THEOSISTheodoret of Cyrus
David then set apart this location, where he had appeased God through his offering, so that a sacred temple could be constructed on that site.
1 Chronicles 22:1Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
Then David said: This is the house of God, And this is the altar for the holocaust of Israel.
וַיֹּ֣אמֶר דָּוִ֔יד זֶ֣ה ה֔וּא בֵּ֖ית יְהוָ֣ה הָאֱלֹהִ֑ים וְזֶה־מִּזְבֵּ֥חַ לְעֹלָ֖ה לְיִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃
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Cross references
Passages read together with this verse.
- 2 Chr 3:1And Solomon began to build the house of the Lord in Jerusalem, in mount Moria, which had been shewn to David his father, in the place which David had prepared in the thrashingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.
- 1 Chr 21:18And the angel of the Lord commanded Gad to tell David, to go up, and build an altar to the Lord God in the thrashingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.
- 1 Chr 21:28And David seeing that the Lord had heard him in the thrashingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite, forthwith offered victims there.
- Gen 28:17And trembling, he said: How terrible is this place? this is no other but the house of God, and the gate of heaven.
- 2 Chr 6:5From the day that I brought my people out of the land of Egypt, I chose no city among all the tribes of Israel, for a house to be built in it to my name: neither chose I any other man, to be the ruler of my people Israel.
- 2 Chr 6:6But I chose Jerusalem, that my name might be there: and I chose David to set him over my people Israel.
- 2 Sam 24:18And Gad came to David that day, and said: Go up, and build an altar to the Lord in the thrashingfloor of Areuna the Jebusite.
- 2 Chr 32:12Is it not this same Ezechias, that hath destroyed his high places, and his altars, and commanded Juda and Jerusalem, saying: You shall worship before one altar, and upon it you shall burn incense?