Discovery Box1 Chronicles 12:8 
Context12:8 Some of the Gadites joined David at the stronghold in the desert. They were warriors who were trained for battle; they carried shields and spears. They were as fierce as lions and could run as quickly as gazelles across the hills. 1
1 Chronicles 12:17
Context12:17 David went out to meet them and said, 2 “If you come to me in peace and want to help me, then I will make an alliance with you. 3 But if you come to betray me to my enemies when I have not harmed you, 4 may the God of our ancestors 5 take notice and judge!”
1 Chronicles 13:2
Context13:2 David said to the whole Israelite assembly, “If you so desire and the Lord our God approves, 6 let’s spread the word 7 to our brothers who remain in all the regions of Israel, and to the priests and Levites in their cities, 8 so they may join us.
1 Chronicles 18:10
Context18:10 he sent his son Hadoram 9 to King David to extend his best wishes 10 and to pronounce a blessing on him for his victory over Hadadezer, for Tou had been at war with Hadadezer. 11 He also sent various items made of gold, silver, and bronze. 12
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? 13 No, his servants have come to you so they can get information and spy out the land!” 14
1 Chronicles 20:1
Context20:1 In the spring, at the time when kings normally conduct wars, 15 Joab led the army into battle and devastated the land of the Ammonites. He went and besieged Rabbah, while David stayed in Jerusalem. Joab defeated Rabbah and tore it down.
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! 16 As for these sheep – what have they done? O Lord my God, attack me and my family, 17 but remove the plague from your people!” 18
1 Chronicles 21:23
Context21:23 Ornan told David, “You can have it! 19 My master, the king, may do what he wants. 20 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 24:31
Context24:31 Just like their relatives, the descendants of Aaron, they also cast lots before King David, Zadok, Ahimelech, the leaders of families, the priests, and the Levites. The families of the oldest son cast lots along with the those of the youngest. 21
1 Chronicles 26:32
Context26:32 Jeriah had 2,700 relatives who were respected family leaders. 22 King David placed them in charge of the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh; they took care of all matters pertaining to God and the king. 23
1 Chronicles 28:1-2
Context28:1 David assembled in Jerusalem 24 all the officials of Israel, including the commanders of the tribes, the commanders of the army divisions that served the king, the commanders of units of a thousand and a hundred, the officials who were in charge of all the property and livestock of the king and his sons, the eunuchs, and the warriors, including the most skilled of them.
28:2 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. 25 I have made the preparations for building it.
1 Chronicles 28:20
Context28:20 David said to his son Solomon: “Be strong and brave! Do it! Don’t be afraid and don’t panic! 26 For the Lord God, my God, is with you. He will not leave you or abandon you before all the work for the service of the Lord’s temple is finished.
1 tn Heb “warriors, men of battle for war, prepared with shield and spear, and [like] the face of a lion were their faces, and like gazelles on the hills to hurry.”
2 tn Heb “and David went out before them and answered and said to them.”
3 tn Heb “there will be to me concerning you a heart for unity.”
4 tn Heb “with no violence in my hands.”
5 tn Heb “fathers.”
6 tn Heb “If to you [it is] good and from the
7 tn Heb “let us spread and let us send.” The words “the word” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
8 tn Heb “in the cities of their pasturelands.”
9 tn The name is spelled “Joram” in the parallel text in 2 Sam 8:10.
10 tn Heb “to ask concerning him for peace.”
11 tn Heb “and to bless him because he fought with Hadadezer and defeated him, for Hadadezer was a man of battles with Tou.”
12 tn Heb “[along with] all items of gold and silver and bronze.”
13 tn Heb “Is David honoring your father in your eyes when he sends to you ones consoling?”
14 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.
15 tn Heb “and it was at the time of the turning of the year, at the time of the going out of kings.”
16 tn “and doing evil I did evil.” The infinitive absolute precedes the finite form of the verb for emphasis.
17 tn Heb “let your hand be on me and on the house of my father.”
18 tn Heb “but on your people not for a plague.”
19 tn Heb “take for yourself.”
20 tn Heb “what is good in his eyes.”
21 tn Heb “the fathers [i.e., families] of the head [i.e., oldest] just like his youngest brother.”
22 tn Heb “and his brothers, sons of respect, [were] 2,700, heads of fathers.”
23 tn Heb “with respect to every matter of God and matter of the king.”
24 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
25 tn Heb “I, with my heart to build a house of rest for the ark of the covenant of the
26 tn Or perhaps, “don’t be discouraged.”
