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3Surely I will not come into the tabernacle of my house, nor go up into my bed;
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Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house lie waste?
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.
But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-10)In these verses we have Solomon’s address to God for his favour to him and to his government, and his acceptance of his building a house to God’s name. Observe, I. What he pleads—two things:— 1. That what he had done was in pursuance of the pious vow which his father David had made to build a house for God. Solomon was a wise man, yet pleads not any merit of his own: “I am not worthy, for whom tho…
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