1 Chronicles 16:35

16:35 Say this prayer: 1  “Deliver us, O God who delivers us!

Gather us! Rescue us from the nations!

Then we will give thanks 2  to your holy name,

and boast about your praiseworthy deeds.” 3 

1 Chronicles 19:5

19:5 Messengers 4  came and told David what had happened to the men, so he summoned them, for the men were thoroughly humiliated. The king said, “Stay in Jericho 5  until your beards grow again; then you may come back.”

1 Chronicles 19:7

19:7 They hired 32,000 chariots, along with the king of Maacah and his army, who came and camped in front of Medeba. The Ammonites also assembled from their cities and marched out to do battle.

1 Chronicles 19:10

19:10 When Joab saw that the battle would be fought on two fronts, he chose some of Israel’s best men and deployed them against the Arameans. 6 

1 Chronicles 23:29

23:29 They also took care of 7  the bread that is displayed, the flour for offerings, the unleavened wafers, the round cakes, the mixing, and all the measuring. 8 

1 Chronicles 23:32

23:32 They were in charge of the meeting tent and the holy place, and helped their relatives, the descendants of Aaron, in the service of the Lord’s temple. 9 

1 Chronicles 24:19

24:19 This was the order in which they carried out their assigned responsibilities when they entered the Lord’s temple, according to the regulations given them by their ancestor 10  Aaron, just as the Lord God of Israel had instructed him. 11 

1 tn The words “this prayer” are supplied in the translation for clarity and for stylistic reasons.

2 tn Heb “to give thanks.” The infinitive construct indicates result after the imperative.

3 tn Heb “to boast in your praise.”

4 tn Heb “they.” The logical referent, though not specified in the Hebrew text, has been supplied in the translation for clarity.

5 map For location see Map5-B2; Map6-E1; Map7-E1; Map8-E3; Map10-A2; Map11-A1.

7 tc The parallel text of 2 Sam 10:10 has “the Ammonites” in place of “the Arameans” here.

10 tn Heb “with respect to.”

11 tn The Hebrew terms מְשׂוּרָה (mÿsurah) and מִדָּה (middah) refer to different types of measurements.

13 tn Heb “and they kept the charge of the tent of meeting and the charge of the holy place and the charge of the sons of Aaron, their brothers, for the service of the house of the Lord.”

16 tn Heb “father.”

17 tn Heb “these were their responsibilities for their service to enter the house of the Lord according to their manner [given] by the hand of Aaron their father, as the Lord God of Israel commanded him.”