Lord our God, all this abundance that we have provided to build You a house for Your holy name, it is from Your hand, and everything is Yours.
Parallel translations
- WEB Yahweh our God, all this store that we have prepared to build you a house for your holy name comes from your hand, and is all your own.
- KJV O LORD our God, all this store that we have prepared to build thee an house for thine holy name cometh of thine hand, and is all thine own.
- BSB O LORD our God, from Your hand comes all this abundance that we have provided to build You a house for Your holy Name, and all of it belongs to You.
- NKJV “O Lord our God, all this abundance that we have prepared to build You a house for Your holy name is from Your hand, and is all Your own.
- NLT “O Lord our God, even this material we have gathered to build a Temple to honor your holy name comes from you! It all belongs to you!
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Quick answer
David affirms that all the wealth gathered to build God's house came from God's hand and belongs entirely to him.
Overview
David repeats the theme that the abundance offered is wholly God's own, given back for his name's sake. The building of a 'house for your holy name' is undertaken with the awareness that God needs nothing and supplies everything. This humble recognition keeps worship from becoming a transaction, framing it instead as grateful return to the God who owns all things (Psalm 50:10-12).
Cross-references & the web
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- 1 Chr 29:14But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly as this? For all things come from you, and of your own have we given you.
- Ps 24:1A Psalm by David. The earth is Yahweh’s, with its fullness; the world, and those who dwell therein.
- 2 Chr 31:10Azariah the chief priest, of the house of Zadok, answered him and said, “Since people began to bring the offerings into Yahweh’s house, we have eaten and had enough, and have plenty left over, for Yahweh has blessed his people; and that which is left is this great store.”
- Hos 2:8For she did not know that I gave her the grain, the new wine, and the oil, and multiplied to her silver and gold, which they used for Baal.
- Luke 19:16The first came before him, saying, ‘Lord, your mina has made ten more minas.’
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