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Emet: truth you can lean on
In Hebrew, truth isn’t just something you know. It’s something you can lean on…
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Sunday, 8 November · from YouVersion
1 Chronicles 16:24
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New International Version
Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous deeds among all peoples.
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Today’s study
“Declare” is סַפְּרוּ (sapperu), from a verb whose first meaning is to count. In this form it means to recount: to go through something point by point, like counting coins onto a table.
The same word gives Hebrew its “scribe”, סוֹפֵר (sofer), the one who counted and kept the record. So the verse asks us to be record-keepers of what God has done. Declaring God's glory isn't vague praise. It's naming what he has done, one thing at a time.
This verse appears twice in the Bible, as Psalm 96:3 and here. In the Psalms it has no date. Chronicles gives it one: the day David brought the ark of God home to Jerusalem1.
So a song about all the nations is sung on Israel's most local, homecoming day. When God comes to live among his people, it's meant to become news for everyone.
Could you “count out” three specific things God has done for you, and tell one of them to someone this week?