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New Living Translation

1 Chronicles 16:20

They wandered from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Music;   Praise;   Psalms;  

Dictionaries:

- Easton Bible Dictionary - Chronicles, Books of;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Zerubbabel;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Poetry;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Chronicles, I;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
wandering from nation to nationand from one kingdom to another,
Hebrew Names Version
They went about from nation to nation, From one kingdom to another people.
King James Version
And when they went from nation to nation, and from one kingdom to another people;
English Standard Version
wandering from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people,
New Century Version
They went from one nation to another, from one kingdom to another.
New English Translation
they wandered from nation to nation, and from one kingdom to another.
Amplified Bible
When they wandered from nation to nation, And from one kingdom to another people,
New American Standard Bible
And they wandered from nation to nation, And from one kingdom to another people,
World English Bible
They went about from nation to nation, From one kingdom to another people.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And walked about from nation to nation, and from one kingdome to another people,
Legacy Standard Bible
And they wandered about from nation to nation,And from one kingdom to another people,
Berean Standard Bible
they wandered from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another.
Contemporary English Version
We wandered from nation to nation, from one country to another.
Complete Jewish Bible
wandering from nation to nation, from this kingdom to that people,
Darby Translation
And they went from nation to nation, And from one kingdom to another people.
Easy-to-Read Version
They traveled around from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another.
George Lamsa Translation
And when you were carried away captive from nation to nation and from kingdom to another kingdom,
Good News Translation
They wandered from country to country, from one kingdom to another.
Lexham English Bible
when they wandered from nation to nation, and from one kingdom to another people,
Literal Translation
and they went up and down, from nation to nation, and from one kingdom to another people.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And they wente from one nacion to another, & from one realme to another people.
American Standard Version
And they went about from nation to nation, And from one kingdom to another people.
Bible in Basic English
When they went about from one nation to another, and from one kingdom to another people;
Bishop's Bible (1568)
and when they went from one nation to another, from one kingdome to another people,
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And when they went about from nation to nation, and from one kingdom to another people,
King James Version (1611)
And when they went from nation to nation, and from one kingdome to another people:
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and went from nation to nation, and from one kingdom to another people.
English Revised Version
And they went about from nation to nation, and from one kingdom to another people.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And thei passiden fro folk in to the folk; and fro a rewme to another puple.
Update Bible Version
And they went about from nation to nation, And from one kingdom to another people.
Webster's Bible Translation
And [when] they went from nation to nation, and from [one] kingdom to another people;
New King James Version
When they went from one nation to another, And from one kingdom to another people,
New Life Bible
They traveled from nation to nation, from the people of one king to the people of another.
New Revised Standard
wandering from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people,
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And they wandered from nation to nation, and from one kingdom, to another people:
Douay-Rheims Bible
And they passed from nation to nation: and from a kingdom to another people.
Revised Standard Version
wandering from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people,
Young's Literal Translation
And they go up and down, From nation unto nation, And from a kingdom unto another people.
THE MESSAGE
They wandered from country to country, camped out in one kingdom after another; But he didn't let anyone push them around, he stood up for them against bully-kings: "Don't you dare touch my anointed ones, don't lay a hand on my prophets."
New American Standard Bible (1995)
And they wandered about from nation to nation, And from one kingdom to another people,

Contextual Overview

7 On that day David gave to Asaph and his fellow Levites this song of thanksgiving to the Lord : 8 Give thanks to the Lord and proclaim his greatness. Let the whole world know what he has done. 9 Sing to him; yes, sing his praises. Tell everyone about his wonderful deeds. 10 Exult in his holy name; rejoice, you who worship the Lord . 11 Search for the Lord and for his strength; continually seek him. 12 Remember the wonders he has performed, his miracles, and the rulings he has given, 13 you children of his servant Israel, you descendants of Jacob, his chosen ones. 14 He is the Lord our God. His justice is seen throughout the land. 15 Remember his covenant forever— the commitment he made to a thousand generations. 16 This is the covenant he made with Abraham and the oath he swore to Isaac.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

they went: Genesis 12:10, Genesis 20:1, Genesis 46:3, Genesis 46:6

Reciprocal: Exodus 2:22 - for he said

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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Barnes' Notes on the Bible

This passage is interposed by the writer of Chronicles between two sentences of the parallel passage in Samuel. It contains a detailed account of the service which David instituted at this time, a service out of which grew the more elaborate service of the temple. The language of much of the passage is remarkably archaic, and there can be no reasonable doubt that it is in the main an extract from a record of the time of David.

1 Chronicles 16:5

The occurrence of the name “Jeiel” twice in this list is considered suspicious. Hence, the first “Jeiel” is thought to be a corrupt reading for “Aziel” 1 Chronicles 15:20, or “Jaaziel” 1 Chronicles 15:18.

1 Chronicles 16:8

The Psalm here put before us by the Chronicler, as sung liturgically by Asaph and his brethren on the day of the ark’s entrance into Jerusalem, accords closely with the passages in the present Book of Psalms noted in the marg reff.

It is, apparently, a thanksgiving service composed for the occasion out of Psalms previously existing.

1 Chronicles 16:39

This is the first mention that we have of Gibeon as the place at which the tabernacle of the congregation now rested. Previously it had been at Nob 1 Samuel 21:1-6, from where it was removed probably at the time of the slaughter of the priests by Doeg 1 Samuel 22:18-19. It is uncertain whether Gibeon was regarded as a “high place” before the transfer to it of the tabernacle: hut thenceforth, until the completion of Solomon’s Temple, it was the “great high place” 1 Kings 3:4 - a second center of the national worship which for above 50 years was divided between Gibeon and Jerusalem.

1 Chronicles 16:40

Upon the altar of the burnt offering - The original altar of burnt-offering Exodus 27:1-8 continued at Gibeon with the tabernacle 2 Chronicles 1:3, 2 Chronicles 1:5. David must have erected a new altar for sacrifice at Jerusalem 1 Chronicles 16:1. The sacrifices commanded by the Law were, it appears, offered at the former place; at the latter were offered voluntary additional sacrifices.

1 Chronicles 16:41

The rest ... - Rather, “the rest of the chosen ones, who were mentioned by name.” The “chosen ones” were “mentioned by name” in 1 Chronicles 15:17-24. A portion of them, namely, those named in 1 Chronicles 16:5-6, conducted the service in Jerusalem; the remainder were employed in the worship at Gibeon.


 
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