1 Chronicles 29:15

for sojourners we [are] before Thee, and settlers, like all our fathers; as a shadow [are] our days on the land, and there is none abiding.

Young's Literal Translation

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

14yea, because, who [am] I, and who [are] my people, that we retain power to offer thus willingly? but of Thee [is] the whole, and out of Thy hand we have given to Thee;

16'O Jehovah our God, all this store that we have prepared to build to Thee a house, for Thy holy name, [is] out of Thy hand, and of Thee [is] the whole.

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Cross References

Genesis 21:34and Abraham sojourneth in the land of the Philistines many days.

Genesis 47:9And Jacob saith unto Pharaoh, 'The days of the years of my sojournings [are] an hundred and thirty years; few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not reached the days of the years of the life of my fathers, in the days of their sojournings.'

Job 8:9(For of yesterday we [are], and we know not, For a shadow [are] our days on earth.)

Job 14:10And a man dieth, and becometh weak, And man expireth, and where [is] he?

Psalms 39:13Look from me, and I brighten up before I go and am not!

Psalms 102:11My days as a shadow [are] stretched out, And I — as the herb I am withered.

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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