1 Chronicles 29:16

LORD 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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In The King James Version

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

17I know also, my God, that you try the heart and have pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things. Now I have seen with joy your people, who are present here, offer willingly to you.

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Cross References

1 Chronicles 29:14But 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.

Psalms 24:1The earth is the LORD’s, with its fullness; the world, and those who dwell in it.

Luke 19:16The first came before him, saying, ‘Lord, your mina has made ten more minas.’

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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