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, ¹  as well as the Meunites they discovered there, and they wiped them out to this very day. They dispossessed them, ²  for they found pasture for their sheep there.

1 Chronicles 11:2

11:2 In the past, even when Saul was king, you were Israel’s commanding general. ³  The Lord your God said to you, ‘You will shepherd my people Israel; you will rule over my people Israel.’”

1 Chronicles 11:23

11:23 He even killed an Egyptian who was seven and a half feet ⁴  tall. The Egyptian had a spear as big as the crossbeam of a weaver’s loom; Benaiah attacked ⁵  him with a club. He grabbed the spear out of the Egyptian’s hand and killed him with his own spear.

1 Chronicles 12:17

12:17 David went out to meet them and said, ⁶  “If you come to me in peace and want to help me, then I will make an alliance with you. ⁷  But if you come to betray me to my enemies when I have not harmed you, ⁸  may the God of our ancestors ⁹  take notice and judge!”

1 Chronicles 12:19

12:19 Some men from Manasseh joined ¹⁰  David when he went with the Philistines to fight against Saul. (But in the end they did not help the Philistines because, after taking counsel, the Philistine lords sent David away, saying: “It would be disastrous for us if he deserts to his master Saul.”) ¹¹ 

1 Chronicles 19:2

19:2 David said, “I will express my loyalty ¹²  to Hanun son of Nahash, for his father was loyal ¹³  to me.” So David sent messengers to express his sympathy over his father’s death. ¹⁴  When David’s servants entered Ammonite territory to visit Hanun and express the king’s sympathy, ¹⁵ 

1 Chronicles 21:23

21:23 Ornan told David, “You can have it! ¹⁶  My master, the king, may do what he wants. ¹⁷  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.”

1 Chronicles 22:19

22:19 Now seek the Lord your God wholeheartedly and with your entire being! ¹⁸  Get up and build the sanctuary of the Lord God! Then you can bring ¹⁹  the ark of the Lord’s covenant and the holy items dedicated to God’s service ²⁰  into the temple that is built to honor the Lord.” ²¹ 

1 Chronicles 24:6

24:6 The scribe Shemaiah son of Nethanel, a Levite, wrote down their names before the king, the officials, Zadok the priest, Ahimelech son of Abiathar, and the leaders of the priestly and Levite families. One family was drawn by lot from Eleazar, and then the next from Ithamar. ²² 

1 Chronicles 28:1

David Commissions Solomon to Build the Temple

28:1 David assembled in Jerusalem ²³  all the officials of Israel, including the commanders of the tribes, the commanders of the army divisions that served the king, the commanders of units of a thousand and a hundred, the officials who were in charge of all the property and livestock of the king and his sons, the eunuchs, and the warriors, including the most skilled of them.

1 Chronicles 28:8

28:8 So now, in the sight of all Israel, the Lord’s assembly, and in the hearing of our God, I say this: ²⁴  Carefully observe ²⁵  all the commands of the Lord your God, so that you may possess this good land and may leave it as a permanent inheritance for your children after you.

1 Chronicles 28:21

28:21 Here are the divisions of the priests and Levites who will perform all the service of God’s temple. All the willing and skilled men are ready to assist you in all the work and perform their service. ²⁶  The officials and all the people are ready to follow your instructions.” ²⁷ 

[4:41]  ¹ 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]  ² tn Heb “and they lived in place of them.”

[11:2]  ³ tn Heb “you were the one who led out and the one who brought in Israel.”

[11:23]  ⁵ 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]  ⁶ tn Heb “went down to.”

[12:17]  ⁷ tn Heb “and David went out before them and answered and said to them.”

[12:17]  ⁸ tn Heb “there will be to me concerning you a heart for unity.”

[12:17]  ⁹ tn Heb “with no violence in my hands.”

[12:17]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “fathers.”

[12:19]  ⁹ tn Heb “fell upon,” here in a good sense.

[12:19]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and they did not help them for by counsel they sent him away, the lords of the Philistines, saying, ‘With our heads he will fall to his master Saul.’”

[19:2]  ¹¹ tn Heb “do loyalty.”

[19:2]  ¹² tn Heb “did loyalty.”

[19:2]  ¹³ tn Heb “to console him concerning his father.”

[19:2]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “and the servants of David came to the land of the sons of Ammon to Hanun to console him.”

[21:23]  ¹³ tn Heb “take for yourself.”

[21:23]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “what is good in his eyes.”

[22:19]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “now give your heart and your being to seek the Lord your God.”

[22:19]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “to bring.”

[22:19]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “items of holiness of God.”

[22:19]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “for the name of the Lord.”

[24:6]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “one house of a father was drawn by lot for Eleazar, and one [this assumes an emendation of אָחֻז (’akhuz) to אֶחָד (’ekhad, “one”)] was drawn by lot for Ithamar.”

[28:1]  ¹⁹ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[28:8]  ²¹ tn The words “I say this” are not in the Hebrew text, but are supplied in the translation for clarity and for stylistic reasons.

[28:8]  ²² tn Heb “Watch! Seek!”

[28:21]  ²³ tn Heb “and with you in all work, for every willing [one] in skill for all service.”

[28:21]  ²⁴ tn Heb “and the officials and all the people to all your words.”