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1 Chronicles 22:1 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 1. 1Then David said, This is the house of the LORD God, and this is the altar of the burnt offering for Israel.
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Quick Meaning
This verse closes the thought unit with its stated result or transition: “Then David said, This is the house of the LORD God, and this is the altar of the….” Its responsible meaning belongs to the complete movement “Fear, answered sacrifice, and declaration identify the temple site.”
Read It With
- 1 Chronicles 21:28–22:1
Read 1 Chronicles 22:1 with 21:28–22:1. The selected wording supplies one closing in the thought unit with its stated result or transition; the surrounding verses supply the relationships and outcome summarized here: David continues sacrificing at Ornan's floor because the angel's sword makes Gibeon inaccessible to him, then declares this site God's house and Israel's altar.
Why This Verse Appears Here
Within “Fear, answered sacrifice, and declaration identify the temple site,” 1 Chronicles 22:1 closes the thought unit with its stated result or transition through the wording “Then David said, This is the house of the LORD God, and this is the altar of the….” Its placement is governed by this reviewed relationship: Fear, answered sacrifice, and the purchased threshing floor become David's declaration of the future temple site, joining judgment memory to preparation.
Read 1 Chronicles 21:28–22:1 together
Why these verses belong together: 1 Chronicles 21:28–22:1 forms the complete movement “Fear, answered sacrifice, and declaration identify the temple site”: David continues sacrificing at Ornan's floor because the angel's sword makes Gibeon inaccessible to him, then declares this site God's house and Israel's altar.
Verse 28. 28 At that time when David saw that the LORD had answered him in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he sacrificed there.
Verse 29. 29 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.
Verse 30. 30 But David could not go before it to enquire of God: for he was afraid because of the sword of the angel of the LORD.
Verse 1. 1 Then David said, This is the house of the LORD God, and this is the altar of the burnt offering for Israel.
Follow the Context
- David continues sacrificing at Ornan's floor because the angel's sword makes Gibeon inaccessible to him, then declares this site God's house and Israel's altar.
- The census movement ends not by forgetting judgment but by locating future worship where mercy interrupts destruction.
What This Verse Is Not Saying
1 Chronicles 22:1 does not permit the wording “Then David said, This is the house of the LORD God, and this is the altar of the…” to be read apart from the selected verse's context. The site declaration does not authorize modern territorial seizure, speculative temple politics, or claims that fear and miracle establish present property rights.
What Remains True
Faithful succession joins remembered promise with present responsibility; inherited office is never hereditary moral or spiritual superiority. This unit tests that truth through the narrated movement: David continues sacrificing at Ornan's floor because the angel's sword makes Gibeon inaccessible to him, then declares this site God's house and Israel's altar. In 1 Chronicles 22:1, the concrete line “Then David said, This is the house of the LORD God, and this is the altar of the…” keeps that truth accountable to the narrated evidence.
How It Can Shape Life
- The evidence to keep visible in this verse is “Then David said, This is the house of the LORD God, and this is the altar of the….” Prepare successors with clear authority limits, truthful records, shared responsibility, and reviewable resources rather than demanding loyalty to a personality or family line. This response follows from the unit's own movement: David continues sacrificing at Ornan's floor because the angel's sword makes Gibeon inaccessible to him, then declares this site God's house and Israel's altar.
Teach It Back
Explain why 1 Chronicles 22:1 identifies Ornan's site as the house of the LORD and Israel's burnt-offering altar. Use 21:28–22:1, paraphrase “Then David said, This is the house of the LORD God, and this is the altar of the…,” state one source or reconstruction limit, identify one person or group power can obscure, and reject one conclusion this verse does not authorize.
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Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read 1 Chronicles 21:28–22:1 — Fear, answered sacrifice, and declaration identify the temple siteSources used for this Verse Lens
How certain is this explanation? probable
Where care is needed
Chronicles uniquely connects the census site to the temple, while the relation to Moriah, Gibeon practice, chronology, and later topography remains a literary-historical question.
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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Supports: Exact KJV wording, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage for this thought unit.
Exact location: 1 Chronicles 21:28–22:1, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: 1 Chronicles
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Hebrew wording, morphology, names, clauses, regnal formulas, temple vocabulary, older-English controls, and translation limits.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/1Chr.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 21:28–22:1
Open source ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible Full Notes: 1 Chronicles
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press; STEP Bible presentation, 2019 edition; current web presentation
Supports: Unit-bounded translation comparisons and only those lexical, textual, grammatical, numerical, historical, and parallel-passage notes attached to these verses.
Exact location: STEP Bible NET2full, 1 Chronicles 21:28–22:1, verse-attached translation and translator notes
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