Discovery Box1 Chronicles 14:8 
Context14:8 When the Philistines heard that David had been anointed 1 king of all Israel, all the Philistines marched up to confront him. 2 When David heard about it, he marched out against 3 them.
1 Chronicles 14:14
Context14:14 So David again asked God what he should do. 4 This time 5 God told him, “Don’t march up after them; circle around them and come against them in front of the trees. 6
1 Chronicles 15:12
Context15:12 He told them: “You are the leaders of the Levites’ families. You and your relatives must consecrate yourselves and bring the ark of the Lord God of Israel up to the place I have prepared for it.
1 Chronicles 15:25
Context15:25 So David, the leaders of Israel, and the commanders of units of a thousand went to bring up the ark of the Lord’s covenant from the house of Obed-Edom with celebration.
1 Chronicles 17:5
Context17:5 For I have not lived in a house from the time I brought Israel up from Egypt 7 to the present day. I have lived in a tent that has been in various places. 8
1 Chronicles 21:18
Context21:18 So the Lord’s messenger told Gad to instruct David to go up and build 9 an altar for the Lord on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
1 Chronicles 23:24
Context23:24 These were the descendants of Levi according to their families, that is, the leaders of families as counted and individually listed who carried out assigned tasks in the Lord’s temple and were twenty years old and up. 10
1 Chronicles 24:4
Context24:4 The descendants of Eleazar had more leaders than the descendants of Ithamar, so they divided them up accordingly; the descendants of Eleazar had sixteen leaders, while the descendants of Ithamar had eight. 11
1 tn Or “designated”; NCV “had been made king”; CEV “had become king.”
2 tn Heb “to seek David.”
3 tn Heb “went out before.”
4 tn Heb “and David again asked God.”
5 tn The words “this time” are not in the Hebrew text.
6 tn The Hebrew word translated “trees” is defined by HALOT 129 s.v. בָּכָא as “shrubs.” Some translate “balsam trees” (see BDB 113 s.v. בָּכָא), cf. NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT.
7 tn The words “from Egypt” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
8 tc Heb “and I was from tent to tent and from tabernacle.” The words אֶל־מִשְּׁכָּן (’el-mishÿkan, “to tabernacle”) should probably be added at the end of the sentence to complete this prepositional phrase and produce symmetry with the preceding prepositional phrase. The words probably fell from the text by homoioteleuton.
sn I have lived in a tent that has been in various places. The point here is that the Lord moved with the tabernacle as it moved from place to place; he did not confine himself to a particular location.
9 tn Heb “that he should go up to raise up.”
10 tn Heb “these were the sons of Levi according to the house of their fathers, heads of the fathers, according to their numberings, by number of names, according to their heads, doer[s] of the work for the service of the house of the
11 tn Heb “And the sons of Eleazar were found to be more, with respect to the heads of men, than the sons of Ithamar, and they divided them. To the sons of Eleazar there were sixteen heads, according to the house of the fathers; and to the sons of Ithamar there were eight, according to the house of their fathers.”
