1 Chronicles 16:25

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
For the Lord is great and highly praised;he is feared above all gods.

Hebrew Names Version
For great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised: He also is to be feared above all gods.

King James Version
For great is the Lord , and greatly to be praised: he also is to be feared above all gods.

English Standard Version
For great is the Lord , and greatly to be praised, and he is to be feared above all gods.

New Century Version
The Lord is great; he should be praised. He should be respected more than all the gods.

New English Translation
For the Lord is great and certainly worthy of praise, he is more awesome than all gods.

Amplified Bible
For great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised; He is also to be feared [with awe-filled reverence] above all gods.

New American Standard Bible
For great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised; He also is to be feared above all gods.

World English Bible
For great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised: He also is to be feared above all gods.

Geneva Bible (1587)
For the Lorde is great & much to be praised, and hee is to bee feared aboue all gods.

Legacy Standard Bible
For great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised;And He is more fearsome than all gods.

Berean Standard Bible
For great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised; He is to be feared above all gods.

Contemporary English Version
The Lord is great and deserves our greatest praise! He is the only God worthy of our worship.

Complete Jewish Bible
For Adonai is great, and greatly to be praised; he is to be feared more than all gods.

Darby Translation
For Jehovah is great, and exceedingly to be praised; And he is terrible above all gods.

Easy-to-Read Version
The Lord is great and worthy of praise. He is more awesome than any of the "gods."

George Lamsa Translation
For great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised; and he is to be revered above all kings.

Good News Translation
The Lord is great and is to be highly praised; he is to be honored more than all the gods.

Lexham English Bible
For Yahweh is great and greatly praised, and he is feared among all gods.

Literal Translation
For great is Jehovah, and greatly to be praised; and He is to be feared above all gods.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For the LORDE is greate, and can not worthely be praysed, and more to he had in awe then all goddes.

American Standard Version
For great is Jehovah, and greatly to be praised: He also is to be feared above all gods.

Bible in Basic English
For the Lord is great, and greatly to be praised; and he is more to be feared than all other gods.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
For great is the Lorde, and worthy to be praysed exceedingly: he is to be feared aboue all gods.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
For great is the LORD, and highly to be praised; He also is to be feared above all gods.

King James Version (1611)
For great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised: he also is to be feared aboue all gods.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For the Lord is great, and greatly to be praised: he is to be feared above all gods.

English Revised Version
For great is the LORD, and highly to be praised: he also is to be feared above all gods.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For the Lord is greet, and worthi to be preisid ful myche; and he is orible, `ethir griseful, ouer alle goddis.

Update Bible Version
For great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised: He also is to be awed above all gods.

Webster's Bible Translation
For great [is] the LORD, and greatly to be praised: he also [is] to be feared above all gods.

New King James Version
For the LORD is great and greatly to be praised; He is also to be feared above all gods.

New Living Translation
Great is the Lord ! He is most worthy of praise! He is to be feared above all gods.

New Life Bible
For great is the Lord. He is to be given much praise. And He is to be honored with fear more than all gods.

New Revised Standard
For great is the Lord , and greatly to be praised; he is to be revered above all gods.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For great is Yahweh, and worthy to be mightily praised, and to be revered is he above all gods;

Douay-Rheims Bible
For the Lord is great and exceedingly to be praised: and he is to be feared above all gods.

Revised Standard Version
For great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised, and he is to be held in awe above all gods.

Young's Literal Translation
For great [is] Jehovah, and praised greatly, And fearful He [is] above all gods.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
For great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised; He also is to be feared above all gods.

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

great: Psalms 89:7, Psalms 144:3-6, Isaiah 40:12-17, Revelation 15:3, Revelation 15:4

he also: Exodus 15:11, Psalms 66:3-5, Psalms 76:7, Jeremiah 5:22, Jeremiah 10:6-10, Revelation 15:4

Reciprocal: Exodus 18:11 - the Lord Deuteronomy 10:17 - God of gods 2 Samuel 7:22 - Wherefore 1 Chronicles 16:30 - before him 2 Chronicles 2:5 - great is our God Psalms 115:3 - But our Psalms 147:5 - Great Daniel 2:45 - the great

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.