1 Chronicles 29:11

29:11 O Lord, you are great, mighty, majestic, magnificent, glorious, and sovereign ¹  over all the sky and earth! You have dominion and exalt yourself as the ruler ²  of all.

1 Chronicles 27:23

27:23 David did not count the males twenty years old and under, for the Lord had promised to make Israel as numerous as the stars in the sky.

1 Chronicles 2:3

Judah’s Descendants

2:3 The sons of Judah:

Er, Onan, and Shelah. These three were born to him by Bathshua, ³  a Canaanite woman. Er, Judah’s firstborn, displeased the Lord, so the Lord killed him. ⁴ 

1 Chronicles 28:4

28:4 The Lord God of Israel chose me out of my father’s entire family to become king over Israel and have a permanent dynasty. ⁵  Indeed, ⁶  he chose Judah as leader, and my father’s family within Judah, and then he picked me out from among my father’s sons and made me king over all Israel. ⁷ 

¹ tn The words “and sovereign” are added in the translation for clarification and for stylistic reasons.

² tn Heb “head.”

³ tn The name means “daughter of Shua.” Shua is identified in Gen 38:2 as a “Canaanite man.”

⁴ tn Heb “was evil in the eyes of the Lord, so he [i.e., the Lord] killed him [i.e., Er].”

⁵ tn Heb “out of all the house of my father to become king over all Israel permanently.”

⁶ tn Or “for.”

⁷ tn Heb “and among the sons of my father he desired to make me king over all Israel.”