1 Chronicles 29:11 meaning and explanation

Yours, O LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the splendor and the majesty, for everything in heaven and on earth belongs to You. Yours, O LORD, is the kingdom, and You are exalted as head over all.

1 Chronicles 29:11, Berean Standard Bible

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In this verse David is praying before the whole assembly at the close of a great collection for the temple, and he turns the people's generosity back toward God. The piled-up words for honor (greatness, power, glory, splendor, majesty) are David's way of saying that all the wealth just given already belongs to the LORD, who rules over heaven and earth.

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