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1 Chronicles 13:4

in 1 Chronicles 13

And because this proposal seemed right to all the people, the whole assembly agreed to it.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And all the assembly said that they would do so; for the thing was right in the eyes of all the people.

KJV

And all the congregation said that they would do so: for the thing was right in the eyes of all the people.

This verse in 1 Chronicles 13

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

this proposal seemed right to all the people

on 1 Chronicles 13:4-6

David assembled all Israel, from the River Shihor in Egypt to Lebo-hamath. The ark had rested at Kiriath-jearim since the men of that town received it back from the Philistines. Verse 6 gives its full title, the ark of God the LORD, who is enthroned between the cherubim.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

): The thing was right in the eyes of all the people. Nobody could say to the contrary, but that it was a very good work and very seasonable; so that it was resolved, nemine contradicente -- unanimously, that they would do so.

quarantine:debris (2026-07-29) — leading-punctuation+unbalanced-parens

And all the congregation said that they would do so,.... They unanimously agreed to the motion: for the thing was right in the eyes of all the people; they saw the propriety, necessity, and usefulness of it.

The words behind it

11 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיֹּאמְר֥וּand they said

    vaiyomeruH559 →5305 times

  • כָֽל־all

    khol-H3605 →5413 times

  • הַקָּהָ֖לthe assembly

    hakahalH6951 →123 times

  • לַעֲשׂ֣וֹתto do

    laasotH6213 →2628 times

  • כֵּ֑ןthus

    kenH3651 →771 times

  • כִּֽי־for

    ki-H3588 →4482 times

  • יָשַׁ֥רit was pleasing

    yasharH3474 →

  • הַדָּבָ֖רthe matter

    hadavarH1697 →1440 times

  • בְּעֵינֵ֥יin [the] eyes of

    beeineiH5869 →887 times

  • כָל־all

    khol-H3605 →5413 times

  • הָעָֽם׃the people

    haamH5971 →1873 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Esther 8:5

    “If it pleases the king,” she said, “and if I have found favor in his sight, and the matter seems proper to the king, and I am pleasing in his sight, may an order…

    it leads to

    • Esther 7:3

      Queen Esther replied, “If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it pleases the king, grant me my life as my petition, and the lives of my people as my…

    • Esther 5:8

      If I have found favor in the sight of the king, and if it pleases the king to grant my petition and fulfill my request, may the king and Haman come tomorrow to the…

    • Esther 3:12–13

      On the thirteenth day of the first month, the royal scribes were summoned and the order was written exactly as Haman commanded the royal satraps, the governors of each province, and the officials of…

    • Exodus 33:16

      For how then can it be known that Your people and I have found favor in Your sight, unless You go with us? How else will we be distinguished from all the other people…

  • Through

    2 Samuel 3:36

    All the people took note and were pleased. In fact, everything the king did pleased them.

    it leads to

    • Mark 7:37

      The people were utterly astonished and said, “He has done all things well! He makes even the deaf hear and the mute speak!”

    • Mark 15:11–13

      But the chief priests stirred up the crowd to have him release Barabbas to them instead.

    • 2 Samuel 15:6

      Absalom did this to all the Israelites who came to the king for justice. In this way he stole the hearts of the men of Israel.

  • Through

    1 Samuel 18:20

    Now Saul’s daughter Michal loved David, and when this was reported to Saul, it pleased him.

    it leads to

    • 1 Samuel 18:28

      When Saul realized that the LORD was with David and that his daughter Michal loved David,

Where this verse is studied

On this page

About 1 Chronicles

King David Playing the Harp, Gerard van Honthorst, 1622. Public domain.
King David Playing the Harp, Gerard van Honthorst, 1622. Public domain.

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil, The Books of the Chronicles and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.