1 Chronicles 10:7
Context10:7 When all the Israelites who were in the valley saw that the army 1 had fled and that Saul and his sons were dead, they abandoned their cities and fled. The Philistines came and occupied them.
1 Chronicles 10:12
Context10:12 all the warriors went and recovered the bodies of Saul and his sons 2 and brought them to Jabesh. They buried their remains 3 under the oak tree in Jabesh and fasted for seven days.
1 Chronicles 11:22-23
Context11:22 Benaiah son of Jehoiada was a brave warrior from Kabzeel who performed great exploits. He struck down the two sons of Ariel of Moab; 4 he also went down and killed a lion inside a cistern on a snowy day. 11:23 He even killed an Egyptian who was seven and a half feet 5 tall. The Egyptian had a spear as big as the crossbeam of a weaver’s loom; Benaiah attacked 6 him with a club. He grabbed the spear out of the Egyptian’s hand and killed him with his own spear.
1 Chronicles 18:4
Context18:4 David seized from him 1,000 chariots, 7,000 charioteers, 7 and 20,000 infantrymen. David cut the hamstrings of all but a hundred of Hadadezer’s 8 chariot horses. 9
1 Chronicles 18:10
Context18:10 he sent his son Hadoram 10 to King David to extend his best wishes 11 and to pronounce a blessing on him for his victory over Hadadezer, for Tou had been at war with Hadadezer. 12 He also sent various items made of gold, silver, and bronze. 13
1 Chronicles 19:18
Context19:18 The Arameans fled before Israel. David killed 7,000 14 Aramean charioteers and 40,000 infantrymen; he also killed Shophach 15 the commanding general.
1 Chronicles 22:9
Context22:9 Look, you will have a son, who will be a peaceful man. 16 I will give him rest from all his enemies on every side. 17 Indeed, Solomon 18 will be his name; I will give Israel peace and quiet during his reign. 19


[10:7] 1 tn Heb “they”; the referent (the army) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
[10:12] 2 tn Heb “arose and carried away the corpse of Saul and the corpses of his sons.”
[10:12] 3 tn Heb “their bones.”
[11:22] 3 tc Heb “the two of Ariel, Moab.” The precise meaning of אֲרִיאֵל (’ari’el) is uncertain; some read “warrior.” The present translation assumes that the word is a proper name and that בְּנֵי (bÿney, “sons of”) has accidentally dropped from the text by homoioarcton (note the preceding שְׁנֵי, shÿney).
[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.”
[18:4] 6 tn Heb “his”; the referent (Hadadezer) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
[18:4] 7 tn Heb “and David cut the hamstrings of all the chariot horses, and he left from them one hundred chariot horses.”
[18:10] 6 tn The name is spelled “Joram” in the parallel text in 2 Sam 8:10.
[18:10] 7 tn Heb “to ask concerning him for peace.”
[18:10] 8 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] 9 tn Heb “[along with] all items of gold and silver and bronze.”
[19:18] 7 tc The parallel text of 2 Sam 10:18 has “seven hundred.”
[19:18] 8 tn The parallel text of 2 Sam 10:18 has the variant spelling “Shobach.”
[22:9] 8 tn Heb “man of rest.”
[22:9] 9 tn Heb “his enemies all around.”
[22:9] 10 sn The name Solomon (שְׁלֹמֹה, shÿlomoh) sounds like (and may be derived from) the Hebrew word for “peace” (שָׁלוֹם, shalom).