1 Chronicles 22:1
Then David said, "Here shall be the house of the LORD God, as well as the altar of burnt offering for Israel."
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David's Preparation for Building the TempleF. Whitfield 1 Chronicles 22:1-5, 14














David was now in the last years of his reign, and these were spent in making preparation for the building of the temple. In order to procure the necessary workmen, he commanded to gather together the strangers in the land of Israel or the descendants of the Canaanites whom the Israelites had not destroyed when they took possession of the land, but had reduced to bondage. The number was so considerable that Solomon was able to employ one hundred and fifty thousand of them as labourers and stone-cutters. Of these David "set masons to hew wrought stones to build the house of God." Solomon was but a tender youth - not yet in his twentieth year - and the work to be executed was so great that David determined to make all the preparation he could himself. The materials prepared were many and costly. Iron, brass, and cedar trees; the two former without weight, for they were so abundant. But of gold there was one hundred thousand talents, and of silver one million talents. As the talent was one thousand shekels, and the shekel according to the Mosaic weight worth about two shillings and sixpence, the silver would thus amount to £375,000,000, and the gold to £450,000,000. This money seems to have been the fruit of the spoils of the wars in which David had been engaged. This enormous sum was at once laid out for the Lord's house. Thus all the accumulation of David's life is here consecrated to God. Thus should it be in the life of every true Christian. His money, his talents, his time, his opportunities, are all the Lord's and are to be consecrated to his service. "Ye are bought with a price." The Christian is in one sense the poorest man in the world, for all he has belongs to the Lord; yet he is the wealthiest, because God himself is his. We have no right to take a walk without it is the Lord's will, nor spend a penny unless as he would have us do it. When a man becomes the Lord's, everything he possessed passes over to him who has bought him. And he is but a steward of all he possesses, and soon to be called to give an account of his stewardship. - W.

Then David said to Ornan.
Contemplate this subject —

I. IN REFERENCE TO THE SPIRITUAL EXPANSION OF THE INTELLECTUAL POWERS. We may be Christians without much knowledge, but our honour, glory, and felicity to abound in knowledge —

1. Of God.

2. Of Christ.

3. Of theology generally. The cost must be paid in the attainment.

II. APPLY THE SUBJECT TO THE SPIRITUAL CULTIVATION OF THE MORAL NATURE. The soul before conversion like a barren heath or desert. It must be cultivated. Much labour needful. Evil habits to be abandoned. Holy habits to be formed.

III. TO THE INFLUENCE OF SELF-DENIAL IN ADORNING THE CHRISTIAN PROFESSION. Self-denial not merely the abandonment of sin. It involves the surrendering even of what might be lawfully retained. Our will must be sacrificed, that God's may be done.

IV. TO THE IMPORTANCE OF USEFULNESS IN THE CAUSE OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST.

1. The heart must be given to Christ.

2. Then life, talents, influence, time, wealth.

(1)This cost must be paid in the right spirit.

(2)This cost is not equal to the demands of sin.

3. To pay this cost grace is both necessary and provided.

(J. Burns, D. D.)

Homilist.
This incident teaches us —

I. THAT TRUE RELIGION IS SPIRITUALITY IN CONTRADISTINCTION TO FORMALISM. The spirit of love which now inspired David was something distinct from all outward service, something that could not be expressed by the most valuable of offerings that cost him nothing. Personal sacrifice was required. "The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit." "Circumcision or uncircumcision availeth nothing."

II. THAT TRUE RELIGION IS ENTHUSIASM IN CONTRADISTINCTION TO PRUDENCE. David rejected the offer of Ornan. He repudiated the securing of the higher interests of the soul without any detraction from secular resources. It is ever so where love reigns — all personal interests are in the background; God is the one all-commanding, all-absorbing object of thought.

III. THAT TRUE RELIGION IS NOBILITY IN CONTRADISTINCTION TO MEANNESS.

IV. THAT TRUE RELIGION IS PROGRESS IN CONTRADISTINCTION TO STATIONARINESS. The man inspired with this spirit would never rest with present attainments.

1. There will be a delight in studying truth. The creed of a true religious man has cost him something.

2. There will be a delight in doing all that is commanded.

V. THAT TRUE RELIGION IS REALITY IN CONTRADISTINCTION TO FALSENESS. That the spirit of David is the only true spirit of religion will appear if you consider —

1. What God is.

2. What He has done for us.

3. That all we have and are are His.

(Homilist.)

Observe the laudable strife of two noble minds.

I. ORNAN'S CONDUCT. Ornan, a Jebusite, and so by birth a heathen, but by choice a proselyte (see his prayer, 2 Samuel 24:23). A pledge of the Gentiles coming in: the very site of the temple belonged to one. Thankful for his privileges, and therefore liberal in his gifts.

II. DAVID'S CONDUCT.

1. His sense of sin (1 Timothy 1:12-15).

2. His sense of mercy. God's direction about the altar was an indication of forgiveness. David looked beyond this to the Redeemer. All he had was too little to express his gratitude. "Much forgiven, loving much." If religion be real it will be self-denying. Does your religion cost you anything? Has it led you to give up your own will; to sacrifice your own inclinations? to crucify the flesh with its affections and lusts? What do you give to God of your time, your influence, your means?

(W. Pakenham Welsh, D. D.)

, J. Burns, D. D.
I. THAT EXTERNALLY THERE IS NOTHING IN ANY PLACE WHY GOD SHOULD THERE MEET WITH MEN. Why was the threshing-floor of Ornan to be the meeting-place of David with his God, and the spot where prayer was to be heard?

1. Certainly it was a very simple, unadorned place. Yet when the temple, with all its glory, crowned the spot, God was never more conspicuously present than on that bare, ungarnished threshing-floor. A tasteful building may be a way of showing your pious regard for the Lord, but take care that you do not regard it as essential, or even important, or you will make an idol of it.

2. It was a place of ordinary toil.

3. It was, also, in possession of a Jebusite. The Jebusites were among the nations doomed for their iniquities. Herein the Lord showeth that He is no respecter of persons. The Jews wrapped themselves up within themselves, and said, "The temple of the Lord; the temple of the Lord are we"; but the Lord seemed to rebuke their national pride by saying, "And your temple is built upon the threshing-floor of a Jebusite." If you happen to have been born of parents who did not train you in the fear of the Lord, yet do not despond; but say to thy soul, "The Lord shall have a dwelling within my heart, Jebusite though I be."

4. Before it could be used it had to be bought with money. In connection with all true worship of God in the olden time there was always the offertory.

II. SPIRITUALLY THIS THRESHING-FLOOR OF ORNAN WAS AN ADMIRABLE TYPE OF HOW GOD MEETS WITH MEN.

1. Its extreme simplicity enters into the essence of the type.

2. The threshing-floor is the exact type of affliction. The temple of glory is built on the threshing-floor of affliction.

3. This was the place where justice was most clearly manifest. Above this place, in mid-air, stood a dreadful apparition. Conviction of sin, wrought by the Spirit or God, is more powerful than argument. It some men had more fully felt that they were sinners, they would have made better saints.

4. It was the place where sin was confessed.

5. It was the place where sacrifice was offered and accepted.

6. It was where David beheld the sign of peace.

III. I CLOSE BY HEARTILY EXHORTING YOU TO USE THIS PLACE.

( C. H. Spurgeon.)The altar built and the plague stayed: — Observe —

I. A FEARFUL EVIL.

II. THE DIVINE REMEDY.

III. A GENEROUS PROPOSAL.

IV. A NOBLE AND SELF-SACRIFICING SPIRIT.

(J. Burns, D. D.)

The altar and sacrifice as means of propitiation illustrates the atonement of Christ.

I. THE MORAL CONDITION WHICH IT IS DESIGNED TO MEET.

II. THE PROVISION MADE FOR THIS CONDITION.

III. THE RESULTS WHICH IT ACCOMPLISHED.

(J. Wolfendale.)23

People
David, Sidonians, Solomon, Tyrians, Zidonians
Places
Jerusalem
Topics
Altar, Burned, Burnt, Burnt-offering, David, Elohim, Israel's, Offering, Offerings
Outline
1. David, foreknowing the place of the temple, prepares abundance for building it.
6. He instructs Solomon in God's promises, and his duty in building the temple.
17. He charges the princes to assist his son

Dictionary of Bible Themes
1 Chronicles 22:1

     8626   worship, places

1 Chronicles 22:1-2

     5240   building

1 Chronicles 22:1-19

     5089   David, significance

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David's Prohibited Desire and Permitted Service
'Then he called for Solomon his son, and charged him to build an house for the Lord God of Israel. 7. 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: 8. But the word of the Lord came to me, saying, Thou hast shed blood abundantly, and hast made great wars: thou shalt not build an house unto My name, because thou hast shed much blood upon the earth in My sight. 9. Behold, a son shall be born to thee, who shall be a man of rest; and
Alexander Maclaren—Expositions of Holy Scripture

Solomon's Temple Spiritualized
or, Gospel Light Fetched out of the Temple at Jerusalem, to Let us More Easily into the Glory of New Testament Truths. 'Thou son of man, shew the house to the house of Isreal;--shew them the form of the house, and the fashion thereof, and the goings out hereof, and the comings in thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the laws thereof.'--Ezekiel 43:10, 11 London: Printed for, and sold by George Larkin, at the Two Swans without Bishopgate,
John Bunyan—The Works of John Bunyan Volumes 1-3

He Does Battle for the Faith; He Restores Peace among those who were at Variance; He Takes in Hand to Build a Stone Church.
57. (32). There was a certain clerk in Lismore whose life, as it is said, was good, but his faith not so. He was a man of some knowledge in his own eyes, and dared to say that in the Eucharist there is only a sacrament and not the fact[718] of the sacrament, that is, mere sanctification and not the truth of the Body. On this subject he was often addressed by Malachy in secret, but in vain; and finally he was called before a public assembly, the laity however being excluded, in order that if it were
H. J. Lawlor—St. Bernard of Clairvaux's Life of St. Malachy of Armagh

The Promise in 2 Samuel, Chap. vii.
The Messianic prophecy, as we have seen, began at a time long anterior to that of David. Even in Genesis, we perceived [Pg 131] it, increasing more and more in distinctness. There is at first only the general promise that the seed of the woman should obtain the victory over the kingdom of the evil one;--then, that the salvation should come through the descendants of Shem;--then, from among them Abraham is marked out,--of his sons, Isaac,--from among his sons, Jacob,--and from among the twelve sons
Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg—Christology of the Old Testament

Chronicles
The comparative indifference with which Chronicles is regarded in modern times by all but professional scholars seems to have been shared by the ancient Jewish church. Though written by the same hand as wrote Ezra-Nehemiah, and forming, together with these books, a continuous history of Judah, it is placed after them in the Hebrew Bible, of which it forms the concluding book; and this no doubt points to the fact that it attained canonical distinction later than they. Nor is this unnatural. The book
John Edgar McFadyen—Introduction to the Old Testament

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