The Kingdom
- When
- Written after the exile; covers Adam to David
- Written by
- Ezra, by tradition
- Chapters
- 29
The big idea
Retold for the returned exiles, David’s story centers on worship: the ark, the Levites, the music and the plans for God’s temple.
Themes
- Worship and the temple
- David’s kingship
- Genealogy and identity
- Faithfulness across generations
Memory verse
O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever.
Key passages
- 1–9The genealogies
- 13–16The ark comes home
- 17God’s covenant with David
- 29:10–19David’s prayer of giving
Links to other Scripture
- Matthew 1:1–17The genealogy of Christ
- Luke 3:23–38Back to Adam
- Psalm 96Sing to the Lord a new song
- Hebrews 13:15The sacrifice of praise
Read the text
Choose a chapter to read it here in the King James Version. Verses with a dotted underline have notes from Bible scholars. Tap one to open them.
Notes from
Chapters
King James text and the commentaries of Henry, Jamieson, Fausset and Brown, Gill, Clarke, Calvin, and Keil and Delitzsch are in the public domain. Tyndale Open Study Notes are used under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license, from tyndaleopenresources.com. Texts were reformatted for this site.
Journal prompts
Keep a journal or notebook for your study. Write your answers there, in your own words.
- Where do you see Christ in this book?
- The long genealogies say that every name mattered. Who came before you in your faith, and what do you owe them?
- David prayed and gave from what God had already given him. What can you give today that was never really yours?
- Write a short thanksgiving in the style of 1 Chronicles 16: who God is and what he has done.
- In one sentence, this book is about…