1 Chronicles 11:13

11:13 He was with David in Pas Dammim¹ when the Philistines assembled there for battle. In an area of the field that was full of barley, the army retreated before the Philistines,

1 Chronicles 12:19

12:19 Some men from Manasseh joined² David when he went with the Philistines to fight against Saul. (But in the end they did not help the Philistines because, after taking counsel, the Philistine lords sent David away, saying: “It would be disastrous for us if he deserts to his master Saul.”)³

1 Chronicles 13:14

13:14 The ark of God remained in Obed-Edom’s house for three months; the Lord blessed Obed-Edom’s family and everything that belonged to him.

1 Chronicles 17:21

17:21 And who is like your people, Israel, a unique nation⁴ in the earth? Their God⁵ went to claim⁶ a nation for himself! You made a name for yourself by doing great and awesome deeds⁷ when you drove out⁸ nations before your people whom you had delivered from the Egyptian empire and its gods.⁹

1 Chronicles 18:11

18:11 King David dedicated these things to the Lord,¹⁰ along with the silver and gold which he had carried off from all the nations, including¹¹ Edom,¹² Moab, the Ammonites, the Philistines, and Amalek.

1 Chronicles 19:2

19:2 David said, “I will express my loyalty¹³ to Hanun son of Nahash, for his father was loyal¹⁴ to me.” So David sent messengers to express his sympathy over his father’s death.¹⁵ When David’s servants entered Ammonite territory to visit Hanun and express the king’s sympathy,¹⁶

1 Chronicles 19:6

19:6 When the Ammonites realized that David was disgusted with them,¹⁷ Hanun and the Ammonites sent 1,000 talents¹⁸ of silver to hire chariots and charioteers from Aram Naharaim, Aram Maacah, and Zobah.¹⁹

1 Chronicles 19:19

19:19 When Hadadezer’s subjects saw they were defeated by Israel, they made peace with David and became his subjects. The Arameans were no longer willing to help the Ammonites.

1 Chronicles 21:15

21:15 God sent an angel²⁰ to ravage²¹ Jerusalem. As he was doing so,²² the Lord watched²³ and relented from²⁴ his judgment.²⁵ He told the angel who was destroying, “That’s enough!²⁶ Stop now!”²⁷

Now the Lord’s angel was standing near the threshing floor of Ornan²⁸ the Jebusite.

1 Chronicles 28:2

28:2 King David rose to his feet and said: “Listen to me, my brothers and my people. I wanted to build a temple where the ark of the Lord’s covenant could be placed as a footstool for our God.²⁹ I have made the preparations for building it.

¹tc Some read here “Ephes Dammim.” See 1 Sam 17:1.

²tn Heb “fell upon,” here in a good sense.

³tn Heb “and they did not help them for by counsel they sent him away, the lords of the Philistines, saying, ‘With our heads he will fall to his master Saul.’”

³tn Heb “a nation, one.”

⁴tn Heb “whose God,” or “because God.” In the Hebrew text this clause is subordinated to what precedes. The clauses are separated in the translation for stylistic reasons.

⁵tn Heb “redeem” or “deliver.”

⁶tn Heb “to make for yourself a name [with] great and awesome [deeds].”

⁷tn Heb “to drive out.”

⁸tn Heb “from Egypt, nations.” The parallel text in 2 Sam 7:23 reads “from Egypt, nations and its gods.”

⁴tn Heb “also them King David made holy to the Lord.”

⁵tn Heb “from.”

⁶tc The parallel text of 2 Sam 8:12 of the MT reads “Aram.” However, a few Hebrew mss along with the LXX and Syriac of 2 Sam 8:12 read “Edom” in agreement with 1 Chr 18:11 (cf. 2 Sam 8:14).

⁵tn Heb “do loyalty.”

⁶tn Heb “did loyalty.”

⁷tn Heb “to console him concerning his father.”

⁸tn Heb “and the servants of David came to the land of the sons of Ammon to Hanun to console him.”

⁶tn Heb “that they were a stench [i.e., disgusting] with David.”

⁷tn The Hebrew word כִּכַּר (kikar, “circle”) refers generally to something that is round. When used of metals it can refer to a disk-shaped weight made of the metal or, by extension, to a standard unit of weight. According to the older (Babylonian) standard the “talent” weighed 130 lbs. (58.9 kg), but later this was lowered to 108.3 lbs. (49.1 kg). More recent research suggests the “light” standard talent was 67.3 lbs. (30.6 kg). Using this as the standard for calculation, the Ammonites hired chariots and charioteers for about 33.7 tons (30,600 kg) of silver.

⁸tn The parallel text of 2 Sam 10:6 has “Aram Beth Rehob and Aram Zobah.”

⁷tn The parallel text of 2 Sam 24:15 reports that God sent a plague, while 24:16-17 attributes this to the instrumentality of an angel.

⁸tn Or “destroy.”

⁹tn Heb “while he was destroying.”

¹⁰tn Or “saw.”

¹¹tn Or “was grieved because of.”

¹²tn Heb “concerning the calamity.”

¹³tn For this nuance of the Hebrew word רַב (rav), see BDB 913 s.v. 1.f.

¹⁴tn Heb “Now, drop your hand.”

¹⁵tn In the parallel text in 2 Sam 24:16 this individual is called אֲרַוְנָא (’aravna’, “Aravna”), traditionally “Araunah.” The form of the name found here also occurs in vv. 18-28.

⁸tn Heb “I, with my heart to build a house of rest for the ark of the covenant of the Lord and for a stool of the feet of our God.”