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Myles Coverdale Bible

1 Chronicles 16:11

O seke the LORDE and his strength, seke his face euermore.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Music;   Perseverance;   Praise;   Prayer;   Psalms;   Seekers;   Thompson Chain Reference - Prayer;   The Topic Concordance - Choosing/chosen;   God;   Israel/jews;   Remembrance;   Seeking;   Servants;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Perseverance;   Seeking God;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Knowledge of God;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Chronicles, Books of;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Zerubbabel;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Poetry;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Chronicles, I;  

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

7 At the same tyme ordeyned Dauid first of all to geue thakes vnto the LORDE by Assaph and his brethren. 8 O geue thankes vnto the LORDE, call vpon his name, tell the people what thinges he hath done. 9 O let youre songes be of him: prayse him, and let youre talkynge be of all his wonderous workes. 10 Geue his holy name a good reporte: let ye hert of them reioyce, that seke the LORDE. 11 O seke the LORDE and his strength, seke his face euermore. 12 Remebre his maruelous workes that he hath done, his wonders, and the iudgmetes of his mouth. 13 Ye sede of Israel his seruaunt, ye children of Iacob his chosen. 14 He is the LORDE oure God, his iudgmetes are in all londes. 15 Be myndefull euer of his couenaut what he hath commaunded in to a thousande generacions. 16 Which he made with Abraham, & his ooth vnto 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
Then sayde God: Yee euen Sara thy wyfe shall beare the a sonne, and thou shalt call his name Isaac: for with him wil I make my euerlastinge couenaunt, and with his sede after him.
Exodus 3:7
And the LORDE sayde: I haue sene the trouble of my people in Egipte & haue herde their crye ouer those that oppresse them. I knowe their sorowe,
Exodus 3:9
For so moch now as the complaynte of the children of Israel is come before me, & I haue sene their oppression wherwith the Egipcians oppresse them:
1 Samuel 1:20
And after certayne dayes, she coceaued and bare a sonne, and called his name Samuel, for I haue desyred him (sayde she) of the LORDE.
Job 38:41
who prouydeth meate for the rauen, whe his yonge ones crie vnto God, ad fle aboute for want of meate?
Psalms 22:24
For he hath not despysed ner abhorred the myserable estate of the poore: he hath not hyd his face fro me, but whe I called vnto him, he herde me.
Isaiah 7:14
And therfore the LORDE shal geue you a token of himself: Beholde, a virgin shal coceaue and beare a sonne, and shal call his name Emanuel.
Luke 1:13
But the angell sayde vnto him: Feare not Zachary, for thy prayer is herde. And yi wife Elizabeth shal beare the a sonne, whose name thou shalt call Ihon,
Luke 1:31
Beholde, thou shalt coceaue in thy wobe, & beare a sonne & shalt call his name Iesus:
Luke 1:63
And he axed for wrytinge tables, wrote & sayde: His name is Ihon. And they marueyled all.

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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