Discovery Box1 Chronicles 22:16-19 
Context22:16 in using gold, silver, bronze, and iron. 1 Get up and begin the work! May the Lord be with you!”
22:17 David ordered all the officials of Israel to support 2 his son Solomon. 22:18 He told them, 3 “The Lord your God is with you! 4 He has made you secure on every side, 5 for he handed over to me the inhabitants of the region 6 and the region 7 is subdued before the Lord and his people. 22:19 Now seek the Lord your God wholeheartedly and with your entire being! 8 Get up and build the sanctuary of the Lord God! Then you can bring 9 the ark of the Lord’s covenant and the holy items dedicated to God’s service 10 into the temple that is built to honor the Lord.” 11
1 tn Heb “and every kind of skilled one in all work, concerning gold, concerning silver, and concerning bronze, and concerning iron, there is no numbering.”
2 tn Or “help.”
3 tn The words “he told them” are added in the translation for clarity and for stylistic reasons.
4 tn In the Hebrew text the statement is phrased as a rhetorical question, “Is not the
5 tn Heb “and he gives rest to you all around.”
6 tn Or “earth.”
7 tn Or “earth.”
8 tn Heb “now give your heart and your being to seek the
9 tn Heb “to bring.”
10 tn Heb “items of holiness of God.”
11 tn Heb “for the name of the
