1 Chronicles 29:15

Contextual Overview

¹⁰David praised the LORD in the presence of the whole assembly, saying, "Praise be to you, O LORD , God of our father Israel, from everlasting to everlasting. ¹⁰ David praised the Lord in the presence of the whole assembly, saying, "Praise be to you, Lord , the God of our father Israel, from everlasting to everlasting. ¹⁰So David blessed Yahweh in the sight of all the assembly; and David said, "Blessed are You, O Yahweh, the God of Israel our father, from everlasting to everlasting. ¹⁰ So David blessed the LORD in the sight of all the assembly; and David said, "Blessed are You, O LORD God of Israel our father, forever and ever. ¹⁰ And Dauid blessed the Lorde before all the congregation, and sayde: Blessed be thou Lorde God of Israel, our father from euer and for euer. ¹⁰ And David blessed Jehovah in the sight of all the congregation; and David said, Blessed be thou, Jehovah, the God of our father Israel, for ever and ever. ¹⁰ Therefore David blessed the LORD before all the assembly; and David said: "Blessed are You, LORD God of Israel, our Father, forever and ever. ¹⁰ And David blessed Jehovah before the eyes of all the congregation; and David said, Blessed are You, O Jehovah, the God of Israel, our father, for ever and ever. ¹⁰ Then David praised the Lord in front of all the people who were gathered together. David said, " Lord , the God of Israel, our Father, may you be praised forever and ever! ¹⁰ Therefore David blessed Yahweh before all the assembly; and David said, Blessed be you, Yahweh, the God of Israel our father, forever and ever.

Bible Verse Review
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For we: Genesis 47:9, Psalms 39:12, Psalms 119:19, Hebrews 11:13-16, 1 Peter 2:11

our days: Job 14:2, Psalms 90:9, Psalms 102:11, Psalms 144:4, Ecclesiastes 6:12, Isaiah 40:6-8, James 4:14

abiding: Heb. expectation

Reciprocal: Genesis 21:34 - General Genesis 23:4 - stranger Exodus 2:22 - for he said Leviticus 25:23 - for ye are 1 Chronicles 17:11 - when thy 2 Chronicles 6:10 - I am risen Job 8:9 - we are but Psalms 109:23 - gone 2 Corinthians 5:6 - whilst Ephesians 3:8 - is this 1 Peter 1:17 - pass

Cross-References

Genesis 30:28
He added, "Name your wages, and I will pay them."

Genesis 30:28
He added, "Name your wages, and I will pay them."

Genesis 30:28
And he continued to say, "Name me your wages, and I will give it."

Genesis 30:28
He continued, "Name me your wages, and I will give it."

Genesis 30:28
Also he sayde: Appoynt what thy rewarde shalbe, and I wyll geue [it thee.]

Genesis 30:28
Tell me what I should pay you, and I will give it to you."

Genesis 30:28
name your wages, and I will give it."

Genesis 30:28
He said, "Appoint me your wages, and I will give it."

Genesis 30:28
ordeyne thou the meede which Y schal yyue to thee.

Genesis 30:28
And he said, Appoint me thy wages, and I will giue it.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers,.... For though they were in possession of the land of Canaan, yet they held it not in their own right, but as the Lord's,

who said, the land is mine, Leviticus 25:23, they were but tenants in it, and were not to abide long here; they belonged to another city and country; the consideration of which might tend to set them loose to worldly things, and the more easily to part with them for the service of God, and the honour of his name:

our days on the earth are as a shadow; man's life is expressed by days, not months and years, being so short; and by days on earth, in distinction from the days of heaven, or eternity; and these said to be as a shadow, of a short continuance, empty, mutable, and uncertain, dark and obscure, quickly gone, like the shadow of the sun; and not only like that, or of a mountain, tree or wall; but, as the Targum, of a bird that is flying, which passes away at once:

and [there is] none abiding; not long, much less always, being but sojourners as before; so Cato in Cicero p is represented as saying,

"I depart out of this life as from an inn, and not an house; for nature has given us an inn to sojourn, not a place to dwell in:''

or "there is no hope or expectation" q; of living long, of recalling time, and of avoiding death.

p De Senectute, c. 23. q אין מקוה "non est expectatio sive spes", Pagninus, Montanus, Vatablus, Michaelis.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Chronicles 29:15. For we are strangers — We have here neither right nor property.

And sojourners — Lodging as it were for a night, in the mansion of another.

As were all our fathers — These were, as we are supported by thy bounty, and tenants at will to thee.

Our days on the earth are as a shadow] They are continually declining, fading, and passing away. This is the place of our sojourning, and here we have no substantial, permanent residence.

There is none abiding. — However we may wish to settle and remain in this state of things, it is impossible, because every earthly form is passing swiftly away, all is in a state of revolution and decay, and there is no abiding, מקוה mikveh, no expectation, that we shall be exempt from those changes and chances to which our fathers were subjected. "As the shadow of a bird flying in the air [ avir] of heaven, such are our days upon the earth; nor is there any hope to any son of man that he shall live for ever." - Targum.