And to stand every morning to thank and praise the LORD, and likewise at even;
The verse belongs to the history of David in Chronicles, which supplies facts omitted from Samuel and Kings, assumes knowledge of the preceding books, says little about the northern kingdom or the sinful acts of David and Solomon, and preserves genealogies and hereditary duties because after the exile the land had to be assigned to its hereditary owners and the temple service taken up by those whose hereditary duty it was. It stands in the last chapters of 1 Chronicles that establish the worship of God under David, his preparation for the building of the temple, and the accession of Solomon to the throne under God's special blessing. After the temple was built, it assigns the Levites the work of waiting on the priests in the sanctuary service, including preparing the showbread, leading the singing of thanksgiving and praise morning and evening, collecting the tithe, and doing a large amount of work in connection with the service of the Lord.
One office it gives them is to stand every morning and evening, during the national sacrifices, and offer formal words and songs of thanksgiving and praise to the Lord for His goodness and mercy. In David's time they began this sanctuary service at twenty years of age, and at fifty years of age they returned from the warfare of the service, not being discharged but still having charge of the work while no longer expected to perform arduous duties. Their work was largely confined to the court. Their work typified the work of the gospel ministry of the present day.
The morning and evening hours were the time of the daily sacrifice ready on the altar in the court and the priests entering the holy place at the time of incense, a time of intense interest when worshipers assembled at the tabernacle engaged in earnest searching of heart and confession of sin and united in silent prayer with faces toward the holy place, so their petitions ascended with the cloud of incense while faith laid hold on the merits of the promised Saviour prefigured by the atoning sacrifice. The appointed hours for the morning and evening sacrifice were regarded as sacred and came to be observed as the set time for worship throughout the Jewish nation, kept even when Jews were scattered as captives in distant lands by still turning faces toward Jerusalem at the appointed hour to offer petitions to the God of Israel, giving Christians an example for morning and evening prayer. The verse presents gratitude and praise as regular, daily acts, not something reserved for special occasions. It belongs to the former dispensation in which numerous sacrifices were required, among them a thank offering, and it proves that God expects thankfulness on the part of His people.
The verse belongs to the history of David in Chronicles, which supplies facts omitted from Samuel and Kings, assumes knowledge of the preceding books, says little about the northern kingdom or the sinful acts of David and Solomon, and preserves genealogies and hereditary duties because after the exile the land had to be assigned to its hereditary owners and the temple service taken up by those whose hereditary duty it was. It stands in the last chapters of 1 Chronicles that establish the worship of God under David, his preparation for the building of the temple, and the accession of Solomon to the throne under God's special blessing. After the temple was built, it assigns the Levites the work of waiting on the priests in the sanctuary service, including preparing the showbread, leading the singing of thanksgiving and praise morning and evening, collecting the tithe, and doing a large amount of work in connection with the service of the Lord.
One office it gives them is to stand every morning and evening, during the national sacrifices, and offer formal words and songs of thanksgiving and praise to the Lord for His goodness and mercy. In David's time they began this sanctuary service at twenty years of age, and at fifty years of age they returned from the warfare of the service, not being discharged but still having charge of the work while no longer expected to perform arduous duties. Their work was largely confined to the court. Their work typified the work of the gospel ministry of the present day.
The morning and evening hours were the time of the daily sacrifice ready on the altar in the court and the priests entering the holy place at the time of incense, a time of intense interest when worshipers assembled at the tabernacle engaged in earnest searching of heart and confession of sin and united in silent prayer with faces toward the holy place, so their petitions ascended with the cloud of incense while faith laid hold on the merits of the promised Saviour prefigured by the atoning sacrifice. The appointed hours for the morning and evening sacrifice were regarded as sacred and came to be observed as the set time for worship throughout the Jewish nation, kept even when Jews were scattered as captives in distant lands by still turning faces toward Jerusalem at the appointed hour to offer petitions to the God of Israel, giving Christians an example for morning and evening prayer. The verse presents gratitude and praise as regular, daily acts, not something reserved for special occasions. It belongs to the former dispensation in which numerous sacrifices were required, among them a thank offering, and it proves that God expects thankfulness on the part of His people.