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1 Chronicles 29:1

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Then King David said to all the assembly, ‘My son Solomon #– #God has chosen him alone #– #is young and inexperienced. The task is great  because the building will not be built for a human but for the Lord God.

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David said, ‘My son Solomon is young and inexperienced, and the house that is to be built for the Lord must be exceedingly great and famous and glorious in all the lands.  Therefore, I will make provision for it.’ So David made lavish preparations for it before his death.


‘Lord my God, you have now made your servant king in my father David’s place.  Yet I am just a youth with no experience in leadership.  ,


Then worthless and wicked men gathered around him to resist Rehoboam son of Solomon when Rehoboam was young, inexperienced, and unable to assert himself against them.


When I was a son with my father, tender and precious to my mother,


Give my son Solomon an undivided heart to keep and to carry out all your commands, your decrees, and your statutes,  and to build the building for which I have made provision.


Realise now that the Lord has chosen you to build a house for the sanctuary. Be strong, and do it.’


‘So now in the sight of all Israel, the assembly of the Lord, and in the hearing of our God, observe and follow all the commands of the Lord your God so that you may possess this good land and leave it as an inheritance to your descendants for ever.


David assembled all the leaders of Israel in Jerusalem:  the leaders of the tribes, the leaders of the divisions in the king’s service, the commanders of thousands and the commanders of hundreds, and the officials in charge of all the property and cattle of the king and his sons, along with the court officials, the fighting men,  and all the best soldiers.


As for me, even though I am the anointed king, I have little power today. These men, the sons of Zeruiah, are too fierce for me.  May the Lord repay the evildoer according to his evil! ’


This is what the Lord says: I will certainly restore the fortunes  of Jacob’s tents and show compassion  on his dwellings. Every city will be rebuilt on its mound; every citadel will stand on its proper site.


Now, my lord the king, the eyes of all Israel are on you to tell them who will sit on the throne of my lord the king after him.


So David gave orders to gather the resident foreigners that were in the land of Israel,  and he appointed stonecutters to cut finished stones for building God’s house.


Then Solomon spoke to all Israel, to the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, to the judges, and to every leader in all Israel #– #the family heads.





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