1 Chronicles 2:3

Judah’s Descendants

2:3 The sons of Judah:

Er, Onan, and Shelah. These three were born to him by Bathshua, ¹  a Canaanite woman. Er, Judah’s firstborn, displeased the Lord, so the Lord killed him. ² 

1 Chronicles 4:10

4:10 Jabez called out to the God of Israel, “If only ³  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!” ⁴  God answered his prayer. ⁵ 

1 Chronicles 6:32

6:32 They performed music ⁶  before the sanctuary ⁷  of the meeting tent until Solomon built the Lord’s temple in Jerusalem. ⁸  They carried out their tasks according to regulations.

1 Chronicles 15:29

15:29 As the ark of the Lord’s covenant entered the City of David, Michal, Saul’s daughter, looked out the window. When she saw King David jumping and celebrating, she despised him. ⁹ 

1 Chronicles 17:1

God Makes a Promise to David

17:1 When David had settled into his palace, ¹⁰  he ¹¹  said to Nathan the prophet, “Look, I am living in a palace ¹²  made from cedar, while the ark of the Lord’s covenant is under a tent.” ¹³ 

1 Chronicles 17:7

17:7 “So now, say this to my servant David: ‘This is what the Lord who commands armies ¹⁴  says: “I took you from the pasture and from your work as a shepherd ¹⁵  to make you a leader of my people Israel.

1 Chronicles 18:10

18:10 he sent his son Hadoram ¹⁶  to King David to extend his best wishes ¹⁷  and to pronounce a blessing on him for his victory over Hadadezer, for Tou had been at war with Hadadezer. ¹⁸  He also sent various items made of gold, silver, and bronze. ¹⁹ 

1 Chronicles 19:5

19:5 Messengers ²⁰  came and told David what had happened to the men, so he summoned them, for the men were thoroughly humiliated. The king said, “Stay in Jericho ²¹  until your beards grow again; then you may come back.”

1 Chronicles 20:1-2

20:1 In the spring, at the time when kings normally conduct wars, ²²  Joab led the army into battle and devastated the land of the Ammonites. He went and besieged Rabbah, while David stayed in Jerusalem. Joab defeated Rabbah and tore it down. 20:2 David took the crown from the head of their king ²³  and wore it ²⁴  (its weight was a talent ²⁵  of gold and it was set with precious stones). He took a large amount of plunder from the city.

1 Chronicles 21:3

21:3 Joab replied, “May the Lord make his army ²⁶  a hundred times larger! My master, O king, do not all of them serve my master? Why does my master want to do this? Why bring judgment on Israel?” ²⁷ 

1 Chronicles 21:5

21:5 Joab reported to David the number of warriors. ²⁸  In all Israel there were 1,100,000 ²⁹  sword-wielding soldiers; Judah alone had 470,000 sword-wielding soldiers. ³⁰ 

1 Chronicles 21:17

21:17 David said to God, “Was I not the one who decided to number the army? I am the one who sinned and committed this awful deed! ³¹  As for these sheep – what have they done? O Lord my God, attack me and my family, ³²  but remove the plague from your people!” ³³ 

1 Chronicles 22:8

22:8 But the Lord said to me: ³⁴  ‘You have spilled a great deal of blood and fought many battles. You must not build a temple to honor me, ³⁵  for you have spilled a great deal of blood on the ground before me.

1 Chronicles 22:14

22:14 Now, look, I have made every effort to supply what is needed to build the Lord’s temple. ³⁶  I have stored up 100,000 talents ³⁷  of gold, 1,000,000 ³⁸  talents of silver, and so much bronze and iron it cannot be weighed, as well as wood and stones. Feel free to add more!

1 Chronicles 27:24

27:24 Joab son of Zeruiah started to count the men but did not finish. God was angry with Israel ³⁹  because of this, so the number was not recorded in the scroll ⁴⁰  called The Annals of King David.

1 Chronicles 28:4

28:4 The Lord God of Israel chose me out of my father’s entire family to become king over Israel and have a permanent dynasty. ⁴¹  Indeed, ⁴²  he chose Judah as leader, and my father’s family within Judah, and then he picked me out from among my father’s sons and made me king over all Israel. ⁴³ 

1 Chronicles 29:25

29:25 The Lord greatly magnified Solomon before all Israel and bestowed on him greater majesty than any king of Israel before him. ⁴⁴ 

[2:3]  ¹ tn The name means “daughter of Shua.” Shua is identified in Gen 38:2 as a “Canaanite man.”

[2:3]  ² tn Heb “was evil in the eyes of the Lord, so he [i.e., the Lord] killed him [i.e., Er].”

[4:10]  ³ tn On the use of אִם (’im, “if”) here, see HALOT 60 s.v.

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

[4:10]  ⁵ tn Heb “and God brought about what he had asked.”

[6:32]  ⁵ tn Heb “they were serving…with music.”

[6:32]  ⁶ tn Or traditionally “tabernacle.”

[6:32]  ⁷ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[15:29]  ⁷ tn The Hebrew text adds “in her heart.”

[17:1]  ⁹ tn Heb “house.”

[17:1]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “David.” The pronoun “he” has been used in the translation here to avoid redundancy in keeping with contemporary English style.

[17:1]  ¹¹ tn Heb “house.”

[17:1]  ¹² tn Heb “tent curtains.”

[17:7]  ¹¹ tn Traditionally, “Lord of hosts.”

[17:7]  ¹² tn Heb “and from after sheep.”

[18:10]  ¹³ tn The name is spelled “Joram” in the parallel text in 2 Sam 8:10.

[18:10]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “to ask concerning him for peace.”

[18:10]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “and to bless him because he fought with Hadadezer and defeated him, for Hadadezer was a man of battles with Tou.”

[18:10]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “[along with] all items of gold and silver and bronze.”

[19:5]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “they.” The logical referent, though not specified in the Hebrew text, has been supplied in the translation for clarity.

[19:5]  ¹⁶ map For location see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1.

[20:1]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “and it was at the time of the turning of the year, at the time of the going out of kings.”

[20:2]  ¹⁹ tc The translation follows the MT, which reads “of their king”; the LXX and Vulgate read “of Milcom” (cf. 1 Kgs 11:5). Milcom, also known as Molech, was the god of the Ammonites.

[20:2]  ²⁰ tn Heb “and it was on the head of David.”

[20:2]  ²¹ sn See the note on the word “talents” in 19:6.

[21:3]  ²¹ tn Or “people.”

[21:3]  ²² tn Heb “Why should it become guilt for Israel?” David’s decision betrays an underlying trust in his own strength rather than in divine provision. See also 1 Chr 27:23-24.

[21:5]  ²³ tn Heb “and Joab gave to David the number of the numbering of the army [or “people”].”

[21:5]  ²⁴ tn Heb “a thousand thousands and one hundred thousand.”

[21:5]  ²⁵ tc The parallel text in 2 Sam 24:9 has variant figures: “In Israel there were eight hundred thousand sword-wielding warriors, and in Judah there were five hundred thousands soldiers.”

[21:17]  ²⁵ tn “and doing evil I did evil.” The infinitive absolute precedes the finite form of the verb for emphasis.

[21:17]  ²⁶ tn Heb “let your hand be on me and on the house of my father.”

[21:17]  ²⁷ tn Heb “but on your people not for a plague.”

[22:8]  ²⁷ tn Heb “and the word of the Lord was [i.e., came] to me saying.”

[22:8]  ²⁸ tn Heb “for my name.”

[22:14]  ²⁹ tn Heb “and look, in my affliction [or perhaps, “poverty”] I have supplied for the house of the Lord.”

[22:14]  ³⁰ tn See the note on the word “talents” in 19:6.

[22:14]  ³¹ tn Heb “a thousand thousands.”

[27:24]  ³¹ tn Heb “anger was on Israel.”

[27:24]  ³² tc The Hebrew text has “in the number,” but מִסְפַּר (mispar) is probably dittographic – note that the same word appears immediately before this. The form should be emended to בְּסֵפֶר (bÿsefar, “in the scroll”).

[28:4]  ³³ tn Heb “out of all the house of my father to become king over all Israel permanently.”

[28:4]  ³⁴ tn Or “for.”

[28:4]  ³⁵ tn Heb “and among the sons of my father he desired to make me king over all Israel.”

[29:25]  ³⁵ tn Heb “and gave to him glory of kingship which there was not concerning every king before him over Israel.”