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 13:2

13:2 David said to the whole Israelite assembly, “If you so desire and the Lord our God approves, ³  let’s spread the word ⁴  to our brothers who remain in all the regions of Israel, and to the priests and Levites in their cities, ⁵  so they may join us.

1 Chronicles 17:21

17:21 And who is like your people, Israel, a unique nation ⁶  in the earth? Their God ⁷  went to claim ⁸  a nation for himself! You made a name for yourself by doing great and awesome deeds ⁹  when you drove out ¹⁰  nations before your people whom you had delivered from the Egyptian empire and its gods. ¹¹ 

1 Chronicles 21:12

21:12 three ¹²  years of famine, or three months being chased by your enemies and struck down by their swords, ¹³  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.’ ¹⁴  Now, decide what I should tell the one who sent me.”

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. ¹⁵ 

1 Chronicles 23:28

23:28 Their job was to help Aaron’s descendants in the service of the Lord’s temple. They were to take care of the courtyards, the rooms, ceremonial purification of all holy items, and other jobs related to the service of God’s temple. ¹⁶ 

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. ¹⁷ 

1 Chronicles 24:31

24:31 Just like their relatives, the descendants of Aaron, they also cast lots before King David, Zadok, Ahimelech, the leaders of families, the priests, and the Levites. The families of the oldest son cast lots along with the those of the youngest. ¹⁸ 

1 Chronicles 25:6

25:6 All of these were under the supervision of their fathers; they were musicians in the Lord’s temple, playing cymbals and stringed instruments as they served in God’s temple. Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman were under the supervision of the king.

1 Chronicles 27:1

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. ¹⁹ 

1 Chronicles 28:21

28:21 Here are the divisions of the priests and Levites who will perform all the service of God’s temple. All the willing and skilled men are ready to assist you in all the work and perform their service. ²⁰  The officials and all the people are ready to follow your instructions.” ²¹ 

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

⁴ tn Heb “let us spread and let us send.” The words “the word” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

⁵ tn Heb “in the cities of their pasturelands.”

⁶ tn Heb “a nation, one.”

⁷ 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.

⁸ tn Heb “redeem” or “deliver.”

⁹ tn Heb “to make for yourself a name [with] great and awesome [deeds].”

¹⁰ tn Heb “to drive out.”

¹¹ tn Heb “from Egypt, nations.” The parallel text in 2 Sam 7:23 reads “from Egypt, nations and its gods.”

¹² tc The parallel text in the MT of 2 Sam 24:13 has “seven,” but LXX has “three” there.

¹³ 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.

¹⁴ 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.”

¹⁵ tn Heb “and David and the elders, covered with sackcloth, fell on their faces.”

¹⁶ tn Heb “For their assignment was at the hand of the sons of Aaron for the work of the house of the Lord concerning the courtyards and concerning the rooms and concerning the purification of all holiness and the work of the service of the house of God.”

¹⁷ tn 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.”

¹⁸ tn Heb “the fathers [i.e., families] of the head [i.e., oldest] just like his youngest brother.”

¹⁹ tn 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.”

²⁰ tn Heb “and with you in all work, for every willing [one] in skill for all service.”

²¹ tn Heb “and the officials and all the people to all your words.”