1 Chronicles 21:15

21:15 God sent an angel ¹  to ravage ²  Jerusalem. As he was doing so, ³  the Lord watched ⁴  and relented from ⁵  his judgment. ⁶  He told the angel who was destroying, “That’s enough! ⁷  Stop now!” ⁸ 

Now the Lord’s angel was standing near the threshing floor of Ornan ⁹  the Jebusite.

1 Chronicles 5:25

5:25 But they were unfaithful to the God of their ancestors ¹⁰  and worshiped instead ¹¹  the gods of the native peoples ¹²  whom God had destroyed before them.

1 Chronicles 13:10

13:10 The Lord was so furious with Uzzah, ¹³  he killed him, because he reached out his hand and touched the ark. ¹⁴  He died right there before God. ¹⁵ 

1 Chronicles 21:12

21:12 three ¹⁶  years of famine, or three months being chased by your enemies and struck down by their swords, ¹⁷  or three days being struck down by the Lord, during which a plague will invade the land and the Lord’s messenger will destroy throughout Israel’s territory.’ ¹⁸  Now, decide what I should tell the one who sent me.”

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, ¹⁹  as well as the Meunites they discovered there, and they wiped them out to this very day. They dispossessed them, ²⁰  for they found pasture for their sheep there.

[21:15]  ¹ tn The parallel text of 2 Sam 24:15 reports that God sent a plague, while 24:16-17 attributes this to the instrumentality of an angel.

[21:15]  ² tn Or “destroy.”

[21:15]  ³ tn Heb “while he was destroying.”

[21:15]  ⁴ tn Or “saw.”

[21:15]  ⁵ tn Or “was grieved because of.”

[21:15]  ⁶ tn Heb “concerning the calamity.”

[21:15]  ⁷ tn For this nuance of the Hebrew word רַב (rav), see BDB 913 s.v. 1.f.

[21:15]  ⁸ tn Heb “Now, drop your hand.”

[21:15]  ⁹ tn In the parallel text in 2 Sam 24:16 this individual is called אֲרַוְנָא (’aravna’, “Aravna”), traditionally “Araunah.” The form of the name found here also occurs in vv. 18-28.

[5:25]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “fathers.”

[5:25]  ¹¹ tn Heb “prostituted themselves after.”

[5:25]  ¹² tn Heb “the peoples of the land.”

[13:10]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “and the anger of the Lord burned against Uzzah.”

[13:10]  ²⁰ tn Heb “because he stretched out his hand over the ark.”

[13:10]  ²¹ sn The modern reader might think God seemed to overreact here, but Israel needed a vivid object lesson of God’s holiness. By loading the ark on a cart, David had violated the instructions in God’s law (Exod 25:12-14; Num 4:5-6, 15). Uzzah’s action, however innocent it may seem, betrayed a certain lack of reverence for God’s presence. God had to remind his people that his holiness could not under any circumstances be violated.

[21:12]  ²⁸ tc The parallel text in the MT of 2 Sam 24:13 has “seven,” but LXX has “three” there.

[21:12]  ²⁹ tc Heb “or three months being swept away from before your enemies and the sword of your enemies overtaking.” The Hebrew term נִסְפֶּה (nisppeh, Niphal participle from סָפָה, safah) should probably be emended to נֻסְכָה (nusÿkhah, Qal infinitive from נוּס [nus] with second masculine singular suffix). See 2 Sam 24:13.

[21:12]  ³⁰ tn Heb “or three days of the sword of the Lord and plague in the land, and the messenger [or “angel”] of the Lord destroying in all the territory of Israel.”

[4:41]  ³⁷ 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]  ³⁸ tn Heb “and they lived in place of them.”