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1 Chronicles 16:13

you offspring of Israel his servant,Jacob’s descendants—his chosen ones.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Jacob;   Music;   Praise;   Psalms;   The Topic Concordance - Choosing/chosen;   God;   Israel/jews;   Servants;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Jews, the;   Titles and Names of Saints;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Forgiveness;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Chronicles, Books of;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Zerubbabel;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Poetry;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Chronicles, I;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Chosen of god;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
You seed of Yisra'el his servant, You children of Ya`akov, his chosen ones.
King James Version
O ye seed of Israel his servant, ye children of Jacob, his chosen ones.
English Standard Version
O offspring of Israel his servant, children of Jacob, his chosen ones!
New Century Version
You are the descendants of his servant, Israel; you are the children of Jacob, his chosen people.
New English Translation
O children of Israel, God's servant, you descendants of Jacob, God's chosen ones!
Amplified Bible
O seed of Israel His servant, Children of Jacob, His chosen ones!
New American Standard Bible
You descendants of Israel His servant, Sons of Jacob, His chosen ones!
World English Bible
You seed of Israel his servant, You children of Jacob, his chosen ones.
Geneva Bible (1587)
O seede of Israel his seruant, O the children of Iaakob his chosen.
Legacy Standard Bible
O seed of Israel His servant,O sons of Jacob, His chosen ones!
Berean Standard Bible
O offspring of His servant Israel, O sons of Jacob, His chosen ones.
Contemporary English Version
You belong to the family of Israel, his servant; you are his chosen ones, the descendants of Jacob.
Complete Jewish Bible
You descendants of Isra'el his servant, you offspring of Ya‘akov, his chosen ones:
Darby Translation
Ye seed of Israel his servant, Ye sons of Jacob, his chosen ones.
Easy-to-Read Version
The people of Israel are his servants. The descendants of Jacob are his chosen people.
George Lamsa Translation
O you descendants of Abraham his servant, children of Jacob, his chosen ones.
Lexham English Bible
O offspring of Israel, his servant, O sons of Jacob, his chosen ones!
Literal Translation
O seed of Israel, His servant; O sons of Jacob, His elect.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Ye sede of Israel his seruaunt, ye children of Iacob his chosen.
American Standard Version
O ye seed of Israel his servant, Ye children of Jacob, his chosen ones.
Bible in Basic English
O you seed of Israel his servant, you children of Jacob, his loved ones.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
O ye seede of Abraham his seruaunt, ye his chosen children of Iacob:
JPS Old Testament (1917)
O ye seed of Israel His servant, ye children of Jacob, His chosen ones.
King James Version (1611)
O ye seed of Israel his seruant, ye children of Iacob his chosen ones.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
ye seed of Israel his servants, ye seed of Jacob his chosen ones.
English Revised Version
O ye seed of Israel his servant, ye children of Jacob, his chosen ones.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The seed of Israel, his seruaunt, preise thou God; the sones of Jacob, his chosun, preise ye God.
Update Bible Version
O you seed of Israel his slave, You sons of Jacob, his chosen ones.
Webster's Bible Translation
O ye seed of Israel his servant, ye children of Jacob, his chosen ones.
New King James Version
O seed of Israel His servant, You children of Jacob, His chosen ones!
New Living Translation
you children of his servant Israel, you descendants of Jacob, his chosen ones.
New Life Bible
O children of Israel His servant, sons of Jacob, His chosen ones!
New Revised Standard
O offspring of his servant Israel, children of Jacob, his chosen ones.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
O ye seed of Israel his servant, sons of Jacob his chosen ones:
Douay-Rheims Bible
O ye seed of Israel his servants, ye children of Jacob his chosen.
Revised Standard Version
O offspring of Abraham his servant, sons of Jacob, his chosen ones!
Young's Literal Translation
O seed of Israel, His servant, O sons of Jacob, His chosen ones!
New American Standard Bible (1995)
O seed of Israel His servant, Sons of Jacob, His chosen ones!

Contextual Overview

7On that day David decreed for the first time that thanks be given to the Lord by Asaph and his relatives: 8Give thanks to the Lord; call on his name;proclaim his deeds among the peoples. 9Sing to him; sing praise to him;tell about all his wondrous works! 10Honor his holy name;let the hearts of those who seek the Lord rejoice. 11Seek the Lord and his strength;seek his face always. 12Remember the wondrous works he has done,his wonders, and the judgments he has pronounced, 13you offspring of Israel his servant,Jacob’s descendants—his chosen ones.14He is the Lord our God;his judgments govern the whole earth. 15Remember his covenant forever—the promise he ordained for a thousand generations, 16the covenant he made with Abraham,swore to Isaac,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

ye seed: Genesis 17:7, Genesis 28:13, Genesis 28:14, Genesis 35:10-12

his chosen: Exodus 19:5, Exodus 19:6, Deuteronomy 7:6, Psalms 135:4, 1 Peter 2:9

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 17:20 - all the seed Psalms 22:23 - all ye the Isaiah 43:20 - my chosen Isaiah 45:25 - the seed

Cross-References

Genesis 16:1
Abram’s wife Sarai had not borne any children for him, but she owned an Egyptian slave named Hagar.
Genesis 16:5
Then Sarai said to Abram, “You are responsible for my suffering! I put my slave in your arms, and when she saw that she was pregnant, I became contemptible to her. May the Lord judge between me and you.”
Genesis 16:7
The angel of the Lord found her by a spring in the wilderness, the spring on the way to Shur.
Genesis 16:9
The angel of the Lord said to her, “Go back to your mistress and submit to her authority.”
Genesis 16:10
The angel of the Lord said to her, “I will greatly multiply your offspring, and they will be too many to count.”
Genesis 16:12
This man will be like a wild donkey. His hand will be against everyone, and everyone’s hand will be against him; he will settle near all his relatives.”
Genesis 22:14
And Abraham named that place The Lord Will Provide, so today it is said: “It will be provided on the Lord’s mountain.”
Genesis 28:17
He was afraid and said, “What an awesome place this is! This is none other than the house of God. This is the gate of heaven.”
Genesis 31:42
If the God of my father, the God of Abraham, the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, certainly now you would have sent me off empty-handed. But God has seen my affliction and my hard work, and he issued his verdict last night.”
Judges 6:24
So Gideon built an altar to the Lord there and called it The Lord Is Peace. It is still in Ophrah of the Abiezrites today.

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.


 
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