1 Chronicles 28:6

_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._ No JFB commentary on this verse....

1-10 During David's last sickness, many chief priests and Levites were at Jerusalem. Finding himself able, David spoke of his purpose to build a temple for God, and of God's disallowing that purpose. He opened to them God's gracious purposes concerning Solomon. David charged them to cleave stedfastly to God and their duty. We cannot do our work as we should, unless we put on resolution, and fetch in strength from Divine grace. Religion or piety has two distinct parts. The first is knowledge of God, the second is worship of God. David says, Know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and a willing mind. God is made known by his works and word. Revelation alone shows the whole character of God, in his providence, his holy law, his condemnation of sinners, his blessed gospel, and the ministration of the Spirit to all true believers. The natural man cannot receive th...

Besides the message sent to David through Nathan, he had a revelation, of which we have only the indirect account given here and in 1 Chronicles 22:8 (see the note). He was told that one of his sons should be raised up to fill his throne after him, and should build the temple. In the second revelation it was distinctly declared to him that the son intended was Solomon. MY HOUSE AND MY COURTS - i. e., the temple and the courts of the temple (see 2 Chronicles 4:9)....

EXPOSITION The contents of this chapter may be said to form one scene with those of the next up to verse 25. They represent David in the presence of a magnificent company of witnesses, the flower of the Church, the military and the civil elements of his kingdom, devolving upon his son both the building of the temple and the throne itself. 1 CHRONICLES 28:1 One Hebrew word (שׂרֵי) stands for the PRINCES (twice), CAPTAINS (three times), and STEWARDS (once) of this verse. The classification of the verso speaks for itself. There are the princes of Israel; _i.q. _the princes of the tribes (1 Chronicles 27:16,...

AND HE SAID UNTO ME, SOLOMON THAT SON, HE SHALL BUILD MY HOUSE,.... See 2 Samuel 7:13 AND MY COURTS; in the house or temple: FOR I HAVE CHOSEN HIM TO BE MY SON; predestinated him to the adoption of children, Ephesians 1:5 AND I WILL BE HIS FATHER; see 2 Samuel 7:14....

1 Chronicles 28:1. _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 ever 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._ David, in his old age, and soon to die, summoned a great representative assembly of the notables of his kingdom. 1 Chronicles 28:2. _Then David the king stood up upon his feet,_ He was ill, and obliged to keep his bed; but; he left his couch for this solemn occasion. He did not even remain seated, although extremely weak; but he stood up upon h

7. THE LAST ACTS OF DAVID AND HIS DEATH CHAPTER 28 The Great Assembly _ 1. The Address of David to the assembly (1 Chronicles 28:1)_ 2. The patterns, the gold and the silver delivered to Solomon (1 Chronicles 28:11) 3. His encouraging words to Solomon (1 Chronicles 28:20) The events in this chapter connect with 1 Chronicles 23:1. There we find the brief statement that David was old and full of years and that Solomon his son was made king over Israel. Then follow the Chapter s which acquaint us with the preparations David had made for the building of th

DAVID'S ADDRESS TO THE GREAT ONES OF THE LAND: HE GIVES SOLOMON THE PLANS OF THE TEMPLE. In this chapter the thread of the narrative is taken up from where it was left at the end of _ch._ 22. 1 Chronicles 28:2. my brethren and my people: see Deuteronomy 17:15, where it is said that one from among thy brethren shalt thou set king over thee. As so often elsewhere, the ideas of the Chronicler are dominated by the Law; an oriental king does not place himself on a level with his subjects in this way. 2 Samuel 19:12 f. does not contradict this, for there David is speaking in reference to the elders of the land, some of whom were his kinsmen; it was, moreover, a time of grievous stress for

HE SAID UNTO ME. Compare 1 Chronicles 22:9; 2 Samuel 7:13; 2 Samuel 7:14....

_he shall build my house_ Cp. 1 Chronicles 22:10....