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? ¹  No, his servants have come to you so they can get information and spy out the land!” ² 

1 Chronicles 20:1

20:1 In the spring, at the time when kings normally conduct wars, ³  Joab led the army into battle and devastated the land of the Ammonites. He went and besieged Rabbah, while David stayed in Jerusalem. Joab defeated Rabbah and tore it down.

1 Chronicles 21:12

21:12 three ⁴  years of famine, or three months being chased by your enemies and struck down by their swords, ⁵  or three days being struck down by the Lord, during which a plague will invade the land and the Lord’s messenger will destroy throughout Israel’s territory.’ ⁶  Now, decide what I should tell the one who sent me.”

1 Chronicles 28:8

28:8 So now, in the sight of all Israel, the Lord’s assembly, and in the hearing of our God, I say this: ⁷  Carefully observe ⁸  all the commands of the Lord your God, so that you may possess this good land and may leave it as a permanent inheritance for your children after you.

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¹ tn Heb “Is David honoring your father in your eyes when he sends to you ones consoling?”

² 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.

³ tn Heb “and it was at the time of the turning of the year, at the time of the going out of kings.”

⁴ tc The parallel text in the MT of 2 Sam 24:13 has “seven,” but LXX has “three” there.

⁵ tc Heb “or three months being swept away from before your enemies and the sword of your enemies overtaking.” The Hebrew term נִסְפֶּה (nisppeh, Niphal participle from סָפָה, safah) should probably be emended to נֻסְכָה (nusÿkhah, Qal infinitive from נוּס [nus] with second masculine singular suffix). See 2 Sam 24:13.

⁶ tn Heb “or three days of the sword of the Lord and plague in the land, and the messenger [or “angel”] of the Lord destroying in all the territory of Israel.”

⁷ tn The words “I say this” are not in the Hebrew text, but are supplied in the translation for clarity and for stylistic reasons.

⁸ tn Heb “Watch! Seek!”