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 21:15
Context21:15 God sent an angel 2 to ravage 3 Jerusalem. As he was doing so, 4 the Lord watched 5 and relented from 6 his judgment. 7 He told the angel who was destroying, “That’s enough! 8 Stop now!” 9
Now the Lord’s angel was standing near the threshing floor of Ornan 10 the Jebusite.
1 tn Heb “the three,” referring to the three elite warriors mentioned in v. 12.
2 tn The parallel text of 2 Sam 24:15 reports that God sent a plague, while 24:16-17 attributes this to the instrumentality of an angel.
3 tn Or “destroy.”
4 tn Heb “while he was destroying.”
5 tn Or “saw.”
6 tn Or “was grieved because of.”
7 tn Heb “concerning the calamity.”
8 tn For this nuance of the Hebrew word רַב (rav), see BDB 913 s.v. 1.f.
9 tn Heb “Now, drop your hand.”
10 tn In the parallel text in 2 Sam 24:16 this individual is called אֲרַוְנָא (’aravna’, “Aravna”), traditionally “Araunah.” The form of the name found here also occurs in vv. 18-28.
