Because of your temple at Jerusalem, kings shall bring presents to you.
Parallel translations
- KJV Because of thy temple at Jerusalem shall kings bring presents unto thee.
- BSB Because of Your temple at Jerusalem kings will bring You gifts.
- NKJV Because of Your temple at Jerusalem, Kings will bring presents to You.
- NASB Because of Your temple at Jerusalem Kings will bring gifts to You.
- NLT The kings of the earth are bringing tribute to your Temple in Jerusalem.
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Quick answer
Because of God's temple in Jerusalem, even foreign kings will bring tribute to him. It anticipates the nations coming to honor the true God.
Overview
David envisions kings bringing gifts to God on account of his dwelling place at Jerusalem, a sign of the nations acknowledging his glory. This expectation of Gentile homage runs throughout Scripture. It finds fulfillment as the gospel draws peoples and rulers to bow before Christ, the true temple and King to whom all tribute is due.
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Cross-references · 18
- 1 Kgs 10:10She gave the king one hundred twenty talents of gold, and a very great quantity of spices, and precious stones. Never again was there such an abundance of spices as these which the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon.
- 1 Chr 29:3In addition, because I have set my affection on the house of my God, since I have a treasure of my own of gold and silver, I give it to the house of my God, over and above all that I have prepared for the holy house,
- Ps 76:11Make vows to Yahweh your God, and fulfill them! Let all of his neighbors bring presents to him who is to be feared.
- Isa 18:7In that time, a present will be brought to Yahweh of Armies from a people tall and smooth, even from a people awesome from their beginning onward, a nation that measures out and treads down, whose land the rivers divide, to the place of the name of Yahweh of Armies, Mount Zion.
- Isa 60:16–17You will also drink the milk of the nations, and will nurse from royal breasts. Then you will know that I, Yahweh, am your Savior, your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.
- Ps 45:12The daughter of Tyre comes with a gift. The rich among the people entreat your favor.
- Isa 60:6–11A multitude of camels will cover you, the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah. All from Sheba will come. They will bring gold and frankincense, and will proclaim the praises of Yahweh.
- 1 Kgs 10:24–25All the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.
- Ezra 7:13–28I make a decree, that all those of the people of Israel, and their priests and the Levites, in my realm, who intend of their own free will to go to Jerusalem, go with you.
- Ps 72:10–11The kings of Tarshish and of the islands will bring tribute. The kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts.
- 2 Chr 32:23Many brought gifts to Yahweh to Jerusalem, and precious things to Hezekiah king of Judah; so that he was exalted in the sight of all nations from then on.
- 1 Chr 22:7–11David said to Solomon his son, “As for me, it was in my heart to build a house to the name of Yahweh my God.
- 2 Chr 32:33Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the ascent of the tombs of the sons of David. All Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem honored him at his death. Manasseh his son reigned in his place.
- Neh 2:8and a letter to Asaph the keeper of the king’s forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the citadel by the temple, for the wall of the city, and for the house that I will occupy.” The king granted my requests, because of the good hand of my God on me.
- 2 Chr 2:5–6“The house which I am building will be great; for our God is greater than all gods.
- 1 Chr 28:10–21Take heed now; for Yahweh has chosen you to build a house for the sanctuary. Be strong, and do it.”
- 2 Chr 6:8–9But Yahweh said to David my father, ‘Whereas it was in your heart to build a house for my name, you did well that it was in your heart;
- 1 Chr 17:4–12“Go and tell David my servant, ‘Yahweh says, “You shall not build me a house to dwell in;
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