1 Chronicles 29:15 meaning and explanation

For we are foreigners and strangers in Your presence, as were all our forefathers. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.

1 Chronicles 29:15, Berean Standard Bible

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David prays before the whole assembly near the end of his reign, after the people have given generously for the temple Solomon will build. Having asked who he and his people are to give so freely, he answers: they are foreigners and strangers before God, as all their ancestors were.

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