1 Chronicles 22:12 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Only the LORD give thee wisdom and understanding, and give thee charge concerning Israel, that thou mayest keep the law of the LORD thy God. ”

• 1 Chronicles 22:12 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  Only the LORD give thee (f) wisdom and understanding, and give thee charge concerning Israel, that thou mayest keep the law of the LORD thy God. (f) These are only the means by which kings govern th...

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• 1 Chronicles 22:12 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  1 Chronicles 22:2 to 1 Chronicles 29:30 . The whole of this section is the work of the Chronicler, though it is probable that he utilised some earlier sources in compiling it; a good deal of OT...

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• 1 Chronicles 22:12 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  give thee wisdom. This was Solomon's prayer in 1 Kings 3:5-15 . the law The whole Levitical code.

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• 1 Chronicles 22:12 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Only the LORD give thee wisdom and understanding, and give thee charge concerning Israel, that thou mayest keep the law of the LORD thy God.

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• 1 Chronicles 22:12 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Only the LORD give thee wisdom and understanding, and give thee charge concerning Israel, that thou mayest keep the law of the LORD thy God. Keep the law of the Lord thy God.

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• 1 Chronicles 22:12 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  David's Preparations for the building of the Temple This chapter is supplementary to the narrative in the earlier books, its contents coming chronologically between 2 Samuel 24 and 1 Kings 1 .

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• 1 Chronicles 22:12 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  (6-16) David gives formal charge to Solomon to build the Temple.

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• 1 Chronicles 22:12 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  In the place where the mercy of God operated in staying the plague resulting from his sin, David chose to build the house of his God. The threshing floor of Oman the Jebusite was chosen as the site o...

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• 1 Chronicles 22:12 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  The time of this address of David to his son, as well as the occasion, being, as we are told, just before his death, gives great weight and energy to it. It is indeed a most interesting address from...

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• 1 Chronicles 22:12 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Only the Lord give thee wisdom and understanding ,.... To manage and conduct an affair of such importance, as well as to govern the people, as follows: and give thee charge concerning Israel; or,...

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• 1 Chronicles 22:12 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Only the LORD give thee wisdom and understanding, and give thee charge concerning Israel, that thou mayest keep the law of the LORD thy God. Ver. 12. Only the Lord give thee wisdom. ] Solomon reme...

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• 1 Chronicles 22:12 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Charge to Solomon. B. C. 1015.       6 Then he called for Solomon his son, and charged h...

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• 1 Chronicles 22:12 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Give thee charge concerning Israel, i.e. give thee instructions or direction rightly to manage and rule his people Israel. Or, and set thee over Israel , as the Syriac renders it, whom the Arabic...

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• 1 Chronicles 22:12 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL NOTES.] The remaining Chapter s of this book are peculiar to the chronist. They narrate the arrangements of David for the building of the temple, his religious and political regulations, and...

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• 1 Chronicles 22:12 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  1 Chronicles 22:1 Then David said, This is the house of the LORD God, and this is the altar of the burnt offering for Israel. Now he knew where the temple was to be built; and of a certainty he...

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• 1 Chronicles 22:12 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  1 Chronicles 22:14 . In my trouble, that is, in my state of weakness and wars, I have prepared a hundred thousand talents of gold, and a thousand thousand talents of silver. David having been vi...

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• 1 Chronicles 22:12 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Then he called for Solomon his son. David’s charge to Solomon I. A father’s privilege. 1. To cherish a lofty ideal for his son. This does not require that the father should undertake to deci...

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• 1 Chronicles 22:12 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION From the commencement of this chapter to the close of the First Book of the Chronicles we again travel alone, and, with the exception of parallel passages of a merely ordinary charact...

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• 1 Chronicles 22:12 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  David's Instructions to Solomon

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• 1 Chronicles 22:12 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 John 2:3 ; 1 Kings 11:1-10 ; 1 Kings 3:9-12 ; 2 Chronicles 1:10 ; Deuteronomy 4:6 ; James 1:5 ; Luke 21:15 ; Proverbs 14:8 ; Proverbs 2:6 ; Proverbs 2:7 ; Psalms 72:1

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