1 Chronicles 4:41
4:41 The men whose names are listed came during the time of King Hezekiah of Judah and attacked the Hamites’ settlements, 1 as well as the Meunites they discovered there, and they wiped them out to this very day. They dispossessed them, 2 for they found pasture for their sheep there.
1 Chronicles 11:18
11:18 So the three elite warriors 3 broke through the Philistine forces and drew some water from the cistern in Bethlehem near the city gate. They carried it back to David, but David refused to drink it. He poured it out as a drink offering to the Lord
1 Chronicles 11:23
11:23 He even killed an Egyptian who was seven and a half feet 4 tall. The Egyptian had a spear as big as the crossbeam of a weaver’s loom; Benaiah attacked 5 him with a club. He grabbed the spear out of the Egyptian’s hand and killed him with his own spear.
1 Chronicles 12:17
12:17 David went out to meet them and said, 6 “If you come to me in peace and want to help me, then I will make an alliance with you. 7 But if you come to betray me to my enemies when I have not harmed you, 8 may the God of our ancestors 9 take notice and judge!”
1 Chronicles 17:21
17:21 And who is like your people, Israel, a unique nation 10 in the earth? Their God 11 went to claim 12 a nation for himself! You made a name for yourself by doing great and awesome deeds 13 when you drove out 14 nations before your people whom you had delivered from the Egyptian empire and its gods. 15
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? 16 No, his servants have come to you so they can get information and spy out the land!” 17
1 Chronicles 21:16
21:16 David looked up and saw the Lord’s messenger standing between the earth and sky with his sword drawn and in his hand, stretched out over Jerusalem. David and the leaders, covered with sackcloth, threw themselves down with their faces to the ground. 18
1 tn The Hebrew text reads “their tents,” apparently referring to those of the Hamites mentioned at the end of v. 40. Some prefer to emend the text to read, “the tents of Ham.”
2 tn Heb “and they lived in place of them.”
3 tn Heb “the three,” referring to the three elite warriors mentioned in v. 12.
4 tn Heb “five cubits.” Assuming a length of 18 inches for the standard cubit, this individual would be 7.5 feet (2.3 m) tall.
5 tn Heb “went down to.”
6 tn Heb “and David went out before them and answered and said to them.”
7 tn Heb “there will be to me concerning you a heart for unity.”
8 tn Heb “with no violence in my hands.”
9 tn Heb “fathers.”
10 tn Heb “a nation, one.”
11 tn Heb “whose God,” or “because God.” In the Hebrew text this clause is subordinated to what precedes. The clauses are separated in the translation for stylistic reasons.
12 tn Heb “redeem” or “deliver.”
13 tn Heb “to make for yourself a name [with] great and awesome [deeds].”
14 tn Heb “to drive out.”
15 tn Heb “from Egypt, nations.” The parallel text in 2 Sam 7:23 reads “from Egypt, nations and its gods.”
16 tn Heb “Is David honoring your father in your eyes when he sends to you ones consoling?”
17 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.
18 tn Heb “and David and the elders, covered with sackcloth, fell on their faces.”