1 Chronicles 19:3

19:3 the Ammonite officials said to Hanun, “Do you really think David is trying to honor your father by sending these messengers to express his sympathy? ¹  No, his servants have come to you so they can get information and spy out the land!” ² 

1 Chronicles 19:16

19:16 When the Arameans realized they had been defeated by Israel, they sent for reinforcements from beyond the Euphrates River, ³  led by Shophach the commanding general of Hadadezer’s army. ⁴ 

1 Chronicles 19:18

19:18 The Arameans fled before Israel. David killed 7,000 ⁵  Aramean charioteers and 40,000 infantrymen; he also killed Shophach ⁶  the commanding general.

1 Chronicles 21:2

21:2 David told Joab and the leaders of the army, ⁷  “Go, count the number of warriors ⁸  from Beer Sheba to Dan. Then bring back a report to me so I may know how many we have.” ⁹ 

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. ¹⁰ 

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. ¹¹ 

1 Chronicles 28:21

28:21 Here are the divisions of the priests and Levites who will perform all the service of God’s temple. All the willing and skilled men are ready to assist you in all the work and perform their service. ¹²  The officials and all the people are ready to follow your instructions.” ¹³ 

[19:3]  ¹ tn Heb “Is David honoring your father in your eyes when he sends to you ones consoling?”

[19:3]  ² tc Heb “Is it not to explore and to overturn and to spy out the land (that) his servants have come to you?” The Hebrew term לַהֲפֹךְ (lahafakh, “to overturn”) seems misplaced in the sequence. Some emend the form to לַחְפֹּר (lakhpor, “to spy out”). The sequence of three infinitives may be a conflation of alternative readings.

[19:16]  ³ tn Heb “the River,” referring to the Euphrates. This has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[19:16]  ⁴ tn Heb “and Aram saw that they were struck down before Israel and they sent messengers and brought out Aram which is beyond the River, and Shophach the commander of the army of Hadadezer [was] before them.”

[19:18]  ⁵ tc The parallel text of 2 Sam 10:18 has “seven hundred.”

[19:18]  ⁶ tn The parallel text of 2 Sam 10:18 has the variant spelling “Shobach.”

[21:2]  ⁷ tn Or “people.”

[21:2]  ⁸ tn Heb “Go, count Israel.” See the note on “had” in v. 1.

[21:2]  ⁹ tn Heb “their number.”

[24:6]  ⁹ 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.”

[27:1]  ¹¹ 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.”

[28:21]  ¹³ tn Heb “and with you in all work, for every willing [one] in skill for all service.”

[28:21]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “and the officials and all the people to all your words.”