1 Chronicles 29:10-25

David Prays in the Assembly

10 Therefore David blessed the LORD in the presence of all the assembly. And David said: ¹"Blessed are you, O LORD, the God of Israel our father, forever and ever.

11 ²Yours, O LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, for all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, O LORD, and you are exalted as head above all.

12 ³Both riches and honor come from you, and you rule over all. ⁴In your hand are power and might, and in your hand it is to make great and to give strength to all.

13 And now we thank you, our God, and praise your glorious name.

14 "But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able thus to offer willingly? For all things come from you, and of your own have we given you.

15 ⁵For we are strangers before you and sojourners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are ⁶like a shadow, and there is no abiding.^[a]

16 O LORD our God, all this abundance that we have provided for building you a house for your holy name comes from your hand and is all your own.

17 I know, my God, ⁷that you test the heart and ⁸have pleasure in uprightness. In the uprightness of my heart I have freely offered all these things, and now I have seen your people, who are present here, offering freely and joyously to you.

18 O LORD, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, our fathers, keep forever such purposes and thoughts in the hearts of your people, and direct their hearts toward you.

19 ⁹Grant to Solomon my son a whole heart that he may keep your commandments, your testimonies, and your statutes, performing all, and that he may ¹⁰build the palace ¹¹for which I have made provision."

20 Then David said to all the assembly, ¹²"Bless the LORD your God." And all the assembly blessed the LORD, the God of their fathers, ¹³and bowed their heads and paid homage to the LORD and to the king.

21 And they offered sacrifices to the LORD, and on the next day offered burnt offerings to the LORD, 1,000 bulls, 1,000 rams, and 1,000 lambs, with their ¹⁴drink offerings, and sacrifices in abundance for all Israel.

22 And they ate and drank before the LORD on that day with great gladness. And they made Solomon the son of David king ¹⁵the second time, and they ¹⁶anointed him as prince for the LORD, and ¹⁷Zadok as priest.

23 ¹⁸Then Solomon sat on the ¹⁹throne of the LORD as king in place of David his father. And he prospered, and all Israel obeyed him.

24 All the leaders and the mighty men, and also all the sons of King David, pledged their allegiance to King Solomon.

25 And the LORD made Solomon very ²⁰great in the sight of all Israel and ²¹bestowed on him such royal majesty as had not been on any king before him in Israel.

1 Chronicles 29:10-25 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 1 CHRONICLES 29

This chapter relates how largely and liberally David, besides what he had before done, and his princes, offered towards defraying the expenses of building the temple, 1Ch 29:1-8 and the joy and thankfulness that he and his people expressed on that account, attended with prayers for Solomon, and offering sacrifices unto the Lord, 1Ch 29:9-21 and the chapter is closed, and so the book, with an account of the second unction of Solomon, the placing him on the throne, and the submission of all ranks of men unto him, and of the death of David, 1Ch 29:22-30.

Cross References

• 1. Luke 1:68
• 2. [1 Timothy 1:17; Revelation 5:13]
• 3. [1 Kings 3:13; 2 Chronicles 1:12; Romans 11:36]
• 4. 2 Chronicles 20:6
• 5. See Leviticus 25:23
• 6. Job 14:2; Psalms 102:11; Psalms 144:4
• 7. 1 Chronicles 28:9; Proverbs 17:3; [1 Samuel 16:7]
• 8. [Proverbs 11:20]
• 9. [Psalms 72:1]
• 10. ver. 1, 2
• 11. 1 Chronicles 22:14
• 12. See Joshua 22:33
• 13. See Exodus 4:31
• 14. Genesis 35:14
• 15. [1 Chronicles 23:1]
• 16. See 1 Kings 1:38, 39
• 17. 1 Kings 2:35
• 18. 1 Kings 2:12
• 19. 1 Chronicles 28:5; [2 Chronicles 9:8]
• 20. 2 Chronicles 1:1; [Joshua 3:7]
• 21. 1 Kings 3:13; 2 Chronicles 1:12; [Ecclesiastes 2:9]

Footnotes

• [a]. Septuagint, Vulgate; Hebrew hope, or prospect