1 Chronicles 29 Bible study: All things come from you

David opens with the size of the task: "Solomon my son, whom alone God has chosen, is yet young and tender, and the work is great; for the palace is not for man, but for the LORD God" (29:1). He names what he has already prepared "with all my might" (29:2). Then he gives more, from his own store: "In addition, because I have set my affection on the house of my God, since I have a treasure of my own of gold and silver, I give it to the house of my God, over and above all that I have prepared for the holy house" (29:3) (tap treasure and set my affection). Only after giving does he ask: "Who then offers willingly to consecrate himself today to the LORD?" (29:5). The leaders answer: they "offered willingly" (29:6) and gave (29:7-8). "Then the people rejoiced, because they offered willingly, because with a perfect heart they offered willingly to the LORD; and David the king also rejoiced with great joy" (29:9). The Hebrew verb behind offer willingly is nadav (tap willingly). It comes seventeen times in the Hebrew Bible, and seven of them are in this chapter: once each in 29:5, 29:6 and 29:14, and twice each in 29:9 and 29:17. Behind David's to consecrate himself today to the LORD are the same Hebrew words, in other forms, as in Moses' "Consecrate yourselves today to the LORD" (Exodus 32:29).

1 Chronicles 29:11→leads toRevelation 5:12-13

David blessed the LORD "forever and ever" (29:10): "Yours, LORD, is the greatness, the power, the glory, the victory, and the majesty!" (29:11). In Revelation, John sees "a Lamb standing, as though it had been slain" (Revelation 5:6), and hears many angels say, "Worthy is the Lamb who has been killed to receive the power, wealth, wisdom, strength, honor, glory, and blessing!" (Revelation 5:12). Then every created thing says, "To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be the blessing, the honor, the glory, and the dominion, forever and ever! Amen!" (Revelation 5:13). Revelation doesn't cite 1 Chronicles 29, 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: the praise David gives the LORD before the assembly is given in Revelation to the one on the throne and to the Lamb together. Others read each on its own terms: praise like this is given to God in other places too, as in "Blessing, glory, wisdom, thanksgiving, honor, power, and might, be to our God forever and ever!" (Revelation 7:12), so they don't read Revelation 5 as looking back to this prayer.

נָדַבnadavsay na-DAV

Brown-Driver-Briggs: "incite, impel", and in the form used here, "volunteer". Strong's: "to impel; hence, to volunteer (as a soldier), to present spontaneously". The verb comes seventeen times in the Hebrew Bible, and seven are in this chapter, the only times 1 Chronicles uses it. David asks, "Who then offers willingly to consecrate himself today to the LORD?" (29:5). The leaders "offered willingly" (29:6). It comes twice in "because they offered willingly, because with a perfect heart they offered willingly to the LORD" (29:9), once in "that we should be able to offer so willingly as this" (29:14), and twice in 29:17: "I have willingly offered all these things" and "your people, who are present here, offer willingly to you". Exodus used it of the gifts for the tabernacle: "From everyone whose heart makes him willing you shall take my offering" (Exodus 25:2).