1 Chronicles 29:15

For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no abiding.

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In The King James Version

For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.

In Context

14But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort? For all things come of thee, and of thine own have we given thee.

16O LORD our God, all this store that we have prepared to build thee a house for thy holy name comes of thy hand, and is all thine own.

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Cross References

Genesis 21:34And Abraham sojourned in the land of the Philistines many days.

Genesis 47:9And Jacob said to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my father

Job 8:9(for we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow).

Job 14:10But man dies, and is laid low. Yea, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?

Psalms 39:13O spare me, that I may recover strength before I go from here, and be no more.

Psalms 102:11My days are like a shadow that declines, and I am withered like grass.

Matthew Henry on 1 Chronicles 29:11-23

David's Prayer to God; Sacrifices Offered. ( b. c. 1015.) 10 Wherefore David blessed the Lord before all the congregation: and David said, Blessed be thou, Lord God of Israel our father, for ever and ever. 11 Thine, O Lord , is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O Lord , and thou art exalted as head above all. 12 Both riches and honour come of thee, and thou reignest over all; and in thine… Read the whole commentary →

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