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, Solomon my son: know God thy father and serve him with a pure heart and lust of soul. For the LORD searcheth all hearts and understandeth all the imaginations of thoughts. If thou shalt seek him, he will be found of thee: But and if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off forever.

And think on all the ways which the LORD thy God led thee this forty years in the wilderness, for to humble thee and to prove thee, to wete what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments or no.

But the LORD said unto Samuel, "Look not on his fashion nor on the height of his stature, for I have refused him. Because it is not as man seeth. For man looketh on the outward appearance: but the LORD beholdeth the heart."

O let the wickedness of the ungodly come to an end; but guide thou the just. For the righteous God trieth the very hearts and reins.

But lo, thou hast a pleasure in the truth, and hast showed me secret wisdom.

A man thinketh all his ways to be clean; but it is the LORD that fashioneth the minds.

Every man thinketh his own way to be right; but the LORD judgeth the hearts.

"Even I the LORD search out the ground of the heart, and try the reins, and reward every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his counsels."

for the word of God is quick, and mighty in operation, and sharper than any two edged sword: and entereth through, even unto the dividing asunder of the soul and the spirit and of the joints, and the marrow: and judgeth the thoughts and the intents of the heart.

And I will kill her children with death. And all the congregations shall know that I am he which searches the reins and hearts. And I will give unto everyone of you according to your works.

Hast pleasure

The LORD abhorreth a fained heart; but he hath pleasure in them that are undefiled.

The LORD abhorreth the sacrifice of the ungodly; but the prayer of the righteous is acceptable to him.

Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said of him, "Behold a right Israelite, in whom is no guile."

In the uprightness

And therefore study I to have a clear conscience toward God, and toward man also.

Our rejoicing is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in singleness of heart and with godly pureness - and not in fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God - we have had our conversation in the world, and most of all to you-wards.

Ye are witnesses, and so is God, how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe:

Joy thy people

And the people rejoiced that they were so willing: for with a pure heart they were willing unto the LORD. And thereto David the king rejoiced with great gladness.

And we have great joy and consolation over thy love: For by thee, brother, the saints' hearts are comforted.

General references

And they went - as many as their hearts couraged them and as many as their spirits made them willing - and brought heave offerings unto the LORD, to the making of the tabernacle of witness and for all his uses and for the holy vestments.