1 Chronicles 22:1

1 Then David said, "This is the house of the Lord God, and this is the altar of burnt offering for Israel."

1 Chronicles 22:1 Meaning and Commentary

1 Chronicles 22:1

Then David said
Within himself, or to some principal persons about him:

this is the house of the Lord God;
the place where the temple was to be built, hinted at in ( Deuteronomy 12:5 ) and elsewhere; the meaning is, here, or in "this" place, shall be the house of God, so Noldius ^F15, for as yet there were none; but it was now made known to David that here it should be built, and so the words in ( 2 Chronicles 3:1 ) should be rendered,

then Solomon began to build the house of the Lord in Jerusalem, which
was shown to David his father, which he prepared in the place of David,
that which he bought in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite: and
this is the altar for the burnt offering for Israel;
not which he had built here; but this is the place where one should be built for the people of Israel to bring their offerings to, and to be here offered for them by the priests: this he said by a divine impulse upon his mind, or which he concluded from the acceptance of his sacrifice here, signified by fire that came down from heaven and consumed it; and this being in the threshingfloor of the Jebusites, might prefigure the church of God to be built up among the Gentiles.

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FOOTNOTES:

F15 Ebr. Concord. Part. p. 352. No. 1257.

1 Chronicles 22:1 In-Context

1 Then David said, "This is the house of the Lord God, and this is the altar of burnt offering for Israel."

2 So David gave orders to gather the foreigners that were in the land of Israel, and he appointed stonemasons to cut finished stones for building God's house.

3 David supplied a great deal of iron to make the nails for the doors of the gateways and for the fittings, together with an immeasurable quantity of bronze,

4 and innumerable cedar logs, because the Sidonians and Tyrians had brought a large quantity of cedar logs to David.

5 David said, "My son Solomon is young and inexperienced, and the house that is to be built for the Lord must be exceedingly great and famous and glorious in all the lands. Therefore, I must make provision for it." So David made lavish preparations for it before his death.