1 Crônicas 22

1 Crônicas 22

TIMELINE OF THE BOOKS OF SAMUEL, KINGS & CHRONICLES 1107 1011 971 931 853 722 586 1 Samuel 2 Samuel 1 Kings 1 Kings 2 Kings 31 1-4 5-10 11-20 21-24 1-11 12-22 1-17 18-25 1 Chronicles 10 1Chr 11-19 1Chr 20-29 2 Chronicles 1-9 2 Chronicles 10-20 2 Chronicles 21-36 Legend: B.C. dates at top of timeline are approximate. Note that 931 BC marks the division of the Kingdom into Southern Tribes (Judah and Benjamin) and Ten Northern Tribes. To avoid confusion be aware that after the division of the Kingdom in 931 BC, the Southern Kingdom is most often designated in Scripture as "Judah" and the Northern Kingdom as "Israel." Finally, note that 1 Chronicles 1-9 is not identified on the timeline because these chapters are records of genealogy. THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL Comparison of 1 Samuel thru 2 Chronicles FIRST CHRONICLES SUMMARY CHART 1 Chronicles 1-9:44 1 Chronicles 10:1-39:30 Royal Line of David Reign of David 12 Tribes of David's Reign Highlights of David's Reign Genealogies History Ancestry Activity 1000's of Years Circa 33 Years Map of David's Kingdom-ESV Global Map of Cities in 2 Samuel 1 Chronicles 22:1 Then David said, "This is the house of the LORD God, and this is the altar of burnt offering for Israel." This is the house: David perhaps had some assurance that this was the place on which God designed that His house should be built; and perhaps it was this that induced him to buy not only the threshing-floor, but probably some adjacent ground also, as Calmet supposes, that there might be sufficient room for such a structure. 1Ch 21:18-28 Ge 28:17 De 12:5-7,11 2Sa 24:18 2Ch 3:1 6:5,6 Ps 78:60,67-69 132:13,14 Joh 4:20-22 and this is the altar: 2Ki 18:22 2Ch 32:12 Related Passage: 2 Chronicles 3:1 Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah (AKA FIELD OF ORNAN/ARAUNAH), where the LORD had appeared to his father David (HOW? WHO APPEARED THERE? THE ANGEL OF THE LORD - 1Ch 21:16,18, 20, 27 - SURELY A CHRISTOPHANY), at the place that David had prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. One could subtitle this chapter provision and preparation for God's house. Then - This marks progression in the narrative, so let us first review what the chronicler has just been told us (indeed 1Ch 22:1 - 1Chr 21:18-30 (Context - David has Numbered the people resulting in God's killing of 70,000 Israelites and David seeking to stay the hand of the Angel of the LORD against Jerusalem and build an altar to the LORD). Then the angel of the LORD commanded Gad to say to David, that David should go up and build an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. 19 So David went up at the word of Gad, which he spoke in the name of the LORD. 20 Now Ornan turned back and saw the angel, and his four sons who were with him hid themselves. And Ornan was threshing wheat. 21 As David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David, and went out from the threshing floor and prostrated himself before David with his face to the ground. 22 Then David said to Ornan, “Give me the site of this threshing floor, that I may build on it an altar to the LORD; for the full price you shall give it to me, that the plague may be restrained from the people.” 23 Ornan said to David, “Take it for yourself; and let my lord the king do what is good in his sight. See, I will give the oxen for burnt offerings and the threshing sledges for wood and the wheat for the grain offering; I will give it all.” 24 But King David said to Ornan, “No, but I will surely buy it for the full price; for I will not take what is yours for the LORD, or offer a burnt offering which costs me nothing.” 25 So David gave Ornan 600 shekels of gold by weight for the site. 26 Then David built an altar to the LORD there and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. And he called to the LORD and He answered him with fire from heaven on the altar of burnt offering. (YAHWEH ACCEPTED THE OFFERING) 27 The LORD commanded the angel, and he put his sword back in its sheath. (THE LORD APPEASED, HIS WRATH AVERTED) 28 At that time, when David saw that the LORD had answered him on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, he offered sacrifice there. 29 For the tabernacle of the LORD, which Moses had made in the wilderness, and the altar of burnt offering were in the high place at Gibeon at that time. 30 But David could not go before it to inquire of God, for he was terrified by the sword of the angel of the LORD. Jamieson notes "By the miraculous sign of fire from heaven (1Ch 21:26), and perhaps other intimations, David understood it to be the will of God that the national place of worship should be fixed there, and he forthwith proceeded to make preparations for the erection of the temple on that spot." In this last section of David's life, the Chronicler includes three speeches by David: (1) 1Ch 22:2–19; (2) 1Ch 28:1–21; (3) 1Ch 29:1–9. Chapters 22–29 are unique to Chronicles, having no parallel in the Bible. In 1Ch 22:1–19 the spotlight shifts from a focus on David alone to David and his successor, Solomon. David said, "This is the house of the LORD God, and this is the altar of burnt offering for Israel." - Note this text in context indicates that the altar of burnt offering refers to the altar David had built on Ornan's threshing floor (aka, Mt Moriah, as it is called in 2Ch 3:1 see also and ), which later became the site of Solomon's temple. David now realizes that this is the site the Lord had chosen for His people to build Him as house to seek him in accordance with the instructions of Moses Deut 12:5+ "you shall seek the LORD at the place which the LORD your God will choose from all your tribes, to establish His name there for His dwelling, and there you shall come." Note David's words this is the house. To what does that phrase refer? David answers by going on to equate that phrase with this is the altar of burnt offering! God had clearly revealed to him the place which the LORD your God had chosen! (Scripture is the best commentary on Scripture, for only a "diamond" can cut a "diamond!" (Compare Scripture with Scripture) Now that the future Temple site was purchased, and David had heard from the LORD, it was all systems go to carry out preparations so that his son young and inexperienced son Solomon could complete the building project on Mt Moriah. A.C. Gaebelein:adds that "God had accepted the sacrifice (1Ch 21:26). The judgment had passed (1Ch 21:27). Prayer had been answered (1Ch 21:28) and David, therefore, could truthfully say “this is the house of the LORD God, and this is the altar of the burnt-offering for Israel.” The place had therefore been pointed out on which the temple was to be reared. And from now on up to the 1Ch 26:28 all concerns the house which is to be built. The temple is from now on prominently in the foreground and that which the book of Kings does not mention, David’s great interest in making preparations for it, is recorded in these chapters. And so we see David with great energy making vast preparations. It shows again how grace had worked in his heart. All else seems to have been forgotten by him (ED: THINK OF THE 70,000 WHO HAD JUST DIED WHICH MIGHT HAVE WEIGHED HIM DOWN OR EVEN CAUSED TO TO WITHDRAW FROM GOD. BUT NOT DAVID.). Only one desire controls the king, to make provision of everything necessary for the construction of the Temple. And the house, according to David’s conception “must be exceeding magnificent, of fame and of glory throughout all countries.” His heart burned with zeal to glorify Jehovah, whose mercy and grace he knew so well and who had kept and prospered him in all his ways. “I will therefore now make preparation for it,” David said. Then he prepared abundantly before his death. Warren