Discovery Box1 Chronicles 4:10 
Context4:10 Jabez called out to the God of Israel, “If only 1 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!” 2 God answered his prayer. 3
1 Chronicles 11:23
Context11:23 He even killed an Egyptian who was seven and a half feet 4 tall. The Egyptian had a spear as big as the crossbeam of a weaver’s loom; Benaiah attacked 5 him with a club. He grabbed the spear out of the Egyptian’s hand and killed him with his own spear.
1 Chronicles 12:17
Context12:17 David went out to meet them and said, 6 “If you come to me in peace and want to help me, then I will make an alliance with you. 7 But if you come to betray me to my enemies when I have not harmed you, 8 may the God of our ancestors 9 take notice and judge!”
1 Chronicles 14:11
Context14:11 So they marched against Baal Perazim and David defeated them there. David said, “Using me as his instrument, 10 God has burst out against my enemies like water bursts out.” So that place is called Baal Perazim. 11
1 Chronicles 17:21
Context17:21 And who is like your people, Israel, a unique nation 12 in the earth? Their God 13 went to claim 14 a nation for himself! You made a name for yourself by doing great and awesome deeds 15 when you drove out 16 nations before your people whom you had delivered from the Egyptian empire and its gods. 17
1 tn On the use of אִם (’im, “if”) here, see HALOT 60 s.v.
2 tn Heb “and act from [i.e., so as to prevent] harm so that I might not be in pain.”
3 tn Heb “and God brought about what he had asked.”
4 tn Heb “five cubits.” Assuming a length of 18 inches for the standard cubit, this individual would be 7.5 feet (2.3 m) tall.
5 tn Heb “went down to.”
6 tn Heb “and David went out before them and answered and said to them.”
7 tn Heb “there will be to me concerning you a heart for unity.”
8 tn Heb “with no violence in my hands.”
9 tn Heb “fathers.”
10 tn Heb “by my hand.”
11 sn The name Baal Perazim means “Lord of outbursts” in Hebrew.
12 tn Heb “a nation, one.”
13 tn Heb “whose God,” or “because God.” In the Hebrew text this clause is subordinated to what precedes. The clauses are separated in the translation for stylistic reasons.
14 tn Heb “redeem” or “deliver.”
15 tn Heb “to make for yourself a name [with] great and awesome [deeds].”
16 tn Heb “to drive out.”
17 tn Heb “from Egypt, nations.” The parallel text in 2 Sam 7:23 reads “from Egypt, nations and its gods.”
