1 Chronicles 21:3

21:3 Joab replied, “May the Lord make his army ¹  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?” ² 

1 Chronicles 21:23

21:23 Ornan told David, “You can have it! ³  My master, the king, may do what he wants. ⁴  Look, I am giving you the oxen for burnt sacrifices, the threshing sledges for wood, and the wheat for an offering. I give it all to you.”

[21:3]  ¹ tn Or “people.”

[21:3]  ² 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.

[21:23]  ³ tn Heb “take for yourself.”

[21:23]  ⁴ tn Heb “what is good in his eyes.”