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1 Chronicles 29:15 KJV
1 Chronicles · chapter 29 · verse 15
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.1 Chronicles 29:15 · King James Version
1 Chronicles 29:15 in context
13Now therefore, our God, we thank thee, and praise thy glorious name.
14But 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.
15For 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.
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.
17I 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.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- sojournerstôwshâbresident alienH8453 →
- strangersgêrproperly, a guestH1616 →
- fathersʼâbfather, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote applicationH1 →
- abidingmiqvehsomething waited forH4723 →
- beforepânîymthe faceH6440 →
- shadowtsêlshade, whether literal or figurativeH6738 →
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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 (Ch1 29:10): Wherefore David blessed the Lord, not only alone in his closet, but before all the congregation.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 10-22