1 Chronicles 29:15

For we, as all our fathers were, are like men from a strange country before you, who have got a place for a time in the land; our days on the earth are like a shade, and there is no hope of going on.

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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 have power to give so freely in this way? for all things come from you, and what we have given you is yours.

16O Lord our God, all this store, which we have made ready for the building of a house for your holy name, comes from your hand and is yours.

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Cross References

Genesis 21:34And Abraham went on living in the land of the Philistines as in a strange country.

Genesis 47:9And Jacob said, The years of my wanderings have been a hundred and thirty; small in number and full of sorrow have been the years of my life, and less than the years of the wanderings of my fathers.

Job 8:9(For we are but of yesterday, and have no knowledge, because our days on earth are gone like a shade:)

Job 14:10But man comes to his death and is gone: he gives up his spirit, and where is he?

Psalms 39:13\39:12\Let my prayer come to your ears, O Lord, and give attention to my cry, make an answer to my weeping: for my time here is short before you, and in a little time I will be gone, like all my fathers.

Psalms 102:11\102:10\Because of your passion and your wrath, for I have been lifted up and then made low by you.

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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