1 Chronicles 5:2

5:2 Though Judah was the strongest among his brothers and a leader descended from him, the right of the firstborn belonged to Joseph.)

1 Chronicles 10:2

10:2 The Philistines stayed right on the heels of Saul and his sons. They struck down Saul’s sons Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malki-Shua.

1 Chronicles 12:2

12:2 They were armed with bows and could shoot arrows or sling stones right or left-handed. They were fellow tribesmen of Saul from Benjamin.) These were:

1 Chronicles 13:10

13:10 The Lord was so furious with Uzzah, he killed him, because he reached out his hand and touched the ark. He died right there before God.


tn Heb “and [one] for a leader [was] from him.” This probably refers to the Davidic king.

tn Heb “stuck close after.”

tn Heb “the Philistines.” The translation has substituted the pronoun “they” to avoid redundancy.

tn Heb “his”; the referent (Saul) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

tn Heb “ones armed with bow[s], using the right hand and the left hand with stones and with arrows with the bow, from the brothers of Saul from Benjamin.”

tn The words “These were” have been supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons, because of the length of the intervening material since the beginning of the verse.

tn Heb “and the anger of the Lord burned against Uzzah.”

tn Heb “because he stretched out his hand over the ark.”

sn The modern reader might think God seemed to overreact here, but Israel needed a vivid object lesson of God’s holiness. By loading the ark on a cart, David had violated the instructions in God’s law (Exod 25:12-14; Num 4:5-6, 15). Uzzah’s action, however innocent it may seem, betrayed a certain lack of reverence for God’s presence. God had to remind his people that his holiness could not under any circumstances be violated.