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All Belongs to God
All commentators agree on the verse's central theme: everything belongs to God. David's prayer acknowledges that the vast wealth gathered for the temple was not truly the people's to give, but was already God's. As scholars note, the act of giving was simply returning to God what originated from His hand.
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1 Chronicles
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Charles Ellicott
On 1 Chronicles 29:16
19th Century
Bishop
All this store. —Strictly, multitude; and so, a multitude of goods, riches (Psalms 37:16).
John Gill
On 1 Chronicles 29:16
17th Century
Pastor
O Lord our God, all this store that we have prepared
Of gold, silver that he and his people had provided and contrib…
Matthew Henry
On 1 Chronicles 29:10–19
17th Century
Minister
We cannot form a proper understanding of the magnificence of the temple and the buildings around it, in which such quantities of gold and silver we…