Discovery Box1 Chronicles 11:2 
Context11:2 In the past, even when Saul was king, you were Israel’s commanding general. 1 The Lord your God said to you, ‘You will shepherd my people Israel; you will rule over my people Israel.’”
1 Chronicles 14:10-11
Context14:10 David asked God, “Should I march up against the Philistines? Will you hand them over to me?” The Lord said to him, “March up! I will hand them over to you!” 14:11 So they marched against Baal Perazim and David defeated them there. David said, “Using me as his instrument, 2 God has burst out against my enemies like water bursts out.” So that place is called Baal Perazim. 3
1 Chronicles 15:2
Context15:2 Then David said, “Only the Levites may carry the ark of God, for the Lord chose them to carry the ark of the Lord and to serve before him perpetually.
1 Chronicles 17:1
Context17:1 When David had settled into his palace, 4 he 5 said to Nathan the prophet, “Look, I am living in a palace 6 made from cedar, while the ark of the Lord’s covenant is under a tent.” 7
1 Chronicles 17:16
Context17:16 David went in, sat before the Lord, and said: “Who am I, O Lord God, and what is my family, 8 that you should have brought me to this point?
1 Chronicles 19:5
Context19:5 Messengers 9 came and told David what had happened to the men, so he summoned them, for the men were thoroughly humiliated. The king said, “Stay in Jericho 10 until your beards grow again; then you may come back.”
1 Chronicles 21:22
Context21:22 David said to Ornan, “Sell me the threshing floor 11 so I can build 12 on it an altar for the Lord – I’ll pay top price 13 – so that the plague may be removed 14 from the people.”
1 Chronicles 28:6
Context28:6 He said to me, ‘Solomon your son is the one who will build my temple and my courts, for I have chosen him to become my son and I will become his father.
1 Chronicles 29:1
Context29:1 King David said to the entire assembly: “My son Solomon, the one whom God has chosen, is just an inexperienced young man, 15 and the task is great, for this palace is not for man, but for the Lord God.
1 tn Heb “you were the one who led out and the one who brought in Israel.”
2 tn Heb “by my hand.”
3 sn The name Baal Perazim means “Lord of outbursts” in Hebrew.
4 tn Heb “house.”
5 tn Heb “David.” The pronoun “he” has been used in the translation here to avoid redundancy in keeping with contemporary English style.
6 tn Heb “house.”
7 tn Heb “tent curtains.”
8 tn Heb “house.”
9 tn Heb “they.” The logical referent, though not specified in the Hebrew text, has been supplied in the translation for clarity.
10 map For location see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1.
11 tn Heb “the place of the threshing floor.”
12 tn Following the imperative, the prefixed verbal form with vav (ו) conjunctive here indicates the immediate purpose/result: “so I can build.”
13 tn Heb “For full silver sell to me.”
14 tn Following the imperative and first person prefixed verbal form with vav (ו) conjunctive, this third person prefixed verbal form with vav conjunctive introduces the ultimate purpose/result: “so the plague may be removed.” Another option is subordinate this form to the preceding imperative, but the latter may be taken as a parenthetical expansion of the initial request.
15 tn Heb “a young man and tender.”
