1 Chronicles 16:8
in 1 Chronicles 16“Give thanks to the LORD; call upon His name; make known His deeds among the nations.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
O give thanks unto Jehovah, call upon his name; Make known his doings among the peoples.
KJV
Give thanks unto the Lord, call upon his name, make known his deeds among the people.
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This verse in 1 Chronicles 16
Commentary
3 notes on this verseIn the first book of Chronicles the psalm praising the Lord attributed to Asaph and his brothers, which begins "O give thanks to the Lord, call on his name," is, for the most part, the same as Psalm 104, down to the words "Do my prophets no harm!" After that it is almost identical to Psalm 95 from the beginning, "Sing to the Lord, all the earth!"
This site's exposition
call upon his name, make known
on 1 Chronicles 16:8-11
The psalm's opening four verses parallel Ps 105:1-4, calling Israel to give thanks, seek the LORD and his strength, and seek his face continually, the same verb seek that the Chronicler measures every later king by. That command anchors a refrain this book will not let go: 1 Chr 22:19, 2 Chr 15:12-13 and 20:3-4 all return to it in the same words. Gill reads glory ye in his holy name as the ground of the whole psalm, that the heart which seeks the LORD has cause to rejoice before any answer has come.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
A commentator
Origen of AlexandriaCOMMENTARY ON THE SONG OF SONGS, PROLOGUE 4 · Written before 253.
proposed
The sixth song is in 1 Chronicles, where David first established Asaph and his brothers for praising the Lord. The beginning of the song is as follows, "Praise the Lord, give thanks to him, and call on his name; make known his purposes among the peoples. Sing to him, sing praises to him, tell of all his wonderful works, which the Lord has done," and so forth. It should, however, be known that the song in 2 Samuel is very much like Psalm 18. Furthermore, the first part of the text in 1 Chronicles, up to the place where it says "and do my prophets no harm," is like Psalm 105, and the latter part of it, following the verse just mentioned, bears a likeness to the first part of Psalm 96, where it says, "Sing to the Lord, all the earth," up to the place where it says "for he comes to judge the earth."
The words behind it
7 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| הוֹד֤וּ | hodu | give thanks | H3034 → | 114 times |
| לַֽיהוָה֙ | layahweh | to Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
| קִרְא֣וּ | kiru | proclaim | H7121 → | 733 times |
| בִשְׁמ֔וֹ | vishmo | <in> name his | H8034 → | 864 times |
| הוֹדִ֥יעוּ | hodiu | make known | H3045 → | 945 times |
| בָעַמִּ֖ים | vaamim | among the peoples | H5971 → | 1873 times |
| עֲלִילֹתָֽיו׃ | ʾalilotav | deeds his | H5949 → |
הוֹד֤וּgive thanks
hoduH3034 →114 times
לַֽיהוָה֙to Yahweh
layahwehH3068 →6520 times
קִרְא֣וּproclaim
kiruH7121 →733 times
בִשְׁמ֔וֹ<in> name his
vishmoH8034 →864 times
הוֹדִ֥יעוּmake known
hodiuH3045 →945 times
בָעַמִּ֖יםamong the peoples
vaamimH5971 →1873 times
עֲלִילֹתָֽיו׃deeds his
ʾalilotavH5949 →
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
Isaiah 12:4and on that day you will say: “Give praise to the LORD; proclaim His name! Make His works known among the peoples; declare that His name is exalted.
it leads to
- Psalms 105:1
Give thanks to the LORD, call upon His name; make known His deeds among the nations.
- Psalms 145:4–6
One generation will commend Your works to the next, and will proclaim Your mighty acts—
- 1 Chronicles 29:11
Yours, O LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the splendor and the majesty, for everything in heaven and on earth belongs to You. Yours, O LORD, is the kingdom,…
- John 17:26
And I have made Your name known to them and will continue to make it known, so that the love You have for Me may be in them, and I in them.”
- Psalms 117:1–2
Praise the LORD, all you nations! Extol Him, all you peoples!
- Psalms 105:1
Through
2 Kings 19:19And now, O LORD our God, please save us from his hand, so that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that You alone, O LORD, are God.”
it leads to
- Psalms 83:18
May they know that You alone, whose name is the LORD, are Most High over all the earth.
- 1 Kings 8:43
then may You hear from heaven, Your dwelling place, and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to You. Then all the peoples of the earth will know Your name and fear…
- Psalms 67:1–2
May God be gracious to us and bless us, and cause His face to shine upon us, Selah
- Psalms 83:18
About 1 Chronicles
This page draws on John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; Keil, The Books of the Chronicles; Origen of Alexandria, LETTER TO JULIUS AFRICANUS 21 and Origen of Alexandria, COMMENTARY ON THE SONG OF SONGS, PROLOGUE 4.