1 Chronicles 29:15

“For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers, etc.] For though they were in possession of the land of Canaan, yet they held it not in their own right, but as the Lord’s, who said, the land is mine, (<032523>Leviticus 25:23), they were but tenants in it, and were not to abide long here; they belonged to another city and country; the consideration of which might tend to set them loose to worldly things, and the more easily to part with them for the service of God, and the honour of his name: our days on the earth are as a shadow; man’s life is expressed by days, not months and years, being so short; and by days on earth, in distinction from the days of heaven, or…”

“Strangers - For the land which we possess is thine, not ours; we are not the proprietors but only thy tenants: and as our fathers once were mere strangers in it, even before men, so we at this day are no better before thee, having no absolute right in it, but only to travel through it, and sojourn in it for the short time that we live in the world. None abiding - We only give thee what we must shortly leave, and what we cannot keep to ourselves: and therefore it is a great favour that thou wilt accept such offerings. David's days had as much of substance in them as most men: for he was upon the whole a good man, an useful man, and now an old man. And yet he puts himself in the front of those…”

“For we: Gen 47:9; Psa 39:12, Psa 119:19; Heb 11:13-16; Pe1 2:11 our days: Job 14:2; Psa 90:9, Psa 102:11, Psa 144:4; Ecc 6:12; Isa 40:6-8; Jam 4:14 abiding: Heb. expectation 1 Chronicles 29:16”

“For we are strangers (as Psa 39:13), i.e., in this connection we have no property, no enduring possession, since God had only given them the usufruct of the land; and as of the land, so also of all the property of man, it is only a gift committed to us by God in usufruct. The truth that our life is a pilgrimage ( Heb 11:12-14), is presented to us by the brevity of life. As a shadow, so swiftly passing away, are our days upon the earth (cf. Job 8:9; Psa 90:9., Psa 102:12; Psa 144:4). מקוה ואין, and there is no trust, scil. in the continuance of life (cf. Jer 14:8). 1 Chronicles 29:16”