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Texts -- 1 Chronicles 22:8-19 (NET)

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22:8 But the Lord said to me: ‘You have spilled a great deal of blood and fought many battles . You must not build a temple to honor me, for you have spilled a great deal of blood on the ground before me. 22:9 Look , you will have a son , who will be a peaceful man . I will give him rest from all his enemies on every side . Indeed , Solomon will be his name ; I will give Israel peace and quiet during his reign. 22:10 He will build a temple to honor me; he will become my son , and I will become his father . I will grant to his dynasty permanent rule over Israel .’ 22:11 “Now , my son , may the Lord be with you! May you succeed and build a temple for the Lord your God , just as he announced you would. 22:12 Only may the Lord give you insight and understanding when he places you in charge of Israel , so you may obey the law of the Lord your God . 22:13 Then you will succeed , if you carefully obey the rules and regulations which the Lord ordered Moses to give to Israel . Be strong and brave ! Don’t be afraid and don’t panic ! 22:14 Now, look , I have made every effort to supply what is needed to build the Lord’s temple . I have stored up 100,000 talents of gold , 1,000,000 talents of silver , and so much bronze and iron it cannot be weighed , as well as wood and stones . Feel free to add more ! 22:15 You also have available many workers , including stonecutters , masons, carpenters , and an innumerable array of workers who are skilled 22:16 in using gold , silver , bronze , and iron . Get up and begin the work ! May the Lord be with you!” 22:17 David ordered all the officials of Israel to support his son Solomon . 22:18 He told them, “The Lord your God is with you! He has made you secure on every side , for he handed over to me the inhabitants of the region and the region is subdued before the Lord and his people . 22:19 Now seek the Lord your God wholeheartedly and with your entire being ! Get up and build the sanctuary of the Lord God ! Then you can bring the ark of the Lord’s covenant and the holy items dedicated to God’s service into the temple that is built to honor the Lord .”

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  • [1Ch 22:13] Be Strong!
  • [1Ch 22:13] Courage, Brother, Do Not Stumble
  • [1Ch 22:13] March On, O Soul, With Strength

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Expository Notes on the Bible (Constable)

  • The Book of Samuel covers the period of Israel's history bracketed by Samuel's conception and the end of David's reign. David turned the kingdom over to Solomon in 971 B.C.3David reigned for 40 and one-half years (2 Sam. 2:11...
  • It was when God had subdued all of David's enemies that He gave this covenant to him (vv. 1, 9). Those enemies included the Ammonites with whom David was at war when he committed adultery with Bathsheba and had her husband Ur...
  • The promises Yahweh made to David here are an important key to understanding God's program for the future.God rejected David's suggestion that he build a temple for the Lord and gave three reasons. First, there was no pressin...
  • Absalom was never Yahweh's choice to succeed David (cf. 12:24-25; 1 Chron. 22:9-10). Therefore his attempt to dethrone the Lord's anointed was contrary to God's will and doomed to fail from the beginning. Even though he was p...
  • Adonijah was David's fourth son (2 Sam. 3:4) and the eldest one living at this time. Evidently he believed it was more important that the eldest son succeed David, as was customary in the Near East, than that the king of Yahw...
  • Chronicles covers a broader period of history than any other Old Testament book. It begins with Adam and ends with Anani who lived eight generations after King Jehoiachin (1 Chron. 3:24). If we allow 25 years for each generat...
  • The central subject of 1 and 2 Chronicles is the temple of God. Someone evidently wrote these books at the end of the Babylonian exile to encourage the Israelites to reestablish Israel's national life in the Promised Land. In...
  • I. Israel's historical roots chs. 1-9A. The lineage of David chs. 1-3B. The house of Israel chs. 4-71. The family of Judah 4:1-232. The family of Simeon 4:24-433. The families of Transjordan ch. 54. The family of Levi ch. 65....
  • "Having established the remnant's genealogical link with the Davidic and priestly lines, he [the writer] focused on the groundwork of the Davidic promises. His design was to show how the kingly and priestly concerns came toge...
  • "In the Chronicler's eyes David's reign consisted of two great religious phases, his movement of the ark to Jerusalem (chs. 13-16) and his preparations for the building of the temple (chs. 17-19 or at least 17-22, 28, 29). Th...
  • The dominating theme in 1 Chronicles is the Davidic Covenant, the receiving of which was the most important event in David's life. God promised to give him an eternal kingdom, and He formalized that promise by making a covena...
  • The main reason God did not allow David to proceed with his plans to build Him a house (temple) was that God, not David, was sovereign. A secondary reason was that David was a man of war (22:8; 28:3). God reserved the right t...
  • In this section of chapters we have David's preparations for the fulfillment of those aspects of the covenant that extended beyond his reign. We can see David's belief that God would fulfill the rest of His promises in the wa...
  • This chapter is unique to Chronicles. It records David's plans to assemble building materials and workers for the construction of the temple. He instructed Solomon carefully in what God had promised so his son would carry out...
  • David also organized his army (vv. 1-15), Israel's tribal leaders (vv. 16-24), his administrators (vv. 25-31), and his counselors and advisers (vv. 32-34). He did all this to insure future stability so what God had promised c...
  • A primary concern of the Chronicler, the evidence of which is his selection of material and emphases, was the promise of a King who would eventually come and rule over God's people. God had fulfilled some of the Davidic Coven...
  • The Chronicler's main interest in David's reign, as we have seen, focused on the Davidic Covenant with its promises to David and his descendants. In recounting the events of Solomon's reign he proceeded to emphasize the templ...
  • Solomon had some serious weaknesses that the writer of Kings pointed out. However the Chronicler presented a generally positive picture of this great ruler because Solomon did well regarding Yahweh worship at the temple. His ...
  • God blessed Solomon by giving him good relations with King Hiram of Tyre (v. 1). Hiram evidently returned the cities Solomon had previously given to him (v. 2; cf. 1 Kings 9:10-14). Solomon developed these towns. Solomon also...

Expositions Of Holy Scripture (Maclaren)

  • Then he called for Solomon his son, and charged him to build an house for the Lord God of Israel. 7. And David said to Solomon, My son, as for me, it was in my mind to build an house unto the name of the Lord my God: 8. But t...
  • But earnest desire that he may be worthy of the honour which falls to him. Petitions and exhortations are closely blended in it, and, though the work which Solomon is called to do is of an external sort, the qualifications la...
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