1 Chronicles 16:11

Amplified Bible

Seek the LORD and His strength; Seek His face continually [longing to be in His presence].

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Seek the Lord and his strength;seek his face always.

Hebrew Names Version
Seek you the LORD and his strength; Seek his face forever more.

King James Version
Seek the Lord and his strength, seek his face continually.

English Standard Version
Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually!

New Century Version
Depend on the Lord and his strength; always go to him for help.

New English Translation
Seek the Lord and the strength he gives! Seek his presence continually!

New American Standard Bible
Seek the LORD and His strength; Seek His face continually.

World English Bible
Seek you Yahweh and his strength; Seek his face forever more.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Seeke the Lord and his strength: seeke his face continually.

Legacy Standard Bible
Inquire of Yahweh and His strength;Seek His face continually.

Berean Standard Bible
Seek out the LORD and His strength; seek His face always.

Contemporary English Version
Trust the Lord and his mighty power. Worship him always.

Complete Jewish Bible
Seek Adonai and his strength; always seek his presence.

Darby Translation
Seek Jehovah and his strength, Seek his face continually;

Easy-to-Read Version
Depend on the Lord for strength. Always go to him for help.

George Lamsa Translation
Seek the LORD and his strength, pray before him continually.

Good News Translation
Go to the Lord for help, and worship him continually.

Lexham English Bible
Seek Yahweh and his strength; seek his face continually!

Literal Translation
Seek Jehovah and His strength, seek His face continually.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
O seke the LORDE and his strength, seke his face euermore.

American Standard Version
Seek ye Jehovah and his strength; Seek his face evermore.

Bible in Basic English
Let your search be for the Lord and for his strength; let your hearts ever be turned to him.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Seeke God and his strength: seeke his face euermore.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Seek ye the LORD and His strength; seek His face continually.

King James Version (1611)
Seeke the Lord, and his strength, seeke his face continually.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Seek the Lord and be strong, seek his face continually.

English Revised Version
Seek ye the LORD and his strength; seek his face evermore.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Seke ye the Lord and his vertu; seke ye euere his face.

Update Bible Version
Seek Yahweh and his strength; Seek his face evermore.

Webster's Bible Translation
Seek the LORD and his strength, seek his face continually.

New King James Version
Seek the LORD and His strength; Seek His face evermore!

New Living Translation
Search for the Lord and for his strength; continually seek him.

New Life Bible
Look to the Lord and ask for His strength. Look to Him all the time.

New Revised Standard
Seek the Lord and his strength, seek his presence continually.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Search out Yahweh, and his power, Seek diligently his face, at all times.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Seek ye the Lord, and his power: seek ye his face evermore.

Revised Standard Version
Seek the LORD and his strength, seek his presence continually!

Young's Literal Translation
Seek ye Jehovah and His strength, Seek His face continually.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Seek the LORD and His strength; Seek His face continually.

Contextual Overview

⁷Then on that day David first entrusted to Asaph and his relatives to give thanks to the LORD [as their chief task]. ⁸O give thanks to the LORD, call on His name; Make His deeds known among the peoples. ⁹Sing to Him, sing praises to Him; Speak of all His wonders. ¹⁰Glory in His holy name; Let the hearts of those who seek the LORD rejoice. ¹¹Seek the LORD and His strength; Seek His face continually [longing to be in His presence].¹²Remember [with gratitude] His marvelous deeds which He has done, His miracles and the judgments from His mouth, ¹³O seed of Israel His servant, Children of Jacob, His chosen ones! ¹⁴He is the LORD our God; His judgments are in all the earth. ¹⁵Be mindful of His covenant forever, The promise which He commanded and established to a thousand generations, ¹⁶The covenant which He made with Abraham, And His oath (sworn promise) to Isaac.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Seek: Amos 5:6, Zephaniah 2:2, Zephaniah 2:3

his strength: 2 Chronicles 6:41, Psalms 68:35, Psalms 78:61

seek his: Psalms 4:6, Psalms 27:8, Psalms 27:9, Psalms 67:1

Reciprocal: 1 Chronicles 22:19 - set your 2 Chronicles 30:25 - rejoiced Psalms 63:2 - To see Daniel 6:20 - servest

Cross-References

Genesis 17:19
But God said, "No, Sarah your wife shall bear you a son indeed, and you shall name him Isaac (laughter); and I will establish My covenant with him for an everlasting covenant and with his descendants after him.

Exodus 3:7
The LORD said, "I have in fact seen the affliction (suffering, desolation) of My people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters (oppressors); for I know their pain and suffering.

Exodus 3:9
"Now, behold, the cry of the children of Israel has come to Me; and I have also seen how the Egyptians oppress them.

1 Samuel 1:20
It came about in due time, after Hannah had conceived, that she gave birth to a son; she named him Samuel, saying, "Because I have asked for him from the LORD."

Job 38:41
"Who provides prey for the raven When its young cry to God And wander about without food?

Psalms 22:24
For He has not despised nor detested the suffering of the afflicted; Nor has He hidden His face from him; But when he cried to Him for help, He listened.

Isaiah 7:14
"Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Listen carefully, the virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and she will call his name Immanuel (God with us).

Luke 1:13
But the angel said to him, "Do not be afraid, Zacharias, because your petition [in prayer] was heard, and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you will name him John.

Luke 1:31
"Listen carefully: you will conceive in your womb and give birth to a son, and you shall name Him Jesus.

Luke 1:63
And he asked for a writing tablet and wrote as follows, "His name is John." And they were all astonished.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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Barnes' Notes on the Bible

This passage is interposed by the writer of Chronicles between two sentences of the parallel passage in Samuel. It contains a detailed account of the service which David instituted at this time, a service out of which grew the more elaborate service of the temple. The language of much of the passage is remarkably archaic, and there can be no reasonable doubt that it is in the main an extract from a record of the time of David.

1 Chronicles 16:5

The occurrence of the name “Jeiel” twice in this list is considered suspicious. Hence, the first “Jeiel” is thought to be a corrupt reading for “Aziel” 1 Chronicles 15:20, or “Jaaziel” 1 Chronicles 15:18.

1 Chronicles 16:8

The Psalm here put before us by the Chronicler, as sung liturgically by Asaph and his brethren on the day of the ark’s entrance into Jerusalem, accords closely with the passages in the present Book of Psalms noted in the marg reff.

It is, apparently, a thanksgiving service composed for the occasion out of Psalms previously existing.

1 Chronicles 16:39

This is the first mention that we have of Gibeon as the place at which the tabernacle of the congregation now rested. Previously it had been at Nob 1 Samuel 21:1-6, from where it was removed probably at the time of the slaughter of the priests by Doeg 1 Samuel 22:18-19. It is uncertain whether Gibeon was regarded as a “high place” before the transfer to it of the tabernacle: hut thenceforth, until the completion of Solomon’s Temple, it was the “great high place” 1 Kings 3:4 - a second center of the national worship which for above 50 years was divided between Gibeon and Jerusalem.

1 Chronicles 16:40

Upon the altar of the burnt offering - The original altar of burnt-offering Exodus 27:1-8 continued at Gibeon with the tabernacle 2 Chronicles 1:3, 2 Chronicles 1:5. David must have erected a new altar for sacrifice at Jerusalem 1 Chronicles 16:1. The sacrifices commanded by the Law were, it appears, offered at the former place; at the latter were offered voluntary additional sacrifices.

1 Chronicles 16:41

The rest ... - Rather, “the rest of the chosen ones, who were mentioned by name.” The “chosen ones” were “mentioned by name” in 1 Chronicles 15:17-24. A portion of them, namely, those named in 1 Chronicles 16:5-6, conducted the service in Jerusalem; the remainder were employed in the worship at Gibeon.