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 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.⁴

1 Chronicles 26:32--27:1

26:32 Jeriah had 2,700 relatives who were respected family leaders.⁵ King David placed them in charge of the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh; they took care of all matters pertaining to God and the king.⁶

Leaders of the Army

27:1 What follows is a list of Israelite family leaders and commanders of units of a thousand and a hundred, as well as their officers who served the king in various matters. Each division was assigned to serve for one month during the year; each consisted of 24,000 men.⁷

¹tn “and doing evil I did evil.” The infinitive absolute precedes the finite form of the verb for emphasis.

²tn Heb “let your hand be on me and on the house of my father.”

³tn Heb “but on your people not for a plague.”

⁴tn 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.”

⁵tn Heb “and his brothers, sons of respect, [were] 2,700, heads of fathers.”

⁶tn Heb “with respect to every matter of God and matter of the king.”

⁷tn Heb “and the sons of Israel according to their number, heads of the fathers and the commanders of the thousands and the hundreds and their officers who served the king with respect to every matter of the divisions, [that which] comes and goes out month by month according to all the months of the year, one division [was] twenty-four thousand.”