been widely questioned by theologians, since the New Testament tells us that Christ is 'the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world' (Rev. 13:8).

"Animal sacrifices are no longer necessary ever again, and are a component of the Old Covenant that was replaced by the New Covenant in this Christian era. The Apostle Paul specified that 'He does away with the first in order to establish the second' (Heb. 10:9, Weymouth). This was signified symbolically by the rending of the curtain of the temple at the time of the crucifixion (Mt. 27:51; Mark 15:38; Luke 23:45). There is no further need of animal sacrifices ever again" (Ezekiel's Temple and Sacrifices: When???).

If Ezekiel 40-48 is a prophecy of the Millennial Age it makes void the sole priesthood of the Messiah (Hebrews 5), and foretells the resumption of an earthly priesthood and an endless succession of blood sacrifices for all manner of purposes and occasions, to effect what the Messiah as High Priest offering himself must therefore have failed to effect! The last nine chapters of Ezekiel are NOT to be regarded as a forecast of what is to be -- but only as a conditional outline of WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN.

While chapters 40 through 48 of Ezekiel do NOT refer to a Millennial Temple but to a Temple that might have been if the House of Israel had repented of their national sins and returned to YEHOVAH God after they were taken into Assyrian captivity, the fact remains that there will be a Temple in Jerusalem during the Millennium! This Temple -- without the sacrificial system and ritual will be erected -- but for what purpose?

Why, Then, a Third Temple?

We find a clue to this mentioned in Zechariah 2 and in various other places throughout the Old Testament -- notice!

"Sing, Jerusalem, and rejoice! For I have come to live among you, says the LORD [YEHOVAH]. At that time [of the end] many nations will be converted to the LORD, and they too shall be My people; I will live among them all. Then you will know it was the LORD of Hosts [YEHOVAH] who sent me [Zechariah] to you....Be silent, all mankind before the LORD; for He has come to earth from heaven, from His Holy Home" (Zechariah 2:10-13).

Notice, also, Isaiah 24:

"Behold, YEHOVAH lays the earth waste, devastates it, distorts its surface, and scatters its inhabitants...They raise their voices, they shout for joy. They cry out from the west concerning the majesty of YEHOVAH. Therefore glorify YEHOVAH in the east, the name of YEHOVAH, the God of Israel in the coastlands of the sea...So it will happen in that day, that YEHOVAH will punish the host of heaven, on high, and the kings of the earth, on Earth...

"Then the moon will be abashed and the sun ashamed, for YEHOVAH of Hosts will reign on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, and His glory ["Shekinah" presence] will be before His elders...For behold, YEHOVAH is about to come out from His Place [Heaven] to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity; and the earth will reveal her bloodshed, and will no longer cover her slain" (Isaiah 24, selected verses).

So if YEHOVAH God is returning to Jerusalem at the beginning of the Millennium -- WHERE will He reside? "'I am returning to Jerusalem with mercy; My House [Temple] shall be built in it,' says the LORD of hosts" (Zechariah 1:16). The Millennial Temple is to be built and engineered by Yeshua the Messiah -- notice!

"Thus says the LORD of hosts, saying: Behold, the man whose name is the Branch! From his place he shall branch out, and he shall build the Temple of the LORD [YEHOVAH]; yes, he shall build the Temple of the LORD. He shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule on his [the Messiah's] throne, so he shall be a priest on his throne, and the counsel of peace shall be between them both [YEHOVAH God and the Messiah]" (Zechariah 6:12-13, NKJV).

Who is the "Branch" that Zechariah refers to here? In Jeremiah 23:5 we read the following:

"'Behold, the days are coming,' says the LORD, that I will raise to David a Branch of righteousness..."

This clearly is a reference to the Messiah -- notice, now, what Isaiah says:

"There shall come forth a Rod from the stem of Jesse, and a BRANCH shall grow out of his roots. The spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and the fear of the LORD" (Isaiah 11:1-2).

The Kingdom of YEHOVAH God can only be established when the Shekinah Glory of YEHOVAH God fills the Holy Place in the Millennial Temple. The Millennium will witness the reception of the Messiah by the united nation of Israel, and it will also witness the return of the Shekinah Glory to the Holy of holies!

But the main point is that the very presence of YEHOVAH God returning to Jerusalem to reside among his people Israel require that the Israel people be worshipping in a rebuilt Temple in the days ahead. And where will the funds come from to build this magnificent Temple to house the Shekinah Glory of YEHOVAH God?

According to Gary Arvidson,

"The texts above concern the prophesied future Temple which will be greater in glory than the former....The Second Temple was so poorly outfitted when compared to the First, that when returning Jews [Judahites] saw it, they cried. Though Herod rebuilt the Second Temple, and made it more grand in size -- it still did not have the full majesty of golden wealth as found in Solomon's Temple.

"In Jewish minds, these are the only two Temples -- even though a number of reburbishings and reconstructions have occurred within these two historical Temple periods. Though Herod's Temple has been designated by some Jewish sources as "the Second Temple rebuilt by Herod," we have not yet witnessed the construction of the prophesied Third Temple. It remains ahead of us" (In Search of: King David's Tomb & Treasure, pp. 127-128).

In order for this to be accomplished, we need a long period of peace in Judea -- when could this be? It would be difficult to imagine a past period of time when this kind of peace existed. However, Haggai 2:6 points us to this time:

"For thus said the LORD of Hosts: In just a little while longer I will shake the heavens and the earth, the sea and the dry land; I will shake all the nations. And the precious things of all the nations shall come [here -- in Jerusalem], and I will fill this House [the Temple] with glory, said the LORD of Hosts. Silver is Mine and gold is Mine -- says the LORD of Hosts. The glory of this latter House [Temple] shall be greater than that of the former one, said the LORD of Hosts; and in this place I will grant prosperity [and peace] -- declares the LORD of Hosts" (Haggai 2:6-9, Tanakh: The Holy Scriptures).

Clearly, these texts in the book of Haggai reveal that the new Third Temple in Jerusalem will be one with incredible riches and in a time of durable peace, such as the Kingdom of YEHOVAH God!

Asks Gary Arvidson:

"Where will all this gold and silver come from? It appears that wealth will be drawn from the nations (Hag. 2:7). But could gold retrieved from David's tomb [also] play a part? After all, the ownership goes back to God who gave it. Certainly, this God could protect what is His, just like with the Herod incident when two guards were killed by the sudden appearance of 'a flame.'"

The Tabernacle of David

In Amos 9:11 the prophet states that the ancient artifact called the Tabernacle of David will be restored in the last days when the Kingdom of YEHOVAH God is ushered in (Amos 9:11). So, with this in mind, it would seem apparent that this artifact must be stored somewhere today. Where do you think that could be? "Could it be located," postulates Gary Arvidson, "somewhere in the David's Tomb Complex?" And doesn't the Ark and the Tabernacle go together like "a horse and carriage"? Writes Arvidson,

"It could be that the Tabernacle will be restored on the Ophel -- right where it once stood. This was the original site of the Tabernacle and Ark prior to constructing the Hebrew Temple. It was the same spot for the Temple that replaced the Tabernacle after it was 'taken down' and 'stored' somewhere. That is the only way Amos 9:11 could ever be fulfilled some time in the future" (In Search of King David's Tomb & Treasure, p. 395).

As a further indication of David's wealth, when he pitched a tent for the Ark of the Covenant in Jerusalem, he put it inside the tent and set singers and musicians surrounding the Ark twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. This was their full-time occupation; they didn’t have any other service except day and night to sing to the glory of YEHOVAH God resting over the mercy seat. David chose twenty-four families, led by the elders of those families to minister to the LORD. Twenty-four elders surrounding a throne. He stationed them around the Ark, and the twenty-four singing prophets began to sing night and day to the glory of YEHOVAH God accompanied by two hundred and eighty-eight of their brothers and sons.

The backup band was four thousand musicians. All to minister to YEHOVAH God. Four thousand gatekeepers and six thousand judges and officers were appointed to handle the operations, logistics, and finances of the tabernacle (1 Chronicles 23-25). He paid the salary of four thousand two hundred and eighty-eight singers and musicians, another four thousand gatekeepers and their families, housed them, and kept it going for thirty-three years. David spent roughly, in today’s economy, about a hundred billion dollars to minister to YEHOVAH God in that tent…a hundred billion dollars to keep it going!

In the early days of the Kingdom of YEHOVAH God it seems apparent that the Tabernacle and Temple arrangement will be staged according to the same sequence in the Bible. Why? Because while the physical Temple is being constructed there must be somewhere for YEHOVAH's people to worship! We must remember that the portable Tabernacle was the place of worship before the permanent Temple of wood and stone was constructed. "This means," writes Arvidson, "that the Tabernacle is the Temple (i.e. serves as the Temple) -- until the Temple of wood and stone is constructed. That is why restoring the Tabernacle from King David's Lost Tomb is so important. It paves the way for Temple construction. Nothing else will work...That is why the work of fulfilling Amos 9:11 is so important" (ibid., p. 396).

It is also possible that some of David's and Solomon's wealth will also be used to glorify the city of Jerusalem and help turn it into the capitol of the world and the home of YEHOVAH God during the Millennium and beyond. This would be the ultimate fulfillment of David's love and loyalty to his Creator God!