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Exhortation to the princes of Israel to assist in the building of the temple. - David supports his exhortation by calling to remembrance the proofs of his favour which the Lord had showed His people. The speech in 1Ch 22:18 is introduced without לֵאמֹר, because it is clear from the preceding דָוִיד וַיְצַו that the words are spoken by David: “The Lord has given you peace round about; for He has given the inhabitants of the land into my hands, and the land is subdued before Jahve and before His people.” The subdued land is Canaan: the inhabitants of the land are, however, not the Israelites over whom the Lord had set David as king, for the words בְּיָדִי נָתַן cannot apply to them, cf. 1Ch 14:10., Jos 2:24; it is the Canaanites still left in the land in the time of David, and other enemies, who, like the Philistines, possessed parts of the land, and had been subdued by David. On הָאָרֶץ נִכְכְּשָׁה, cf. Jos 18:1; Num 32:22, Num 32:29. This safety which the Lord had granted them binds them in duty to seek Him with all their heart, and to build the sanctuary, that the ark and the sacred vessels may be brought into it. The לְ in לַבַּיִת is not a sign of the accusative (Berth.), for הֵבִיא is not construed with accus. loci, but generally with אֶל, for which, however, so early as Jos 4:5, לְ is used, or it is construed with the acc. and ה locale - הַבַּיְתָה, Gen 19:10; Gen 43:17.