1 Chronicles 18:8

18:8 From Tibhath ¹  and Kun, ²  Hadadezer’s cities, David took a great deal of bronze. (Solomon used it to make the big bronze basin called “The Sea,” ³  the pillars, and other bronze items.

1 Chronicles 19:2

19:2 David said, “I will express my loyalty ⁴  to Hanun son of Nahash, for his father was loyal ⁵  to me.” So David sent messengers to express his sympathy over his father’s death. ⁶  When David’s servants entered Ammonite territory to visit Hanun and express the king’s sympathy, ⁷ 

1 Chronicles 23:24

23:24 These were the descendants of Levi according to their families, that is, the leaders of families as counted and individually listed who carried out assigned tasks in the Lord’s temple and were twenty years old and up. ⁸ 

[18:8]  ¹ tn The MT reads “Tibhath” here, a variant name for Tebah (cf. 2 Sam 8:8). Some English translations substitute the other version of the name here (e.g., NIV, NLT), while others follow the reading of the Hebrew text at this point (e.g., NAB, NASB, NRSV).

[18:8]  ² tn The parallel text of 2 Sam 8:8 has the variant name “Berothai.”

[18:8]  ³ tn Heb “the sea of bronze,” or “[the] sea, the bronze one.” See the note at 1 Kgs 7:23.

[19:2]  ⁴ tn Heb “do loyalty.”

[19:2]  ⁵ tn Heb “did loyalty.”

[19:2]  ⁶ tn Heb “to console him concerning his father.”

[19:2]  ⁷ tn Heb “and the servants of David came to the land of the sons of Ammon to Hanun to console him.”

[23:24]  ⁷ tn Heb “these were the sons of Levi according to the house of their fathers, heads of the fathers, according to their numberings, by number of names, according to their heads, doer[s] of the work for the service of the house of the Lord, from a son of twenty years and upwards.”