1 Chronicles 6:32

6:32 They performed music ¹  before the sanctuary ²  of the meeting tent until Solomon built the Lord’s temple in Jerusalem. ³  They carried out their tasks according to regulations.

1 Chronicles 7:2

7:2 The sons of Tola:

Uzzi, Rephaiah, Jeriel, Jahmai, Jibsam, ⁴  and Samuel. ⁵  They were leaders of their families. ⁶  In the time of David there were 22,600 warriors listed in Tola’s genealogical records. ⁷ 

1 Chronicles 7:7

7:7 The sons of Bela:

Ezbon, Uzzi, Uzziel, Jerimoth, and Iri. The five of them were leaders of their families. There were 22,034 warriors listed in their genealogical records.

1 Chronicles 7:40

7:40 All these were the descendants of Asher. They were the leaders of their families, the most capable men, who were warriors and served as head chiefs. There were 26,000 warriors listed in their genealogical records as capable of doing battle. ⁸ 

1 Chronicles 9:19

9:19 Shallum son of Kore, son of Ebiasaph, son of Korah, and his relatives from his family (the Korahites) were assigned to guard the entrance to the sanctuary. ⁹  Their ancestors had guarded the entrance to the Lord’s dwelling place. ¹⁰ 

1 Chronicles 17:6

17:6 Wherever I moved throughout Israel, I did not say ¹¹  to any of the leaders whom I appointed to care for my people Israel, ¹²  ‘Why have you not built me a house made from cedar?’”’

1 Chronicles 21:17

21:17 David said to God, “Was I not the one who decided to number the army? I am the one who sinned and committed this awful deed! ¹³  As for these sheep – what have they done? O Lord my God, attack me and my family, ¹⁴  but remove the plague from your people!” ¹⁵ 

1 Chronicles 22:5

22:5 David said, “My son Solomon is just an inexperienced young man, ¹⁶  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. ¹⁷  Therefore I will make preparations for its construction.” So David made extensive preparations before he died.

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 22:14

22:14 Now, look, I have made every effort to supply what is needed to build the Lord’s temple. ²⁰  I have stored up 100,000 talents ²¹  of gold, 1,000,000 ²²  talents of silver, and so much bronze and iron it cannot be weighed, as well as wood and stones. Feel free to add more!

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 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. ²⁷ 

1 Chronicles 28:2

28:2 King David rose to his feet and said: “Listen to me, my brothers and my people. I wanted to build a temple where the ark of the Lord’s covenant could be placed as a footstool for our God. ²⁸  I have made the preparations for building it.

1 Chronicles 28:20-21

28:20 David said to his son Solomon: “Be strong and brave! Do it! Don’t be afraid and don’t panic! ²⁹  For the Lord God, my God, is with you. He will not leave you or abandon you before all the work for the service of the Lord’s temple is finished. 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. ³⁰  The officials and all the people are ready to follow your instructions.” ³¹ 

1 Chronicles 29:2

29:2 So I have made every effort ³²  to provide what is needed for the temple of my God, including the gold, silver, bronze, iron, wood, ³³  as well as a large amount of onyx, settings of antimony and other stones, all kinds of precious stones, and alabaster.

1 Chronicles 29:7

29:7 They donated for the service of God’s temple 5,000 talents ³⁴  and ten thousand darics ³⁵  of gold, 10,000 talents of silver, 18,000 talents of bronze, and 100,000 talents of iron.

[6:32]  ¹ tn Heb “they were serving…with music.”

[6:32]  ² tn Or traditionally “tabernacle.”

[6:32]  ³ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[7:2]  ⁴ tn Many English versions spell this name “Ibsam.”

[7:2]  ⁵ tn Many English versions retain a form of this name closer to the Hebrew, i.e., “Shemuel.”

[7:2]  ⁶ tn Heb “heads of the house of their fathers.”

[7:2]  ⁷ tn Heb “to Tola [there were] warriors by their generations, their number in the days of David [was] 22,600.”

[7:40]  ⁷ tn Heb “all these were the sons of Asher, heads of the house of the fathers, selected, warriors, heads of the leaders, and there was listed in the genealogical records in war, in battle, their number, men, 26,000.”

[9:19]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and his brothers belonging to the house of his father, the Korachites, to the work of the task, guardians of the threshold of the tent.”

[9:19]  ¹¹ tn Heb “and their fathers to the camp of the Lord, guardians of the entrance.” Here “fathers” is used in a more general sense of “forefathers” or “ancestors” and is not limited specifically to their fathers only.

[17:6]  ¹³ tn In the Hebrew text the statement is phrased as a rhetorical question (“Did I say?”) meaning “I did not say.”

[17:6]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “to one of the judges of Israel whom I commanded to shepherd my people.”

[21:17]  ¹⁶ tn “and doing evil I did evil.” The infinitive absolute precedes the finite form of the verb for emphasis.

[21:17]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “let your hand be on me and on the house of my father.”

[21:17]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “but on your people not for a plague.”

[22:5]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “a young man and tender.”

[22:5]  ²⁰ tn Heb “and the house to build to make exceedingly great for a name and for splendor for all the lands.”

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

[22:8]  ²³ tn Heb “for my name.”

[22:14]  ²⁵ tn Heb “and look, in my affliction [or perhaps, “poverty”] I have supplied for the house of the Lord.”

[22:14]  ²⁶ tn See the note on the word “talents” in 19:6.

[22:14]  ²⁷ tn Heb “a thousand thousands.”

[22:19]  ²⁸ tn Heb “now give your heart and your being to seek the Lord your God.”

[22:19]  ²⁹ tn Heb “to bring.”

[22:19]  ³⁰ tn Heb “items of holiness of God.”

[22:19]  ³¹ tn Heb “for the name of the Lord.”

[24:6]  ³¹ 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.”

[28:2]  ³⁴ tn Heb “I, with my heart to build a house of rest for the ark of the covenant of the Lord and for a stool of the feet of our God.”

[28:20]  ³⁷ tn Or perhaps, “don’t be discouraged.”

[28:21]  ⁴⁰ tn Heb “and with you in all work, for every willing [one] in skill for all service.”

[28:21]  ⁴¹ tn Heb “and the officials and all the people to all your words.”

[29:2]  ⁴³ tn Heb “and according to all my strength.”

[29:2]  ⁴⁴ tn Heb “the gold for the gold, and the silver for the silver, and the bronze for the bronze, and the iron for the iron, and the wood for the wood.”

[29:7]  ⁴⁶ tn See the note on the word “talents” in 19:6. Using the “light” standard talent of 67.3 lbs. (30.6 kg) as the standard for calculation, the people donated 168.3 tons (153,000 kg) of gold, 336.5 tons (306,000 kg) of silver, 605.7 tons (550,800 kg) of bronze, and 3,365 tons (3,060,000 kg) of iron.

[29:7]  ⁴⁷ tn On the “daric” as a unit of measure, see BDB 204 s.v. דַּרְכְּמוֹן. Some have regarded the daric as a minted coin, perhaps even referring to the Greek drachma, but this is less likely.