Discovery Box1 Chronicles 2:3 
Context2:3 The sons of Judah:
Er, Onan, and Shelah. These three were born to him by Bathshua, 1 a Canaanite woman. Er, Judah’s firstborn, displeased the Lord, so the Lord killed him. 2
1 Chronicles 4:10
Context4:10 Jabez called out to the God of Israel, “If only 3 you would greatly bless me and expand my territory! May your hand be with me! Keep me from harm so I might not endure pain!” 4 God answered his prayer. 5
1 Chronicles 14:14
Context14:14 So David again asked God what he should do. 6 This time 7 God told him, “Don’t march up after them; circle around them and come against them in front of the trees. 8
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 17:7
Context17:7 “So now, say this to my servant David: ‘This is what the Lord who commands armies 9 says: “I took you from the pasture and from your work as a shepherd 10 to make you a leader of my people Israel.
1 Chronicles 17:24
Context17:24 so 11 it may become a reality 12 and you may gain lasting fame, 13 as people say, 14 ‘The Lord who commands armies is the God of Israel.’ 15 David’s dynasty 16 will be established before you,
1 Chronicles 17:27
Context17:27 Now you are willing to bless your servant’s dynasty 17 so that it may stand permanently before you, for you, O Lord, have blessed it and it will be blessed from now on into the future.” 18
1 Chronicles 19:5
Context19:5 Messengers 19 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 20 until your beards grow again; then you may come back.”
1 Chronicles 21:2
Context21:2 David told Joab and the leaders of the army, 21 “Go, count the number of warriors 22 from Beer Sheba to Dan. Then bring back a report to me so I may know how many we have.” 23
1 Chronicles 21:18
Context21:18 So the Lord’s messenger told Gad to instruct David to go up and build 24 an altar for the Lord on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
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. 25
1 Chronicles 27:24
Context27:24 Joab son of Zeruiah started to count the men but did not finish. God was angry with Israel 26 because of this, so the number was not recorded in the scroll 27 called The Annals of King David.
1 Chronicles 29:20
Context29:20 David told the entire assembly: “Praise the Lord your God!” So the entire assembly praised the Lord God of their ancestors; they bowed down and stretched out flat on the ground before the Lord and the king.
1 tn The name means “daughter of Shua.” Shua is identified in Gen 38:2 as a “Canaanite man.”
2 tn Heb “was evil in the eyes of the
3 tn On the use of אִם (’im, “if”) here, see HALOT 60 s.v.
4 tn Heb “and act from [i.e., so as to prevent] harm so that I might not be in pain.”
5 tn Heb “and God brought about what he had asked.”
6 tn Heb “and David again asked God.”
7 tn The words “this time” are not in the Hebrew text.
8 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.
9 tn Traditionally, “
10 tn Heb “and from after sheep.”
11 tn Following the imperative in v. 23b, the prefixed verbal form with vav (ו) conjunctive indicates purpose/result: “so it might become a reality.”
12 tn Heb “so it might be established.”
13 tn Heb “and your name might be great permanently.” Following the imperative in v. 23b, the prefixed verbal form with vav conjunctive indicates purpose/result (parallel to the previous purpose/result clause): “[so]…you might gain lasting fame.”
14 tn Heb “saying.” The words “as people” are supplied in the translation for clarification and for stylistic reasons.
15 tc Heb “the
16 tn Heb “the house of David.”
17 tn Heb “house.”
18 tn Heb “for you, O
19 tn Heb “they.” The logical referent, though not specified in the Hebrew text, has been supplied in the translation for clarity.
20 map For location see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1.
21 tn Or “people.”
22 tn Heb “Go, count Israel.” See the note on “had” in v. 1.
23 tn Heb “their number.”
24 tn Heb “that he should go up to raise up.”
25 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.”
26 tn Heb “anger was on Israel.”
27 tc The Hebrew text has “in the number,” but מִסְפַּר (mispar) is probably dittographic – note that the same word appears immediately before this. The form should be emended to בְּסֵפֶר (bÿsefar, “in the scroll”).
