1 Chronicles 29:16 (WEB)

Passage

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.

Nearby Context

1 Chronicles 29:14 But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly as this? For all things come from you, and of your own have we given you.

1 Chronicles 29:15 For we are strangers before you, and foreigners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no remaining.

1 Chronicles 29:16 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.

1 Chronicles 29:17 I know also, my God, that you try the heart, and have pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things. Now I have seen with joy your people, who are present here, offer willingly to you.

1 Chronicles 29:18 Yahweh, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this desire forever in the thoughts of the heart of your people, and prepare their heart for you;

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "yahweh", "store", "prepared", "build", "house", "holy", "name", and "comes". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "yahweh" and "store", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 15's "For we are strangers before you and..." into verse 17's "I know also my God that you...", so "yahweh" and "store" belong inside that flow. In 1 Chronicles context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "yahweh" and "store" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.