1 Chronicles 11:19

11:19 and said, “God forbid that I should do this!¹ Should I drink the blood of these men who risked their lives?”² Because they risked their lives to bring it to him, he refused to drink it. Such were the exploits of the three elite warriors.³

1 Chronicles 12:17

12:17 David went out to meet them and said,⁴ “If you come to me in peace and want to help me, then I will make an alliance with you.⁵ But if you come to betray me to my enemies when I have not harmed you,⁶ may the God of our ancestors⁷ take notice and judge!”

1 Chronicles 17:6

17:6 Wherever I moved throughout Israel, I did not say⁸ to any of the leaders whom I appointed to care for my people Israel,⁹ ‘Why have you not built me a house made from cedar?’”’

1 Chronicles 21:13

21:13 David said to Gad, “I am very upset! I prefer to be attacked by the Lord, for his mercy is very great; I do not want to be attacked by men!”¹⁰

¹tn Heb “Far be it to me from my God from doing this.”

²tn Heb “with their lives.” The same expression occurs later in this verse.

³tn Heb “These things the three warriors did.”

⁴tn Heb “and David went out before them and answered and said to them.”

⁵tn Heb “there will be to me concerning you a heart for unity.”

⁶tn Heb “with no violence in my hands.”

⁷tn Heb “fathers.”

⁷tn In the Hebrew text the statement is phrased as a rhetorical question (“Did I say?”) meaning “I did not say.”

⁸tn Heb “to one of the judges of Israel whom I commanded to shepherd my people.”

¹⁰tn Heb “There is great distress to me; let me fall into the hand of the Lord for his mercy is very great, but into the hand of men let me not fall.”