1 Chronicles 17:4

17:4 “Go, tell my servant David: ‘This is what the Lord says: “You must not build me a house in which to live.

1 Chronicles 22:8

22:8 But the Lord said to me: ¹  ‘You have spilled a great deal of blood and fought many battles. You must not build a temple to honor me, ²  for you have spilled a great deal of blood on the ground before me.

1 Chronicles 22:2

David Orders a Temple to Be Built

22:2 David ordered the resident foreigners in the land of Israel to be called together. He appointed some of them to be stonecutters to chisel stones for the building of God’s temple.

1 Chronicles 7:5-13

7:5 Altogether the genealogical records of the clans of Issachar listed 87,000 warriors. ³ 

Benjamin’s Descendants

7:6 The sons of Benjamin: ⁴ 

Bela, Beker, and Jediael – three in all.

7:7 The sons of Bela:

Ezbon, Uzzi, Uzziel, Jerimoth, and Iri. The five of them were leaders of their families. There were 22,034 warriors listed in their genealogical records.

7:8 The sons of Beker:

Zemirah, Joash, Eliezer, Elioenai, Omri, Jeremoth, Abijah, Anathoth, and Alameth. All these were the sons of Beker. 7:9 There were 20,200 family leaders and warriors listed in their genealogical records.

7:10 The son ⁵  of Jediael:

Bilhan.

The sons of Bilhan:

Jeush, Benjamin, Ehud, Kenaanah, Zethan, Tarshish, and Ahishahar. 7:11 All these were the sons of Jediael. Listed in their genealogical records were 17,200 family leaders and warriors who were capable of marching out to battle.

7:12 The Shuppites and Huppites were descendants of Ir; the Hushites were descendants of Aher. ⁶ 

Naphtali’s Descendants

7:13 The sons of Naphtali:

Jahziel, ⁷  Guni, Jezer, and Shallum ⁸  – sons of Bilhah.

1 Chronicles 7:1

Issachar’s Descendants

7:1 The sons of Issachar:

Tola, Puah, Jashub, and Shimron – four in all.

1 Chronicles 5:3

5:3 The sons of Reuben, Israel’s firstborn:

Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.

1 Chronicles 5:2

5:2 Though Judah was the strongest among his brothers and a leader descended from him, ⁹  the right of the firstborn belonged to Joseph.)

1 Chronicles 6:8-9

6:8 Ahitub was the father of Zadok, and Zadok was the father of Ahimaaz. 6:9 Ahimaaz was the father of Azariah, and Azariah was the father of Johanan.

¹ tn Heb “and the word of the Lord was [i.e., came] to me saying.”

² tn Heb “for my name.”

³ tn Heb “and their brothers, according to all the clans of Issachar, the warriors [were] 87,000 listed in the genealogical records for all.”

⁴ tc The Hebrew text has simply “Benjamin,” but בְּנֵי (bÿney, “sons of”) has dropped out by haplography (בְּנֵי בִּנְיָמִן, bÿney binyamin).

⁵ tn The Hebrew text has the plural “sons,” but only one son is listed.

⁶ tn The name “Aher” appears as “Ahiram” in Num 26:38.

⁷ tn The name “Jahziel” appears as “Jahzeel” in Gen 46:24.

⁸ tc Most Hebrew mss read “Shallum”; some Hebrew mss and some LXX mss read “Shillem,” the form of the name that appears in Gen 46:24 and Num 26:49.

⁹ tn Heb “and [one] for a leader [was] from him.” This probably refers to the Davidic king.