1 Chronicles 17:2

17:2 Nathan said to David, “You should do whatever you have in mind, ¹  for God is with you.”

1 Chronicles 22:16

22:16 in using gold, silver, bronze, and iron. ²  Get up and begin the work! May the Lord be with you!”

1 Chronicles 17:8

17:8 I was with you wherever you went and I defeated ³  all your enemies before you. Now I will make you as famous as the great men of the earth. ⁴ 

1 Chronicles 17:22

17:22 You made Israel your very own nation for all time. ⁵  You, O Lord, became their God.

1 Chronicles 22:11

22:11 “Now, my son, may the Lord be with you! May you succeed and build a temple for the Lord your God, just as he announced you would. ⁶ 

1 Chronicles 29:18

29:18 O Lord God of our ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, maintain the motives of your people and keep them devoted to you. ⁷ 

1 Chronicles 17:21

17:21 And who is like your people, Israel, a unique nation ⁸  in the earth? Their God ⁹  went to claim ¹⁰  a nation for himself! You made a name for yourself by doing great and awesome deeds ¹¹  when you drove out ¹²  nations before your people whom you had delivered from the Egyptian empire and its gods. ¹³ 

1 Chronicles 28:20

28:20 David said to his son Solomon: “Be strong and brave! Do it! Don’t be afraid and don’t panic! ¹⁴  For the Lord God, my God, is with you. He will not leave you or abandon you before all the work for the service of the Lord’s temple is finished.

1 Chronicles 29:17

29:17 I know, my God, that you examine thoughts ¹⁵  and are pleased with integrity. With pure motives ¹⁶  I contribute all this; and now I look with joy as your people who have gathered here contribute to you.

[17:2]  ¹ tn Heb “all which is in your heart.”

[22:16]  ² tn Heb “and every kind of skilled one in all work, concerning gold, concerning silver, and concerning bronze, and concerning iron, there is no numbering.”

[17:8]  ³ tn Heb “cut off.”

[17:8]  ⁴ tn Heb “and I will make for you a name like the name of the great men who are in the earth.”

[17:22]  ⁴ tn Heb “and you made your people Israel your own for a people permanently.”

[22:11]  ⁵ tn Heb “as he spoke concerning you.”

[29:18]  ⁶ tn Heb “keep this permanently with respect to the motive of the thoughts of the heart of your people, and make firm their heart to you.”

[17:21]  ⁷ tn Heb “a nation, one.”

[17:21]  ⁸ tn Heb “whose God,” or “because God.” In the Hebrew text this clause is subordinated to what precedes. The clauses are separated in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[17:21]  ⁹ tn Heb “redeem” or “deliver.”

[17:21]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “to make for yourself a name [with] great and awesome [deeds].”

[17:21]  ¹¹ tn Heb “to drive out.”

[17:21]  ¹² tn Heb “from Egypt, nations.” The parallel text in 2 Sam 7:23 reads “from Egypt, nations and its gods.”

[28:20]  ⁸ tn Or perhaps, “don’t be discouraged.”

[29:17]  ⁹ tn Heb “a heart.”

[29:17]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “with integrity of heart.”