1 Chronicles 29:15

for we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers were: our days upon the earth are as a shadow, and there is no remaining.

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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 been able to be thus forward in offering to thee? for all things are thine, and of thine own have we given thee,

16O Lord our God, as for all this abundance which I have prepared that a house should be built to thy holy name, it is of thy hand, and all is thine.

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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 life, wherein I sojourn, are a hundred and thirty years; few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, they have not attained to the days of the life of my fathers, in which days they sojourned.

Job 8:9(For we are of yesterday, and know nothing; 1 For our life upon the earth is a shadow): 1

Job 14:10But a man that has died is utterly gone; 1 And when a mortal has fallen, he is no more. 1

Psalms 39:13For innumerable evils have encompassed me; 1 My transgressions have taken hold of me, and I could not see; 1 They are multiplied more than the hairs of my head; 1 And my heart has failed me. 1

Psalms 102:11For as the heaven is high above the earth, 1 The Lord has so increased his mercy toward them that fear him. 1

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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