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1 Chronicles 18 Bible study: The LORD gave victory
Only Chronicles says it: the bronze David took from Hadadezer's cities is the bronze "with which Solomon made the bronze sea, the pillars, and the vessels of bronze" (18:8). Later in the book David tells Solomon the LORD's word to him: "You shall not build a house to my name, because you have shed much blood on the earth in my sight" (22:8).
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“David reigned over all Israel; and he executed justice and righteousness for all his people.”
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“1 Chronicles 18 says Solomon made the bronze sea from bronze David took from Hadadezer's cities.”
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I will subdue all your enemies
One chapter before, the LORD told David through Nathan, "I have been with you wherever you have gone, and have cut off all your enemies from before you" (17:8), and "I will subdue all your enemies" (17:10). This chapter opens, "After this, David defeated the Philistines and subdued them" (18:1) (tap subdued). In Hebrew I will subdue (17:10) and subdued them (18:1) are the same verb. Where 2 Samuel gives the LORD's promise, it has "I will cause you to rest from all your enemies" (2 Samuel 7:11) instead. Then one line comes twice in this chapter, word for word: "The LORD gave victory to David wherever he went" (1 Chronicles 18:6, 1 Chronicles 18:13) (tap gave victory). In Hebrew wherever you have gone (17:8) and wherever he went (18:6) are the same three words, changed only from you to he. The chapter doesn't point back to chapter 17; the words are set side by side here. What it does say is who gave the victory: not David, but the LORD (18:6, 18:13).
Where it leads to Jesus
In righteousness he judges
1 Chronicles 18:14leads toRevelation 19:11
"The LORD gave victory to David wherever he went" (18:13), and "David reigned over all Israel; and he executed justice and righteousness for all his people" (18:14). In Revelation, heaven is opened, and the one who sits on a white horse "is called Faithful and True. In righteousness he judges and makes war" (Revelation 19:11); on his garment is written "KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS" (Revelation 19:16), a name Revelation also gives the Lamb, "he is Lord of lords and King of kings" (Revelation 17:14). No New Testament passage cites 1 Chronicles 18, and no link between the Hebrew and Greek words is claimed, so setting the two side by side is a reading. Some see a likeness: a king who goes to war and who does what is right, said of David in this chapter (18:13-14) and of the rider in Revelation (Revelation 19:11). Others read each on its own terms: 1 Chronicles 18 records David's wars and how he ruled Israel, and says the victory was the LORD's (18:6, 18:13), while Revelation 19 tells what was seen when heaven was opened (Revelation 19:11).
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- Bronze for a house he would not build
- Justice and righteousness for all his people
- Where the bronze went
- The sons of Zeruiah
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The Hebrew word behind it
יָשַׁעyasha'say ya-SHA
Brown-Driver-Briggs: "deliver, save", and for the form used here, among its senses, "give victory to". Strong's: "to free or succor". "The LORD gave victory to David wherever he went" (18:6, 18:13): both times the LORD is the one who gives it. 1 Chronicles uses the verb six times. At Pasdammim, where there was "a plot of ground full of barley" (11:13), "the LORD saved them by a great victory" (11:14). The psalm of thanks says, "Save us, God of our salvation!" (16:35). In the next chapter Joab tells Abishai, "I will help you" (19:12), and at the end the Syrians "would not help the children of Ammon any more" (19:19): help in both is this verb.
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1 Chronicles 18 Bible study questions
- 1"The LORD gave victory to David wherever he went" (18:6, 18:13). Where have you been tempted to take the credit for something God did?
- 2The bronze from David's wars went into what Solomon made (18:8), though David was told he would not build the house (22:8). What might you be preparing that someone else will finish?
- 3David "executed justice and righteousness for all his people" (18:14). Who in your own circles is easiest to leave out of "all"?
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