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1 Chronicles 17:6 KJV
1 Chronicles · chapter 17 · verse 6
Wheresoever 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 · King James Version
1 Chronicles 17:6 in context
4Go and tell David my servant, Thus saith the LORD, Thou shalt not build me an house to dwell in:
5For I have not dwelt in an house since the day that I brought up Israel unto this day; but have gone from tent to tent, and from one tabernacle to another.
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?
7Now therefore thus shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, even from following the sheep, that thou shouldest be ruler over my people Israel:
8And I have been with thee whithersoever thou hast walked, and have cut off all thine enemies from before thee, and have made thee a name like the name of the great men that are in the earth.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- commandedtsâvâhto constitute, enjoinH6680 →
- walkedhâlakto walkH1980 →
- IsraelYisrâʼêlJisrael, a symbolical name of JacobH3478 →
- judgesshâphaṭto judgeH8199 →
- peopleʻama peopleH5971 →
- sayingʼâmarto sayH559 →
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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, Ch1 17:1. The concerns of the public should always be near our hearts.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-15