1Ch 22 | TNotes

Summary for 1Chr 22:2-19: 22:2-19 ^a God had promised David that his kingdom would be permanent and that his son would build a temple for the Lord (17:11-12 ^b). Now that the site had been chosen (21:18–22:1 ^c), David made preparations for building the Temple of God. He gathered the materials (22:2-5 ^d), and he charged both Solomon (22:6-16 ^e) and the leaders of Israel (22:17-19 ^f) with the task of building the Temple after his death.
22:5 ^g While Solomon was young and inexperienced (see also 29:1 ^h; cp. 1 Kgs 3:7 ⁱ; 2 Chr 13:7 ^j), David had the wisdom and skill to make preparations for building the Temple; David also designed the Temple (1 Chr 28:11-12 ^k). Later, God provided Solomon with the wisdom he needed to build the Temple and to govern well (see 2 Chr 1:7-12 ^l).
22:8 ^m God did not allow David to build the Temple because he had shed so much blood (cp. 1 Kgs 5:3-4 ⁿ). David’s wars were not unethical, and God had blessed and supported them. However, David had been tainted with a kind of ceremonial uncleanness from the blood he had shed and the deaths he had caused in battle (see 1 Chr 28:3 ^o; cp. Gen 4:10-12 ^p; Lev 17:3-4 ^q; Deut 21:1-9 ^r; Matt 27:24-25 ^s). Accordingly, he could not build a holy sanctuary for the Lord.
Summary for 1Chr 22:9-10: 22:9-10 ^t Solomon was a man of peace, free from war and from shedding blood in battle. The Temple was built during his peaceful reign (see 2 Chr 2–7 ^u).

• The Hebrew deliberately uses two different words to describe conditions during Solomon’s reign: peace (Hebrew shalom, related to Solomon’s name), and quiet (Hebrew menukhah, related to the idea of redemption).