16O LORD our God, all this store that we have prepared to build thee an house for thine holy name cometh of thine hand, and is all thine own.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort? for all things come of thee, and of thine own have we given thee.
A Psalm of David. The earth is the LORD'S, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.
For she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold, which they prepared for Baal.
Then came the first, saying, Lord, thy pound hath gained ten pounds.
And Azariah the chief priest of the house of Zadok answered him, and said, Since the people began to bring the offerings into the house of the LORD, we have had enough to eat, and have left plenty: for the LORD hath blessed his people; and that which is left is this great store.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 10-22)We have here, I. The solemn address which David made to God upon occasion of the noble subscriptions of the princes towards the building of the temple (1 Chron. 29:10): Wherefore David blessed the Lord , not only alone in his closet, but before all the congregation . This I expected when we read (1 Chron. 29:9) that David rejoiced with great joy ; for such a devout man as he would no doubt make th…
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