1 Chronicles 5:1

Reuben’s Descendants

5:1 The sons of Reuben, Israel’s firstborn –

(Now he was the firstborn, but when he defiled his father’s bed, ¹  his rights as firstborn were given to the sons of Joseph, Israel’s son. So Reuben is not listed as firstborn in the genealogical records. ² 

1 Chronicles 10:4

10:4 Saul told his armor bearer, “Draw your sword and stab me with it. Otherwise these uncircumcised people will come and torture me.” ³  But his armor bearer refused to do it, because he was very afraid. So Saul took the sword and fell on it.

1 Chronicles 11:18-19

11:18 So the three elite warriors ⁴  broke through the Philistine forces and drew some water from the cistern in Bethlehem near the city gate. They carried it back to David, but David refused to drink it. He poured it out as a drink offering to the Lord 11:19 and said, “God forbid that I should do this! ⁵  Should I drink the blood of these men who risked their lives?” ⁶  Because they risked their lives to bring it to him, he refused to drink it. Such were the exploits of the three elite warriors. ⁷ 

1 Chronicles 12:17

12:17 David went out to meet them and said, ⁸  “If you come to me in peace and want to help me, then I will make an alliance with you. ⁹  But if you come to betray me to my enemies when I have not harmed you, ¹⁰  may the God of our ancestors ¹¹  take notice and judge!”

1 Chronicles 15:2

15:2 Then David said, “Only the Levites may carry the ark of God, for the Lord chose them to carry the ark of the Lord and to serve before him perpetually.

1 Chronicles 17:6

17:6 Wherever I moved throughout Israel, I did not say ¹²  to any of the leaders whom I appointed to care for my people Israel, ¹³  ‘Why have you not built me a house made from cedar?’”’

1 Chronicles 19:3

19:3 the Ammonite officials said to Hanun, “Do you really think David is trying to honor your father by sending these messengers to express his sympathy? ¹⁴  No, his servants have come to you so they can get information and spy out the land!” ¹⁵ 

1 Chronicles 19:19

19:19 When Hadadezer’s subjects saw they were defeated by Israel, they made peace with David and became his subjects. The Arameans were no longer willing to help the Ammonites.

1 Chronicles 21:3

21:3 Joab replied, “May the Lord make his army ¹⁶  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?” ¹⁷ 

1 Chronicles 22:8

22:8 But the Lord said to me: ¹⁸  ‘You have spilled a great deal of blood and fought many battles. You must not build a temple to honor me, ¹⁹  for you have spilled a great deal of blood on the ground before me.

1 Chronicles 22:18

22:18 He told them, ²⁰  “The Lord your God is with you! ²¹  He has made you secure on every side, ²²  for he handed over to me the inhabitants of the region ²³  and the region ²⁴  is subdued before the Lord and his people.

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, ²⁵  and the task is great, for this palace is not for man, but for the Lord God.

1 Chronicles 29:25

29:25 The Lord greatly magnified Solomon before all Israel and bestowed on him greater majesty than any king of Israel before him. ²⁶ 

[5:1]  ¹ sn The phrase when he defiled his father’s bed refers to Reuben having sexual relations with his father Jacob’s concubine Bilhah. This incident is recorded in Gen 35:22.

[5:1]  ² tn Heb “and not to be listed in the genealogical records as (having) the right of the firstborn.”

[10:4]  ³ tn Heb “so these uncircumcised ones might not come and abuse me.”

[11:18]  ⁵ tn Heb “the three,” referring to the three elite warriors mentioned in v. 12.

[11:19]  ⁷ tn Heb “Far be it to me from my God from doing this.”

[11:19]  ⁸ tn Heb “with their lives.” The same expression occurs later in this verse.

[11:19]  ⁹ tn Heb “These things the three warriors did.”

[12:17]  ⁹ tn Heb “and David went out before them and answered and said to them.”

[12:17]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “there will be to me concerning you a heart for unity.”

[12:17]  ¹¹ tn Heb “with no violence in my hands.”

[12:17]  ¹² tn Heb “fathers.”

[17:6]  ¹¹ tn In the Hebrew text the statement is phrased as a rhetorical question (“Did I say?”) meaning “I did not say.”

[17:6]  ¹² tn Heb “to one of the judges of Israel whom I commanded to shepherd my people.”

[19:3]  ¹³ tn Heb “Is David honoring your father in your eyes when he sends to you ones consoling?”

[19:3]  ¹⁴ tc Heb “Is it not to explore and to overturn and to spy out the land (that) his servants have come to you?” The Hebrew term לַהֲפֹךְ (lahafakh, “to overturn”) seems misplaced in the sequence. Some emend the form to לַחְפֹּר (lakhpor, “to spy out”). The sequence of three infinitives may be a conflation of alternative readings.

[21:3]  ¹⁵ tn Or “people.”

[21:3]  ¹⁶ 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.

[22:8]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “and the word of the Lord was [i.e., came] to me saying.”

[22:8]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “for my name.”

[22:18]  ¹⁹ tn The words “he told them” are added in the translation for clarity and for stylistic reasons.

[22:18]  ²⁰ tn In the Hebrew text the statement is phrased as a rhetorical question, “Is not the Lord your God with you?” The question anticipates the response, “Of course he is!” Thus in the translation the positive statement “The Lord your God is with you!” has been used.

[22:18]  ²¹ tn Heb “and he gives rest to you all around.”

[22:18]  ²² tn Or “earth.”

[22:18]  ²³ tn Or “earth.”

[29:1]  ²¹ tn Heb “a young man and tender.”

[29:25]  ²³ tn Heb “and gave to him glory of kingship which there was not concerning every king before him over Israel.”