逐节对照
- New International Version - The man who had received five bags of gold went at once and put his money to work and gained five bags more.
- 新标点和合本 - 那领五千的随即拿去做买卖,另外赚了五千。
- 和合本2010(上帝版-简体) - 那领五千的立刻拿去做买卖,另外赚了五千。
- 和合本2010(神版-简体) - 那领五千的立刻拿去做买卖,另外赚了五千。
- 当代译本 - 得到五千银币的立刻去做买卖,结果赚了五千。
- 圣经新译本 - 那领了三万的马上去做生意,另外赚了三万。
- 中文标准译本 - 那领了五千的,立刻用这些钱去做生意,另外赚了五千。
- 现代标点和合本 - 那领五千的随即拿去做买卖,另外赚了五千。
- 和合本(拼音版) - 那领五千的随即拿去做买卖,另外赚了五千;
- New International Reader's Version - The slave who had received five bags of gold went at once and put his money to work. He earned five bags more.
- English Standard Version - He who had received the five talents went at once and traded with them, and he made five talents more.
- New Living Translation - “The servant who received the five bags of silver began to invest the money and earned five more.
- Christian Standard Bible - the man who had received five talents went, put them to work, and earned five more.
- New American Standard Bible - The one who had received the five talents immediately went and did business with them, and earned five more talents.
- New King James Version - Then he who had received the five talents went and traded with them, and made another five talents.
- Amplified Bible - The one who had received the five talents went at once and traded with them, and he [made a profit and] gained five more.
- American Standard Version - Straightway he that received the five talents went and traded with them, and made other five talents.
- King James Version - Then he that had received the five talents went and traded with the same, and made them other five talents.
- New English Translation - The one who had received five talents went off right away and put his money to work and gained five more.
- World English Bible - Immediately he who received the five talents went and traded with them, and made another five talents.
- 新標點和合本 - 那領五千的隨即拿去做買賣,另外賺了五千。
- 和合本2010(上帝版-繁體) - 那領五千的立刻拿去做買賣,另外賺了五千。
- 和合本2010(神版-繁體) - 那領五千的立刻拿去做買賣,另外賺了五千。
- 當代譯本 - 得到五千銀幣的立刻去做買賣,結果賺了五千。
- 聖經新譯本 - 那領了三萬的馬上去做生意,另外賺了三萬。
- 呂振中譯本 - 那領三萬的隨即去,用銀子作買賣,另外賺了三萬。
- 中文標準譯本 - 那領了五千的,立刻用這些錢去做生意,另外賺了五千。
- 現代標點和合本 - 那領五千的隨即拿去做買賣,另外賺了五千。
- 文理和合譯本 - 受五千者、往而貿易、又獲五千、
- 文理委辦譯本 - 其受五千者、往而貿易、又獲五千、
- 施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 其受五他連得者、往以之貿易、又獲五他連得、
- 吳經熊文理聖詠與新經全集 - 其受五千者、出而貿易、獲利五千。
- Nueva Versión Internacional - El que había recibido las cinco mil fue en seguida y negoció con ellas y ganó otras cinco mil.
- 현대인의 성경 - 다섯 달란트 받은 사람은 곧 가서 그것으로 장사하여 다섯 달란트를 더 벌었고
- Новый Русский Перевод - Получивший пять талантов сразу пошел, вложил деньги в дело и приобрел еще пять.
- Восточный перевод - Получивший пять мешков сразу пошёл, вложил деньги в дело и приобрёл ещё пять.
- Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Получивший пять мешков сразу пошёл, вложил деньги в дело и приобрёл ещё пять.
- Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Получивший пять мешков сразу пошёл, вложил деньги в дело и приобрёл ещё пять.
- La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Celui qui avait reçu les cinq lingots se mit aussitôt à les faire fructifier, de sorte qu’il en gagna cinq autres.
- リビングバイブル - 五タラント受け取った男は、それを元手にさっそく商売を始め、じきに五タラントもうけました。
- Nestle Aland 28 - πορευθεὶς ὁ τὰ πέντε τάλαντα λαβὼν ἠργάσατο ἐν αὐτοῖς καὶ ἐκέρδησεν ἄλλα πέντε·
- unfoldingWord® Greek New Testament - πορευθεὶς, ὁ τὰ πέντε τάλαντα λαβὼν, ἠργάσατο ἐν αὐτοῖς καὶ ἐκέρδησεν ἄλλα πέντε τάλαντα.
- Nova Versão Internacional - O que havia recebido cinco talentos saiu imediatamente, aplicou-os, e ganhou mais cinco.
- Hoffnung für alle - Der Mann mit den fünf Zentnern Silberstücke machte sich sofort daran, mit dem Geld Geschäfte zu treiben, und konnte so die Summe verdoppeln.
- Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Sau khi chủ lên đường, người lãnh năm túi bạc lập tức kinh doanh, lời được năm túi bạc.
- พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - คนที่ได้รับห้าตะลันต์นำเงินไปลงทุนทันทีและได้กำไรมาอีกห้าตะลันต์
- พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - คนที่ได้รับ 5 ตะลันต์ก็เอาเงินนั้นไปทำการค้าทันที จนได้มาอีก 5 ตะลันต์
交叉引用
- Acts 13:36 - “Now when David had served God’s purpose in his own generation, he fell asleep; he was buried with his ancestors and his body decayed.
- 2 Chronicles 34:1 - Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem thirty-one years.
- 2 Chronicles 34:2 - He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord and followed the ways of his father David, not turning aside to the right or to the left.
- 2 Chronicles 34:3 - In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, he began to seek the God of his father David. In his twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem of high places, Asherah poles and idols.
- 2 Chronicles 34:4 - Under his direction the altars of the Baals were torn down; he cut to pieces the incense altars that were above them, and smashed the Asherah poles and the idols. These he broke to pieces and scattered over the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.
- 2 Chronicles 34:5 - He burned the bones of the priests on their altars, and so he purged Judah and Jerusalem.
- 2 Chronicles 34:6 - In the towns of Manasseh, Ephraim and Simeon, as far as Naphtali, and in the ruins around them,
- 2 Chronicles 34:7 - he tore down the altars and the Asherah poles and crushed the idols to powder and cut to pieces all the incense altars throughout Israel. Then he went back to Jerusalem.
- 2 Chronicles 34:8 - In the eighteenth year of Josiah’s reign, to purify the land and the temple, he sent Shaphan son of Azaliah and Maaseiah the ruler of the city, with Joah son of Joahaz, the recorder, to repair the temple of the Lord his God.
- 2 Chronicles 34:9 - They went to Hilkiah the high priest and gave him the money that had been brought into the temple of God, which the Levites who were the gatekeepers had collected from the people of Manasseh, Ephraim and the entire remnant of Israel and from all the people of Judah and Benjamin and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
- 2 Chronicles 34:10 - Then they entrusted it to the men appointed to supervise the work on the Lord’s temple. These men paid the workers who repaired and restored the temple.
- 2 Chronicles 34:11 - They also gave money to the carpenters and builders to purchase dressed stone, and timber for joists and beams for the buildings that the kings of Judah had allowed to fall into ruin.
- 2 Chronicles 34:12 - The workers labored faithfully. Over them to direct them were Jahath and Obadiah, Levites descended from Merari, and Zechariah and Meshullam, descended from Kohath. The Levites—all who were skilled in playing musical instruments—
- 2 Chronicles 34:13 - had charge of the laborers and supervised all the workers from job to job. Some of the Levites were secretaries, scribes and gatekeepers.
- 2 Chronicles 34:14 - While they were bringing out the money that had been taken into the temple of the Lord, Hilkiah the priest found the Book of the Law of the Lord that had been given through Moses.
- 2 Chronicles 34:15 - Hilkiah said to Shaphan the secretary, “I have found the Book of the Law in the temple of the Lord.” He gave it to Shaphan.
- 2 Chronicles 34:16 - Then Shaphan took the book to the king and reported to him: “Your officials are doing everything that has been committed to them.
- 2 Chronicles 34:17 - They have paid out the money that was in the temple of the Lord and have entrusted it to the supervisors and workers.”
- 2 Chronicles 34:18 - Then Shaphan the secretary informed the king, “Hilkiah the priest has given me a book.” And Shaphan read from it in the presence of the king.
- 2 Chronicles 34:19 - When the king heard the words of the Law, he tore his robes.
- 2 Chronicles 34:20 - He gave these orders to Hilkiah, Ahikam son of Shaphan, Abdon son of Micah, Shaphan the secretary and Asaiah the king’s attendant:
- 2 Chronicles 34:21 - “Go and inquire of the Lord for me and for the remnant in Israel and Judah about what is written in this book that has been found. Great is the Lord’s anger that is poured out on us because those who have gone before us have not kept the word of the Lord; they have not acted in accordance with all that is written in this book.”
- 2 Chronicles 34:22 - Hilkiah and those the king had sent with him went to speak to the prophet Huldah, who was the wife of Shallum son of Tokhath, the son of Hasrah, keeper of the wardrobe. She lived in Jerusalem, in the New Quarter.
- 2 Chronicles 34:23 - She said to them, “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: Tell the man who sent you to me,
- 2 Chronicles 34:24 - ‘This is what the Lord says: I am going to bring disaster on this place and its people—all the curses written in the book that has been read in the presence of the king of Judah.
- 2 Chronicles 34:25 - Because they have forsaken me and burned incense to other gods and aroused my anger by all that their hands have made, my anger will be poured out on this place and will not be quenched.’
- 2 Chronicles 34:26 - Tell the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of the Lord, ‘This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says concerning the words you heard:
- 2 Chronicles 34:27 - Because your heart was responsive and you humbled yourself before God when you heard what he spoke against this place and its people, and because you humbled yourself before me and tore your robes and wept in my presence, I have heard you, declares the Lord.
- 2 Chronicles 34:28 - Now I will gather you to your ancestors, and you will be buried in peace. Your eyes will not see all the disaster I am going to bring on this place and on those who live here.’ ” So they took her answer back to the king.
- 2 Chronicles 34:29 - Then the king called together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.
- 2 Chronicles 34:30 - He went up to the temple of the Lord with the people of Judah, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the priests and the Levites—all the people from the least to the greatest. He read in their hearing all the words of the Book of the Covenant, which had been found in the temple of the Lord.
- 2 Chronicles 34:31 - The king stood by his pillar and renewed the covenant in the presence of the Lord—to follow the Lord and keep his commands, statutes and decrees with all his heart and all his soul, and to obey the words of the covenant written in this book.
- 2 Chronicles 34:32 - Then he had everyone in Jerusalem and Benjamin pledge themselves to it; the people of Jerusalem did this in accordance with the covenant of God, the God of their ancestors.
- 2 Chronicles 34:33 - Josiah removed all the detestable idols from all the territory belonging to the Israelites, and he had all who were present in Israel serve the Lord their God. As long as he lived, they did not fail to follow the Lord, the God of their ancestors.
- 2 Chronicles 19:4 - Jehoshaphat lived in Jerusalem, and he went out again among the people from Beersheba to the hill country of Ephraim and turned them back to the Lord, the God of their ancestors.
- 2 Chronicles 19:5 - He appointed judges in the land, in each of the fortified cities of Judah.
- 2 Chronicles 19:6 - He told them, “Consider carefully what you do, because you are not judging for mere mortals but for the Lord, who is with you whenever you give a verdict.
- 2 Chronicles 19:7 - Now let the fear of the Lord be on you. Judge carefully, for with the Lord our God there is no injustice or partiality or bribery.”
- 2 Chronicles 19:8 - In Jerusalem also, Jehoshaphat appointed some of the Levites, priests and heads of Israelite families to administer the law of the Lord and to settle disputes. And they lived in Jerusalem.
- 2 Chronicles 19:9 - He gave them these orders: “You must serve faithfully and wholeheartedly in the fear of the Lord.
- 2 Chronicles 19:10 - In every case that comes before you from your people who live in the cities—whether bloodshed or other concerns of the law, commands, decrees or regulations—you are to warn them not to sin against the Lord; otherwise his wrath will come on you and your people. Do this, and you will not sin.
- 1 Corinthians 9:16 - For when I preach the gospel, I cannot boast, since I am compelled to preach. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!
- 1 Corinthians 9:17 - If I preach voluntarily, I have a reward; if not voluntarily, I am simply discharging the trust committed to me.
- 1 Corinthians 9:18 - What then is my reward? Just this: that in preaching the gospel I may offer it free of charge, and so not make full use of my rights as a preacher of the gospel.
- 1 Corinthians 9:19 - Though I am free and belong to no one, I have made myself a slave to everyone, to win as many as possible.
- 1 Corinthians 9:20 - To the Jews I became like a Jew, to win the Jews. To those under the law I became like one under the law (though I myself am not under the law), so as to win those under the law.
- 1 Corinthians 9:21 - To those not having the law I became like one not having the law (though I am not free from God’s law but am under Christ’s law), so as to win those not having the law.
- 1 Corinthians 9:22 - To the weak I became weak, to win the weak. I have become all things to all people so that by all possible means I might save some.
- 1 Corinthians 9:23 - I do all this for the sake of the gospel, that I may share in its blessings.
- Isaiah 60:5 - Then you will look and be radiant, your heart will throb and swell with joy; the wealth on the seas will be brought to you, to you the riches of the nations will come.
- Isaiah 60:6 - Herds of camels will cover your land, young camels of Midian and Ephah. And all from Sheba will come, bearing gold and incense and proclaiming the praise of the Lord.
- Isaiah 60:7 - All Kedar’s flocks will be gathered to you, the rams of Nebaioth will serve you; they will be accepted as offerings on my altar, and I will adorn my glorious temple.
- Isaiah 60:8 - “Who are these that fly along like clouds, like doves to their nests?
- Isaiah 60:9 - Surely the islands look to me; in the lead are the ships of Tarshish, bringing your children from afar, with their silver and gold, to the honor of the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, for he has endowed you with splendor.
- Isaiah 60:10 - “Foreigners will rebuild your walls, and their kings will serve you. Though in anger I struck you, in favor I will show you compassion.
- Isaiah 60:11 - Your gates will always stand open, they will never be shut, day or night, so that people may bring you the wealth of the nations— their kings led in triumphal procession.
- Isaiah 60:12 - For the nation or kingdom that will not serve you will perish; it will be utterly ruined.
- Isaiah 60:13 - “The glory of Lebanon will come to you, the juniper, the fir and the cypress together, to adorn my sanctuary; and I will glorify the place for my feet.
- Isaiah 60:14 - The children of your oppressors will come bowing before you; all who despise you will bow down at your feet and will call you the City of the Lord, Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
- Isaiah 60:15 - “Although you have been forsaken and hated, with no one traveling through, I will make you the everlasting pride and the joy of all generations.
- Isaiah 60:16 - You will drink the milk of nations and be nursed at royal breasts. Then you will know that I, the Lord, am your Savior, your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.
- 2 Chronicles 1:9 - Now, Lord God, let your promise to my father David be confirmed, for you have made me king over a people who are as numerous as the dust of the earth.
- 2 Chronicles 1:10 - Give me wisdom and knowledge, that I may lead this people, for who is able to govern this great people of yours?”
- 2 Samuel 7:1 - After the king was settled in his palace and the Lord had given him rest from all his enemies around him,
- 2 Samuel 7:2 - he said to Nathan the prophet, “Here I am, living in a house of cedar, while the ark of God remains in a tent.”
- 2 Samuel 7:3 - Nathan replied to the king, “Whatever you have in mind, go ahead and do it, for the Lord is with you.”
- 1 Chronicles 28:2 - King David rose to his feet and said: “Listen to me, my fellow Israelites, my people. I had it in my heart to build a house as a place of rest for the ark of the covenant of the Lord, for the footstool of our God, and I made plans to build it.
- 1 Chronicles 28:3 - But God said to me, ‘You are not to build a house for my Name, because you are a warrior and have shed blood.’
- 1 Chronicles 28:4 - “Yet the Lord, the God of Israel, chose me from my whole family to be king over Israel forever. He chose Judah as leader, and from the tribe of Judah he chose my family, and from my father’s sons he was pleased to make me king over all Israel.
- 1 Chronicles 28:5 - Of all my sons—and the Lord has given me many—he has chosen my son Solomon to sit on the throne of the kingdom of the Lord over Israel.
- 1 Chronicles 28:6 - He said to me: ‘Solomon your son is the one who will build my house and my courts, for I have chosen him to be my son, and I will be his father.
- 1 Chronicles 28:7 - I will establish his kingdom forever if he is unswerving in carrying out my commands and laws, as is being done at this time.’
- 1 Chronicles 28:8 - “So now I charge you in the sight of all Israel and of the assembly of the Lord, and in the hearing of our God: Be careful to follow all the commands of the Lord your God, that you may possess this good land and pass it on as an inheritance to your descendants forever.
- 1 Chronicles 28:9 - “And you, my son Solomon, acknowledge the God of your father, and serve him with wholehearted devotion and with a willing mind, for the Lord searches every heart and understands every desire and every thought. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will reject you forever.
- 1 Chronicles 28:10 - Consider now, for the Lord has chosen you to build a house as the sanctuary. Be strong and do the work.”
- 1 Chronicles 28:11 - Then David gave his son Solomon the plans for the portico of the temple, its buildings, its storerooms, its upper parts, its inner rooms and the place of atonement.
- 1 Chronicles 28:12 - He gave him the plans of all that the Spirit had put in his mind for the courts of the temple of the Lord and all the surrounding rooms, for the treasuries of the temple of God and for the treasuries for the dedicated things.
- 1 Chronicles 28:13 - He gave him instructions for the divisions of the priests and Levites, and for all the work of serving in the temple of the Lord, as well as for all the articles to be used in its service.
- 1 Chronicles 28:14 - He designated the weight of gold for all the gold articles to be used in various kinds of service, and the weight of silver for all the silver articles to be used in various kinds of service:
- 1 Chronicles 28:15 - the weight of gold for the gold lampstands and their lamps, with the weight for each lampstand and its lamps; and the weight of silver for each silver lampstand and its lamps, according to the use of each lampstand;
- 1 Chronicles 28:16 - the weight of gold for each table for consecrated bread; the weight of silver for the silver tables;
- 1 Chronicles 28:17 - the weight of pure gold for the forks, sprinkling bowls and pitchers; the weight of gold for each gold dish; the weight of silver for each silver dish;
- 2 Chronicles 17:3 - The Lord was with Jehoshaphat because he followed the ways of his father David before him. He did not consult the Baals
- 2 Chronicles 17:4 - but sought the God of his father and followed his commands rather than the practices of Israel.
- 2 Chronicles 17:5 - The Lord established the kingdom under his control; and all Judah brought gifts to Jehoshaphat, so that he had great wealth and honor.
- 2 Chronicles 17:6 - His heart was devoted to the ways of the Lord; furthermore, he removed the high places and the Asherah poles from Judah.
- 2 Chronicles 17:7 - In the third year of his reign he sent his officials Ben-Hail, Obadiah, Zechariah, Nethanel and Micaiah to teach in the towns of Judah.
- 2 Chronicles 17:8 - With them were certain Levites—Shemaiah, Nethaniah, Zebadiah, Asahel, Shemiramoth, Jehonathan, Adonijah, Tobijah and Tob-Adonijah—and the priests Elishama and Jehoram.
- 2 Chronicles 17:9 - They taught throughout Judah, taking with them the Book of the Law of the Lord; they went around to all the towns of Judah and taught the people.
- Isaiah 49:23 - Kings will be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. They will bow down before you with their faces to the ground; they will lick the dust at your feet. Then you will know that I am the Lord; those who hope in me will not be disappointed.”
- 1 Timothy 6:17 - Command those who are rich in this present world not to be arrogant nor to put their hope in wealth, which is so uncertain, but to put their hope in God, who richly provides us with everything for our enjoyment.
- 1 Timothy 6:18 - Command them to do good, to be rich in good deeds, and to be generous and willing to share.
- 2 Chronicles 15:8 - When Asa heard these words and the prophecy of Azariah son of Oded the prophet, he took courage. He removed the detestable idols from the whole land of Judah and Benjamin and from the towns he had captured in the hills of Ephraim. He repaired the altar of the Lord that was in front of the portico of the Lord’s temple.
- 2 Chronicles 15:9 - Then he assembled all Judah and Benjamin and the people from Ephraim, Manasseh and Simeon who had settled among them, for large numbers had come over to him from Israel when they saw that the Lord his God was with him.
- 2 Chronicles 15:10 - They assembled at Jerusalem in the third month of the fifteenth year of Asa’s reign.
- 2 Chronicles 15:11 - At that time they sacrificed to the Lord seven hundred head of cattle and seven thousand sheep and goats from the plunder they had brought back.
- 2 Chronicles 15:12 - They entered into a covenant to seek the Lord, the God of their ancestors, with all their heart and soul.
- 2 Chronicles 15:13 - All who would not seek the Lord, the God of Israel, were to be put to death, whether small or great, man or woman.
- 2 Chronicles 15:14 - They took an oath to the Lord with loud acclamation, with shouting and with trumpets and horns.
- 2 Chronicles 15:15 - All Judah rejoiced about the oath because they had sworn it wholeheartedly. They sought God eagerly, and he was found by them. So the Lord gave them rest on every side.
- Nehemiah 5:14 - Moreover, from the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, when I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, until his thirty-second year—twelve years—neither I nor my brothers ate the food allotted to the governor.
- Nehemiah 5:15 - But the earlier governors—those preceding me—placed a heavy burden on the people and took forty shekels of silver from them in addition to food and wine. Their assistants also lorded it over the people. But out of reverence for God I did not act like that.
- Nehemiah 5:16 - Instead, I devoted myself to the work on this wall. All my men were assembled there for the work; we did not acquire any land.
- Nehemiah 5:17 - Furthermore, a hundred and fifty Jews and officials ate at my table, as well as those who came to us from the surrounding nations.
- Nehemiah 5:18 - Each day one ox, six choice sheep and some poultry were prepared for me, and every ten days an abundant supply of wine of all kinds. In spite of all this, I never demanded the food allotted to the governor, because the demands were heavy on these people.
- Nehemiah 5:19 - Remember me with favor, my God, for all I have done for these people.
- 2 Timothy 4:5 - But you, keep your head in all situations, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, discharge all the duties of your ministry.
- 2 Timothy 4:6 - For I am already being poured out like a drink offering, and the time for my departure is near.
- 2 Timothy 4:7 - I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.
- 2 Timothy 4:8 - Now there is in store for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day—and not only to me, but also to all who have longed for his appearing.
- Isaiah 23:18 - Yet her profit and her earnings will be set apart for the Lord; they will not be stored up or hoarded. Her profits will go to those who live before the Lord, for abundant food and fine clothes.
- Philemon 1:6 - I pray that your partnership with us in the faith may be effective in deepening your understanding of every good thing we share for the sake of Christ.
- Philemon 1:7 - Your love has given me great joy and encouragement, because you, brother, have refreshed the hearts of the Lord’s people.
- 2 Chronicles 33:15 - He got rid of the foreign gods and removed the image from the temple of the Lord, as well as all the altars he had built on the temple hill and in Jerusalem; and he threw them out of the city.
- 2 Chronicles 33:16 - Then he restored the altar of the Lord and sacrificed fellowship offerings and thank offerings on it, and told Judah to serve the Lord, the God of Israel.
- 1 Corinthians 15:10 - But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me was not without effect. No, I worked harder than all of them—yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.
- Romans 15:18 - I will not venture to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me in leading the Gentiles to obey God by what I have said and done—
- Romans 15:19 - by the power of signs and wonders, through the power of the Spirit of God. So from Jerusalem all the way around to Illyricum, I have fully proclaimed the gospel of Christ.
- 1 Chronicles 13:1 - David conferred with each of his officers, the commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds.
- 1 Chronicles 13:2 - He then said to the whole assembly of Israel, “If it seems good to you and if it is the will of the Lord our God, let us send word far and wide to the rest of our people throughout the territories of Israel, and also to the priests and Levites who are with them in their towns and pasturelands, to come and join us.
- 1 Chronicles 13:3 - Let us bring the ark of our God back to us, for we did not inquire of it during the reign of Saul.”
- 3 John 1:5 - Dear friend, you are faithful in what you are doing for the brothers and sisters, even though they are strangers to you.
- 3 John 1:6 - They have told the church about your love. Please send them on their way in a manner that honors God.
- 3 John 1:7 - It was for the sake of the Name that they went out, receiving no help from the pagans.
- 3 John 1:8 - We ought therefore to show hospitality to such people so that we may work together for the truth.
- 2 Chronicles 31:20 - This is what Hezekiah did throughout Judah, doing what was good and right and faithful before the Lord his God.
- 2 Chronicles 31:21 - In everything that he undertook in the service of God’s temple and in obedience to the law and the commands, he sought his God and worked wholeheartedly. And so he prospered.
- 1 Chronicles 22:1 - Then David said, “The house of the Lord God is to be here, and also the altar of burnt offering for Israel.”
- 1 Chronicles 22:2 - So David gave orders to assemble the foreigners residing in Israel, and from among them he appointed stonecutters to prepare dressed stone for building the house of God.
- 1 Chronicles 22:3 - He provided a large amount of iron to make nails for the doors of the gateways and for the fittings, and more bronze than could be weighed.
- 1 Chronicles 22:4 - He also provided more cedar logs than could be counted, for the Sidonians and Tyrians had brought large numbers of them to David.
- 1 Chronicles 22:5 - David said, “My son Solomon is young and inexperienced, and the house to be built for the Lord should be of great magnificence and fame and splendor in the sight of all the nations. Therefore I will make preparations for it.” So David made extensive preparations before his death.
- 1 Chronicles 22:6 - Then he called for his son Solomon and charged him to build a house for the Lord, the God of Israel.
- 1 Chronicles 22:7 - David said to Solomon: “My son, I had it in my heart to build a house for the Name of the Lord my God.
- 1 Chronicles 22:8 - But this word of the Lord came to me: ‘You have shed much blood and have fought many wars. You are not to build a house for my Name, because you have shed much blood on the earth in my sight.
- 1 Chronicles 22:9 - But you will have a son who will be a man of peace and rest, and I will give him rest from all his enemies on every side. His name will be Solomon, and I will grant Israel peace and quiet during his reign.
- 1 Chronicles 22:10 - He is the one who will build a house for my Name. He will be my son, and I will be his father. And I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel forever.’
- 1 Chronicles 22:11 - “Now, my son, the Lord be with you, and may you have success and build the house of the Lord your God, as he said you would.
- 1 Chronicles 22:12 - May the Lord give you discretion and understanding when he puts you in command over Israel, so that you may keep the law of the Lord your God.
- 1 Chronicles 22:13 - Then you will have success if you are careful to observe the decrees and laws that the Lord gave Moses for Israel. Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or discouraged.
- 1 Chronicles 22:14 - “I have taken great pains to provide for the temple of the Lord a hundred thousand talents of gold, a million talents of silver, quantities of bronze and iron too great to be weighed, and wood and stone. And you may add to them.
- 1 Chronicles 22:15 - You have many workers: stonecutters, masons and carpenters, as well as those skilled in every kind of work
- 1 Chronicles 22:16 - in gold and silver, bronze and iron—craftsmen beyond number. Now begin the work, and the Lord be with you.”
- 1 Chronicles 22:17 - Then David ordered all the leaders of Israel to help his son Solomon.
- 1 Chronicles 22:18 - He said to them, “Is not the Lord your God with you? And has he not granted you rest on every side? For he has given the inhabitants of the land into my hands, and the land is subject to the Lord and to his people.
- 1 Chronicles 22:19 - Now devote your heart and soul to seeking the Lord your God. Begin to build the sanctuary of the Lord God, so that you may bring the ark of the covenant of the Lord and the sacred articles belonging to God into the temple that will be built for the Name of the Lord.”
- 2 Timothy 2:6 - The hardworking farmer should be the first to receive a share of the crops.