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1 Chronicles 16:13

O ye seed of Israel his servants, ye children of Jacob his chosen.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Jacob;   Music;   Praise;   Psalms;   The Topic Concordance - Choosing/chosen;   God;   Israel/jews;   Servants;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Jews, the;   Titles and Names of Saints;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Forgiveness;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Chronicles, Books of;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Zerubbabel;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Poetry;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Chronicles, I;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Chosen of god;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
you offspring of Israel his servant,Jacob’s descendants—his chosen ones.
Hebrew Names Version
You seed of Yisra'el his servant, You children of Ya`akov, his chosen ones.
King James Version
O ye seed of Israel his servant, ye children of Jacob, his chosen ones.
English Standard Version
O offspring of Israel his servant, children of Jacob, his chosen ones!
New Century Version
You are the descendants of his servant, Israel; you are the children of Jacob, his chosen people.
New English Translation
O children of Israel, God's servant, you descendants of Jacob, God's chosen ones!
Amplified Bible
O seed of Israel His servant, Children of Jacob, His chosen ones!
New American Standard Bible
You descendants of Israel His servant, Sons of Jacob, His chosen ones!
World English Bible
You seed of Israel his servant, You children of Jacob, his chosen ones.
Geneva Bible (1587)
O seede of Israel his seruant, O the children of Iaakob his chosen.
Legacy Standard Bible
O seed of Israel His servant,O sons of Jacob, His chosen ones!
Berean Standard Bible
O offspring of His servant Israel, O sons of Jacob, His chosen ones.
Contemporary English Version
You belong to the family of Israel, his servant; you are his chosen ones, the descendants of Jacob.
Complete Jewish Bible
You descendants of Isra'el his servant, you offspring of Ya‘akov, his chosen ones:
Darby Translation
Ye seed of Israel his servant, Ye sons of Jacob, his chosen ones.
Easy-to-Read Version
The people of Israel are his servants. The descendants of Jacob are his chosen people.
George Lamsa Translation
O you descendants of Abraham his servant, children of Jacob, his chosen ones.
Lexham English Bible
O offspring of Israel, his servant, O sons of Jacob, his chosen ones!
Literal Translation
O seed of Israel, His servant; O sons of Jacob, His elect.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Ye sede of Israel his seruaunt, ye children of Iacob his chosen.
American Standard Version
O ye seed of Israel his servant, Ye children of Jacob, his chosen ones.
Bible in Basic English
O you seed of Israel his servant, you children of Jacob, his loved ones.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
O ye seede of Abraham his seruaunt, ye his chosen children of Iacob:
JPS Old Testament (1917)
O ye seed of Israel His servant, ye children of Jacob, His chosen ones.
King James Version (1611)
O ye seed of Israel his seruant, ye children of Iacob his chosen ones.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
ye seed of Israel his servants, ye seed of Jacob his chosen ones.
English Revised Version
O ye seed of Israel his servant, ye children of Jacob, his chosen ones.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The seed of Israel, his seruaunt, preise thou God; the sones of Jacob, his chosun, preise ye God.
Update Bible Version
O you seed of Israel his slave, You sons of Jacob, his chosen ones.
Webster's Bible Translation
O ye seed of Israel his servant, ye children of Jacob, his chosen ones.
New King James Version
O seed of Israel His servant, You children of Jacob, His chosen ones!
New Living Translation
you children of his servant Israel, you descendants of Jacob, his chosen ones.
New Life Bible
O children of Israel His servant, sons of Jacob, His chosen ones!
New Revised Standard
O offspring of his servant Israel, children of Jacob, his chosen ones.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
O ye seed of Israel his servant, sons of Jacob his chosen ones:
Revised Standard Version
O offspring of Abraham his servant, sons of Jacob, his chosen ones!
Young's Literal Translation
O seed of Israel, His servant, O sons of Jacob, His chosen ones!
New American Standard Bible (1995)
O seed of Israel His servant, Sons of Jacob, His chosen ones!

Contextual Overview

7 In that day David made Asaph the chief to give praise to the Lord with his brethren. 8 Praise ye the Lord, and call upon his name: make known his doings among the nations. 9 Sing to him, yea, sing praises to him: and relate all his wondrous works. 10 Praise ye his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice, that seek the Lord. 11 Seek ye the Lord, and his power: seek ye his face evermore. 12 Remember his wonderful works, which he hath done: his signs, and the judgments of his mouth. 13 O ye seed of Israel his servants, ye children of Jacob his chosen. 14 He is the Lord our God: his judgments are in all the earth. 15 Remember for ever his covenant: the word, which he commanded to a thousand generations. 16 The covenant which he made with Abraham: and his oath to Isaac.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

ye seed: Genesis 17:7, Genesis 28:13, Genesis 28:14, Genesis 35:10-12

his chosen: Exodus 19:5, Exodus 19:6, Deuteronomy 7:6, Psalms 135:4, 1 Peter 2:9

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 17:20 - all the seed Psalms 22:23 - all ye the Isaiah 43:20 - my chosen Isaiah 45:25 - the seed

Cross-References

Genesis 16:1
Now Sarai, the wife of Abram, had brought forth no children: but having a handmaid, an Egyptian, named Agar,
Genesis 16:5
And Sarai said to Abram: Thou dost unjustly with me: I gave my handmaid into thy bosom, and she perceiving herself to be with child, despiseth me. The Lord judge between me and thee.
Genesis 16:7
And the angel of the Lord having found her, by a fountain of water in the wilderness, which is in the way to Sur in the desert,
Genesis 16:9
And the angel of the Lord said to her: Return to thy mistress, and humble thyself under her hand.
Genesis 16:10
And again he said: I will multiply thy seed exceedingly, and it shall not be numbered for multitude.
Genesis 16:12
He shall be a wild man: his hand will be against all men, and all men’s hands against him: and he shall pitch his tents over against all his brethren.
Genesis 22:14
And he called the name of that place, The Lord seeth. Whereupon, even to this day, it is said: In the mountain the Lord will see.
Genesis 28:17
And trembling, he said: How terrible is this place? this is no other but the house of God, and the gate of heaven.
Genesis 31:42
Unless the God of my father, Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had stood by me, peradventure now thou hadst sent me away naked: God beheld my affliction and the labour of my hands, and rebuked thee yesterday.
Judges 6:24
And Gedeon built there an altar to the Lord, and called it the Lord’s peace, until this present day. And when he was yet in Ephra, which is of the family of Ezri,

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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