1 Chronicles 16:1-22

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The Ark Placed in a Tent

16 And they brought in the ark of God and set it inside ^(A)the tent that David had pitched for it, and they offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before God. ²And when David had finished offering the burnt offerings and the peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the Lord ³and distributed to all Israel, both men and women, to each a loaf of bread, a portion of meat,^[a] and a cake of raisins.

⁴Then he appointed some of the Levites as ministers before the ark of the Lord, to invoke, to thank, and to praise the Lord, the God of Israel. ⁵^(B)Asaph was the chief, and second to him were Zechariah, Jeiel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Mattithiah, Eliab, Benaiah, Obed-edom, and Jeiel, who were to play harps and lyres; Asaph was to sound the cymbals, ⁶and Benaiah and Jahaziel the priests were to blow trumpets regularly before the ark of the covenant of God. ⁷Then on that day ^(C)David first appointed that thanksgiving be sung to the Lord by Asaph and his brothers.

David's Song of Thanks

⁸^(D)Oh give thanks to the Lord; ^(E)call upon his name;
    ^(F)make known his deeds among the peoples!
⁹Sing to him, sing praises to him;
    tell of all his wondrous works!
¹⁰Glory in his holy name;
    let the hearts of those who seek the Lord rejoice!
¹¹^(G)Seek the Lord and his strength;
    seek his presence continually!
¹²^(H)Remember the wondrous works that he has done,
    ^(I)his miracles and the judgments he uttered,
¹³O offspring of Israel his servant,
    children of Jacob, his chosen ones!

¹⁴He is the Lord our God;
    ^(J)his judgments are in all the earth.
¹⁵Remember his covenant forever,
    the word that he commanded, for a thousand generations,
¹⁶the covenant ^(K)that he made with Abraham,
    his sworn promise to Isaac,
¹⁷which ^(L)he confirmed to Jacob as a statute,
    to Israel as an everlasting covenant,
¹⁸saying, ^(M)“To you I will give the land of Canaan,
    as your portion for an inheritance.”

¹⁹When you were ^(N)few in number,
    of little account, and ^(O)sojourners in it,
²⁰wandering from nation to nation,
    from one kingdom to another people,
²¹he allowed no one to oppress them;
    he ^(P)rebuked kings on their account,
²²saying, “Touch not my anointed ones,
    do my ^(Q)prophets no harm!”

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Footnotes

1 Chronicles 16:3 Compare Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate; the meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain

Psalm 78:58-64

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⁵⁸For they ^(A)provoked him to anger with their ^(B)high places;
    they ^(C)moved him to jealousy with their ^(D)idols.
⁵⁹When God heard, he was full of ^(E)wrath,
    and he utterly rejected Israel.
⁶⁰He ^(F)forsook his dwelling at ^(G)Shiloh,
    the tent where he dwelt among mankind,
⁶¹and delivered his ^(H)power to captivity,
    his ^(I)glory to the hand of the foe.
⁶²He ^(J)gave his people over to the sword
    and ^(K)vented his wrath on his heritage.
⁶³^(L)Fire devoured their young men,
    and their young women had no ^(M)marriage song.
⁶⁴Their ^(N)priests fell by the sword,
    and their ^(O)widows made no lamentation.

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Acts 13:42-52

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⁴²As they went out, the people begged that these things might be told them the next Sabbath. ⁴³And after the meeting of the synagogue broke up, many Jews and ^(A)devout ^(B)converts to Judaism followed Paul and Barnabas, who, as they spoke with them, urged them ^(C)to continue in ^(D)the grace of God.

⁴⁴The next Sabbath almost the whole city gathered to hear the word of the Lord. ⁴⁵^(E)But ^(F)when the Jews^[a] saw the crowds, they were filled with ^(G)jealousy and began to contradict what was spoken by Paul, ^(H)reviling him. ⁴⁶And Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, saying, “It was necessary that the word of God ^(I)be spoken first to you. ^(J)Since you thrust it aside and judge yourselves ^(K)unworthy of eternal life, behold, we ^(L)are turning to the Gentiles. ⁴⁷^(M)For so the Lord has commanded us, saying,

^(N)“‘I have made you ^(O)a light for the Gentiles,
that you may ^(P)bring salvation to the ends of the earth.’”

⁴⁸And when the Gentiles heard this, they began rejoicing and ^(Q)glorifying the word of the Lord, and as many as were appointed to eternal life believed. ⁴⁹And the word of the Lord was spreading throughout the whole region. ⁵⁰^(R)But the Jews incited the devout ^(S)women of high standing and the leading men of the city, ^(T)stirred up persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and ^(U)drove them out of their district. ⁵¹But they ^(V)shook off the dust from their feet against them and went to Iconium. ⁵²And the disciples were filled ^(W)with joy and ^(X)with the Holy Spirit.