THEOSISTheodoret of Cyrus
He instructs everyone to join in the singing, to bow down together, and to render their devotion.
1 Chronicles 29:20Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
And David commanded all the assembly: Bless ye the Lord our God. And all the assembly blessed the Lord the God of their fathers: and they bowed themselves and worshipped God, and then the king.
וַיֹּ֤אמֶר דָּוִיד֙ לְכָל־הַקָּהָ֔ל בָּֽרְכוּ־נָ֖א אֶת־יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֵיכֶ֑ם וַיְבָרֲכ֣וּ כָֽל־הַקָּהָ֗ל לַיהוָה֙ אֱלֹהֵ֣י אֲבֹֽתֵיהֶ֔ם וַיִּקְּד֧וּ וַיִּֽשְׁתַּחֲו֛וּ לַיהוָ֖ה וְלַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃
The Church Fathers on this verse
One Church Father comments on this verse
Cross references
Passages read together with this verse.
- Ex 4:31And the people believed. And they heard that the Lord had visited the children of Israel, and that he had looked upon their affliction: and falling down they adored.
- 1 Chr 16:36Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel from eternity to eternity: and let all the people say Amen, and a hymn to God.
- Gen 24:48And falling down, I adored the Lord, blessing the Lord God of my master, Abraham, who hath brought me the straight way to take the daughter of my master's brother for his son.
- Prov 24:21My son, fear the Lord, and the king: and have nothing to do with detractors.
- Ps 148:13For his name alone is exalted.
- Ps 148:14The praise of him is above heaven and earth: and he hath exalted the horn of his people. A hymn to all his saints to the children of Israel, a people approaching to him. Alleluia.
- Ps 95 (94):6
- Ps 135 (134):19