1 Chronicles 22:1
Then David said, “Here shall be the house of the Lord God, as well as the altar of burnt offering for Israel.”
Then David said, This is the house of the Lord God, and this is the altar of the burnt offering for Israel.
Then David said, “This is the house of the Lord God, and this is the altar of burnt offering for Israel.”
Then David said, This is the house of Jehovah God, and this is the altar of burnt-offering for Israel.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- 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, 11; 2 Samuel 24:18; 2 Chronicles 3:1; 2 Chronicles 6:5, 6; Psalm 78:60, 67–69; Psalm 132:13, 14; John 4:20–22
- and this is the altar
- 2 Kings 18:22; 2 Chronicles 32:12