1 Chronicles 29:17

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

I know also, my God, that thou triest the heart, and hast pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of mine heart I have willingly offered all these things: and now have I seen with joy thy people, which are present here, to offer willingly unto thee.

Triest the heart

Hast pleasure

Proverbs 11:20

Proverbs 15:8

John 1:47

In the uprightness

Acts 24:16

2 Corinthians 1:12

1 Thessalonians 2:10

Joy thy people

1 Chronicles 29:9

Philemon 1:7

General references

Exodus 35:21

Bible References

Triest the heart

And thou, O Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a whole heart and with a willing soul: for Jehovah searched all hearts, and he understands every formation of the thoughts: if thou shalt seek him he will be found to thee, and if thou wilt forsake him, he will cast thee off forever.

And remember thou all the way which Jehovah thy God caused thee to go this forty years in the desert in order to humble thee, to try thee, to know what is in thy heart, whether thou shalt watch his commands or not

And Jehovah will say to Samuel, Thou shalt not look upon his aspect or upon the height of his stature; for I rejected him: for not what man will see, for man will see with the eyes, and Jehovah will see at the heart

Now shall the evil of the unjust come to an end; and thou wilt direct the just one: for the just God tried hearts and reins.

Behold, thou didst delight in truth in the reins, and in bidden things thou wilt cause me to know wisdom.

All the ways of man are clean in his eyes, and Jehovah tried the spirits.

Every way of a man right in his eyes: and Jehovah will prepare hearts.

I Jehovah searching the heart, trying the reins, to give to each according to his way, according to the fruit of his doings.

For the word of God living, and effective, and more piercing than any two-mouthed sword, and penetrating even to the division both of soul and spirit, both the joints and marrows, and a critic of the reflections and thoughts of the heart.

And her children will I kill in death; and all the churches shall know that I am he searching the reins and hearts: and I will give to you each according to our works.

Hast pleasure

The perverse of heart are an abomination of Jehovah, and the blameless of way his delight

The sacrifice of the unjust an abomination of Jehovah: and the prayer of the upright his acceptance.

Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and he says of him, Behold truly an Israelite, in whom is no deceit!

In the uprightness

And in this I myself attend carefully, to have a conscience unhurt towards God and men always.

For our boasting is this, the testimony of our consciousness, that in simplicity and purity of God, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, we turned back in the world, and more eminently to you.

Ye witnesses, and God, how holily and justly and unblamably we were to you the believing:

Joy thy people

And the people will rejoice for their showing themselves willing, for with the whole heart they showed themselves willing to Jehovah: and also David the king rejoiced with great gladness.

For we have much grace and consolation upon thy love, for the bowels of the holy are refreshed by thee, brother.

General references

And they will come, every man whose heart lifted him up and every one whose spirit impelled him, and they brought the offering of Jehovah to the work of the tent of appointment, and for all its work, and for the garments of the holy place.