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 5:24

5:24 These were the leaders of their families: ³ 

Epher, Ishi, Eliel, Azriel, Jeremiah, Hodaviah, and Jahdiel. They were skilled warriors, men of reputation, ⁴  and leaders of their families.

1 Chronicles 6:65

6:65 They allotted these previously named cities from the territory of the tribes of Judah, Simeon, and Benjamin. ⁵ 

1 Chronicles 13:6

13:6 David and all Israel went up to Baalah (that is, Kiriath Jearim) in Judah to bring up from there the ark of God the Lord, who sits enthroned between the cherubim – the ark that is called by his name. ⁶ 

1 Chronicles 14:11

14:11 So they marched against Baal Perazim and David defeated them there. David said, “Using me as his instrument, ⁷  God has burst out against my enemies like water bursts out.” So that place is called Baal Perazim. ⁸ 

1 Chronicles 17:21

17:21 And who is like your people, Israel, a unique nation ⁹  in the earth? Their God ¹⁰  went to claim ¹¹  a nation for himself! You made a name for yourself by doing great and awesome deeds ¹²  when you drove out ¹³  nations before your people whom you had delivered from the Egyptian empire and its gods. ¹⁴ 

1 Chronicles 22:5

22:5 David said, “My son Solomon is just an inexperienced young man, ¹⁵  and the temple to be built for the Lord must be especially magnificent so it will become famous and be considered splendid by all the nations. ¹⁶  Therefore I will make preparations for its construction.” So David made extensive preparations before he died.

1 Chronicles 22:8-9

22:8 But the Lord said to me: ¹⁷  ‘You have spilled a great deal of blood and fought many battles. You must not build a temple to honor me, ¹⁸  for you have spilled a great deal of blood on the ground before me. 22:9 Look, you will have a son, who will be a peaceful man. ¹⁹  I will give him rest from all his enemies on every side. ²⁰  Indeed, Solomon ²¹  will be his name; I will give Israel peace and quiet during his reign. ²² 

1 Chronicles 22:19

22:19 Now seek the Lord your God wholeheartedly and with your entire being! ²³  Get up and build the sanctuary of the Lord God! Then you can bring ²⁴  the ark of the Lord’s covenant and the holy items dedicated to God’s service ²⁵  into the temple that is built to honor the Lord.” ²⁶ 

1 Chronicles 23:13

23:13 The sons of Amram:

Aaron and Moses.

Aaron and his descendants were chosen on a permanent basis to consecrate the most holy items, to offer sacrifices before the Lord, to serve him, and to praise his name. ²⁷ 

1 Chronicles 23:24

23:24 These were the descendants of Levi according to their families, that is, the leaders of families as counted and individually listed who carried out assigned tasks in the Lord’s temple and were twenty years old and up. ²⁸ 

[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.”

[5:24]  ³ tn Heb “and these [were] the heads of the house of their fathers.”

[5:24]  ⁴ tn Heb “men of names.”

[6:65]  ⁵ tn Heb “and they gave by lot from the tribe of the sons of Judah, and from the tribe of the sons of Simeon, and from the tribe of the sons of Benjamin these cities, which they called them by names.”

[13:6]  ⁷ tn Heb “the ark of God the Lord who sits [between] the cherubim which is called [by his] name.”

[14:11]  ⁹ tn Heb “by my hand.”

[14:11]  ¹⁰ sn The name Baal Perazim means “Lord of outbursts” in Hebrew.

[17:21]  ¹¹ tn Heb “a nation, one.”

[17:21]  ¹² tn Heb “whose God,” or “because God.” In the Hebrew text this clause is subordinated to what precedes. The clauses are separated in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[17:21]  ¹³ tn Heb “redeem” or “deliver.”

[17:21]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “to make for yourself a name [with] great and awesome [deeds].”

[17:21]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “to drive out.”

[17:21]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “from Egypt, nations.” The parallel text in 2 Sam 7:23 reads “from Egypt, nations and its gods.”

[22:5]  ¹³ tn Heb “a young man and tender.”

[22:5]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “and the house to build to make exceedingly great for a name and for splendor for all the lands.”

[22:8]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “and the word of the Lord was [i.e., came] to me saying.”

[22:8]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “for my name.”

[22:9]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “man of rest.”

[22:9]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “his enemies all around.”

[22:9]  ¹⁹ sn The name Solomon (שְׁלֹמֹה, shÿlomoh) sounds like (and may be derived from) the Hebrew word for “peace” (שָׁלוֹם, shalom).

[22:9]  ²⁰ tn Heb “in his days.”

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

[22:19]  ²⁰ tn Heb “to bring.”

[22:19]  ²¹ tn Heb “items of holiness of God.”

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

[23:13]  ²¹ tn Heb “and Aaron was set apart to consecrate it, the most holy things, he and his sons, permanently, to sacrifice before the Lord, to serve him, and to bless his name permanently.”

[23:24]  ²³ tn Heb “these were the sons of Levi according to the house of their fathers, heads of the fathers, according to their numberings, by number of names, according to their heads, doer[s] of the work for the service of the house of the Lord, from a son of twenty years and upwards.”