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1 Chronicles 22:17

Then David gave orders to all the chiefs of Israel to give their help to Solomon his son, saying,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - David;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Temple, the First;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Worship;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Chronicles, Books of;   Masons;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Chronicles, I;   Solomon;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Temple;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Then David ordered all the leaders of Israel to help his son Solomon:
Hebrew Names Version
David also commanded all the princes of Yisra'el to help Shlomo his son, [saying],
King James Version
David also commanded all the princes of Israel to help Solomon his son, saying,
English Standard Version
David also commanded all the leaders of Israel to help Solomon his son, saying,
New Century Version
Then David ordered all the leaders of Israel to help his son Solomon.
New English Translation
David ordered all the officials of Israel to support his son Solomon.
Amplified Bible
David also commanded all the leaders of Israel to help Solomon his son, saying,
New American Standard Bible
David also commanded all the leaders of Israel to help his son Solomon, saying,
World English Bible
David also commanded all the princes of Israel to help Solomon his son, [saying],
Geneva Bible (1587)
Dauid also commanded all the princes of Israel to helpe Salomon his sonne, saying,
Legacy Standard Bible
David also commanded all the officials of Israel to help his son Solomon, saying,
Berean Standard Bible
Then David ordered all the leaders of Israel to help his son Solomon:
Contemporary English Version
David then gave orders for the leaders of Israel to help Solomon.
Complete Jewish Bible
David also ordered all the leaders of Isra'el to help Shlomo his son:
Darby Translation
And David commanded all the princes of Israel to help Solomon his son, [saying,]
Easy-to-Read Version
Then David ordered all the leaders of Israel to help his son Solomon.
George Lamsa Translation
David also commanded all the elders of Israel, saying, You must help Solomon my son.
Good News Translation
David commanded all the leaders of Israel to help Solomon.
Lexham English Bible
And David commanded all the commanders of Israel to help Solomon his son, saying,
Literal Translation
And David commanded all the rulers of Israel to give help to his son Solomon:
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And Dauid commaunded all the rulers of Israel, to helpe Salomon his sonne, and sayde:
American Standard Version
David also commanded all the princes of Israel to help Solomon his son, saying,
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And Dauid commaunded al the lordes of Israel to helpe Solomon his sonne, saying:
JPS Old Testament (1917)
David also commanded all the princes of Israel to help Solomon his son:
King James Version (1611)
Dauid also commanded all the Princes of Israel to helpe Solomon his sonne, saying,
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And David charged all the chief men of Israel to help Solomon his son, saying,
English Revised Version
David also commanded all the princes of Israel to help Solomon his son, [saying],
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Also Dauid comaundide to alle the princis of Israel, that thei schulden helpe Salomon,
Update Bible Version
David also commanded all the princes of Israel to help Solomon his son, [saying],
Webster's Bible Translation
David also commanded all the princes of Israel to help Solomon his son, [saying],
New King James Version
David also commanded all the leaders of Israel to help Solomon his son, saying,
New Living Translation
Then David ordered all the leaders of Israel to assist Solomon in this project.
New Life Bible
David told all the leaders of Israel to help his son Solomon. He said to them,
New Revised Standard
David also commanded all the leaders of Israel to help his son Solomon, saying,
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And David charged all the rulers of Israel, to help Solomon his son: -
Douay-Rheims Bible
David also charged all the princes of Israel, to help Solomon his son,
Revised Standard Version
David also commanded all the leaders of Israel to help Solomon his son, saying,
Young's Literal Translation
And David giveth charge to all heads of Israel to give help to Solomon his son,
THE MESSAGE
David gave orders to all of Israel's leaders to help his son Solomon, saying, "Isn't it obvious that your God is present with you; that he has given you peaceful relations with everyone around? My part in this was to put down the enemies, subdue the land to God and his people; your part is to give yourselves, heart and soul, to praying to your God . So get moving—build the sacred house of worship to God ! Then bring the Chest of the Covenant of God and all the holy furnishings for the worship of God into the sanctuary built in honor of God ."
New American Standard Bible (1995)
David also commanded all the leaders of Israel to help his son Solomon, saying,

Contextual Overview

17 Then David gave orders to all the chiefs of Israel to give their help to Solomon his son, saying, 18 Is not the Lord your God with you? and has he not given you rest on every side? for the Lord has given the people of the land into my hands, and the land is overcome before the Lord and before his people. 19 Now give your heart and soul to the worship of the Lord your God; and get to work on the building of the holy place of the Lord God, so that you may put the ark of the Lord's agreement and the holy vessels of God in the house which is to be made for the name of the Lord.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

all the princes: 1 Chronicles 28:21, 1 Chronicles 29:6, Romans 16:2, Romans 16:3, Philippians 4:3, 3 John 1:8

Reciprocal: Numbers 20:28 - put them 1 Chronicles 29:24 - all the princes

Cross-References

Genesis 12:2
And I will make of you a great nation, blessing you and making your name great; and you will be a blessing:
Genesis 13:16
And I will make your children like the dust of the earth, so that if the dust of the earth may be numbered, then will your children be numbered.
Genesis 15:5
And he took him out into the open air, and said to him, Let your eyes be lifted to heaven, and see if the stars may be numbered; even so will your seed be.
Genesis 17:6
I will make you very fertile, so that nations will come from you and kings will be your offspring.
Genesis 22:1
Now after these things, God put Abraham to the test, and said to him, Abraham; and he said, Here am I.
Genesis 22:2
And he said to him, Take your son, your dearly loved only son Isaac, and go to the land of Moriah and give him as a burned offering on one of the mountains of which I will give you knowledge.
Genesis 22:8
And Abraham said, God himself will give the lamb for the burned offering: so they went on together.
Genesis 22:9
And they came to the place of which God had given him knowledge; and there Abraham made the altar and put the wood in place on it, and having made tight the bands round Isaac his son, he put him on the wood on the altar.
Genesis 22:10
And stretching out his hand, Abraham took the knife to put his son to death.
Genesis 22:13
And lifting up his eyes, Abraham saw a sheep fixed by its horns in the brushwood: and Abraham took the sheep and made a burned offering of it in place of his son.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

David also commanded all the princes of Israel,.... His courtiers and nobles that were about him:

to help Solomon his son; by their advice, and with their purses, should he need them, and by overlooking the workmen, directing and encouraging them:

saying; as follows.


 
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