1 Chronicles 29:21 Explained in Context

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Verse 21. And they sacrificed sacrifices unto the LORD, and offered burnt offerings unto the LORD, on the morrow after that day, even a thousand bullocks, a thousand rams, and a thousand lambs, with their drink offerings, and sacrifices in abundance for all Israel:

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Quick Meaning

Reports abundant sacrifices, drink offerings, and joyful eating before the LORD.

Read It With

1 Chronicles 29:20–29:25

Reports abundant sacrifices, drink offerings, and joyful eating before the LORD. Read 1 Chronicles 29:21 within 29:20–29:25. The complete unit records: The congregation blesses God, bows to the LORD and king, offers large sacrifices, eats with joy, anoints Solomon a second time and Zadok as priest, and leaders and David's sons submit.

Why This Verse Appears Here

Public worship, feast, priestly succession, and political allegiance converge in the transfer of rule. In this exact position, the line beginning “And they sacrificed sacrifices unto the LORD, and offered burnt offerings unto the LORD,…” reports abundant sacrifices, drink offerings, and joyful eating before the LORD.

Follow the Context

The congregation blesses God, bows to the LORD and king, offers large sacrifices, eats with joy, anoints Solomon a second time and Zadok as priest, and leaders and David's sons submit.
Public worship, feast, priestly succession, and political allegiance converge in the transfer of rule.

Phrase-by-Phrase Explanation

“And they sacrificed sacrifices unto the LORD, and offered burnt offerings unto the LORD,…”

In plain language: Reports abundant sacrifices, drink offerings, and joyful eating before the LORD.

The line beginning “And they sacrificed sacrifices unto the LORD, and offered burnt offerings unto the LORD,…” reports abundant sacrifices, drink offerings, and joyful eating before the LORD.

Why it matters: The wording carries a material literary, historical, temple, royal-power, violence, ethnic, illness, gender, exile, reception, or misuse boundary.

How certain? probable

What This Verse Is Not Saying

Bowing to the king does not authorize leader worship, forced allegiance, theocracy, hereditary office, sacrifice, or treating political unity as moral unanimity.

What Remains True

Reports abundant sacrifices, drink offerings, and joyful eating before the LORD. This concrete detail supports a bounded truth: Faithful succession joins remembered promise with present responsibility; inherited office is never hereditary moral or spiritual superiority.

How It Can Shape Life

Because this verse reports abundant sacrifices, drink offerings, and joyful eating before the LORD, keep it inside 29:20–29:25, compare its Samuel-Kings relationship honestly, protect affected people from coercion or stigma, and apply only the accountable principle the complete unit supports.

Teach It Back

Explain why 1 Chronicles 29:21 reports abundant sacrifices, drink offerings, and joyful eating before the LORD. Use 29:20–29:25, paraphrase “And they sacrificed sacrifices unto the LORD, and offered burnt offerings unto the LORD,…,” 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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Read 1 Chronicles 29:20–29:25 — Assembly worship and a second anointing establish Solomon

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How certain is this explanation? probable

Where care is needed

1 Chronicles 29:21 remains within this thought-unit limit: The 'second time' may relate to an earlier accession not narrated in the same way, and Chronicles omits the conflict with Adonijah found in 1 Kings; ceremony and political negotiation are selectively presented.

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Biblical text

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Exact location: 1 Chronicles 29:20–29:25, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus

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hebrew text and morphology

Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: 1 Chronicles

Open Scriptures

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Biblical Studies Press

Biblical Studies Press; STEP Bible presentation, 2019 edition; current web presentation

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