1 Chronicles 29:9

29:9 The people were delighted with their donations, for they contributed to the Lord with a willing attitude; ¹  King David was also very happy. ² 

1 Chronicles 29:17-19

29:17 I know, my God, that you examine thoughts ³  and are pleased with integrity. With pure motives ⁴  I contribute all this; and now I look with joy as your people who have gathered here contribute to you. 29:18 O Lord God of our ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, maintain the motives of your people and keep them devoted to you. ⁵  29:19 Make my son Solomon willing to obey your commands, rules, and regulations, and to complete building the palace for which I have made preparations.” ⁶ 

1 Chronicles 29:1

The People Contribute to the Project

29:1 King David said to the entire assembly: “My son Solomon, the one whom God has chosen, is just an inexperienced young man, ⁷  and the task is great, for this palace is not for man, but for the Lord God.

1 Chronicles 8:1-2

Benjamin’s Descendants (Continued)

8:1 Benjamin was the father of Bela, his firstborn; Ashbel was born second, Aharah ⁸  third, 8:2 Nohah fourth, and Rapha fifth.

1 Chronicles 20:3

20:3 He removed the city’s residents and made them do hard labor with saws, iron picks, and axes. ⁹  This was his policy ¹⁰  with all the Ammonite cities. Then David and all the army returned to Jerusalem.

1 Chronicles 22:2

David Orders a Temple to Be Built

22:2 David ordered the resident foreigners in the land of Israel to be called together. He appointed some of them to be stonecutters to chisel stones for the building of God’s temple.

Job 36:11-12

36:11 If they obey and serve him,

they live out their days in prosperity

and their years in pleasantness. ¹¹ 

36:12 But if they refuse to listen,

they pass over the river of death, ¹² 

and expire without knowledge.

Psalms 101:2

101:2 I will walk in ¹³  the way of integrity.

When will you come to me?

I will conduct my business with integrity in the midst of my palace. ¹⁴ 

John 1:47

1:47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him and exclaimed, ¹⁵  “Look, a true Israelite in whom there is no deceit!” ¹⁶ 

John 4:24

4:24 God is spirit, ¹⁷  and the people who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”

Romans 1:29

1:29 They are filled ¹⁸  with every kind of unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, malice. They are rife with ¹⁹  envy, murder, strife, deceit, hostility. They are gossips,

Hebrews 12:28

12:28 So since we are receiving an unshakable kingdom, let us give thanks, and through this let us offer worship pleasing to God in devotion and awe.

[29:9]  ¹ tn Heb “with a complete heart.”

[29:9]  ² tn Heb “was rejoiced with great joy.”

[29:17]  ³ tn Heb “a heart.”

[29:17]  ⁴ tn Heb “with integrity of heart.”

[29:18]  ⁵ tn Heb “keep this permanently with respect to the motive of the thoughts of the heart of your people, and make firm their heart to you.”

[29:19]  ⁶ tn Heb “and to Solomon my son give a complete heart to keep your commands, your rules and your regulations, and to do everything, and to build the palace [for] which I have prepared.”

[29:1]  ⁷ tn Heb “a young man and tender.”

[8:1]  ⁸ sn Aharah is called “Ahiram” in Num 26:38.

[20:3]  ⁹ tc The Hebrew text reads “saws,” but since saws were just mentioned, it is preferable to emend מְגֵרוֹת (mÿgerot, “saws”) to מַגְזְרוֹת (magzÿrot, “axes”).

[20:3]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and so he would do.”

[36:11]  ¹¹ tc Some commentators delete this last line for metrical considerations. But there is no textual evidence for the deletion; it is simply the attempt by some to make the meter rigid.

[36:12]  ¹² tn This is a similar expression to the one in Job 33:18, where the suggestion was made by many that it means crossing over the canal or river of death. Some retain the earlier interpretation of “perish by the sword” (cf. NIV).

[101:2]  ¹³ tn Heb “take notice of.”

[101:2]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “I will walk about in the integrity of my heart in the midst of my house.”

[1:47]  ¹⁵ tn Grk “said about him.”

[1:47]  ¹⁶ tn Or “treachery.”

[4:24]  ¹⁷ tn Here πνεῦμα (pneuma) is understood as a qualitative predicate nominative while the articular θεός (qeos) is the subject.

[1:29]  ¹⁸ tn Grk “being filled” or “having been filled,” referring to those described in v. 28. Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.

[1:29]  ¹⁹ tn Grk “malice, full of,” continuing the description. Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.