1 Chronicles 9:19

9:19 Shallum son of Kore, son of Ebiasaph, son of Korah, and his relatives from his family (the Korahites) were assigned to guard the entrance to the sanctuary. ¹  Their ancestors had guarded the entrance to the Lord’s dwelling place. ² 

1 Chronicles 22:5

22:5 David said, “My son Solomon is just an inexperienced young man, ³  and the temple to be built for the Lord must be especially magnificent so it will become famous and be considered splendid by all the nations. ⁴  Therefore I will make preparations for its construction.” So David made extensive preparations before he died.

1 Chronicles 22:8

22:8 But the Lord said to me: ⁵  ‘You have spilled a great deal of blood and fought many battles. You must not build a temple to honor me, ⁶  for you have spilled a great deal of blood on the ground before me.

1 Chronicles 22:14

22:14 Now, look, I have made every effort to supply what is needed to build the Lord’s temple. ⁷  I have stored up 100,000 talents ⁸  of gold, 1,000,000 ⁹  talents of silver, and so much bronze and iron it cannot be weighed, as well as wood and stones. Feel free to add more!

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¹ tn Heb “and his brothers belonging to the house of his father, the Korachites, to the work of the task, guardians of the threshold of the tent.”

² tn Heb “and their fathers to the camp of the Lord, guardians of the entrance.” Here “fathers” is used in a more general sense of “forefathers” or “ancestors” and is not limited specifically to their fathers only.

³ tn Heb “a young man and tender.”

⁴ tn Heb “and the house to build to make exceedingly great for a name and for splendor for all the lands.”

⁵ tn Heb “and the word of the Lord was [i.e., came] to me saying.”

⁶ tn Heb “for my name.”

⁷ tn Heb “and look, in my affliction [or perhaps, “poverty”] I have supplied for the house of the Lord.”

⁸ tn See the note on the word “talents” in 19:6.

⁹ tn Heb “a thousand thousands.”