1 Chronicles 22 Bible study: Arise and be doing

Chapter 21 ended at a threshing floor. "David built an altar to the LORD there, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and called on the LORD; and he answered him from the sky by fire on the altar of burnt offering" (21:26). "At that time, when David saw that the LORD had answered him in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he sacrificed there" (21:28). The tabernacle Moses made, "and the altar of burnt offering, were at that time in the high place at Gibeon" (21:29). Then David said, "This is the house of the LORD God, and this is the altar of burnt offering for Israel" (22:1). The house isn't built yet: the rest of the chapter is David getting ready for it (22:2-5). Later, Chronicles says where it was built: "Then Solomon began to build the LORD’s house at Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD appeared to David his father, which he prepared in the place that David had appointed, on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite" (2 Chronicles 3:1).

1 Chronicles 22:9→leads toEphesians 2:14

"for his name shall be Solomon, and I will give peace and quietness to Israel in his days" (22:9), and of that son, "He shall build a house for my name" (22:10). Here peace is shalom, the word Strong's derives Solomon's name from. (Earlier in 22:9, where the WEB has "a man of peace", the Hebrew is a man of rest, so this reading doesn't rest on that phrase.) Ephesians says to those who are "in Christ Jesus" (Ephesians 2:13), "For he is our peace, who made both one, and broke down the middle wall of separation" (Ephesians 2:14), and of Christ, "in whom the whole building, fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord" (Ephesians 2:21). Ephesians doesn't cite 1 Chronicles 22, 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: in 22:9-10, peace and the building of God's house are promised together in David's son, and in Ephesians 2 both are found in Christ. Others read each on its own terms: 22:9 promises Solomon rest "from all his enemies all around" (22:9) and peace "to Israel in his days" (22:9), and Ephesians 2 speaks of peace preached "to you who were far off and to those who were near" (Ephesians 2:17).

מְנוּחָהmenuchahsay me-noo-KHAH

Brown-Driver-Briggs: "resting-place, rest". Strong's: "repose or (adverbially) peacefully". "Behold, a son shall be born to you, who shall be a man of peace" (22:9): where the WEB has a man of peace, the Hebrew is ish menuchah, a man of rest. The next words give the rest: "I will give him rest from all his enemies all around" (22:9). 1 Chronicles uses the noun one other time, when David tells the assembly, "it was in my heart to build a house of rest for the ark of the LORD’s covenant" (28:2). Moses used it of what Israel had not yet reached: "you haven’t yet come to the rest and to the inheritance which the LORD your God gives you" (Deuteronomy 12:9).