Discovery Box1 Chronicles 12:17 
Context12:17 David went out to meet them and said, 1 “If you come to me in peace and want to help me, then I will make an alliance with you. 2 But if you come to betray me to my enemies when I have not harmed you, 3 may the God of our ancestors 4 take notice and judge!”
1 Chronicles 19:3
Context19:3 the Ammonite officials said to Hanun, “Do you really think David is trying to honor your father by sending these messengers to express his sympathy? 5 No, his servants have come to you so they can get information and spy out the land!” 6
1 Chronicles 21:17
Context21:17 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! 7 As for these sheep – what have they done? O Lord my God, attack me and my family, 8 but remove the plague from your people!” 9
1 Chronicles 21:23
Context21:23 Ornan told David, “You can have it! 10 My master, the king, may do what he wants. 11 Look, I am giving you the oxen for burnt sacrifices, the threshing sledges for wood, and the wheat for an offering. I give it all to you.”
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. 12 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. 13 Indeed, 14 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. 15
1 Chronicles 29:2
Context29:2 So I have made every effort 16 to provide what is needed for the temple of my God, including the gold, silver, bronze, iron, wood, 17 as well as a large amount of onyx, settings of antimony and other stones, all kinds of precious stones, and alabaster.
1 tn Heb “and David went out before them and answered and said to them.”
2 tn Heb “there will be to me concerning you a heart for unity.”
3 tn Heb “with no violence in my hands.”
4 tn Heb “fathers.”
5 tn Heb “Is David honoring your father in your eyes when he sends to you ones consoling?”
6 tc Heb “Is it not to explore and to overturn and to spy out the land (that) his servants have come to you?” The Hebrew term לַהֲפֹךְ (lahafakh, “to overturn”) seems misplaced in the sequence. Some emend the form to לַחְפֹּר (lakhpor, “to spy out”). The sequence of three infinitives may be a conflation of alternative readings.
7 tn “and doing evil I did evil.” The infinitive absolute precedes the finite form of the verb for emphasis.
8 tn Heb “let your hand be on me and on the house of my father.”
9 tn Heb “but on your people not for a plague.”
10 tn Heb “take for yourself.”
11 tn Heb “what is good in his eyes.”
12 tn Heb “I, with my heart to build a house of rest for the ark of the covenant of the
13 tn Heb “out of all the house of my father to become king over all Israel permanently.”
14 tn Or “for.”
15 tn Heb “and among the sons of my father he desired to make me king over all Israel.”
16 tn Heb “and according to all my strength.”
17 tn Heb “the gold for the gold, and the silver for the silver, and the bronze for the bronze, and the iron for the iron, and the wood for the wood.”
