1 Chronicles 10:4

10:4 Saul told his armor bearer, “Draw your sword and stab me with it. Otherwise these uncircumcised people will come and torture me.” ¹  But his armor bearer refused to do it, because he was very afraid. So Saul took the sword and fell on it.

1 Chronicles 11:3

11:3 When all the leaders ²  of Israel came to the king at Hebron, David made an agreement ³  with them in Hebron before the Lord. They anointed ⁴  David king over Israel, just as the Lord had announced through Samuel. ⁵ 

1 Chronicles 11:18

11:18 So the three elite warriors ⁶  broke through the Philistine forces and drew some water from the cistern in Bethlehem near the city gate. They carried it back to David, but David refused to drink it. He poured it out as a drink offering to the Lord

1 Chronicles 11:23

11:23 He even killed an Egyptian who was seven and a half feet ⁷  tall. The Egyptian had a spear as big as the crossbeam of a weaver’s loom; Benaiah attacked ⁸  him with a club. He grabbed the spear out of the Egyptian’s hand and killed him with his own spear.

1 Chronicles 13:2

13:2 David said to the whole Israelite assembly, “If you so desire and the Lord our God approves, ⁹  let’s spread the word ¹⁰  to our brothers who remain in all the regions of Israel, and to the priests and Levites in their cities, ¹¹  so they may join us.

1 Chronicles 13:6

13:6 David and all Israel went up to Baalah (that is, Kiriath Jearim) in Judah to bring up from there the ark of God the Lord, who sits enthroned between the cherubim – the ark that is called by his name. ¹² 

1 Chronicles 17:1

God Makes a Promise to David

17:1 When David had settled into his palace, ¹³  he ¹⁴  said to Nathan the prophet, “Look, I am living in a palace ¹⁵  made from cedar, while the ark of the Lord’s covenant is under a tent.” ¹⁶ 

1 Chronicles 18:10

18:10 he sent his son Hadoram ¹⁷  to King David to extend his best wishes ¹⁸  and to pronounce a blessing on him for his victory over Hadadezer, for Tou had been at war with Hadadezer. ¹⁹  He also sent various items made of gold, silver, and bronze. ²⁰ 

1 Chronicles 19:3

19:3 the Ammonite officials said to Hanun, “Do you really think David is trying to honor your father by sending these messengers to express his sympathy? ²¹  No, his servants have come to you so they can get information and spy out the land!” ²² 

1 Chronicles 21:5

21:5 Joab reported to David the number of warriors. ²³  In all Israel there were 1,100,000 ²⁴  sword-wielding soldiers; Judah alone had 470,000 sword-wielding soldiers. ²⁵ 

1 Chronicles 21:8

21:8 David said to God, “I have sinned greatly by doing this! Now, please remove the guilt of your servant, for I have acted very foolishly.”

1 Chronicles 21:13

21:13 David said to Gad, “I am very upset! I prefer to be attacked by the Lord, for his mercy is very great; I do not want to be attacked by men!” ²⁶ 

1 Chronicles 21:17

21:17 David said to God, “Was I not the one who decided to number the army? I am the one who sinned and committed this awful deed! ²⁷  As for these sheep – what have they done? O Lord my God, attack me and my family, ²⁸  but remove the plague from your people!” ²⁹ 

1 Chronicles 21:22-23

21:22 David said to Ornan, “Sell me the threshing floor ³⁰  so I can build ³¹  on it an altar for the Lord – I’ll pay top price ³²  – so that the plague may be removed ³³  from the people.” 21:23 Ornan told David, “You can have it! ³⁴  My master, the king, may do what he wants. ³⁵  Look, I am giving you the oxen for burnt sacrifices, the threshing sledges for wood, and the wheat for an offering. I give it all to you.”

[10:4]  ¹ tn Heb “so these uncircumcised ones might not come and abuse me.”

[11:3]  ² tn Heb “elders.”

[11:3]  ³ tn Or “covenant.”

[11:3]  ⁴ tn Or “They poured olive oil on David to designate him as king.”

[11:3]  ⁵ tn Heb “according to the word of the Lord by the hand of Samuel.”

[11:18]  ³ tn Heb “the three,” referring to the three elite warriors mentioned in v. 12.

[11:23]  ⁴ tn Heb “five cubits.” Assuming a length of 18 inches for the standard cubit, this individual would be 7.5 feet (2.3 m) tall.

[11:23]  ⁵ tn Heb “went down to.”

[13:2]  ⁵ tn Heb “If to you [it is] good and from the Lord our God.”

[13:2]  ⁶ tn Heb “let us spread and let us send.” The words “the word” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

[13:2]  ⁷ tn Heb “in the cities of their pasturelands.”

[13:6]  ⁶ tn Heb “the ark of God the Lord who sits [between] the cherubim which is called [by his] name.”

[17:1]  ⁷ tn Heb “house.”

[17:1]  ⁸ tn Heb “David.” The pronoun “he” has been used in the translation here to avoid redundancy in keeping with contemporary English style.

[17:1]  ⁹ tn Heb “house.”

[17:1]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “tent curtains.”

[18:10]  ⁸ tn The name is spelled “Joram” in the parallel text in 2 Sam 8:10.

[18:10]  ⁹ tn Heb “to ask concerning him for peace.”

[18:10]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and to bless him because he fought with Hadadezer and defeated him, for Hadadezer was a man of battles with Tou.”

[18:10]  ¹¹ tn Heb “[along with] all items of gold and silver and bronze.”

[19:3]  ⁹ tn Heb “Is David honoring your father in your eyes when he sends to you ones consoling?”

[19:3]  ¹⁰ tc Heb “Is it not to explore and to overturn and to spy out the land (that) his servants have come to you?” The Hebrew term לַהֲפֹךְ (lahafakh, “to overturn”) seems misplaced in the sequence. Some emend the form to לַחְפֹּר (lakhpor, “to spy out”). The sequence of three infinitives may be a conflation of alternative readings.

[21:5]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and Joab gave to David the number of the numbering of the army [or “people”].”

[21:5]  ¹¹ tn Heb “a thousand thousands and one hundred thousand.”

[21:5]  ¹² tc The parallel text in 2 Sam 24:9 has variant figures: “In Israel there were eight hundred thousand sword-wielding warriors, and in Judah there were five hundred thousands soldiers.”

[21:13]  ¹¹ tn Heb “There is great distress to me; let me fall into the hand of the Lord for his mercy is very great, but into the hand of men let me not fall.”

[21:17]  ¹² tn “and doing evil I did evil.” The infinitive absolute precedes the finite form of the verb for emphasis.

[21:17]  ¹³ tn Heb “let your hand be on me and on the house of my father.”

[21:17]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “but on your people not for a plague.”

[21:22]  ¹³ tn Heb “the place of the threshing floor.”

[21:22]  ¹⁴ tn Following the imperative, the prefixed verbal form with vav (ו) conjunctive here indicates the immediate purpose/result: “so I can build.”

[21:22]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “For full silver sell to me.”

[21:22]  ¹⁶ 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.

[21:23]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “take for yourself.”

[21:23]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “what is good in his eyes.”