1 Chronicles 16:20

THE MESSAGE

They wandered from country to country, camped out in one kingdom after another; But he didn't let anyone push them around, he stood up for them against bully-kings: "Don't you dare touch my anointed ones, don't lay a hand on my prophets."

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
wandering from nation to nationand from one kingdom to another,

Hebrew Names Version
They went about from nation to nation, From one kingdom to another people.

King James Version
And when they went from nation to nation, and from one kingdom to another people;

English Standard Version
wandering from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people,

New Century Version
They went from one nation to another, from one kingdom to another.

New English Translation
they wandered from nation to nation, and from one kingdom to another.

Amplified Bible
When they wandered from nation to nation, And from one kingdom to another people,

New American Standard Bible
And they wandered from nation to nation, And from one kingdom to another people,

World English Bible
They went about from nation to nation, From one kingdom to another people.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And walked about from nation to nation, and from one kingdome to another people,

Legacy Standard Bible
And they wandered about from nation to nation,And from one kingdom to another people,

Berean Standard Bible
they wandered from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another.

Contemporary English Version
We wandered from nation to nation, from one country to another.

Complete Jewish Bible
wandering from nation to nation, from this kingdom to that people,

Darby Translation
And they went from nation to nation, And from one kingdom to another people.

Easy-to-Read Version
They traveled around from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another.

George Lamsa Translation
And when you were carried away captive from nation to nation and from kingdom to another kingdom,

Good News Translation
They wandered from country to country, from one kingdom to another.

Lexham English Bible
when they wandered from nation to nation, and from one kingdom to another people,

Literal Translation
and they went up and down, from nation to nation, and from one kingdom to another people.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And they wente from one nacion to another, & from one realme to another people.

American Standard Version
And they went about from nation to nation, And from one kingdom to another people.

Bible in Basic English
When they went about from one nation to another, and from one kingdom to another people;

Bishop's Bible (1568)
and when they went from one nation to another, from one kingdome to another people,

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And when they went about from nation to nation, and from one kingdom to another people,

King James Version (1611)
And when they went from nation to nation, and from one kingdome to another people:

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and went from nation to nation, and from one kingdom to another people.

English Revised Version
And they went about from nation to nation, and from one kingdom to another people.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And thei passiden fro folk in to the folk; and fro a rewme to another puple.

Update Bible Version
And they went about from nation to nation, And from one kingdom to another people.

Webster's Bible Translation
And [when] they went from nation to nation, and from [one] kingdom to another people;

New King James Version
When they went from one nation to another, And from one kingdom to another people,

New Living Translation
They wandered from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another.

New Life Bible
They traveled from nation to nation, from the people of one king to the people of another.

New Revised Standard
wandering from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And they wandered from nation to nation, and from one kingdom, to another people:

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they passed from nation to nation: and from a kingdom to another people.

Revised Standard Version
wandering from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people,

Young's Literal Translation
And they go up and down, From nation unto nation, And from a kingdom unto another people.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
And they wandered about from nation to nation, And from one kingdom to another people,

Contextual Overview

⁷ That was the day that David inaugurated regular worship of praise to God , led by Asaph and his company. ⁸Thank God ! Call out his Name! Tell the whole world who he is and what he's done! Sing to him! Play songs for him! Broadcast all his wonders! Revel in his holy Name, God -seekers, be jubilant! Study God and his strength, seek his presence day and night; Remember all the wonders he performed, the miracles and judgments that came out of his mouth. Seed of Israel his servant! Children of Jacob, his first choice! He is God , our God; wherever you go you come on his judgments and decisions. He keeps his commitments across thousands of generations, the covenant he commanded, The same one he made with Abraham, the very one he swore to Isaac; He posted it in big block letters to Jacob, this eternal covenant with Israel: "I give you the land of Canaan, this is your inheritance; Even though you're not much to look at, a few straggling strangers." ²⁰They wandered from country to country, camped out in one kingdom after another; But he didn't let anyone push them around, he stood up for them against bully-kings: "Don't you dare touch my anointed ones, don't lay a hand on my prophets." ²³Sing to God , everyone and everything! Get out his salvation news every day! Publish his glory among the godless nations, his wonders to all races and religions. And why? Because God is great—well worth praising! No god or goddess comes close in honor. All the popular gods are stuff and nonsense, but God made the cosmos! Splendor and majesty flow out of him, strength and joy fill his place. ²⁸Shout Bravo! to God , families of the peoples, in awe of the Glory, in awe of the Strength: Bravo! Shout Bravo! to his famous Name, lift high an offering and enter his presence! Stand resplendent in his robes of holiness! ³⁰God is serious business, take him seriously; he's put the earth in place and it's not moving. So let Heaven rejoice, let Earth be jubilant, and pass the word among the nations, " God reigns!" Let Ocean, all teeming with life, bellow, let Field and all its creatures shake the rafters; Then the trees in the forest will add their applause to all who are pleased and present before God —he's on his way to set things right! ³⁴Give thanks to God —he is good and his love never quits. Say, "Save us, Savior God, round us up and get us out of these godless places, So we can give thanks to your holy Name, and bask in your life of praise." Blessed be God , the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting. Then everybody said, "Yes! Amen!" and "Praise God !"

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

they went: Genesis 12:10, Genesis 20:1, Genesis 46:3, Genesis 46:6

Reciprocal: Exodus 2:22 - for he said

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.