1 Chronicles 29

If God be infinite by his Omnipresency, then see the greatness and immenseness of the divine majesty — What a great God do we serve? (1 Chronicles 29:11). Yours, O Lord, is the greatness, and the glory, and the majesty, and you are exalted as head above all. Well may the Scriptu…

Whatever we receive from God is a gift. We can give nothing to God but what he has given us (1 Chronicles 29:14). All things come of you, and of your own have we given you.

Thus did all Gods Saints in old time; Jacob, He was less than the least of Gods mercies. But especially there is one memorable example of David, and the Church in his days, 1 Chronicles 29.13.14.15.16. When he had prepared abundantly for the building of the Temple, he prostrated…

For the prophet had shown at large the passion and sufferings of Christ (Isaiah 53), and hereupon he says, Rejoice you barren. The Israelites were commanded to feast and to be merry before the Lord (Leviticus 23:40; 1 Chronicles 29:32), that is, before the Lord's Ark, which was…

3. The scope likewise confirms this, Christ being by his way to his people commendable above all, and this being a special commendation of his, that all his works are perfect, and all his ways are judgment (Deuteronomy 32:4). As also the property attributed to his legs, and from…

Be not high minded, but fear, be jealous over yourselves with godly jealousy, rejoice with trembling, cast not off fear, nor restrain prayer before God, keep conscience tender, eyes open and hearts resolved for God. Pray over David's prayer for the continued settlement of those…

The Spirit of God moved him to commit those things to writing, chiefly for that reason, because they pointed to Christ, and the times of the gospel; and, as was said before, this was the main business of all that succession of prophets, that began in Samuel, to foreshow those ti…

A gracious heart has such a sense of God's worth and excellency, that he thinks he can never speak honorably enough of it. See how David enlarges himself very suitably to what is spoken here (1 Chronicles 29:10-13). And David said, Blessed be you, Lord God, for ever and ever: yo…

The people of God are plentifully provided for. Your tables are well furnished, backs well clothed, it is God which gives you richly to enjoy them, and he must be acknowledged; as David does, (1 Chronicles 29:14) For all things come of you, and of your own have we given you. The…

O that poor worms should come and put the crown upon God's head! And that he will count any thing we can do to be a glory to himself (1 Chronicles 29:14). But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort?

First, there is a universal kingdom over all things; over angels, and devils; over men elect, and reprobate; over beasts, and living creatures; and over inanimate things, sun, moon, and stars. This is spoken of (1 Chronicles 29:11): Yours is the kingdom, O Lord, and you are exal…

It is said of Christ (Colossians 2:9), In him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily: fullness of the [reconstructed: Godhead] — oh wonderful! The people wondered at that mass of money provided by David to build God a house (1 Chronicles 29:7-8). Oh! but the unsearchable…

God dwelt symbolically by outward representations in the temple; but here he dwells bodily. When David had provided such a mass of money (1 Chronicles 29:7-9), they fell a wondering: O! But when the soul comes to view the unsearchable riches of grace in Christ Jesus, then it may…

Rather metaphorically for the whole course of his life, whether spent in the palace, or in the wilderness, in whatever place he was, he was still in the house of his pilgrimage: so he accounted his best and his worst condition, compare verse 19. I am a stranger in the earth, and…

Yes, this is that which seasons and makes all other things comfortable, when we have them and the love of God with them. This man of God had a kingdom, and a great deal of wealth, he was a victorious king, as we may see by his offering (1 Chronicles 29), what cart-loads of gold…

If we enjoy them as our own, by an original right exclusive to God, we are usurpers but not just possessors; we have indeed a subordinate right to prevent the encroachment of our fellow creatures, but that is but such a right as a man has in a trust, or a servant to his working…

Wherewith can we oblige God? We have nothing to give to him, but what is his own already, and was first received from him, all things come of you, and of your own have we given you (1 Chronicles 29:14). We pay the great governor of the world out of his own exchequer.

This is the thing that God delights in, and looks after. 1 Chronicles 29:17: I know also my God that you test the heart, and take pleasure in uprightness. He can discern integrity, and prefers it before all manner of service and pomp in worship that is yielded to him.

As vapors drawn up by the Sun, at night fall down again in a dew. The people were upon a high point of willingness, mighty forward and ready to offer whole cartloads of gold and silver (1 Chronicles 29:18), what says David? O Lord God, keep this forever in the imagination of the…

Alas, poor soul, no longer than he is held up by the same hand, that impowered him at first. He has soon wrought out the strength received, and therefore to maintain the tenure of a holy course. there must be renewing strength from heaven every moment, which David knew, and ther…

It is beyond all admiration, to create so [reconstructed: rare] a piece as the sun out of nothing, and a beautiful lily out of mire and dirt, out of common clay to bring forth sapphires, carbuncles, and in lieu of a stony heart (for grace is not educed out of the potency of any…

And what you give to another, it was out of his dominion, but all things are in his dominion, for who spoiled him of what he had? David blessed the Lord, when the people gave for the Temple, excusing himself and the people, that they took on them to give to the great Lord-giver:…

And let another man do many things very weakly, and yet has some care of his heart, God knows how to pardon it; though Asa had many failings (2 Chronicles 15:17), yet his spirit was upright with God all his days, and that covered a multitude of failings that elsewhere were in hi…

But afterward he rises up to some sense, then he falls to prayer (verse 12), then he begins to look up, and can pray to God to guide him by his counsel, and then receive him to glory; and then it is good for him to draw near to God: but he rises not up to matter of conference wi…