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1 Chronicles 26 · a question people ask

How could plunder repair the LORD's house before Solomon built it?

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The chapter says they "dedicated some of the plunder won in battles to repair the LORD’s house" (26:27), and doesn't say when that was done or what was repaired. At this point in the book the temple isn't built: David called for Solomon "and commanded him to build a house for the LORD" (22:6), and said, "I have prepared for the LORD’s house" (22:14). The book also uses "the LORD’s house" of the tent: the gatekeepers "had the oversight of the gates of the LORD’s house, even the house of the tent" (9:23). The verb in 26:27 is chazaq, which Brown-Driver-Briggs gives as "be or grow firm, strong, strengthen"; it is the verb of "they shall repair the damage to the house" in Joash's day (2 Kings 12:5). The chapter doesn't say which house 26:27 means, and these notes don't either.

The verses

“They dedicated some of the plunder won in battles to repair the LORD’s house.”
1 Chronicles 26:27 · World English Bible
“Then he called for Solomon his son, and commanded him to build a house for the LORD, the God of Israel.”
1 Chronicles 22:6 · World English Bible
“Now, behold, in my affliction I have prepared for the LORD’s house one hundred thousand talents of gold, one million talents of silver, and bronze and iron without weight; for it is in abundance. I have also prepared timber and stone; and you may add to them.”
1 Chronicles 22:14 · World English Bible
“So they and their children had the oversight of the gates of the LORD’s house, even the house of the tent, as guards.”
1 Chronicles 9:23 · World English Bible

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1 Chronicles 26: For every gate

The doorkeepers took their gates by lot, "the small as well as the great" (26:13); Obed-Edom had eight sons "for God blessed him" (26:5); and a son of Gershom, the son of Moses, kept the treasuries, where even what Saul had dedicated was kept beside David's gifts (26:24, 26:28).

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