1 Chronicles 22:5
I. Consider the motive which set David to work in preparing for the
building of the Temple. This motive was thankfulness for a great
mercy. It was on the threshing-floor of Araunah the Jebusite, in a
moment of deep thankfulness to God for His mercy in arresting the
pestilence, tha... [ Continue Reading ]
1 Chronicles 22:7
A fine and delicate sense of the becoming hindered David from building
the Temple. A voice within him had whispered, "No: however right and
praiseworthy the idea, you are hardly the man to carry it out. Your
hands are too stained with blood." When the Divine word came, simply
inte... [ Continue Reading ]