1 Chronicles 2:23

2:23 (Geshur and Aram captured the towns of Jair, ¹  along with Kenath and its sixty surrounding towns.) All these were descendants of Makir, the father of Gilead.

1 Chronicles 4:41

4:41 The men whose names are listed came during the time of King Hezekiah of Judah and attacked the Hamites’ settlements, ²  as well as the Meunites they discovered there, and they wiped them out to this very day. They dispossessed them, ³  for they found pasture for their sheep there.

1 Chronicles 5:26

5:26 So the God of Israel stirred up ⁴  King Pul of Assyria (that is, King Tiglath-pileser of Assyria), ⁵  and he carried away the Reubenites, Gadites, and half-tribe of Manasseh and took them to Halah, Habor, Hara, and the river of Gozan, where they remain to this very day.

1 Chronicles 10:12

10:12 all the warriors went and recovered the bodies of Saul and his sons ⁶  and brought them to Jabesh. They buried their remains ⁷  under the oak tree in Jabesh and fasted for seven days.

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 19:18

19:18 The Arameans fled before Israel. David killed 7,000 ⁸  Aramean charioteers and 40,000 infantrymen; he also killed Shophach ⁹  the commanding general.

1 Chronicles 20:3

20:3 He removed the city’s residents and made them do hard labor with saws, iron picks, and axes. ¹⁰  This was his policy ¹¹  with all the Ammonite cities. Then David and all the army returned to Jerusalem.

1 Chronicles 22:13

22:13 Then you will succeed, if you carefully obey the rules and regulations which the Lord ordered Moses to give to Israel. ¹²  Be strong and brave! Don’t be afraid and don’t panic! ¹³ 

¹ tn Or “Havvoth Jair” (NIV, NRSV). Some translations do not translate the phrase (“havvoth” = “the towns of”), but treat it as part of the place name.

² tn The Hebrew text reads “their tents,” apparently referring to those of the Hamites mentioned at the end of v. 40. Some prefer to emend the text to read, “the tents of Ham.”

³ tn Heb “and they lived in place of them.”

³ tn Heb “stirred up the spirit of.”

⁴ tn Heb “and the spirit of Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria.” “Pul” and “Tilgath-pilneser” were names of the same Assyrian ruler, more commonly known as Tiglath-pileser (cf. 2 Kgs 15:29).

⁴ tn Heb “arose and carried away the corpse of Saul and the corpses of his sons.”

⁵ tn Heb “their bones.”

⁵ tc The parallel text of 2 Sam 10:18 has “seven hundred.”

⁶ tn The parallel text of 2 Sam 10:18 has the variant spelling “Shobach.”

⁶ tc The Hebrew text reads “saws,” but since saws were just mentioned, it is preferable to emend מְגֵרוֹת (mÿgerot, “saws”) to מַגְזְרוֹת (magzÿrot, “axes”).

⁷ tn Heb “and so he would do.”

⁷ tn Heb “which the Lord commanded Moses concerning Israel.”

⁸ tn Or perhaps, “and don’t get discouraged.”