1 Chronicles 17:6 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁶Wheresoever I have walked with all Israel, spake I a word to any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people, saying, Why have ye not built me an house of cedars?

1 Chronicles 17:6 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Samuel 7:7
In all the places wherein I have walked with all the children of Israel spake I a word with any of the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people Israel, saying, Why build ye not me an house of cedar?
Numbers 10:33-36
And they departed from the mount of the LORD three days' journey: and the ark of the covenant of the LORD went before them in the three days' journey, to search out a resting place for them. …
Jeremiah 23:4
And I will set up shepherds over them which shall feed them: and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall they be lacking, saith the LORD.
Acts 13:20
And after that he gave unto them judges about the space of four hundred and fifty years, until Samuel the prophet.
Matthew 2:6
And thou Bethlehem, in the land of Juda, art not the least among the princes of Juda: for out of thee shall come a Governor, that shall rule my people Israel.

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-15)

Let us observe here, I. How desirous and solicitous good people should be to serve the interests of God’s kingdom in the world, to the utmost of their capacity. David could not be easy in a house of cedar while the ark was lodged within curtains, 1 Chron. 17:1. The concerns of the public should always be near our hearts. What pleasure can we take in our own prosperity if we see not the good of Jer…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 6)

6. spake I a word to any of the judges--In 2Sa 7:7 it is “any of the tribes” of Israel. Both are included. But the judges “who were commanded to feed the people,” form the more suitable antithesis to David. Why have ye not built me an house of cedars?--that is, a solid and magnificent temple.