Discovery Box1 Chronicles 5:20 
Context5:20 They received divine help in fighting them, and the Hagrites and all their allies were handed over to them. They cried out to God during the battle; he responded to their prayers because they trusted in him. 1
1 Chronicles 11:11
Context11:11 This is the list of David’s warriors: 2
Jashobeam, a Hacmonite, was head of the officers. 3 He killed three hundred men with his spear in a single battle. 4
1 Chronicles 11:13
Context11:13 He was with David in Pas Dammim 5 when the Philistines assembled there for battle. In an area of the field that was full of barley, the army retreated before the Philistines,
1 Chronicles 11:20
Context11:20 Abishai the brother of Joab was head of the three 6 elite warriors. He killed three hundred men with his spear 7 and gained fame along with the three elite warriors. 8
1 Chronicles 12:1
Context12:1 These were the men who joined David in Ziklag, when he was banished 9 from the presence of Saul son of Kish. (They were among the warriors who assisted him in battle.
1 Chronicles 14:8
Context14:8 When the Philistines heard that David had been anointed 10 king of all Israel, all the Philistines marched up to confront him. 11 When David heard about it, he marched out against 12 them.
1 Chronicles 14:14
Context14:14 So David again asked God what he should do. 13 This time 14 God told him, “Don’t march up after them; circle around them and come against them in front of the trees. 15
1 Chronicles 15:12
Context15:12 He told them: “You are the leaders of the Levites’ families. You and your relatives must consecrate yourselves and bring the ark of the Lord God of Israel up to the place I have prepared for it.
1 Chronicles 16:40
Context16:40 regularly offering burnt sacrifices to the Lord on the altar for burnt sacrifice, morning and evening, according to what is prescribed in the law of the Lord which he charged Israel to observe. 16
1 Chronicles 17:1
Context17:1 When David had settled into his palace, 17 he 18 said to Nathan the prophet, “Look, I am living in a palace 19 made from cedar, while the ark of the Lord’s covenant is under a tent.” 20
1 Chronicles 17:13
Context17:13 I will become his father and he will become my son. I will never withhold my loyal love from him, as I withheld it from the one who ruled before you. 21
1 Chronicles 18:11
Context18:11 King David dedicated these things to the Lord, 22 along with the silver and gold which he had carried off from all the nations, including 23 Edom, 24 Moab, the Ammonites, the Philistines, and Amalek.
1 Chronicles 19:4-5
Context19:4 So Hanun seized David’s servants and shaved their beards off. 25 He cut off the lower part of their robes so that their buttocks were exposed 26 and then sent them away. 19:5 Messengers 27 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 28 until your beards grow again; then you may come back.”
1 Chronicles 19:17
Context19:17 When David was informed, he gathered all Israel, crossed the Jordan River, 29 and marched against them. 30 David deployed his army against the Arameans for battle and they fought against him. 31
1 Chronicles 20:2-3
Context20:2 David took the crown from the head of their king 32 and wore it 33 (its weight was a talent 34 of gold and it was set with precious stones). He took a large amount of plunder from the city. 20:3 He removed the city’s residents and made them do hard labor with saws, iron picks, and axes. 35 This was his policy 36 with all the Ammonite cities. Then David and all the army returned to Jerusalem.
1 Chronicles 20:6
Context20:6 In a battle in Gath 37 there was a large man who had six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot – twenty-four in all! He too was a descendant of Rapha.
1 Chronicles 21:26
Context21:26 David built there an altar to the Lord and offered burnt sacrifices and peace offerings. 38 He called out to the Lord, and the Lord 39 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 25:3
Context25:3 From the sons of Jeduthun: 40 Gedaliah, Zeri, 41 Jeshaiah, 42 Hashabiah, and Mattithiah – six in all, 43 under supervision of their father Jeduthun, who prophesied as he played a harp, giving thanks and praise to the Lord.
1 Chronicles 27:5
Context27:5 The third army commander, assigned the third month, was Benaiah son of Jehoiada the priest. He was the leader of his division, which consisted of 24,000 men.
1 Chronicles 28:6
Context28:6 He said to me, ‘Solomon your son is the one who will build my temple and my courts, for I have chosen him to become my son and I will become his father.
1 Chronicles 28:13-14
Context28:13 He gave him the regulations 44 for the divisions of priests and Levites, for all the assigned responsibilities within the Lord’s temple, and for all the items used in the service of the Lord’s temple.
28:14 He gave him 45 the prescribed weight for all the gold items to be used in various types of service in the Lord’s temple, for all the silver items to be used in various types of service, 46
1 Chronicles 28:18
Context28:18 and for the refined gold of the incense altar.
He gave him 47 the blueprint for the seat 48 of the gold cherubim that spread their wings 49 and provide shelter for the ark of the Lord’s covenant.
1 tn Heb “and they were helped against them and they were given over into their hand, the Hagrites and all who were with them, for to God they cried out in the battle and he was entreated [or “allowed himself to be entreated”] by them for they trusted in him.”
2 tn Heb “and these are the number of the warriors who were David’s.”
3 tc The marginal reading (Qere) has “officers;” the consonantal text (Kethib) has “the Thirty” (see v. 15).
4 tn Heb “he was wielding his spear against 300, [who were] slain at one time.”
5 tc Some read here “Ephes Dammim.” See 1 Sam 17:1.
6 tc The Syriac reads “thirty” here and at the beginning of v. 21; this reading is followed by some English translations (cf. NAB, NASB, NRSV, NLT).
7 tn Heb “he was wielding his spear against three hundred, [who were] slain.”
8 tn Heb “and to him [reading with the Qere] there was a name among the three.”
9 tn Heb “kept from.”
10 tn Or “designated”; NCV “had been made king”; CEV “had become king.”
11 tn Heb “to seek David.”
12 tn Heb “went out before.”
13 tn Heb “and David again asked God.”
14 tn The words “this time” are not in the Hebrew text.
15 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.
16 tn Heb “which he commanded Israel.”
17 tn Heb “house.”
18 tn Heb “David.” The pronoun “he” has been used in the translation here to avoid redundancy in keeping with contemporary English style.
19 tn Heb “house.”
20 tn Heb “tent curtains.”
21 sn The one who ruled before you is a reference to Saul, from whom the kingdom was taken and given to David.
22 tn Heb “also them King David made holy to the
23 tn Heb “from.”
24 tc The parallel text of 2 Sam 8:12 of the MT reads “Aram.” However, a few Hebrew
25 tn Heb “shaved them.” See v. 5.
26 tn Heb “and he cut their robes in the middle unto the buttocks.”
27 tn Heb “they.” The logical referent, though not specified in the Hebrew text, has been supplied in the translation for clarity.
28 map For location see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1.
29 tn The word “River” is not in the Hebrew text, but has been supplied in the translation for clarity.
30 tc The parallel text of 2 Sam 10:17 “he came to Helam.”
tn Heb “and he came to them and was deployed against them.”
31 tn Heb “and David was deployed to meet Aram [for] battle and they fought with him.”
32 tc The translation follows the MT, which reads “of their king”; the LXX and Vulgate read “of Milcom” (cf. 1 Kgs 11:5). Milcom, also known as Molech, was the god of the Ammonites.
33 tn Heb “and it was on the head of David.”
34 sn See the note on the word “talents” in 19:6.
35 tc The Hebrew text reads “saws,” but since saws were just mentioned, it is preferable to emend מְגֵרוֹת (mÿgerot, “saws”) to מַגְזְרוֹת (magzÿrot, “axes”).
36 tn Heb “and so he would do.”
37 tn Heb “and there was another battle, in Gath.”
38 tn Or “tokens of peace.”
39 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the
40 tn Heb “belonging to Jeduthun, the sons of Jeduthun.”
41 tn This name appears as “Izri” in v. 10.
42 tc One Hebrew
43 tc The list includes only five names. Apparently the name “Shimei” (see v. 17), which appears in one medieval Hebrew
44 tn The words “he gave him the regulations” are supplied in the translation for clarity and for stylistic reasons.
45 tn The words “he gave him” are supplied in the translation for clarity and for stylistic reasons.
46 tn Heb “for the gold, by the weight, for the gold, for all the items of service and service, for all the items of silver by weight for all the items of service and service.”
47 tn The words “he gave him” are supplied in the translation for clarity and for stylistic reasons.
48 tc The Hebrew text reads מֶרְכָּבָה (merkavah, “chariot”), but the final he (ה) is probably dittographic – note the prefixed he (ה) on the immediately following word. It is preferable to read מֶרְכָּב (merkav, “seat”).
49 tc The Hebrew text does not have “their wings,” but the word כְּנָפַיִם (kÿnafayim, “wings”) has probably been accidentally omitted by homoioteleuton. Note that the immediately preceding לְפֹרְשִׂים (lÿforsim) also ends in mem (ם).
