But the Lord spoke to my father David. He said, ‘With all your heart you wanted to build a temple for my Name. It is good that you wanted to do that.
“With all his heart my father David wanted to build a temple. He wanted to do it so the Name of the Lord could be there. The Lord is the God of Israel.
But you will not build the temple. Instead, your son will build the temple for my Name. He is your own flesh and blood.’
She did what she could. She poured perfume on my body to prepare me to be buried.
Do you really want to give? Then the gift is measured by what someone has. It is not measured by what they don’t have.