THEOSIS2 Chronicles 32:29Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
And he built himself cities: for he had flocks of sheep, and herds without number, for the Lord had given him very much substance.
וְעָרִים֙ עָ֣שָׂה ל֔וֹ וּמִקְנֵה־צֹ֥אן וּבָקָ֖ר לָרֹ֑ב כִּ֤י נָֽתַן־לוֹ֙ אֱלֹהִ֔ים רְכ֖וּשׁ רַ֥ב מְאֹֽד׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- 1 Chr 29:12Thine are riches, and thine is glory, thou hast dominion over all, in thy hand is power and might: in thy hand greatness, and the empire of all things.
- 1 Chr 27:29And over the herds that fed in Saron, was Setrai a Saronite: and over the oxen in the valleys, Saphat the son of Adli:
- 1 Chr 27:31And over the sheep Jaziz an Agarene. All these were the rulers of the substance of king David.
- Deut 8:18But remember the Lord thy God, that he hath given thee strength, that he might fulfil his covenant, concerning which he swore to thy fathers, as this present day sheweth.
- 2 Chr 26:10And he built towers in the wilderness, and dug many cisterns, for he had much cattle both in the plains, and in the waste of the desert: he had also vineyards and dressers of vines in the mountains, and in Carmel: for he was a man that loved husbandry.
- Job 1:3And his possession was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a family exceedingly great: and this man was great among all the people of the east.
- 2 Chr 25:9And Amasias said to the man of God: What will then become of the hundred talents which I have given to the soldiers of Israel? and the man of God answered him: The Lord is rich enough to be able to give thee much more than this.
- 1 Sam 2:7The Lord maketh poor and maketh rich, he humbleth and he exalteth: