1 Chronicles 15:2
15:2 Then David said, “Only the Levites may carry the ark of God, for the
Lord chose them to carry the ark of the
Lord and to serve before him perpetually.
1 Chronicles 17:6
17:6 Wherever I moved throughout Israel, I did not say
1 to any of the leaders whom I appointed to care for my people Israel,
2 ‘Why have you not built me a house made from cedar?’”’
1 Chronicles 21:17
21:17 David said to God, “Was I not the one who decided to number the army? I am the one who sinned and committed this awful deed!
3 As for these sheep – what have they done? O
Lord my God, attack me and my family,
4 but remove the plague from your people!”
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1 Chronicles 22:8
22:8 But the
Lord said to me:
6 ‘You have spilled a great deal of blood and fought many battles. You must not build a temple to honor me,
7 for you have spilled a great deal of blood on the ground before me.
1 Chronicles 28:20
28:20 David said to his son Solomon: “Be strong and brave! Do it! Don’t be afraid and don’t panic! 8 For the Lord God, my God, is with you. He will not leave you or abandon you before all the work for the service of the Lord’s temple is finished.
1 Chronicles 29:1
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29:1 King David said to the entire assembly: “My son Solomon, the one whom God has chosen, is just an inexperienced young man, 9 and the task is great, for this palace is not for man, but for the Lord God.
1 Chronicles 29:25
29:25 The
Lord greatly magnified Solomon before all Israel and bestowed on him greater majesty than any king of Israel before him.
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1 tn In the Hebrew text the statement is phrased as a rhetorical question (“Did I say?”) meaning “I did not say.”
2 tn Heb “to one of the judges of Israel whom I commanded to shepherd my people.”
1 tn “and doing evil I did evil.” The infinitive absolute precedes the finite form of the verb for emphasis.
2 tn Heb “let your hand be on me and on the house of my father.”
3 tn Heb “but on your people not for a plague.”
1 tn Heb “and the word of the Lord was [i.e., came] to me saying.”
2 tn Heb “for my name.”
1 tn Or perhaps, “don’t be discouraged.”
1 tn Heb “a young man and tender.”
1 tn Heb “and gave to him glory of kingship which there was not concerning every king before him over Israel.”