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New Century Version

1 Chronicles 22:1

David said, "The Temple of the Lord God and the altar for Israel's burnt offerings will be built here."

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Church;   Temple;   Thompson Chain Reference - Moriah;   Mountains;   Places;   Sacred Places;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Temple;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Jerusalem;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Census;   Jerusalem;   Moriah;   Solomon;   Temple;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Chronicles, Books of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Chronicles, I;   Temple;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Then David said, “This is the house of the Lord God, and this is the altar of burnt offering for Israel.”
Hebrew Names Version
Then David said, This is the house of the LORD God, and this is the altar of burnt-offering for Yisra'el.
King James Version
Then David said, This is the house of the Lord God, and this is the altar of the burnt offering for Israel.
English Standard Version
Then David said, "Here shall be the house of the Lord God and here the altar of burnt offering for Israel."
New English Translation
David then said, "This is the place where the temple of the Lord God will be, along with the altar for burnt sacrifices for Israel."
Amplified Bible
Then David said, "This is the house of the LORD God, and this is the altar of burnt offering for Israel."
New American Standard Bible
Then David said, "This is the house of the LORD God, and this is the altar of burnt offering for Israel."
World English Bible
Then David said, This is the house of Yahweh God, and this is the altar of burnt-offering for Israel.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And Dauid saide, This is the house of the Lorde God, and this is the altar for the burnt offring of Israel.
Legacy Standard Bible
Then David said, "This is the house of Yahweh God, and this is the altar of burnt offering for Israel."
Berean Standard Bible
Then David said, "Here shall be the house of the LORD God, as well as the altar of burnt offering for Israel."
Contemporary English Version
David said, "The temple of the Lord God must be built right here at this threshing place. And the altar for offering sacrifices will also be here."
Complete Jewish Bible
Then David said, "This is the house of Adonai , God; and this is the altar Isra'el is to use for burnt offerings."
Darby Translation
And David said, This is the house of Jehovah Elohim, and this is the altar of burnt-offering for Israel.
Easy-to-Read Version
David said, "The Temple of the Lord God and the altar for burning offerings for the Israelites will be built here."
George Lamsa Translation
THEN David said, This is the house of the LORD God and this is the altar of the burnt offerings for Israel.
Good News Translation
So David said, "This is where the Temple of the Lord God will be. Here is the altar where the people of Israel are to offer burnt offerings."
Lexham English Bible
Then David said, "This will be the house of Yahweh God, and this altar of burnt offering for Israel."
Literal Translation
And David said, This is the house of Jehovah God, and this altar for burnt offering for Israel.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And Dauid sayde: Here shal be ye house of God ye LORDE, and this the altare of burntofferynges for Israel.
American Standard Version
Then David said, This is the house of Jehovah God, and this is the altar of burnt-offering for Israel.
Bible in Basic English
Then David said, This is the house of the Lord God, and this is the altar for Israel's burned offerings.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And Dauid said: This is the house of the lord God, & this is the aulter for the burnt offring of Israel.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Then David said: 'This is the house of the LORD God, and this is the altar of burnt-offering for Israel.'
King James Version (1611)
Then Dauid said, This is the house of the Lord God, and this is the Altar of the burnt offering for Israel.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And David said, This is the house of the Lord God, and this is the altar for whole-burnt-offering for Israel.
English Revised Version
Then David said, This is the house of the LORD God, and this is the altar of burnt offering for Israel.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Dauid seide, This is the hows of God, and this auter is in to brent sacrifice of Israel.
Update Bible Version
Then David said, This is the house of Yahweh God, and this is the altar of burnt-offering for Israel.
Webster's Bible Translation
Then David said, This [is] the house of the LORD God, and this [is] the altar of the burnt-offering for Israel.
New King James Version
Then David said, "This is the house of the LORD God, and this is the altar of burnt offering for Israel."
New Living Translation
Then David said, "This will be the location for the Temple of the Lord God and the place of the altar for Israel's burnt offerings!"
New Life Bible
Then David said, "This is the house of the Lord God. And this is the altar of burnt gifts for Israel."
New Revised Standard
Then David said, "Here shall be the house of the Lord God and here the altar of burnt offering for Israel."
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then said David, This, is the house of Yahweh God, - and, this, is the altar of ascending-sacrifice, for Israel.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Then David said: This is the house of God, And this is the altar for the holocaust of Israel.
Revised Standard Version
Then David said, "Here shall be the house of the LORD God and here the altar of burnt offering for Israel."
Young's Literal Translation
And David saith, `This is the house of Jehovah God, and this the altar for burnt-offering for Israel.'
THE MESSAGE
pray to God anymore. So David declared, "From now on, this is the site for the worship of God ; this is the place for Israel's Altar of Burnt Offering."
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then David said, "This is the house of the LORD God, and this is the altar of burnt offering for Israel."

Contextual Overview

1 David said, "The Temple of the Lord God and the altar for Israel's burnt offerings will be built here." 2 So David ordered all foreigners living in Israel to gather together. From that group David chose stonecutters to cut stones to be used in building the Temple of God. 3 David supplied a large amount of iron to be used for making nails and hinges for the gate doors. He also supplied more bronze than could be weighed, 4 and he supplied more cedar logs than could be counted. Much of the cedar had been brought to David by the people from Sidon and Tyre. 5 David said, "We should build a great Temple for the Lord , which will be famous everywhere for its greatness and beauty. But my son Solomon is young. He hasn't yet learned what he needs to know, so I will prepare for the building of it." So David got many of the materials ready before he died.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

This is the house: David perhaps had some assurance that this was the place on which God designed that His house should be built; and perhaps it was this that induced him to buy not only the threshing-floor, but probably some adjacent ground also, as Calmet supposes, that there might be sufficient room for such a structure. 1 Chronicles 21:18-28, Genesis 28:17, Deuteronomy 12:5-7, Deuteronomy 12:11, 2 Samuel 24:18, 2 Chronicles 3:1, 2 Chronicles 6:5, 2 Chronicles 6:6, Psalms 78:60, Psalms 78:67-69, Psalms 132:13, Psalms 132:14, John 4:20-22

and this is the altar: 2 Kings 18:22, 2 Chronicles 32:12

Reciprocal: Genesis 46:11 - Levi 2 Samuel 24:24 - So David 1 Chronicles 3:11 - Ahaziah 2 Chronicles 11:16 - to sacrifice Ezra 2:68 - in his place Zechariah 9:7 - a Jebusite Matthew 25:16 - went Acts 13:36 - served

Cross-References

Genesis 22:7
Isaac said to his father Abraham, "Father!" Abraham answered, "Yes, my son." Isaac said, "We have the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb we will burn as a sacrifice?"
Genesis 22:11
But the angel of the Lord called to him from heaven and said, "Abraham! Abraham!" Abraham answered, "Yes."
Genesis 22:12
The angel said, "Don't kill your son or hurt him in any way. Now I can see that you trust God and that you have not kept your son, your only son, from me."
Genesis 22:14
So Abraham named that place The Lord Provides. Even today people say, "On the mountain of the Lord it will be provided."
Exodus 3:4
When the Lord saw Moses was coming to look at the bush, God called to him from the bush, "Moses, Moses!" And Moses said, "Here I am."
Exodus 16:4
Then the Lord said to Moses, "I will cause food to fall like rain from the sky for all of you. Every day the people must go out and gather what they need for that day. I want to see if the people will do what I teach them.
Deuteronomy 8:2
Remember how the Lord your God has led you in the desert for these forty years, taking away your pride and testing you, because he wanted to know what was in your heart. He wanted to know if you would obey his commands.
Deuteronomy 8:16
and manna to eat in the desert. Manna was something your ancestors had never seen. He did this to take away your pride and to test you, so things would go well for you in the end.
Deuteronomy 13:3
But you must not listen to those prophets or dreamers. The Lord your God is testing you, to find out if you love him with your whole being.
Judges 2:22
I will use them to test Israel, to see if Israel will keep the Lord 's commands as their ancestors did."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then David said,.... Within himself, or to some principal persons about him:

this is the house of the Lord God; the place where the temple was to be built, hinted at in Deuteronomy 12:5 and elsewhere; the meaning is, here, or in "this" place, shall be the house of God, so Noldius o, for as yet there were none; but it was now made known to David that here it should be built, and so the words in 2 Chronicles 3:1 should be rendered,

then Solomon began to build the house of the Lord in Jerusalem, which was shown to David his father, which he prepared in the place of David, that which he bought in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite: and this is the altar for the burnt offering for Israel; not which he had built here; but this is the place where one should be built for the people of Israel to bring their offerings to, and to be here offered for them by the priests: this he said by a divine impulse upon his mind, or which he concluded from the acceptance of his sacrifice here, signified by fire that came down from heaven and consumed it; and this being in the threshingfloor of the Jebusites, might prefigure the church of God to be built up among the Gentiles.

o Ebr. Concord. Part. p. 352. No. 1257.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

This is the house of the Lord God - The double miracle - that of the angelic appearance and that of the fire from heaven - had convinced David that here he had found the destined site of that “house” which it had been told him that his son should build 1 Chronicles 22:10. Hence, this public announcement.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER XXII

David makes great preparations for building a temple to the

Lord, 1-5;

gives the necessary directions to Solomon concerning it, 6-16;

and exhorts the princes of Israel to assist in the undertaking,

17-19.

NOTES ON CHAP. XXII

Verse 1 Chronicles 22:1. David said, This is the house of the Lord — Till a temple is built for his name, this place shall be considered the temple of God; and on this altar, and not on that at Gibeon, shall the burnt-offerings of Israel be made. David probably thought that this was the place on which God designed that his house should be built; and perhaps it was this that induced him to buy, not only the threshing-floor, but probably some adjacent ground also, as Calmet supposes, that there might be sufficient room for such a building.


 
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