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 13:6
Context13:6 David and all Israel went up to Baalah (that is, Kiriath Jearim) in Judah to bring up from there the ark of God the Lord, who sits enthroned between the cherubim – the ark that is called by his name. 4
1 Chronicles 14:11
Context14:11 So they marched against Baal Perazim and David defeated them there. David said, “Using me as his instrument, 5 God has burst out against my enemies like water bursts out.” So that place is called Baal Perazim. 6
1 Chronicles 18:8
Context18:8 From Tibhath 7 and Kun, 8 Hadadezer’s cities, David took a great deal of bronze. (Solomon used it to make the big bronze basin called “The Sea,” 9 the pillars, and other bronze items.
1 Chronicles 21:26
Context21:26 David built there an altar to the Lord and offered burnt sacrifices and peace offerings. 10 He called out to the Lord, and the Lord 11 responded by sending fire from the sky and consuming the burnt sacrifice on the altar.
1 Chronicles 22:2
Context22:2 David ordered the resident foreigners in the land of Israel to be called together. He appointed some of them to be stonecutters to chisel stones for the building of God’s temple.
1 Chronicles 27:24
Context27:24 Joab son of Zeruiah started to count the men but did not finish. God was angry with Israel 12 because of this, so the number was not recorded in the scroll 13 called The Annals of King David.
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 “the ark of God the
5 tn Heb “by my hand.”
6 sn The name Baal Perazim means “Lord of outbursts” in Hebrew.
7 tn The MT reads “Tibhath” here, a variant name for Tebah (cf. 2 Sam 8:8). Some English translations substitute the other version of the name here (e.g., NIV, NLT), while others follow the reading of the Hebrew text at this point (e.g., NAB, NASB, NRSV).
8 tn The parallel text of 2 Sam 8:8 has the variant name “Berothai.”
9 tn Heb “the sea of bronze,” or “[the] sea, the bronze one.” See the note at 1 Kgs 7:23.
10 tn Or “tokens of peace.”
11 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the
12 tn Heb “anger was on Israel.”
13 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”).
