1 Chronicles 29:13
in 1 Chronicles 29Now therefore, our God, we give You thanks, and we praise Your glorious name.
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Now therefore, our God, we thank thee, and praise thy glorious name.
KJV
Now therefore, our God, we thank thee, and praise thy glorious name.
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This verse in 1 Chronicles 29
Commentary
5 notes on this verseNote, (1.) It is a great instance of the power of God's grace in us to be able to do the work of God willingly. He works both to will and to do; and it is in the day of his power that his people are made willing, Ps. cx. (2.) We must give God all the glory of all the good that is at any time done by ourselves or others.
This site's exposition
May You be blessed, O LORD
on 1 Chronicles 29:10-13
David blesses the LORD, and the doxology opens, “Yours, O LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory”. Adam Clarke notes the Targum widens it into a recital of the Exodus and Sinai. Verse 12 turns to thanks, since “Both riches and honor come from You”.
This site's exposition
praise Your glorious name
David now gives thanks and praises God's glorious name. Matthew Henry reads the next verse as teaching that the power to give willingly is itself the gift of God. He adds that all the glory of any good done belongs to God.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
Now therefore, our God, we thank thee, and praise thy glorious name. That he that was so great, and so much above them, should take notice of them, and bestow so many great and good things on them.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
Wherefore David blessed the Lord--This beautiful thanksgiving prayer was the effusion overflowing with gratitude and delight at seeing the warm and widespread interest that was now taken in forwarding the favorite project of his life.
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
And now, our God, we give thanks to you for what You have imparted to us of Your good.
1 more on this passage, in their own words ▾
Now who am I and who are my people that we should gather up strength to donate that we exerted ourselves to donate so much with this donation, and it is not ours, but all is from You, and You imparted a little to us.
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. 4 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
8 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְעַתָּ֣ה | veatah | and therefore | H6258 → | 433 times |
| אֱלֹהֵ֔ינוּ | ʾeloheinu | O God our | H430 → | 2601 times |
| מוֹדִ֥ים | modim | [are] giving thanks | H3034 → | 114 times |
| אֲנַ֖חְנוּ | ʾanachnu | we | H587 → | 120 times |
| לָ֑ךְ | lakh | to you | ||
| וּֽמְהַֽלְלִ֖ים | umehalim | and [are] praising | H1984 → | 165 times |
| לְשֵׁ֥ם | leshem | <to> [the] name of | H8034 → | 864 times |
| תִּפְאַרְתֶּֽךָ׃ | tifartekha | splendor your | H8597 → | 51 times |
וְעַתָּ֣הand therefore
veatahH6258 →433 times
אֱלֹהֵ֔ינוּO God our
ʾeloheinuH430 →2601 times
מוֹדִ֥ים[are] giving thanks
modimH3034 →114 times
אֲנַ֖חְנוּwe
ʾanachnuH587 →120 times
לָ֑ךְto you
lakh
וּֽמְהַֽלְלִ֖יםand [are] praising
umehalimH1984 →165 times
לְשֵׁ֥ם<to> [the] name of
leshemH8034 →864 times
תִּפְאַרְתֶּֽךָ׃splendor your
tifartekhaH8597 →51 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
2 Corinthians 2:14But thanks be to God, who always leads us triumphantly as captives in Christ and through us spreads everywhere the fragrance of the knowledge of Him.
it leads to
- Ephesians 5:2
and walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us as a fragrant sacrificial offering to God.
- Romans 8:37
No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.
- 2 Corinthians 2:15–16
For we are to God the sweet aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing.
- Ephesians 5:2
Through
2 Corinthians 9:15Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift!
it leads to
- 2 Corinthians 2:14
But thanks be to God, who always leads us triumphantly as captives in Christ and through us spreads everywhere the fragrance of the knowledge of Him.
- Ephesians 5:20
always giving thanks to God the Father for everything in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
- John 3:16
For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.
- Romans 8:32
He who did not spare His own Son but gave Him up for us all, how will He not also, along with Him, freely give us all things?
- 2 Corinthians 2:14
Through
Psalms 106:1Hallelujah! Give thanks to the LORD, for He is good; His loving devotion endures forever.
it leads to
- 1 Thessalonians 5:18
Give thanks in every circumstance, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:18
Where this verse is studied
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About 1 Chronicles
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.