That the princes of Israel, heads of the house of their fathers, who [were] the princes of the tribes, and were over them that were numbered, offered:
Ver. 2. The princes of Israel offered.] So they did at the making of the tabernacle, and at the building of the temple, Exodus 35:27 1Ch 29:6-8 which was but to give God of his own; as David aeknowledgeth with all thankfulness, 1Ch 29:14 τα σα εκ των σων σοι προσφερομεν. a Of thine own we offer unto thee, said Justinian, when he had offered up, in the temple of Sophia, at Constantinople, a communion table that had in it, saith the author, all the riches of land and sea.
a Cedrenus.