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1 Chronicles 16:11

1 Chronicles 16:11
Seek the LORD and his strength, seek his face continually.

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Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

1 Chronicles 16:4-42

This passage is interposed by the writer of Chronicles between two sentences of the parallel passage in Samuel. It contains a detailed account of the service which David instituted at this time, a…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

1 Chronicles 16:7-36

We have here the thanksgiving psalm which David, by the Spirit, composed, and delivered to the chief musician, to be sung upon occasion of the public entry the ark made into the tent prepared for it.…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

and his strength Perhaps (altering the points only of the Heb. word) and be ye strong. So LXX. καὶ ἰσχύσατε (in Psa 105:4 καὶ κραταιώθητε). A promise is sometimes expressed in Heb. by the imperative.