1 Chronicles 12:17-18

12:17 David went out to meet them and said,¹ “If you come to me in peace and want to help me, then I will make an alliance with you.² But if you come to betray me to my enemies when I have not harmed you,³ may the God of our ancestors⁴ take notice and judge!” 12:18 But a spirit⁵ empowered⁶ Amasai, the leader of the thirty warriors, and he said:⁷

“We are yours, O David!

We support⁸ you, O son of Jesse!

May you greatly prosper!⁹

May those who help you prosper!¹⁰

Indeed¹¹ your God helps you!”

So David accepted them and made them leaders of raiding bands.

1 Chronicles 13:2

13:2 David said to the whole Israelite assembly, “If you so desire and the Lord our God approves,¹² let’s spread the word¹³ to our brothers who remain in all the regions of Israel, and to the priests and Levites in their cities,¹⁴ so they may join us.

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?¹⁵ No, his servants have come to you so they can get information and spy out the land!”¹⁶

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!¹⁷ As for these sheep – what have they done? O Lord my God, attack me and my family,¹⁸ but remove the plague from your people!”¹⁹

1 Chronicles 22:5

22:5 David said, “My son Solomon is just an inexperienced young man,²⁰ 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.²¹ 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:²² ‘You have spilled a great deal of blood and fought many battles. You must not build a temple to honor me,²³ for you have spilled a great deal of blood on the ground before me.

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.²⁴ I have made the preparations for building it.

1 Chronicles 28:20

28:20 David said to his son Solomon: “Be strong and brave! Do it! Don’t be afraid and don’t panic!²⁵ 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.

¹tn Heb “and David went out before them and answered and said to them.”

²tn Heb “there will be to me concerning you a heart for unity.”

³tn Heb “with no violence in my hands.”

⁴tn Heb “fathers.”

⁵tn Perhaps “the Spirit,” but the text has simply רוּחַ (ruakh) with no article (suggesting an indefinite reference).

⁶tn Heb “clothed.”

⁷tn The words “and he said” are supplied in the translation for clarity and for stylistic reasons.

⁸tn Heb “are with.”

⁹tn Heb “Peace, peace to you.” The Hebrew term שָׁלוֹם (shalom, “peace”) is repeated to emphasize degree.

¹⁰tn Heb “and peace to the one who helps you.”

¹¹tn Or “for.”

¹²tn Heb “If to you [it is] good and from the Lord our God.”

¹³tn Heb “let us spread and let us send.” The words “the word” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

¹⁴tn Heb “in the cities of their pasturelands.”

¹⁵tn Heb “Is David honoring your father in your eyes when he sends to you ones consoling?”

¹⁶tc 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.

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

¹⁸tn Heb “let your hand be on me and on the house of my father.”

¹⁹tn Heb “but on your people not for a plague.”

²⁰tn Heb “a young man and tender.”

²¹tn Heb “and the house to build to make exceedingly great for a name and for splendor for all the lands.”

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

²³tn Heb “for my name.”

²⁴tn 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.”

²⁵tn Or perhaps, “don’t be discouraged.”