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Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

1 Chronicles 16

1 Chronicles 16:1

1 CHRONICLES CHAPTER 16 David's festival sacrifice and alms. The psalm of thanksgiving sung by a choir, and the people said, Amen, 1 CHRONICLES 16:1. Ministers, porters, priests, and musicians appointed to attend the ark continually, 1 CHRONICLES 16:37. Of these three first verses, SEE POOLE ON "2 S... [ Continue Reading ]

1 Chronicles 16:7

DAVID DELIVERED FIRST THIS PSALM; whereby it is implied, that after this he delivered many other psalms successively into their hands, to be sung by them to the praise of God in his public service. See 2 SAMUEL 23:1 2 CHRONICLES 29:30. As for the matter of this psalm, I shall defer the explication o... [ Continue Reading ]

1 Chronicles 16:35

DELIVER US FROM THE HEATHEN: this might seem an improper and unseasonable prayer for David's time, when the Israelites were not yet scattered amongst the heathen, but indeed it was not so; partly because they had already been sadly divided by a civil war among themselves; and though they were now ex... [ Continue Reading ]

1 Chronicles 16:39

ZADOK THE PRIEST; not the high priest, but the second and the chief priest at Gibeon, where the famous tabernacle and altar made by Moses still were, 1 CHRONICLES 21:29 2 CHRONICLES 1:3; where also the ordinary sacrifices were offered, and the stated and public worship of God was performed, as it he... [ Continue Reading ]

1 Chronicles 16:41

WHO WERE EXPRESSED BY NAME; so exceeding careful was this good king of God's worship, that he would have no person employed in it but such as he appointed to it, and were meant for it.... [ Continue Reading ]

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