1 Chronicles 29:15

For we are strangers before you and foreigners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no remaining.

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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 as this? For all things come from you, and we have given you of your own.

16LORD our God, all this store that we have prepared to build you a house for your holy name comes from your hand, and is all your own.

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Cross References

Genesis 21:34Abraham lived as a foreigner in the land of the Philistines many days.

Genesis 47:9Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my pilgrimage are one hundred thirty years. The days of the years of my life have been few and evil. They have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.”

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

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

Psalms 39:13Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go away and exist no more.”

Psalms 102:11My days are like a long shadow. I have 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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