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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge: 1 Chronicles 22

Chapter 22

Then David said, This is the house of the LORD God, and this is the altar of the burnt offering for Israel.

This is the house

David perhaps had some assurance that this was the place on which God designed that His house should be built; and perhaps it was this that induced him to buy not only the threshing-floor, but probably some adjacent ground also, as Calmet supposes, that there might be sufficient room for such a structure.

21:18-28 Genesis 28:17 Deuteronomy 12:5-7,11 2 Samuel 24:18 2 Chronicles 3:1 6:5,6 Psalms 78:60,67-69 132:13,14 John 4:20-22

and this is the altar

2 Kings 18:22 2 Chronicles 32:12

And David commanded to gather together the strangers that were in the land of Israel; and he set masons to hew wrought stones to build the house of God.

the strangers

1 Kings 9:20,21 2 Chronicles 2:17 8:7,8 Isaiah 61:5,6 Ephesians 2:12,19-22

masons

14:1 2 Samuel 5:11 1 Kings 5:17,18 6:7 7:9-12 2 Kings 12:12 22:6 Ezra 3:7

And David prepared iron in abundance for the nails for the doors of the gates, and for the joinings; and brass in abundance without weight;

prepared iron

29:2,7

without weight

14 1 Kings 7:47 2 Chronicles 4:18 Jeremiah 52:20

Also cedar trees in abundance: for the Zidonians and they of Tyre brought much cedar wood to David.

cedar trees

2 Samuel 5:11 1 Kings 5:6-10 2 Chronicles 2:3 Ezra 3:7

And David said, Solomon my son is young and tender, and the house that is to be builded for the LORD must be exceeding magnifical, of fame and of glory throughout all countries: I will therefore now make preparation for it. So David prepared abundantly before his death.

Solomon

29:1 1 Kings 3:7 2 Chronicles 13:7

exceeding

1 Kings 9:8 2 Chronicles 2:5 7:21 Ezra 3:12 Isaiah 64:11 Ezekiel 7:20 Haggai 2:3,9 Luke 21:5

David prepared

Deuteronomy 31:2-7 Ecclesiastes 9:10 John 3:30 4:37,38 9:4 13:1 2 Peter 1:13-15

Then he called for Solomon his son, and charged him to build an house for the LORD God of Israel.

charged him

Numbers 27:18,19,23 Deuteronomy 31:14,23 Matthew 28:18-20 Acts 1:2 20:25-31 1 Timothy 5:21 6:13-17 2 Timothy 4:1

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:

it was in

17:1-15 28:2-21 29:3 2 Samuel 7:2 1 Kings 8:17-19 2 Chronicles 6:7-9 Psalms 132:5

unto the name

Deuteronomy 12:5,11,21 1 Kings 8:16,20,29 9:3 2 Chronicles 2:4 Ezra 6:12

But the word of the LORD came to me, saying, Thou hast shed blood abundantly, and hast made great wars: thou shalt not build an house unto my name, because thou hast shed much blood upon the earth in my sight.

Thou has shed

28:3 Numbers 31:20,24 1 Kings 5:3

thou shalt not

17:4-10 2 Samuel 7:5-11

Behold, a son shall be born to thee, who shall be a man of rest; and I will give him rest from all his enemies round about: for his name shall be Solomon, and I will give peace and quietness unto Israel in his days.

a son

17:11 28:5-7 2 Samuel 7:12,13

I will give

1 Kings 4:20,25 5:4 Psalms 72:7 Isaiah 9:6,7

Solomon

that is, Peaceable.

2 Samuel 12:24,25

I will give peace

Judges 6:24 *marg:; Job 34:29 Isaiah 26:12 45:7 57:19 66:12 Haggai 2:9

He shall build an house for my name; and he shall be my son, and I will be his father; and I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel for ever.

He shall build

17:12,13 28:6 2 Samuel 7:13 1 Kings 5:5 8:19,20 Zechariah 6:12,13

he shall be

Psalms 89:26 Hebrews 1:5

I will establish

17:14 28:7 Psalms 89:36,37 Isaiah 9:7

Now, my son, the LORD be with thee; and prosper thou, and build the house of the LORD thy God, as he hath said of thee.

the Lord

16 28:20 Isaiah 26:12 Matthew 1:23 28:20 Romans 15:33 2 Timothy 4:22

Only the LORD give thee wisdom and understanding, and give thee charge concerning Israel, that thou mayest keep the law of the LORD thy God.

Only the

1 Kings 3:9-12 2 Chronicles 1:10 Psalms 72:1 Proverbs 2:6,7 Luke 21:15 James 1:5

that thou mayest

Deuteronomy 4:6 1 Kings 11:1-10 Proverbs 14:8 1 John 2:3

Then shalt thou prosper, if thou takest heed to fulfil the statutes and judgments which the LORD charged Moses with concerning Israel: be strong, and of good courage; dread not, nor be dismayed.

Then shalt

28:7 Joshua 1:7,8 *marg:; 1 Kings 2:3 2 Chronicles 20:20 Psalms 119:6 Jeremiah 22:3,4

to fulfil

Matthew 3:15 Acts 13:22 Galatians 6:2 James 2:8

be strong

28:10,20 Deuteronomy 31:7,8 Joshua 1:6-9,18 1 Corinthians 16:13 Ephesians 6:10 2 Timothy 2:1

Now, behold, in my trouble I have prepared for the house of the LORD an hundred thousand talents of gold, and a thousand thousand talents of silver; and of brass and iron without weight; for it is in abundance: timber also and stone have I prepared; and thou mayest add thereto.

trouble

or, poverty.

2 Corinthians 8:2

an hundred thousand

This, at 5,075£. 15s. 7Æd. the talent, would amount to the sum of 507,578,125£.

29:4-7 1 Kings 10:14

thousand thousand talents of silver

This, at 353£. 11s. 10d. the talent, would amount to 353,591,666£. 13s. 4d.; and both sums would amount to the immense sum of 868,169,791£. 13s. 4d.

without weight

3 2 Kings 25:16 Jeremiah 52:20

Moreover there are workmen with thee in abundance, hewers and workers of stone and timber, and all manner of cunning men for every manner of work.

hewers and workers of stone and timber

that is, masons and carpenters.

all manner

Exodus 28:6 31:3-5 35:32,35 1 Kings 7:14

Of the gold, the silver, and the brass, and the iron, there is no number. Arise therefore, and be doing, and the LORD be with thee.

the gold

3,14

Arise

Joshua 1:2,5,9 7:10 Judges 4:14 18:9,10 2 Chronicles 20:17 1 Corinthians 15:58 Ephesians 5:14 Philippians 2:12,13 4:13

and the Lord

11 1 Samuel 17:37 20:13

David also commanded all the princes of Israel to help Solomon his son, saying,

all the princes

28:21 29:6 Romans 16:2,3 Philippians 4:3 3 John 1:8

Is not the LORD your God with you? and hath he not given you rest on every side? for he hath given the inhabitants of the land into mine hand; and the land is subdued before the LORD, and before his people.

Is not

Judges 6:12-14 Romans 8:31

and hath

9 23:25 Deuteronomy 12:10,11 Joshua 22:4 23:1 2 Samuel 7:1 Acts 9:31

before the Lord

Deuteronomy 20:4 Joshua 10:42 1 Samuel 25:28 2 Samuel 5:19,20 Psalms 44:1-5

Now set your heart and your soul to seek the LORD your God; arise therefore, and build ye the sanctuary of the LORD God, to bring the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and the holy vessels of God, into the house that is to be built to the name of the LORD.

set your

16:11 28:9 Deuteronomy 4:29 32:46,47 Psalms 27:4 2 Chronicles 20:3 Daniel 9:3 Haggai 1:5 *marg:; Acts 11:23

arise

16 Isaiah 60:1 Acts 22:16

to bring

1 Kings 8:6,21 2 Chronicles 5:7 6:11

to the name

7 1 Kings 5:3