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 18:10

18:10 he sent his son Hadoram³ to King David to extend his best wishes⁴ and to pronounce a blessing on him for his victory over Hadadezer, for Tou had been at war with Hadadezer.⁵ He also sent various items made of gold, silver, and bronze.⁶

1 Chronicles 21:23

21:23 Ornan told David, “You can have it!⁷ My master, the king, may do what he wants.⁸ 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 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.⁹

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.¹⁰

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.¹¹

1 Chronicles 28:2

28:2 King David rose to his feet and said: “Listen to me, my brothers and my people. I wanted to build a temple where the ark of the Lord’s covenant could be placed as a footstool for our God.¹² I have made the preparations for building it.

¹tn 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.”

²tn Heb “and they lived in place of them.”

³tn The name is spelled “Joram” in the parallel text in 2 Sam 8:10.

⁴tn Heb “to ask concerning him for peace.”

⁵tn Heb “and to bless him because he fought with Hadadezer and defeated him, for Hadadezer was a man of battles with Tou.”

⁶tn Heb “[along with] all items of gold and silver and bronze.”

⁷tn Heb “take for yourself.”

⁸tn Heb “what is good in his eyes.”

⁹tn 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.”

¹⁰tn Heb “the fathers [i.e., families] of the head [i.e., oldest] just like his youngest brother.”

¹¹tn 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.”

¹²tn Heb “I, with my heart to build a house of rest for the ark of the covenant of the Lord and for a stool of the feet of our God.”