<t /><p class="bodytext">Now the Philistines fought against Israel. The Israelites fled before the Philistines and many of them fell dead on Mount Gilboa.

<t /><p class="bodytext">An adversary<n id="1" /> opposed<n id="2" /> Israel, inciting David to count how many warriors Israel had.<n id="3" />

So the <sc>Lordsc> sent a plague through Israel, and 70,000 Israelite men died.p>

<p class="poetry">O children<n id="1" /> of Israel, God&#8217;s<n id="2" /> servant,p> <p class="poetry">you descendants of Jacob, God&#8217;s<n id="3" /> chosen ones!p>

<p class="poetry">He gave it to Jacob as a decree,p> <p class="poetry">to Israel as a lasting promise,<n id="1" />p>

<p class="bodytext">Genealogical records were kept for all Israel; they are recorded in the Scroll of the Kings of Israel.p><t /><p class="bodytext">The people of Judah<n id="1" /> were carried away to Babylon because of their unfaithfulness.

<t /><p class="bodytext">These were the leaders of David&#8217;s warriors who helped establish and stabilize his rule over all Israel, in accordance with the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s word.<n id="1" />

David realized that the <sc>Lordsc> had established him as king over Israel and that he had elevated<n id="1" /> his kingdom for the sake of his people Israel.p>

so<n id="1" /> it may become a reality<n id="2" /> and you may gain lasting fame,<n id="3" /> as people say,<n id="4" /> &#8216;The <sc>Lordsc> who commands armies is the God of Israel.&#8217;<n id="5" /> David&#8217;s dynasty<n id="6" /> will be established before you,

<p class="bodytext">The son<n id="1" /> of Carmi:p> <p class="bodytext">Achan,<n id="2" /> who brought the disaster on Israel when he stole what was devoted to God.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="bodytext">The sons of Reuben, Israel&#8217;s firstborn:p> <p class="bodytext">Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.p>

<p class="bodytext">David ordered all the officials of Israel to support<n id="1" /> his son Solomon.

<p class="bodytext">David<n id="1" /> assembled all the leaders of Israel, along with the priests and the Levites.

<p class="bodytext">Azarel son of Jeroham led Dan.p> <p class="bodytext">These were the commanders of the Israelite tribes.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">David son of Jesse reigned over all Israel.

In the past, even when Saul was king, you were Israel&#8217;s commanding general.<n id="1" /> The <sc>Lordsc> your God said to you, &#8216;You will shepherd my people Israel; you will rule over my people Israel.&#8217;&#8221;

The <sc>Lordsc> God of Israel chose me out of my father&#8217;s entire family to become king over Israel and have a permanent dynasty.<n id="1" /> Indeed,<n id="2" /> he chose Judah as leader, and my father&#8217;s family within Judah, and then he picked me out from among my father&#8217;s sons and made me king over all Israel.<n id="3" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">Abraham was the father of Isaac. The sons of Isaac:p> <p class="bodytext">Esau and Israel.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">These were the sons of Israel:<n id="1" />p> <p class="bodytext">Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah;p> <p class="bodytext">Issachar and Zebulun;p>

All of them were listed in the genealogical records in the time of King Jotham of Judah and in the time of King Jeroboam of Israel.p>