1 Chronicles 16:32

16:32 Let the sea and everything in it shout!

Let the fields and everything in them celebrate!

1 Chronicles 5:20

5:20 They received divine help in fighting them, and the Hagrites and all their allies were handed over to them. They cried out to God during the battle; he responded to their prayers because they trusted in him. ¹ 

1 Chronicles 28:6

28:6 He said to me, ‘Solomon your son is the one who will build my temple and my courts, for I have chosen him to become my son and I will become his father.

1 Chronicles 21:22

21:22 David said to Ornan, “Sell me the threshing floor ²  so I can build ³  on it an altar for the Lord – I’ll pay top price ⁴  – so that the plague may be removed ⁵  from the people.”

1 Chronicles 29:1

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29:1 King David said to the entire assembly: “My son Solomon, the one whom God has chosen, is just an inexperienced young man, ⁶  and the task is great, for this palace is not for man, but for the Lord God.

[5:20]  ¹ tn Heb “and they were helped against them and they were given over into their hand, the Hagrites and all who were with them, for to God they cried out in the battle and he was entreated [or “allowed himself to be entreated”] by them for they trusted in him.”

[21:22]  ¹ tn Heb “the place of the threshing floor.”

[21:22]  ² tn Following the imperative, the prefixed verbal form with vav (ו) conjunctive here indicates the immediate purpose/result: “so I can build.”

[21:22]  ³ tn Heb “For full silver sell to me.”

[21:22]  ⁴ 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.

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