David’s Prayer of Blessing

1 Chronicles 29:16

In 11 translations

BSB: O LORD our God, from Your hand comes all this abundance that we have provided to build You a house for Your holy Name, and all of it belongs to You.
KJV: O LORD our God, all this store that we have prepared to build thee an house for thine holy name cometh of thine hand, and is all thine own.
WEB: Yahweh our God, all this store that we have prepared to build you a house for your holy name comes from your hand, and is all your own.
ASV: O Jehovah our God, all this store that we have prepared to build thee a house for thy holy name cometh of thy hand, and is all thine own.
LSV: O our God YHWH, all this store [with] which we have prepared to build a house for You, for Your Holy Name, [is] out of Your [own] hand, and the whole [is] of You.
YLT: 'O Jehovah our God, all this store that we have prepared to build to Thee a house, for Thy holy name, [is] out of Thy hand, and of Thee [is] the whole.
DBY: Jehovah our God, all this store that we have prepared to build thee a house to thy holy name, is of thy hand, and is all thine own.Elohim
DRC: O Lord our God, all this store that we have prepared to build thee a house for thy holy name, is from thy hand, and all things are thine.
GNV: O Lord our God, all this abundance that we haue prepared to buylde thee an house for thine holy Name, is of thine hand and all is thine.
JPS: O LORD our God, all this store that we have prepared to build Thee a house for Thy holy name cometh of Thy hand, and is all Thine own.
LXXE: O Lord our God, as for all this abundance which I have prepared that a house should be built to thy holy name, it is of thy hand, and all is thine.

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Written (Ketiv): הִיא (“it”). Read aloud (Qere): ה֖וּא (“it”) — the form shown in the word-by-word reader.

Spelling, punctuation and minor wording (1)

Leningrad Codex reads ה֖יּא; read aloud (Qere) reads ה֖וּא (“it”).

Edition differences: STEP Bible, based on work at Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0). Names and codes expanded; consecutive words grouped. Comparisons follow the editions used by the source; see version details.

Original-language editions

WLC: יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֵ֔ינוּ כֹ֣ל הֶהָמ֤וֹן הַזֶּה֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר הֲכִינֹ֔נוּ לִבְנֽוֹת־לְךָ֥ בַ֖יִת לְשֵׁ֣ם קָדְשֶׁ֑ךָ מִיָּדְךָ֥ היא וּלְךָ֥ הַכֹּֽל׃Read aloud as (qere): ה֖וּא
LXX-Br: Κύριε ὁ Θεὸς ἡμῶν, πρὸς πᾶν τὸ πλῆθος τοῦτο ὃ ἡτοίμακα οἰκοδομηθῆναι οἶκον τῷ ὀνόματι τῷ ἁγίῳ σου, ἐκ χειρός σου ἐστὶ, καὶ σοὶ τὰ πάντα.

Who and where

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In the reference works topics that cite this verse

David Prayer, Public Chronicles, Books of Missionaries, All Christians Should Be as Liberality Intercession Joy Praise Temple Blessing

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Cross-references most cited first

1 Chronicles 29:14But who am I, and who are my people, that we should be able to give as generously as this? For everything comes from You, and from Your own hand we have given to You.
Psalms 24:1The earth is the LORD’s, and the fullness thereof, the world and all who dwell therein.
2 Chronicles 31:10and Azariah, the chief priest of the household of Zadok, answered him, “Since the people began to bring their contributions into the house of the LORD, we have had enough to eat and there is plenty left over, because…
Luke 19:16The first servant came forward and said, ‘Master, your mina has produced ten more minas.’
Hosea 2:8For she does not acknowledge that it was I who gave her grain, new wine, and oil, who lavished on her silver and gold— which they crafted for Baal.

From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).