6:60 Within the territory of the tribe of Benjamin they were allotted 1 Geba and its pasturelands, Alemeth and its pasturelands, and Anathoth and its pasturelands. Their clans were allotted thirteen cities in all.
7:2 The sons of Tola:
Uzzi, Rephaiah, Jeriel, Jahmai, Jibsam, 2 and Samuel. 3 They were leaders of their families. 4 In the time of David there were 22,600 warriors listed in Tola’s genealogical records. 5
(Ezer and Elead were killed by the men of Gath, who were natives of the land, when they went down to steal their cattle.
9:1 Genealogical records were kept for all Israel; they are recorded in the Scroll of the Kings of Israel.
The people of Judah 6 were carried away to Babylon because of their unfaithfulness.
9:13 Their relatives, who were leaders of their families, numbered 1,760. They were capable men who were assigned to carry out the various tasks of service in God’s temple. 7
9:33 The musicians and Levite family leaders stayed in rooms at the sanctuary 8 and were exempt from other duties, for day and night they had to carry out their assigned tasks.
12:1 These were the men who joined David in Ziklag, when he was banished 16 from the presence of Saul son of Kish. (They were among the warriors who assisted him in battle.
12:38 All these men were warriors who were ready to march. 17 They came to Hebron to make David king over all Israel by acclamation; 18 all the rest of the Israelites also were in agreement that David should become king. 19
15:16 David told the leaders of the Levites to appoint some of their relatives as musicians; they were to play various instruments, including stringed instruments and cymbals, and to sing loudly and joyfully. 22
25:1 David and the army officers selected some of the sons of Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun to prophesy as they played stringed instruments and cymbals. 28 The following men were assigned this responsibility: 29
26:8 All these were the descendants of Obed-Edom. They and their sons and relatives were respected men, capable of doing their responsibilities. There were sixty-two of them related to Obed-Edom.
26:30 As for the Hebronites: Hashabiah and his relatives, 1,700 respected men, were assigned responsibilities in Israel west of the Jordan; they did the Lord’s work and the king’s service.
26:31 As for the Hebronites: Jeriah was the leader of the Hebronites according to the genealogical records. In the fortieth year of David’s reign, they examined the records and discovered 32 there were highly respected men in Jazer in Gilead.
29:20 David told the entire assembly: “Praise the Lord your God!” So the entire assembly praised the Lord God of their ancestors; they bowed down and stretched out flat on the ground before the Lord and the king.
29:21 The next day they made sacrifices and offered burnt sacrifices to the Lord (1,000 bulls, 1,000 rams, 1,000 lambs), along with their accompanying drink offerings and many other sacrifices for all Israel.
1 tn The parallel passage in Josh 21:17 adds “Gibeon and its pasturelands” (cf. NAB, NIV, NCV, NLT). The words “they were allotted” are supplied in the translation for both clarity and stylistic reasons.
2 tn Many English versions spell this name “Ibsam.”
3 tn Many English versions retain a form of this name closer to the Hebrew, i.e., “Shemuel.”
4 tn Heb “heads of the house of their fathers.”
5 tn Heb “to Tola [there were] warriors by their generations, their number in the days of David [was] 22,600.”
6 tn The Hebrew text has simply “Judah,” though the verb הָגְלוּ (hoglu, “carried away”) is plural.
7 tn Heb “capable [for] the work of the task of the house of God.”
8 tn Heb “were in rooms.” The words “at the sanctuary” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
9 tn Heb “they”; the referent (the army) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
10 tn Heb “arose and carried away the corpse of Saul and the corpses of his sons.”
11 tn Heb “their bones.”
12 tn Heb “elders.”
13 tn Or “covenant.”
14 tn Or “They poured olive oil on David to designate him as king.”
15 tn Heb “according to the word of the
16 tn Heb “kept from.”
17 tc Heb “all these [were] men of war, helpers of the battle line.” The present translation assumes an emendation of עֹדְרֵי (’odÿrey, “helpers of”) to עֹרְכֵי, (’orÿkhey, “prepared for”).
18 tn Heb “with a complete heart they came to Hebron to make David king over all Israel.”
19 tn Heb “and also all the rest of Israel [was of] one mind to make David king.”
20 tn Heb “by my hand.”
21 sn The name Baal Perazim means “Lord of outbursts” in Hebrew.
22 tn Heb “causing to be heard to lift up with a voice of joy.”
23 tn The word “River” is not in the Hebrew text, but has been supplied in the translation for clarity.
24 tc The parallel text of 2 Sam 10:17 “he came to Helam.”
tn Heb “and he came to them and was deployed against them.”
25 tn Heb “and David was deployed to meet Aram [for] battle and they fought with him.”
26 tn Heb “and they kept the charge of the tent of meeting and the charge of the holy place and the charge of the sons of Aaron, their brothers, for the service of the house of the
27 tn Heb “And the sons of Eleazar were found to be more, with respect to the heads of men, than the sons of Ithamar, and they divided them. To the sons of Eleazar there were sixteen heads, according to the house of the fathers; and to the sons of Ithamar there were eight, according to the house of their fathers.”
28 tn Heb “David and the officers of the army set apart for service the sons of Asaph and Heman and Jeduthun, the ones prophesying by harps, by lyres, and by cymbals.”
29 tn Heb “and their number was, the men of work for their service.”
30 tn “Shelemiah” is a variant of the name “Meshelemiah” (cf. 26:2).
31 tn Or “seer.”
32 tn Heb “and they were searched and there were found in them.”
33 tn See the note on the word “talents” in 19:6. Using the “light” standard talent of 67.3 lbs. (30.6 kg) as the standard for calculation, the people donated 168.3 tons (153,000 kg) of gold, 336.5 tons (306,000 kg) of silver, 605.7 tons (550,800 kg) of bronze, and 3,365 tons (3,060,000 kg) of iron.
34 tn On the “daric” as a unit of measure, see BDB 204 s.v. דַּרְכְּמוֹן. Some have regarded the daric as a minted coin, perhaps even referring to the Greek drachma, but this is less likely.
sn The daric was a unit of weight perhaps equal to between 8 and 9 grams (just under one-third of an ounce), so 10,000 darics of gold would weigh between 80 and 90 kilograms (between 176 and 198 pounds).