1 Chronicles 11:3

11:3 When all the leaders ¹  of Israel came to the king at Hebron, David made an agreement ²  with them in Hebron before the Lord. They anointed ³  David king over Israel, just as the Lord had announced through Samuel. ⁴ 

1 Chronicles 15:29

15:29 As the ark of the Lord’s covenant entered the City of David, Michal, Saul’s daughter, looked out the window. When she saw King David jumping and celebrating, she despised him. ⁵ 

1 Chronicles 18:10-11

18:10 he sent his son Hadoram ⁶  to King David to extend his best wishes ⁷  and to pronounce a blessing on him for his victory over Hadadezer, for Tou had been at war with Hadadezer. ⁸  He also sent various items made of gold, silver, and bronze. ⁹  18:11 King David dedicated these things to the Lord, ¹⁰  along with the silver and gold which he had carried off from all the nations, including ¹¹  Edom, ¹²  Moab, the Ammonites, the Philistines, and Amalek.

1 Chronicles 19:5

19:5 Messengers ¹³  came and told David what had happened to the men, so he summoned them, for the men were thoroughly humiliated. The king said, “Stay in Jericho ¹⁴  until your beards grow again; then you may come back.”

1 Chronicles 21:3

21:3 Joab replied, “May the Lord make his army ¹⁵  a hundred times larger! My master, O king, do not all of them serve my master? Why does my master want to do this? Why bring judgment on Israel?” ¹⁶ 

1 Chronicles 21:23-24

21:23 Ornan told David, “You can have it! ¹⁷  My master, the king, may do what he wants. ¹⁸  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.” 21:24 King David replied to Ornan, “No, I insist on buying it for top price. ¹⁹  I will not offer to the Lord what belongs to you or offer a burnt sacrifice ²⁰  that cost me nothing. ²¹ 

1 Chronicles 24:6

24:6 The scribe Shemaiah son of Nethanel, a Levite, wrote down their names before the king, the officials, Zadok the priest, Ahimelech son of Abiathar, and the leaders of the priestly and Levite families. One family was drawn by lot from Eleazar, and then the next from Ithamar. ²² 

1 Chronicles 24:31

24:31 Just like their relatives, the descendants of Aaron, they also cast lots before King David, Zadok, Ahimelech, the leaders of families, the priests, and the Levites. The families of the oldest son cast lots along with the those of the youngest. ²³ 

1 Chronicles 25:6

25:6 All of these were under the supervision of their fathers; they were musicians in the Lord’s temple, playing cymbals and stringed instruments as they served in God’s temple. Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman were under the supervision of the king.

1 Chronicles 26:30

26:30 As for the Hebronites: Hashabiah and his relatives, 1,700 respected men, were assigned responsibilities in Israel west of the Jordan; they did the Lord’s work and the king’s service.

1 Chronicles 27:1

Leaders of the Army

27:1 What follows is a list of Israelite family leaders and commanders of units of a thousand and a hundred, as well as their officers who served the king in various matters. Each division was assigned to serve for one month during the year; each consisted of 24,000 men. ²⁴ 

1 Chronicles 28:2

28:2 King David rose to his feet and said: “Listen to me, my brothers and my people. I wanted to build a temple where the ark of the Lord’s covenant could be placed as a footstool for our God. ²⁵  I have made the preparations for building it.

1 Chronicles 29:1

The People Contribute to the Project

29:1 King David said to the entire assembly: “My son Solomon, the one whom God has chosen, is just an inexperienced young man, ²⁶  and the task is great, for this palace is not for man, but for the Lord God.

1 Chronicles 29:29

29:29 King David’s accomplishments, from start to finish, are recorded in the Annals of Samuel the prophet, the Annals of Nathan the prophet, and the Annals of Gad the prophet. ²⁷ 

[11:3]  ¹ tn Heb “elders.”

[11:3]  ² tn Or “covenant.”

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

[11:3]  ⁴ tn Heb “according to the word of the Lord by the hand of Samuel.”

[15:29]  ⁵ tn The Hebrew text adds “in her heart.”

[18:10]  ⁹ tn The name is spelled “Joram” in the parallel text in 2 Sam 8:10.

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

[18:10]  ¹¹ 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]  ¹² tn Heb “[along with] all items of gold and silver and bronze.”

[18:11]  ¹³ tn Heb “also them King David made holy to the Lord.”

[18:11]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “from.”

[18:11]  ¹⁵ tc The parallel text of 2 Sam 8:12 of the MT reads “Aram.” However, a few Hebrew mss along with the LXX and Syriac of 2 Sam 8:12 read “Edom” in agreement with 1 Chr 18:11 (cf. 2 Sam 8:14).

[19:5]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “they.” The logical referent, though not specified in the Hebrew text, has been supplied in the translation for clarity.

[19:5]  ¹⁸ map For location see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1.

[21:3]  ²¹ tn Or “people.”

[21:3]  ²² tn Heb “Why should it become guilt for Israel?” David’s decision betrays an underlying trust in his own strength rather than in divine provision. See also 1 Chr 27:23-24.

[21:23]  ²⁵ tn Heb “take for yourself.”

[21:23]  ²⁶ tn Heb “what is good in his eyes.”

[21:24]  ²⁹ tn Heb “No, for buying I will buy for full silver.” The infinitive absolute precedes the finite verb for emphasis.

[21:24]  ³⁰ tc The parallel text in 2 Sam 24:24 has the plural “burnt sacrifices.”

[21:24]  ³¹ tn Or “without [paying] compensation.”

[24:6]  ³³ tn Heb “one house of a father was drawn by lot for Eleazar, and one [this assumes an emendation of אָחֻז (’akhuz) to אֶחָד (’ekhad, “one”)] was drawn by lot for Ithamar.”

[24:31]  ³⁷ tn Heb “the fathers [i.e., families] of the head [i.e., oldest] just like his youngest brother.”

[27:1]  ⁴¹ tn Heb “and the sons of Israel according to their number, heads of the fathers and the commanders of the thousands and the hundreds and their officers who served the king with respect to every matter of the divisions, [that which] comes and goes out month by month according to all the months of the year, one division [was] twenty-four thousand.”

[28:2]  ⁴⁵ tn Heb “I, with my heart to build a house of rest for the ark of the covenant of the Lord and for a stool of the feet of our God.”

[29:1]  ⁴⁹ tn Heb “a young man and tender.”

[29:29]  ⁵³ tn Heb “and the events of David the king, the former and the latter, look they are written in the annals of Samuel the seer, and in the annals of Nathan the prophet, and in the annals of Gad the seer.”