1 Chronicles 16:14
in 1 Chronicles 16He is the LORD our God; His judgments carry throughout the earth.
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ASV
He is Jehovah our God; His judgments are in all the earth.
KJV
He is the Lord our God; his judgments are in all the earth.
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This verse in 1 Chronicles 16
Commentary
2 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
Remember the wonders He has done
on 1 Chronicles 16:12-15
Verses 12 through 15 parallel Ps 105:5-8. Israel is to remember “the wonders He has done” and “the judgments He has pronounced”, and the singers address the “offspring of His servant Israel”. The covenant “for a thousand generations” leads into three verses that name Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in turn.
This site's exposition
His judgments carry throughout the earth
Verse 14 names the LORD as Israel's own God and then widens His rule to the whole earth. The judgments here are the ones He has pronounced in verse 12. Justin Martyr quotes the call of verse 23 for all the earth to sing, the reach this verse prepares.
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
He is the Lord our God. Even though His judgments are throughout the earth, He is our God and we are His nation.
This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.
Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 5 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.
The words behind it
6 Hebrew wordsEvery 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.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ה֚וּא | hu' | he | H1931 → | 1879 times |
| יְהוָ֣ה | yahweh | [is] Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
| אֱלֹהֵ֔ינוּ | ʾeloheinu | God our | H430 → | 2601 times |
| בְּכָל־ | bekhol | [are] in all | H3605 → | 5413 times |
| הָאָ֖רֶץ | haaretz | the earth | H776 → | 2504 times |
| מִשְׁפָּטָֽיו׃ | mishpatav | judgments his | H4941 → | 422 times |
ה֚וּאhe
hu'H1931 →1879 times
יְהוָ֣ה[is] Yahweh
yahwehH3068 →6520 times
אֱלֹהֵ֔ינוּGod our
ʾeloheinuH430 →2601 times
בְּכָל־[are] in all
bekholH3605 →5413 times
הָאָ֖רֶץthe earth
haaretzH776 →2504 times
מִשְׁפָּטָֽיו׃judgments his
mishpatavH4941 →422 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach 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
Psalms 63:1O God, You are my God. Earnestly I seek You; my soul thirsts for You. My body yearns for You in a dry and weary land without water.
it leads to
- Matthew 6:33
But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added unto you.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Psalms 143:6
I stretch out my hands to You; my soul thirsts for You like a parched land. Selah
- Psalms 84:2
My soul longs, even faints, for the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.
- Matthew 6:33
Through
Psalms 100:3Know that the LORD is God. It is He who made us, and we are His; we are His people, and the sheep of His pasture.
it leads to
- Psalms 95:6–7
O come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the LORD our Maker.
- Psalms 46:10
“Be still and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted over the earth.”
- Psalms 119:73
Your hands have made me and fashioned me; give me understanding to learn Your commandments.
- John 17:3
Now this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent.
- Psalms 95:6–7
Through
Exodus 15:2The LORD is my strength and my song, and He has become my salvation. He is my God, and I will praise Him, my father’s God, and I will exalt Him.
it leads to
- Isaiah 12:2
Surely God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid. For the LORD GOD is my strength and my song, and He also has become my salvation.”
- Isaiah 12:2
Where this verse is studied
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About 1 Chronicles
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Justin Martyr, The First Apology, Chapters XLI-XLII and Keil, The Books of the Chronicles.