1 Chronicles 2:23

2:23 (Geshur and Aram captured the towns of Jair, ¹  along with Kenath and its sixty surrounding towns.) All these were descendants of Makir, the father of Gilead.

1 Chronicles 4:10

4:10 Jabez called out to the God of Israel, “If only ²  you would greatly bless me and expand my territory! May your hand be with me! Keep me from harm so I might not endure pain!” ³  God answered his prayer. ⁴ 

1 Chronicles 4:41

4:41 The men whose names are listed came during the time of King Hezekiah of Judah and attacked the Hamites’ settlements, ⁵  as well as the Meunites they discovered there, and they wiped them out to this very day. They dispossessed them, ⁶  for they found pasture for their sheep there.

1 Chronicles 5:26

5:26 So the God of Israel stirred up ⁷  King Pul of Assyria (that is, King Tiglath-pileser of Assyria), ⁸  and he carried away the Reubenites, Gadites, and half-tribe of Manasseh and took them to Halah, Habor, Hara, and the river of Gozan, where they remain to this very day.

1 Chronicles 6:65

6:65 They allotted these previously named cities from the territory of the tribes of Judah, Simeon, and Benjamin. ⁹ 

1 Chronicles 11:22-23

11:22 Benaiah son of Jehoiada was a brave warrior from Kabzeel who performed great exploits. He struck down the two sons of Ariel of Moab; ¹⁰  he also went down and killed a lion inside a cistern on a snowy day. 11:23 He even killed an Egyptian who was seven and a half feet ¹¹  tall. The Egyptian had a spear as big as the crossbeam of a weaver’s loom; Benaiah attacked ¹²  him with a club. He grabbed the spear out of the Egyptian’s hand and killed him with his own spear.

1 Chronicles 13:14

13:14 The ark of God remained in Obed-Edom’s house for three months; the Lord blessed Obed-Edom’s family and everything that belonged to him.

1 Chronicles 15:2

15:2 Then David said, “Only the Levites may carry the ark of God, for the Lord chose them to carry the ark of the Lord and to serve before him perpetually.

1 Chronicles 19:7

19:7 They hired 32,000 chariots, along with the king of Maacah and his army, who came and camped in front of Medeba. The Ammonites also assembled from their cities and marched out to do battle.

1 Chronicles 21:2

21:2 David told Joab and the leaders of the army, ¹³  “Go, count the number of warriors ¹⁴  from Beer Sheba to Dan. Then bring back a report to me so I may know how many we have.” ¹⁵ 

1 Chronicles 21:8

21:8 David said to God, “I have sinned greatly by doing this! Now, please remove the guilt of your servant, for I have acted very foolishly.”

1 Chronicles 21:16

21:16 David looked up and saw the Lord’s messenger standing between the earth and sky with his sword drawn and in his hand, stretched out over Jerusalem. David and the leaders, covered with sackcloth, threw themselves down with their faces to the ground. ¹⁶ 

1 Chronicles 22:19

22:19 Now seek the Lord your God wholeheartedly and with your entire being! ¹⁷  Get up and build the sanctuary of the Lord God! Then you can bring ¹⁸  the ark of the Lord’s covenant and the holy items dedicated to God’s service ¹⁹  into the temple that is built to honor the Lord.” ²⁰ 

[2:23]  ¹ tn Or “Havvoth Jair” (NIV, NRSV). Some translations do not translate the phrase (“havvoth” = “the towns of”), but treat it as part of the place name.

[4:10]  ² tn On the use of אִם (’im, “if”) here, see HALOT 60 s.v.

[4:10]  ³ tn Heb “and act from [i.e., so as to prevent] harm so that I might not be in pain.”

[4:10]  ⁴ tn Heb “and God brought about what he had asked.”

[4:41]  ³ tn The Hebrew text reads “their tents,” apparently referring to those of the Hamites mentioned at the end of v. 40. Some prefer to emend the text to read, “the tents of Ham.”

[4:41]  ⁴ tn Heb “and they lived in place of them.”

[5:26]  ⁴ tn Heb “stirred up the spirit of.”

[5:26]  ⁵ tn Heb “and the spirit of Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria.” “Pul” and “Tilgath-pilneser” were names of the same Assyrian ruler, more commonly known as Tiglath-pileser (cf. 2 Kgs 15:29).

[6:65]  ⁵ tn Heb “and they gave by lot from the tribe of the sons of Judah, and from the tribe of the sons of Simeon, and from the tribe of the sons of Benjamin these cities, which they called them by names.”

[11:22]  ⁶ tc Heb “the two of Ariel, Moab.” The precise meaning of אֲרִיאֵל (’ari’el) is uncertain; some read “warrior.” The present translation assumes that the word is a proper name and that בְּנֵי (bÿney, “sons of”) has accidentally dropped from the text by homoioarcton (note the preceding שְׁנֵי, shÿney).

[11:23]  ⁷ tn Heb “five cubits.” Assuming a length of 18 inches for the standard cubit, this individual would be 7.5 feet (2.3 m) tall.

[11:23]  ⁸ tn Heb “went down to.”

[21:2]  ⁸ tn Or “people.”

[21:2]  ⁹ tn Heb “Go, count Israel.” See the note on “had” in v. 1.

[21:2]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “their number.”

[21:16]  ⁹ tn Heb “and David and the elders, covered with sackcloth, fell on their faces.”

[22:19]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “now give your heart and your being to seek the Lord your God.”

[22:19]  ¹¹ tn Heb “to bring.”

[22:19]  ¹² tn Heb “items of holiness of God.”

[22:19]  ¹³ tn Heb “for the name of the Lord.”