1 Chronicles 29:9
And the people rejoiced, when they promised their offerings willingly: because they offered them to the Lord with all their heart: and David the king rejoiced also with a great joy.
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Deuteronomy 16:10And thou shalt celebrate the festival of weeks to the Lord thy God, a voluntary oblation of thy hand, which thou shalt offer according to the blessing of the Lord thy God.
1 Kings 8:61Let our hearts also be perfect with the Lord our God, that we may walk in his statutes, and keep his commandments, as at this day.
1 Chronicles 29:17I know my God that thou provest hearts, and lovest simplicity, wherefore I also in the simplicity of my heart, have joyfully offered all these things: and I have seen with great joy thy people, which are here present, offer thee their offerings.
2 Chronicles 31:8And when Ezechias and his princes came in, they saw the heaps, and they blessed the Lord and the people of Israel.
Psalms 110:3With thee is the principality in the day of thy strength: in the brightness of the saints: from the womb before the day star I begot thee.
Luke 15:6And coming home, call together his friends and neighbours, saying to them: Rejoice with me, because I have found my sheep that was lost?
Matthew Henry on 1 Chronicles 29:2-10
Presents for the Temple. ( b. c. 1015.) 1 Furthermore David the king said unto all the congregation, Solomon my son, whom alone God hath chosen, is yet young and tender, and the work is great: for the palace is not for man, but for the Lord God. 2 Now I have prepared with all my might for the house of my God the gold for things to be made of gold, and the silver for things of silver, and the brass for things of brass, the iron for things of iron, and wood for things of wood; onyx stones, and stones to be set,… Read the whole commentary →