Discovery Box1 Chronicles 11:18 
Context11:18 So the three elite warriors 1 broke through the Philistine forces and drew some water from the cistern in Bethlehem near the city gate. They carried it back to David, but David refused to drink it. He poured it out as a drink offering to the Lord
1 Chronicles 13:2
Context13:2 David said to the whole Israelite assembly, “If you so desire and the Lord our God approves, 2 let’s spread the word 3 to our brothers who remain in all the regions of Israel, and to the priests and Levites in their cities, 4 so they may join us.
1 Chronicles 21:16-17
Context21:16 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. 5 21:17 David said to God, “Was I not the one who decided to number the army? I am the one who sinned and committed this awful deed! 6 As for these sheep – what have they done? O Lord my God, attack me and my family, 7 but remove the plague from your people!” 8
1 Chronicles 22:5
Context22:5 David said, “My son Solomon is just an inexperienced young man, 9 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. 10 Therefore I will make preparations for its construction.” So David made extensive preparations before he died.
1 Chronicles 22:8
Context22:8 But the Lord said to me: 11 ‘You have spilled a great deal of blood and fought many battles. You must not build a temple to honor me, 12 for you have spilled a great deal of blood on the ground before me.
1 Chronicles 22:14
Context22:14 Now, look, I have made every effort to supply what is needed to build the Lord’s temple. 13 I have stored up 100,000 talents 14 of gold, 1,000,000 15 talents of silver, and so much bronze and iron it cannot be weighed, as well as wood and stones. Feel free to add more!
1 Chronicles 23:28
Context23:28 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 25:6
Context25:6 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 28:2
Context28:2 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. 17 I have made the preparations for building it.
1 Chronicles 28:4
Context28:4 The Lord God of Israel chose me out of my father’s entire family to become king over Israel and have a permanent dynasty. 18 Indeed, 19 he chose Judah as leader, and my father’s family within Judah, and then he picked me out from among my father’s sons and made me king over all Israel. 20
1 Chronicles 28:9
Context28:9 “And you, Solomon my son, obey 21 the God of your father and serve him with a submissive attitude and a willing spirit, 22 for the Lord examines all minds and understands every motive of one’s thoughts. If you seek him, he will let you find him, 23 but if you abandon him, he will reject you permanently.
1 tn Heb “the three,” referring to the three elite warriors mentioned in v. 12.
2 tn Heb “If to you [it is] good and from the
3 tn Heb “let us spread and let us send.” The words “the word” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
4 tn Heb “in the cities of their pasturelands.”
5 tn Heb “and David and the elders, covered with sackcloth, fell on their faces.”
6 tn “and doing evil I did evil.” The infinitive absolute precedes the finite form of the verb for emphasis.
7 tn Heb “let your hand be on me and on the house of my father.”
8 tn Heb “but on your people not for a plague.”
9 tn Heb “a young man and tender.”
10 tn Heb “and the house to build to make exceedingly great for a name and for splendor for all the lands.”
11 tn Heb “and the word of the
12 tn Heb “for my name.”
13 tn Heb “and look, in my affliction [or perhaps, “poverty”] I have supplied for the house of the
14 tn See the note on the word “talents” in 19:6.
15 tn Heb “a thousand thousands.”
16 tn Heb “For their assignment was at the hand of the sons of Aaron for the work of the house of the
17 tn Heb “I, with my heart to build a house of rest for the ark of the covenant of the
18 tn Heb “out of all the house of my father to become king over all Israel permanently.”
19 tn Or “for.”
20 tn Heb “and among the sons of my father he desired to make me king over all Israel.”
21 tn Heb “know.”
22 tn Heb “with a complete heart and a willing being.”
23 tn Heb “he will allow himself to be found by you.”
