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J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible

1 Chronicles 16:11

Search out Yahweh, and his power, Seek diligently his face, at all times.

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.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
O seke the LORDE and his strength, seke his face euermore.
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.
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 On that day, then, David gave these songs in chief, to give thanks unto Yahweh, - through Asaph, and his brethren: - 8 Give ye thanks to Yahweh, Call upon his name, Make known among the peoples, his doings; 9 Sing ye to him, Make music unto him, Speak ye of all his wonders. 10 Boast yourselves in his holy name, Joyful be the heart of them who are seeking Yahweh. 11 Search out Yahweh, and his power, Seek diligently his face, at all times. 12 Remember his wonders which he hath done, His splendid deeds, and the just decisions of his mouth. 13 O ye seed of Israel his servant, sons of Jacob his chosen ones: 14 Yahweh himself, is our God, through all the land, are his just decisions. 15 Remember yea to times age-abiding, his covenant, the word he hath commanded, to a thousand generations; 16 Which he solemnised with Abraham, and his oath, to 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
And God said - Truly, Sarah thy wife, is about to bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name, Isaac, - and I will establish my covenant with him as an age-abiding covenant, to his seed after him.
Exodus 3:7
Then said Yahweh, I have, seen, the humiliation of my people, who are in Egypt, - and their outcry, have I heard, by reason of their task-masters, for I know their pains;
Exodus 3:9
Now, therefore, lo! the outcry of the sons of Israel, hath come in unto me, - moreover also, I have seen the oppression, wherewith the Egyptians are oppressing them.
1 Samuel 1:20
And so it was, when the days had come round during which Hannah was with child, that she bare a son, - and called his name Samuel, Because, of Yahweh, I asked him.
Job 38:41
Who prepareth for the Raven his nourishment, - when his young ones - unto GOD - cry out, when they wander for lack of food?
Psalms 22:24
For he hath not despised nor abhorred the humbling of the patient one, neither hath he hid his face from him, but, when he cried for help unto him, he heard.
Isaiah 7:14
Wherefore let My Lord Himself give you a sign, - Lo! a Virgin, being with child and giving birth to a son, thou wilt call his name Immanuel.
Luke 1:13
But the messenger said unto him - Do not fear, Zachariah! Inasmuch as thy supplication hath been hearkened to, - and, thy wife Elizabeth, shall bring forth a son to thee, and thou shalt call his name, John;
Luke 1:31
And 1o! thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name, Jesus:
Luke 1:63
And, asking for a small tablet, he wrote, saying - John, is his name! and they marvelled 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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