1 Chronicles 29:10

Wherefore. — And. David’s Prayer (1 Chronicles 29:10). David thanks God because his people are at one with him on the subject nearest his heart. Touching this fine utterance of a true inspiration, which the chronicler — or rather, perhaps, his authority — puts into the mouth of the aged king, we may remark that the spirit which found expression in the stirring odes of psalmists and the trumpet-tones of prophets in olden times, in the latter days, when psalmody was weak and prophecy dead, flowed forth in the new outlet of impassioned prayer.

Before all. — To the eyes of all (Genesis 23:11), and frequently.

Lord God of Israel our rather. — The connection is “Israel our father,” not “Jehovah our father.” (Comp. 1 Chronicles 29:18; 1 Chronicles 29:20; Exodus 3:6. Yet comp. also Isaiah 63:16; Isaiah 64:8; Deuteronomy 32:6; Malachi 1:6; Malachi 2:10; Jeremiah 31:9.) The fatherhood of God, though thus occasionally affirmed in prophetic writings, hardly became a ruling idea within the limits of Old Testament times. (Comp. Matthew 23:9; Matthew 6:9.)

For ever and ever. — From eternity even unto eternity. (Comp. the doxologies of the first and third books of the Psalter — Psalms 41:13; Psalms 106:48 — and Psalms 103:17.)