1 Chronicles 28:3-13

3 But God said to me, ¹'You may not build a house for my name, for you are a man of war and have shed blood.'

4 Yet the LORD God of Israel ²chose me from all my father's house to be king over Israel ³forever. ⁴For he chose Judah as leader, and in the house of Judah my father's ⁵house, and among my father's sons he took pleasure in me to make me king over all Israel.

5 And of ⁶all my sons (for the LORD has given me many sons) he ⁷has chosen Solomon my son to sit on the throne of the kingdom of the LORD over Israel.

6 He said to me, 'It is ⁸Solomon your son who shall build my house and my courts, for I have chosen him to be my son, and I will be his father.

7 I will establish his kingdom ⁹forever ¹⁰if he continues strong in keeping my commandments and my rules, as he is today.'

8 Now therefore in the sight of all Israel, the assembly of the LORD, and in the hearing of our God, observe and seek out all the commandments of the LORD your God, that you may possess this good land and leave it for an inheritance to your children after you forever.

David's Charge to Solomon

9 "And you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve him with a ¹¹whole heart and with a willing mind, ¹²for the LORD searches all hearts and understands every plan and thought. ¹³If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.

10 Be careful now, for the LORD has chosen you to build a house for the sanctuary; ¹⁴be strong and do it."

11 Then David gave Solomon his son the ¹⁵plan of the ¹⁶vestibule of the temple,^[a] and of its houses, its treasuries, its upper rooms, and its inner chambers, and of the room for the ¹⁷mercy seat;

12 and the plan of all that he had in mind for the courts of the house of the LORD, all the surrounding chambers, ¹⁸the treasuries of the house of God, and the treasuries for dedicated gifts;

13 for the ¹⁹divisions of the priests and of the ²⁰Levites, and all the work of the service in the house of the LORD; for all the vessels for the service in the house of the LORD,

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1 Chronicles 28:3-13 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 1 CHRONICLES 28

David, having convened the principal men of the nation, declared Solomon his successor, whom God had chosen both to be king, and to build the temple, 1Ch 28:1-7, and exhorted both them and him to serve the Lord, and build an house for him, 1Ch 28:8-10, then gave Solomon the pattern of it, and an account of the materials he had prepared for it, 1Ch 28:11-19, and encouraged him to go about the work with alacrity and intrepidity, 1Ch 28:20,21.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 20

1. See 2 Samuel 7:5, 13
2. 1 Samuel 16:12, 13
3. 1 Chronicles 17:23, 27
4. 1 Chronicles 5:2; Genesis 49:8; Psalms 78:68
5. 1 Samuel 16:1
6. See 1 Chronicles 3:1-9; 1 Chronicles 14:3-7
7. 1 Chronicles 22:9; 1 Chronicles 23:1
8. See 2 Samuel 7:13, 14
9. [See ver. 4 above]
10. [1 Chronicles 22:13]
11. [1 Kings 8:61]
12. See 1 Samuel 16:7
13. See 2 Chronicles 15:2
14. ver. 20; Ezra 10:4; Haggai 2:4
15. ver. 19; See Exodus 25:40
16. 1 Kings 6:3; 2 Chronicles 3:4
17. Exodus 25:17
18. See 1 Chronicles 26:20
19. 1 Chronicles 24:1
20. 1 Chronicles 23:6

Footnotes 1

[a]. Hebrew lacks of the temple

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