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! 1 As for these sheep – what have they done? O Lord my God, attack me and my family, 2 but remove the plague from your people!” 3
1 Chronicles 21:23
21:23 Ornan told David, “You can have it! 4 My master, the king, may do what he wants. 5 Look, I am giving you the oxen for burnt sacrifices, the threshing sledges for wood, and the wheat for an offering. I give it all to you.”
1 tn “and doing evil I did evil.” The infinitive absolute precedes the finite form of the verb for emphasis.
2 tn Heb “let your hand be on me and on the house of my father.”
3 tn Heb “but on your people not for a plague.”
4 tn Heb “take for yourself.”
5 tn Heb “what is good in his eyes.”