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 15:2
Context15:2 Then David said, “Only the Levites may carry the ark of God, for the Lord chose them to carry the ark of the Lord and to serve before him perpetually.
1 Chronicles 17:27
Context17:27 Now you are willing to bless your servant’s dynasty 4 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.” 5
1 Chronicles 19:5
Context19:5 Messengers 6 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 7 until your beards grow again; then you may come back.”
1 Chronicles 21:2-3
Context21:2 David told Joab and the leaders of the army, 8 “Go, count the number of warriors 9 from Beer Sheba to Dan. Then bring back a report to me so I may know how many we have.” 10 21:3 Joab replied, “May the Lord make his army 11 a hundred times larger! My master, O king, do not all of them serve my master? Why does my master want to do this? Why bring judgment on Israel?” 12
1 Chronicles 21:22
Context21:22 David said to Ornan, “Sell me the threshing floor 13 so I can build 14 on it an altar for the Lord – I’ll pay top price 15 – so that the plague may be removed 16 from the people.”
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 “house.”
5 tn Heb “for you, O
6 tn Heb “they.” The logical referent, though not specified in the Hebrew text, has been supplied in the translation for clarity.
7 map For location see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1.
8 tn Or “people.”
9 tn Heb “Go, count Israel.” See the note on “had” in v. 1.
10 tn Heb “their number.”
11 tn Or “people.”
12 tn Heb “Why should it become guilt for Israel?” David’s decision betrays an underlying trust in his own strength rather than in divine provision. See also 1 Chr 27:23-24.
13 tn Heb “the place of the threshing floor.”
14 tn Following the imperative, the prefixed verbal form with vav (ו) conjunctive here indicates the immediate purpose/result: “so I can build.”
15 tn Heb “For full silver sell to me.”
16 tn Following the imperative and first person prefixed verbal form with vav (ו) conjunctive, this third person prefixed verbal form with vav conjunctive introduces the ultimate purpose/result: “so the plague may be removed.” Another option is subordinate this form to the preceding imperative, but the latter may be taken as a parenthetical expansion of the initial request.
