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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Now set your heart and your soul to seek the Lord your God; arise therefore, and build ye the sanctuary of the LORD God, to bring the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and the holy vessels of God, into the house that is to be built to the name of the LORD.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And his four sons with him hid themselves. There are great caverns hard by the spot, and, no doubt, they ran into one of them.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Now Ornan was threshing wheat. And as David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David, and went out of the threshingfloor, and bowed himself to David with his face to the ground. Then David said to Ornan, Grant me the place of this threshingfloor, that I may build an altar therein unto the LORD: thou shalt grant it me for the full price: that the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And king David said to Ornan, Nay; but I will verily buy it for the full price: for I will no take that which is thine for the LORD, nor offer burnt offerings without cost. So David gave to Ornan for the place six hundred shekels of gold by weight. Not paid there and then, for he did not carry that amount with him, but fifty shekels of silver were...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
So David gave to Ornan for the place six hundred shekels of gold by weight. And David built there an altar unto the LORD, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and called upon the LORD; and he answered him from heaven by fire upon the altar of burnt offering. And the LORD commanded the angel; and he put up his sword again into the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And David built there an altar unto the LORD, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and called upon the LORD; and he answered him from heaven by fire upon the altar of burnt offering. And the LORD commanded the angel; and he put up his sword again into the sheath thereof. “And David built there” — that is upon the threshing-floor of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And David built there an altar unto the LORD, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and called upon the LORD; and he answered him from heaven by fire upon the altar of burnt offering. And the LORD commanded the angel; and he put up his sword again into the sheath thereof. That God had already done in his own intent and purpose, now he...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
At that time when David saw that the LORD had answered him in the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he sacrificed there. Then came a sacrifice of thanksgiving, as there always should be after prayer is answered. Remember how the Psalmist puts it, “Then shall they offer bullocks upon thine altar” — after the sin is pardoned and the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
At that time when David saw that the LORD had answered him in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he sacrificed there. For the tabernacle of the LORD, which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of the burnt offering, were at that season in the high place at Gibeon. But David could not go before it to inquire of God: for he was...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
At that time when David saw that the LORD had answered him in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he sacrificed there. For the tabernacle of the LORD, which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of the burnt offering, were at that season in the high place at Gibeon. But David could not go before it to inquire of God: for he was...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
and 1Ch_22:1. For the tabernacle of the LORD, which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of the burnt offering, were at that season in the high place at Gibeon. But David could not go before it to inquire of God: for he was afraid because of the sword of the angel of the LORD. Then David said, This is the house of the LORD God, and this is...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For the tabernacle of the LORD, which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of the burnt offering, were at that season in the high place of Gibeon. But David could not go before it to inquire of God; for he was afraid because of the sword of the angel of the LORD. (This exposition consisted of readings from 1Ch_21:25-30; 1 Chronicles 22.)
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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 had discovered that long-predestined site of which God said, “Here will I dwell.” This was the very hill whereon Abraham offered up his son Isaac; a hill, therefore, most...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then David said, This is the house of the LORD God, and this is the altar of the burnt offering for Israel. From that moment, this place was set apart as the site of the future temple, and the center of the hopes of the people of God, and, dear friend, what better site could have been selected than the spot where the angel sheathed his sword,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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. Observe here a very gracious eye to us who are Gentiles. The temple was built on the threshingfloor of a Jebusite; Ornan was not of the seed of Israel, but one of the accursed Jebusites. It was...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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. And David prepared iron in abundance for the nails for the doors of the gates, and for the joinings and brass in abundance without weight; also cedar trees in abundance: for the Zidonians and they...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And David prepared iron in abundance for the nails for the doors of the gates, and for the joinings; and brass in abundance without weight; also cedar trees in abundance: for the Zidonians and they of Tyre brought much cedar wood to David. Here are the Gentiles again, the Zidonians and the men of Tyre; those that went down to the sea in ships,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And David said, Solomon my son is young and tender, and the house that is to be builded for the LORD must be exceedingly magnifical, of fame and of glory throughout all countries: I will therefore now make preparation for it. This was beautiful and thoughtful on David’s part. It might be too great a strain upon the young man to collect the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
So David prepared abundantly before his death. Then he called for Solomon his son, and charged him to build an house for the LORD God of Israel. And David said to Solomon, My son, as for me, it was in my mind to build an house unto the name of the LORD my God: And it was well that it was in his mind. God often takes the will for the deed. If you...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And David said, Solomon my son is young and tender, and the house that is to be builded for the LORD must be exceedingly magnifical, of fame and of glory throughout all countries: I will therefore now make preparation for it. So David prepared abundantly before his death. If he might not build the temple, he would at least gather the materials for...