1 Chronicles 28
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And David assembled all the princes of Israel, the princes of the tribes, and the captains of the companies that ministered to the king by course, and the captains over the thousands, and captains over the hundreds, and the stewards over all the substance and possession of the king, and of his sons, with the officers, and with the mighty men, and with all the valiant men, unto Jerusalem.
Then David the king stood up upon his feet, and said, Hear me, my brethren, and my people: As for me, I had in mine heart to build an house of rest for the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and for the footstool of our God, and had made ready for the building:

Stood up

Genesis 48:2 And one told Jacob, and said, Behold, your son Joseph comes to you: …

1 Kings 1:47 And moreover the king's servants came to bless our lord king David, …

my brethren

1 Chronicles 11:1-3 Then all Israel gathered themselves to David to Hebron, saying, Behold, …

Deuteronomy 17:15,20 You shall in any wise set him king over you, whom the LORD your God …

Psalm 22:22 I will declare your name to my brothers: in the middle of the congregation …

Hebrews 2:11,12 For both he that sanctifies and they who are sanctified are all of …

I had in mine heart

1 Chronicles 17:1,2 Now it came to pass, as David sat in his house, that David said to …

2 Samuel 7:1,2 And it came to pass, when the king sat in his house, and the LORD …

1 Kings 8:17,18 And it was in the heart of David my father to build an house for …

rest

1 Chronicles 6:31 And these are they whom David set over the service of song in the …

Psalm 132:3-8,14 Surely I will not come into the tabernacle of my house, nor go up into my bed…

the footstool

Psalm 99:5 Exalt you the LORD our God, and worship at his footstool; for he is holy.

Psalm 132:7 We will go into his tabernacles: we will worship at his footstool.

Isaiah 66:1 Thus said the LORD, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my …

Lamentations 2:1 How has the LORD covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his …

Acts 7:49 Heaven is my throne, and earth is my footstool: what house will you …

had made ready

1 Chronicles 18:7-11 And David took the shields of gold that were on the servants of Hadarezer, …

1 Chronicles 22:2-5,14 And David commanded to gather together the strangers that were in …

But God said unto me, Thou shalt not build an house for my name, because thou hast been a man of war, and hast shed blood.
Howbeit the LORD God of Israel chose me before all the house of my father to be king over Israel for ever: for he hath chosen Judah to be the ruler; and of the house of Judah, the house of my father; and among the sons of my father he liked me to make me king over all Israel:
And of all my sons, (for the LORD hath given me many sons,) he hath chosen Solomon my son to sit upon the throne of the kingdom of the LORD over Israel.
And he said unto me, Solomon thy son, he shall build my house and my courts: for I have chosen him to be my son, and I will be his father.
Moreover I will establish his kingdom for ever, if he be constant to do my commandments and my judgments, as at this day.
Now therefore in the sight of all Israel the congregation of the LORD, and in the audience of our God, keep and seek for all the commandments of the LORD your God: that ye may possess this good land, and leave it for an inheritance for your children after you for ever.

in the sight

Deuteronomy 4:6 Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding …

Matthew 5:14-16 You are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid…

Philippians 2:15,16 That you may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without …

Hebrews 12:1,2 Why seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, …

in the audience

Deuteronomy 4:26 I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day…

Deuteronomy 29:10,15 You stand this day all of you before the LORD your God; your captains …

Acts 10:33 Immediately therefore I sent to you; and you have well done that …

keep

Psalm 119:4,10,11,27,33,34,44 You have commanded us to keep your precepts diligently…

Proverbs 2:1-5 My son, if you will receive my words, and hide my commandments with you…

Proverbs 3:1 My son, forget not my law; but let your heart keep my commandments:

Isaiah 34:16 Seek you out of the book of the LORD, and read: no one of these shall …

Acts 17:11 These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received …

that ye may

Deuteronomy 4:1 Now therefore listen, O Israel, to the statutes and to the judgments, …

Deuteronomy 5:32,33 You shall observe to do therefore as the LORD your God has commanded …

Deuteronomy 6:1-3 Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, …

leave it

Ezra 9:12 Now therefore give not your daughters to their sons, neither take …

Proverbs 13:22 A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children: and …

And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the LORD searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.

know thou

Deuteronomy 4:35 To you it was showed, that you might know that the LORD he is God; …

1 Kings 8:43 Hear you in heaven your dwelling place, and do according to all that …

Psalm 9:10 And they that know your name will put their trust in you: for you, …

Jeremiah 9:24 But let him that glories glory in this, that he understands and knows …

Jeremiah 22:16 He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with …

Jeremiah 24:7 And I will give them an heart to know me, that I am the LORD: and …

Jeremiah 31:34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man …

Hosea 4:1,6 Hear the word of the LORD, you children of Israel: for the LORD has …

John 8:55 Yet you have not known him; but I know him: and if I should say, …

John 17:3 And this is life eternal, that they might know you the only true …

Acts 17:23,30 For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with …

Romans 1:28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God …

1 Corinthians 15:34 Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge …

2 Corinthians 4:6 For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, has shined …

the god

Genesis 28:13 And, behold, the LORD stood above it, and said, I am the LORD God …

Exodus 3:16 Go, and gather the elders of Israel together, and say to them, The …

Exodus 15:2 The LORD is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation: …

1 Kings 3:6 And Solomon said, You have showed to your servant David my father …

Psalm 18:2 The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my …

Psalm 89:26 He shall cry to me, You are my father, my God, and the rock of my salvation.

serve him

1 Chronicles 29:9,17-19 Then the people rejoiced, for that they offered willingly, because …

1 Kings 8:61 Let your heart therefore be perfect with the LORD our God, to walk …

2 Kings 20:3 I beseech you, O LORD, remember now how I have walked before you …

2 Kings 22:2 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, and walked …

Job 36:11,12 If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, …

Psalm 101:2 I will behave myself wisely in a perfect way. O when will you come …

John 1:47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said of him, Behold an Israelite …

John 4:24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit …

Romans 1:29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, …

Hebrews 12:28 Why we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, …

a willing mind

2 Corinthians 8:12 For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to …

2 Corinthians 9:7 Every man according as he purposes in his heart, so let him give; …

1 Peter 5:2 Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, …

the Lord

1 Chronicles 29:17 I know also, my God, that you try the heart, and have pleasure in …

1 Samuel 16:7 But the LORD said to Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the …

1 Kings 8:39 Then hear you in heaven your dwelling place, and forgive, and do, …

Psalm 7:9 Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish …

Psalm 139:2 You know my sitting down and my rising up, you understand my thought afar off.

Proverbs 17:3 The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the LORD …

Jeremiah 11:20 But, O LORD of hosts, that judge righteously, that try the reins …

Jeremiah 17:10 I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every …

Jeremiah 20:12 But, O LORD of hosts, that try the righteous, and see the reins and …

John 2:25 And needed not that any should testify of man: for he knew what was in man.

John 21:17 He said to him the third time, Simon, son of Jonas, love you me? …

Acts 1:24 And they prayed, and said, You, Lord, which know the hearts of all …

Hebrews 4:13 Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight…

Revelation 2:23 And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall …

the imaginations

Genesis 6:5 And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth…

Genesis 8:21 And the LORD smelled a sweet smell; and the LORD said in his heart, …

Deuteronomy 31:21 And it shall come to pass, when many evils and troubles are befallen …

Psalm 139:2 You know my sitting down and my rising up, you understand my thought afar off.

Ezekiel 38:10 Thus said the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same …

if thou seek

2 Chronicles 15:2 And he went out to meet Asa, and said to him, Hear you me, Asa, and …

Proverbs 2:1-6 My son, if you will receive my words, and hide my commandments with you…

Isaiah 45:19 I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth: I said …

Isaiah 55:6,7 Seek you the LORD while he may be found, call you on him while he is near…

Jeremiah 29:13 And you shall seek me, and find me, when you shall search for me …

Matthew 7:7,8 Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and you shall find; knock, …

James 4:8-11 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, …

if thou forsake

Deuteronomy 31:16,17 And the LORD said to Moses, Behold, you shall sleep with your fathers; …

1 Kings 9:6-9 But if you shall at all turn from following me, you or your children…

Ezra 8:22 For I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen …

Isaiah 1:28 And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners shall …

Hebrews 10:38,39 Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul …

Take heed now; for the LORD hath chosen thee to build an house for the sanctuary: be strong, and do it.
Then David gave to Solomon his son the pattern of the porch, and of the houses thereof, and of the treasuries thereof, and of the upper chambers thereof, and of the inner parlours thereof, and of the place of the mercy seat,

David He gave him an ichnography of the building, with elevations, sections and specifications of every part; and all this he himself received by inspiration from God himself (ver

1 Chronicles 28:12,19 And the pattern of all that he had by the spirit, of the courts of …

the pattern

1 Chronicles 28:19 All this, said David, the LORD made me understand in writing by his …

Exodus 25:40 And look that you make them after their pattern, which was showed …

Exodus 26:30 And you shall raise up the tabernacle according to the fashion thereof …

Exodus 39:42,43 According to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so the children of …

2 Chronicles 3:3 Now these are the things wherein Solomon was instructed for the building …

Ezekiel 43:10,11 You son of man, show the house to the house of Israel, that they …

Hebrews 8:5 Who serve to the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses …

the porch

1 Kings 6:3 And the porch before the temple of the house, twenty cubits was the …

2 Chronicles 3:4 And the porch that was in the front of the house, the length of it …

Ezekiel 40:8,9,15,48,49 He measured also the porch of the gate within, one reed…

the houses

1 Kings 6:16-20 And he built twenty cubits on the sides of the house, both the floor …

2 Chronicles 3:5-10 And the greater house he paneled with fir tree, which he overlaid …

Ezekiel 41:13 So he measured the house, an hundred cubits long; and the separate …

Hebrews 9:2-8 For there was a tabernacle made; the first, wherein was the candlestick, …

the treasuries () ganzakkaiv: the word () ganzach is supposed to be not Hebrew, but Persian; in which language we have () ganj, a granary, a hidden treasure, treasury, or barn. It may, however, be a Chaldee from of the Hebrew () genez (from () genaz, to treasure up;) the () being merely formative, as () dech, () illaich, and other Chaldee words.

1 Chronicles 9:26-29 For these Levites, the four chief porters, were in their set office, …

1 Chronicles 26:20-27 And of the Levites, Ahijah was over the treasures of the house of …

Luke 21:1 And he looked up, and saw the rich men casting their gifts into the treasury.

upper chambers

1 Kings 6:5,6,10 And against the wall of the house he built chambers round about, …

2 Chronicles 3:9 And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid …

Nehemiah 10:38,39 And the priest the son of Aaron shall be with the Levites, when the …

Nehemiah 13:5 And he had prepared for him a great chamber, where aforetime they …

Jeremiah 35:2 Go to the house of the Rechabites, and speak to them, and bring them …

Ezekiel 41:6 And the side chambers were three, one over another, and thirty in order…

the place

Exodus 25:17-22 And you shall make a mercy seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half …

Exodus 40:20,21 And he took and put the testimony into the ark, and set the staves …

1 Kings 6:19 And the oracle he prepared in the house within, to set there the …

2 Chronicles 5:7 And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the LORD to …

Hebrews 9:5 And over it the cherubim of glory shadowing the mercy seat; of which …

And the pattern of all that he had by the spirit, of the courts of the house of the LORD, and of all the chambers round about, of the treasuries of the house of God, and of the treasuries of the dedicated things:
Also for the courses of the priests and the Levites, and for all the work of the service of the house of the LORD, and for all the vessels of service in the house of the LORD.
He gave of gold by weight for things of gold, for all instruments of all manner of service; silver also for all instruments of silver by weight, for all instruments of every kind of service:

of gold The quality of gold which was to be put in {each article}

Even the weight for the candlesticks of gold, and for their lamps of gold, by weight for every candlestick, and for the lamps thereof: and for the candlesticks of silver by weight, both for the candlestick, and also for the lamps thereof, according to the use of every candlestick.
And by weight he gave gold for the tables of shewbread, for every table; and likewise silver for the tables of silver:
Also pure gold for the fleshhooks, and the bowls, and the cups: and for the golden basons he gave gold by weight for every bason; and likewise silver by weight for every bason of silver:
And for the altar of incense refined gold by weight; and gold for the pattern of the chariot of the cherubims, that spread out their wings, and covered the ark of the covenant of the LORD.
All this, said David, the LORD made me understand in writing by his hand upon me, even all the works of this pattern.
And David said to Solomon his son, Be strong and of good courage, and do it: fear not, nor be dismayed: for the LORD God, even my God, will be with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee, until thou hast finished all the work for the service of the house of the LORD.
And, behold, the courses of the priests and the Levites, even they shall be with thee for all the service of the house of God: and there shall be with thee for all manner of workmanship every willing skilful man, for any manner of service: also the princes and all the people will be wholly at thy commandment.
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge by R. A. Torrey [ca. 1880]
Expanded version courtesy INT Bible ©2013, Used by permission

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