1 Chronicles 22:5

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And David said, Solomon my son is young and tender, and the house that is to be builded for the LORD must be exceeding magnifical, of fame and of glory throughout all countries: I will therefore now make preparation for it. So David prepared abundantly before his death.

Solomon

1 Chronicles 29:1

1 Kings 3:7

2 Chronicles 13:7

Exceeding

David prepared

2 Peter 1:13

General references

Proverbs 4:3

Bible References

Solomon

David the king said to all the assembly, "Solomon my son, whom alone God has chosen, is yet young and tender, and the work is great; for the palace is not for man, but for Yahweh God.

Now, Yahweh my God, you have made your servant king instead of David my father. I am but a little child. I don't know how to go out or come in.

There were gathered to him worthless men, base fellows, who strengthened themselves against Rehoboam the son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was young and tenderhearted, and could not withstand them.

Exceeding

Though this house is so high, yet shall everyone who passes by it be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, 'Why has Yahweh done thus to this land, and to this house?'

"The house which I build is great; for our God is great above all gods.

This house, which is so high, everyone who passes by it shall be astonished, and shall say, 'Why has Yahweh done thus to this land, and to this house?'

But many of the priests and Levites and heads of fathers' [houses], the old men who had seen the first house, when the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice; and many shouted aloud for joy:

Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised you, is burned with fire; and all our pleasant places are laid waste.

As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty; but they made the images of their abominations [and] their detestable things therein: therefore have I made it to them as an unclean thing.

'Who is left among you who saw this house in its former glory? How do you see it now? Isn't it in your eyes as nothing?

As some were talking about the temple and how it was decorated with beautiful stones and gifts, he said,

David prepared

He said to them, "I am one hundred twenty years old this day; I can no more go out and come in: and Yahweh has said to me, 'You shall not go over this Jordan.'

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where you are going.

He must increase, but I must decrease.

For in this the saying is true, 'One sows, and another reaps.'

I must work the works of him who sent me, while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.

Now before the feast of the Passover, Jesus, knowing that his time had come that he would depart from this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.

I think it right, as long as I am in this tent, to stir you up by reminding you;

General references

For I was a son to my father, tender and an only child in the sight of my mother.