1 Chronicles 16:3
Then he distributed to every man and woman of Israel a loaf of bread, a date cake, and a raisin cake.
Sermons
IndividualityP. B. Power, M. A.1 Chronicles 16:3
Hours of ElationW. Clarkson 1 Chronicles 16:1-3
Signs of Entire ConsecrationR. Tuck 1 Chronicles 16:1-3
David's Thanksgiving PsalmF. Whitfield 1 Chronicles 16:1-43














The manner in which David celebrated the reception of the ark into its appointed tent on the height of his city was thoroughly characteristic. He acted as a king, and as a kind of royal mediator between the God of heaven and the chosen people Israel.

I. HE BLESSED THE LORD IN THE NAME OF THE PEOPLE. For this was certainly the significance of the sacrifices, burnt offerings, and peace offerings. In offering them, the king was publicly acknowledging the authority of the supreme Lord, was publicly adoring and praising him as the God of the nation, and was publicly seeking his favour and countenance. Not that David offered these sacrifices with his own hands. What he did by means of the priests, whom he directed, he is represented as doing himself. It was a high day, a solemn and joyful festivity; and it was becoming that the Lord should be recognized, sought, and praised.

II. HE BLESSED THE PEOPLE IN THE NAME OF THE LORD. Probably he pronounced a solemn benediction, invoking the gracious regard of the God of Israel upon the chosen nation. With the ark of the covenant in their possession, in the midst of their metropolis, the people might well be encouraged to rejoice in the presence and favour of him who is ever the Source of all good. It is a proof of David's policy that he took this opportunity of feasting the assembled multitudes. This would no doubt create a favourable impression upon all minds. Their spiritual privileges, and their happiness in having a king so considerate and liberal as David to reign over them, would be associated in their minds. They would connect their religion and their loyalty together, and would cherish happy recollections of the solemnities of the day. - T.

And He dealt to every one of Israel, both man and woman.
I. THE GREAT EVENT ITSELF DOES NOT ABSORB ALL. We can easily understand how the bringing of the ark to Jerusalem would have absorbed all minor considerations, but it does not. Israel is not generalised into simply the male heads of the families; the bread and flesh are distributed to "both man and woman." God was being glorified, and simultaneously the people blessed. Diffusion is what God delights in; He connects the blessing of many with His own glory.

II. THERE WAS A SPECIAL PROVISION HERE FOR PERSONAL ENJOYMENT. The placing of the ark in its tent of rest was not to be a mere historical fact, involving no personal enjoyments. It is not in bare abstractions that God delights, but in their bearing upon individuals. Perhaps one reason why the future glory of Christ is so unsubstantial to many, and operates so little on their feelings, and raises so few thoughts of joyousness in them, is the fact that they see so little of its bearing upon themselves. The beams of this glory are to light up every individual; every believer has actually a personal interest in them. Each man has his own independent existence with its longings and aspirations, and no generality will satisfy them. He must have for his own very self. This is not selfishness; it is a law grounded on the very constitution of our nature. No future lies before God's people in which God Himself absorbs everything. He will pervade all, which is a very different thing.

III. WE ARE STRUCK WITH THE DISTINCT INDIVIDUALITY OF EACH. We cannot be too particular in preserving our individuality. It is the foundation of our responsibility, of His closest dealings with us, of all our capacity for happiness or sorrow in the time to come. Every man is to give account of himself to God; every man is to receive according to his works.

IV. THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF INDIVIDUAL LIFE IS THE FOUNDATION OF INDIVIDUAL EFFORT. Let us be encouraged, then, to have individual expectations. Let us link ourselves individually with the great events of God. Both man and woman triumphed in the bringing up of the ark; and both had the portion of bread and flesh and wine.

(P. B. Power, M. A.)

People
Asaph, Benaiah, David, Eliab, Gibeon, Heman, Hosah, Isaac, Jacob, Jahaziel, Jeduthun, Jehiel, Jeiel, Levites, Mattithiah, Obededom, Shemiramoth, Uzziel, Zadok, Zechariah
Places
Canaan, Gibeon, Jerusalem
Topics
Bread, Cake, Dates, Dealt, Distributed, Dry, Flagon, Flesh, Giveth, Grape-cake, Grapes, Israelite, Loaf, Measure, Meat, Pan, Piece, Portion, Raisin, Raisin-cake, Raisins, Sweet, Wine, Women
Outline
1. David's festival sacrifice
4. He orders a choir to sing thanksgiving
7. The psalm of thanksgiving
37. He appoints ministers, porters, priests, and musicians, to attend the ark

Dictionary of Bible Themes
1 Chronicles 16:3

     4404   food
     4418   bread
     4450   fruit

1 Chronicles 16:1-3

     4458   grape

1 Chronicles 16:2-3

     5325   gifts

Library
Man's Chief End
Q-I: WHAT IS THE CHIEF END OF MAN? A: Man's chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him for ever. Here are two ends of life specified. 1: The glorifying of God. 2: The enjoying of God. I. The glorifying of God, I Pet 4:4: That God in all things may be glorified.' The glory of God is a silver thread which must run through all our actions. I Cor 10:01. Whether therefore ye eat or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.' Everything works to some end in things natural and artificial;
Thomas Watson—A Body of Divinity

Covenanting a Duty.
The exercise of Covenanting with God is enjoined by Him as the Supreme Moral Governor of all. That his Covenant should be acceded to, by men in every age and condition, is ordained as a law, sanctioned by his high authority,--recorded in his law of perpetual moral obligation on men, as a statute decreed by him, and in virtue of his underived sovereignty, promulgated by his command. "He hath commanded his covenant for ever."[171] The exercise is inculcated according to the will of God, as King and
John Cunningham—The Ordinance of Covenanting

Chronicles
The comparative indifference with which Chronicles is regarded in modern times by all but professional scholars seems to have been shared by the ancient Jewish church. Though written by the same hand as wrote Ezra-Nehemiah, and forming, together with these books, a continuous history of Judah, it is placed after them in the Hebrew Bible, of which it forms the concluding book; and this no doubt points to the fact that it attained canonical distinction later than they. Nor is this unnatural. The book
John Edgar McFadyen—Introduction to the Old Testament

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