1 Chronicles 29
Lutheran reading notes
In 1 Chronicles chapter 29, the account continues the story of genealogies and the reign of David with temple focus. Lutheran interpretation frequently highlights how these events reveal both human sinfulness and God’s faithful promises. The chapter demonstrates the tension between human failure and God’s ongoing grace working through history.
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Furthermore David the king said unto all the congregation, Solomon my son, whom alone God hath chosen, {is yet} young and tender, and the work {is} great: for the palace {is} not for man, but for the LORD God.
1 Chronicles 29:1 highlights covenant history and god’s providence with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Now I have prepared with all my might for the house of my God the gold for {things to be made} of gold, and the silver for {things} of silver, and the brass for {things} of brass, the iron for {things} of iron, and wood for {things} of wood; onyx stones, and {stones} to be set, glistering stones, and of divers colours, and all manner of precious stones, and marble stones in abundance.
1 Chronicles 29:2 highlights covenant history and god’s providence with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Moreover, because I have set my affection to the house of my God, I have of mine own proper good, of gold and silver, {which} I have given to the house of my God, over and above all that I have prepared for the holy house,
1 Chronicles 29:3 highlights covenant history and god’s providence with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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{Even} three thousand talents of gold, of the gold of Ophir, and seven thousand talents of refined silver, to overlay the walls of the houses {withal}:
1 Chronicles 29:4 highlights covenant history and god’s providence with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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The gold for {things} of gold, and the silver for {things} of silver, and for all manner of work {to be made} by the hands of artificers. And who {then} is willing to consecrate his service this day unto the LORD? {consecrate his service: Heb. fill his hand}
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Then the chief of the fathers and princes of the tribes of Israel, and the captains of thousands and of hundreds, with the rulers of the king's work, offered willingly,
1 Chronicles 29:6 highlights covenant history and god’s providence with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And gave for the service of the house of God of gold five thousand talents and ten thousand drams, and of silver ten thousand talents, and of brass eighteen thousand talents, and one hundred thousand talents of iron.
1 Chronicles 29:7 highlights covenant history and god’s providence with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And they with whom {precious} stones were found gave {them} to the treasure of the house of the LORD, by the hand of Jehiel the Gershonite.
1 Chronicles 29:8 highlights covenant history and god’s providence with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Then the people rejoiced, for that they offered willingly, because with perfect heart they offered willingly to the LORD: and David the king also rejoiced with great joy.
1 Chronicles 29:9 highlights covenant history and god’s providence with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Wherefore David blessed the LORD before all the congregation: and David said, Blessed {be} thou, LORD God of Israel our father, for ever and ever.
1 Chronicles 29:10 highlights covenant history and god’s providence with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Thine, O LORD, {is} the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all {that is} in the heaven and in the earth {is thine}; thine {is} the kingdom, O LORD, and thou art exalted as head above all.
1 Chronicles 29:11 highlights covenant history and god’s providence with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Both riches and honour {come} of thee, and thou reignest over all; and in thine hand {is} power and might; and in thine hand {it is} to make great, and to give strength unto all.
1 Chronicles 29:12 highlights covenant history and god’s providence with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Now therefore, our God, we thank thee, and praise thy glorious name.
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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. {be able: Heb. retain, or, obtain strength} {of thine...: Heb. of thine hand}
1 Chronicles 29:14 highlights covenant history and god’s providence with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For we {are} strangers before thee, and sojourners, as {were} all our fathers: our days on the earth {are} as a shadow, and {there is} none abiding. {abiding: Heb. expectation}
1 Chronicles 29:15 highlights covenant history and god’s providence with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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O 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.
1 Chronicles 29:16 highlights covenant history and god’s providence with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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I know also, my God, that thou triest the heart, and hast pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of mine heart I have willingly offered all these things: and now have I seen with joy thy people, which are present here, to offer willingly unto thee. {present: Heb. found}
1 Chronicles 29:17 highlights covenant history and god’s providence with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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O LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this for ever in the imagination of the thoughts of the heart of thy people, and prepare their heart unto thee: {prepare: or, stablish}
1 Chronicles 29:18 highlights covenant history and god’s providence with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And give unto Solomon my son a perfect heart, to keep thy commandments, thy testimonies, and thy statutes, and to do all {these things}, and to build the palace, {for} the which I have made provision.
1 Chronicles 29:19 highlights covenant history and god’s providence with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And David said to all the congregation, Now bless the LORD your God. And all the congregation blessed the LORD God of their fathers, and bowed down their heads, and worshipped the LORD, and the king.
1 Chronicles 29:20 highlights covenant history and god’s providence with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And they sacrificed sacrifices unto the LORD, and offered burnt offerings unto the LORD, on the morrow after that day, {even} a thousand bullocks, a thousand rams, {and} a thousand lambs, with their drink offerings, and sacrifices in abundance for all Israel:
1 Chronicles 29:21 highlights covenant history and god’s providence with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And did eat and drink before the LORD on that day with great gladness. And they made Solomon the son of David king the second time, and anointed {him} unto the LORD {to be} the chief governor, and Zadok {to be} priest.
1 Chronicles 29:22 highlights covenant history and god’s providence with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Then Solomon sat on the throne of the LORD as king instead of David his father, and prospered; and all Israel obeyed him.
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And all the princes, and the mighty men, and all the sons likewise of king David, submitted themselves unto Solomon the king. {submitted...: Heb. gave the hand under Solomon}
1 Chronicles 29:24 highlights covenant history and god’s providence with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And the LORD magnified Solomon exceedingly in the sight of all Israel, and bestowed upon him {such} royal majesty as had not been on any king before him in Israel.
1 Chronicles 29:25 highlights covenant history and god’s providence with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Thus David the son of Jesse reigned over all Israel.
1 Chronicles 29:26 highlights covenant history and god’s providence with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And the time that he reigned over Israel {was} forty years; seven years reigned he in Hebron, and thirty and three {years} reigned he in Jerusalem.
1 Chronicles 29:27 highlights covenant history and god’s providence with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And he died in a good old age, full of days, riches, and honour: and Solomon his son reigned in his stead.
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Now the acts of David the king, first and last, behold, they {are} written in the book of Samuel the seer, and in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the book of Gad the seer, {book: or, history: Heb. words}
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With all his reign and his might, and the times that went over him, and over Israel, and over all the kingdoms of the countries.
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