1 Chronicles 29:16

O Lord our God, all this abundance, which we have prepared so that a house may be built to your holy name, is from your hand, and all things are yours.

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

In Context

15For we are sojourners and new arrivals before you, as all our fathers were. Our days upon the earth are like a shadow, and there is no delay.

17I know, my God, that you test hearts, and that you love simplicity. Therefore, in the simplicity of my heart, I also have offered all these things joyfully. And I have seen, with immense gladness, your people, who have been found here, offering their donations to you.

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Cross References

1 Chronicles 29:14Who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to promise all these things to you? All is yours. And so the things that we received from your hand, we have given to you.

Psalms 24:1Unto the end. A Psalm of David. To you, Lord, I have lifted up my soul.

Luke 19:16Now the first approached, saying: ‘Lord, your one pound has earned ten pounds.’

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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