1 Chronicles 29:5

The Authorized Version, to consecrate his service , might in this instance seem to be not merely an inaccurate but an incorrect translation. For David's evident meaning was, after rehearsing his own example, to base on it the appeal, Who is… willing to bring all ungrudging handful this day to the Lord? and 2 Chronicles 13:9 might perhaps be cited as a confirmatory instance. But on the other hand, the idiom was evidently, by the witness of many passages, a general one, and the meaning of it is not incorrectly conveyed in the Authorized Version, where service means in every ease active and practical help ( Exodus 28:41 ; Exodus 29:9 ; Exodus 32:29 ; Numbers 3:3 , etc.). The question now is not one of consecrating heart and affection, but rather of giving the practical proof of them.