1 Chronicles 2:7

2:7 The son ¹  of Carmi:

Achan, ²  who brought the disaster on Israel when he stole what was devoted to God. ³ 

1 Chronicles 10:13

10:13 So Saul died because he was unfaithful to the Lord and did not obey the Lord’s instructions; he even tried to conjure up underworld spirits. ⁴ 

1 Chronicles 20:2

20:2 David took the crown from the head of their king ⁵  and wore it ⁶  (its weight was a talent ⁷  of gold and it was set with precious stones). He took a large amount of plunder from the city.

1 Chronicles 21:22

21:22 David said to Ornan, “Sell me the threshing floor ⁸  so I can build ⁹  on it an altar for the Lord – I’ll pay top price ¹⁰  – so that the plague may be removed ¹¹  from the people.”

¹ tn Heb “sons.” The Hebrew text has the plural, but only one son is listed.

² tc The Hebrew text has “Achar,” which means “disaster,” but a few medieval Hebrew mss read “Achan.” See Josh 7:1.

³ tn Heb “the troubler of Israel who was unfaithful with respect to the devoted [things].”

⁴ tn Heb “and Saul died because of his unfaithfulness by which he acted unfaithfully against the Lord, concerning the word of the Lord which he did not keep, also to Saul, a ritual pit to seek.” The text alludes to the incident recorded in 1 Sam 28. The Hebrew term אוֹב (’ov, “ritual pit”) refers to a pit used by a magician to conjure up underworld spirits. In 1 Sam 28:7 the witch of Endor is called a בַּעֲלַת־אוֹב (ba’alat-’ov, “owner of a ritual pit”). See H. A. Hoffner, “Second Millennium Antecedents to the Hebrew áo‚b,” JBL 86 (1967): 385-401.

⁷ tc The translation follows the MT, which reads “of their king”; the LXX and Vulgate read “of Milcom” (cf. 1 Kgs 11:5). Milcom, also known as Molech, was the god of the Ammonites.

⁸ tn Heb “and it was on the head of David.”

⁹ sn See the note on the word “talents” in 19:6.

¹⁰ tn Heb “the place of the threshing floor.”

¹¹ tn Following the imperative, the prefixed verbal form with vav (ו) conjunctive here indicates the immediate purpose/result: “so I can build.”

¹² tn Heb “For full silver sell to me.”

¹³ tn Following the imperative and first person prefixed verbal form with vav (ו) conjunctive, this third person prefixed verbal form with vav conjunctive introduces the ultimate purpose/result: “so the plague may be removed.” Another option is subordinate this form to the preceding imperative, but the latter may be taken as a parenthetical expansion of the initial request.