1 Chronicles 22:2 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And David commanded to gather together the strangers that were in the land of Israel; and he set masons to hew wrought stones to build the house of God. ”

• 1 Chronicles 22:2 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  The strangers - i. e., the aliens the non-Israelite population of the land. Compare 2 Chronicles 2:17 .

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• 1 Chronicles 22:2 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  And David commanded to gather together the (b) strangers that [were] in the land of Israel; and he set masons to hew wrought stones to build the house of God. (b) Meaning, cunning men of other natio...

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• 1 Chronicles 22:2 - 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 22:2 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And David commanded to gather together the strangers that were in the land of Israel; and he set masons to hew wrought stones to build the house of God. The strangers that were in the land - Those...

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• 1 Chronicles 22:2 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And David commanded to gather together the strangers that were in the land of Israel; and he set masons to hew wrought stones to build the house of God. David commanded to gather together the...

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• 1 Chronicles 22:2 - 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 22:2 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  And David commanded to gather together the strangers. — The word rendered “to gather together” ( kânas ) is different from the terms used in 1 Chronicles 15:3-4 ; 1 Chronicles 19:7 , and is late...

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• 1 Chronicles 22:2 - 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 22:2 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  These verses represent David in a very engaging light. Though the honor of building this temple was not to be his, yet he will do his utmost towards it, that he may show his zeal and love to so good...

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• 1 Chronicles 22:2 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And David commanded to gather together the strangers that were in the land of Israel ,.... The proselytes, as the Septuagint and Vulgate Latin versions; that is, proselytes of the gate, who submitte...

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• 1 Chronicles 22:2 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And David commanded to gather together the strangers that [were] in the land of Israel; and he set masons to hew wrought stones to build the house of God. Ver. 2. To gather together the strangers....

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• 1 Chronicles 22:2 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  To gather the strangers that were in the land of Israel The same persons whom Solomon afterward employed in the same work; of which see 1 Kings 5:15 ; 1 Kings 9:20-21 . He set masons to hew wrou...

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• 1 Chronicles 22:2 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Preparations for the Temple. B. C. 1017.       1 Then David said, This is the house of the L...

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• 1 Chronicles 22:2 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  The strangers that were in the land of Israel; the same persons whom Solomon afterwards employed in the same work; of which see 1 Kings 5:15 , compared with 1 Kings 9:20,21 . He set masons t...

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• 1 Chronicles 22:2 - 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 22:2 - 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 22:2 - 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 22:2 - The Biblical Illustrator

  And David commanded to gather together the strangers. What we cannot destroy may be usefully employed Whom we are not able to destroy we may be able to employ in holy service, is a doctrine whi...

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• 1 Chronicles 22:2 - 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 22:2 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Material and Money Gathered by David

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• 1 Chronicles 22:2 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Chronicles 14:1 ; 1 Kings 5:17 ; 1 Kings 5:18 ; 1 Kings 6:7 ; 1 Kings 7:9-12 ; 1 Kings 9:20 ; 1 Kings 9:21 ; 2 Chronicles 2:17 ; 2 Chronicles 8:7 ; 2 Chronicles 8:8 ; 2 Kings 12:12 ; 2...

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