1 Chronicles 1:24

1:24 Shem, Arphaxad, Shelah, 1 

1 Chronicles 1:18

1:18 Arphaxad was the father of Shelah, and Shelah was the father of Eber.

1 Chronicles 13:10

13:10 The Lord was so furious with Uzzah, 2  he killed him, because he reached out his hand and touched the ark. 3  He died right there before God. 4 

1 Chronicles 19:3

19:3 the Ammonite officials said to Hanun, “Do you really think David is trying to honor your father by sending these messengers to express his sympathy? 5  No, his servants have come to you so they can get information and spy out the land!” 6 

1 tc Some LXX mss read “Arphaxad, Cainan, Shelah” (see also the notes on Gen 10:24; 11:12-13).

2 tn Heb “and the anger of the Lord burned against Uzzah.”

3 tn Heb “because he stretched out his hand over the ark.”

4 sn The modern reader might think God seemed to overreact here, but Israel needed a vivid object lesson of God’s holiness. By loading the ark on a cart, David had violated the instructions in God’s law (Exod 25:12-14; Num 4:5-6, 15). Uzzah’s action, however innocent it may seem, betrayed a certain lack of reverence for God’s presence. God had to remind his people that his holiness could not under any circumstances be violated.

3 tn Heb “Is David honoring your father in your eyes when he sends to you ones consoling?”

4 tc Heb “Is it not to explore and to overturn and to spy out the land (that) his servants have come to you?” The Hebrew term לַהֲפֹךְ (lahafakh, “to overturn”) seems misplaced in the sequence. Some emend the form to לַחְפֹּר (lakhpor, “to spy out”). The sequence of three infinitives may be a conflation of alternative readings.