Discovery Box1 Chronicles 5:25 
Context5:25 But they were unfaithful to the God of their ancestors 1 and worshiped instead 2 the gods of the native peoples 3 whom God had destroyed before them.
1 Chronicles 6:32
Context6:32 They performed music 4 before the sanctuary 5 of the meeting tent until Solomon built the Lord’s temple in Jerusalem. 6 They carried out their tasks according to regulations.
1 Chronicles 10:1
Context10:1 Now the Philistines fought against Israel. The Israelites fled before the Philistines and many of them fell dead on Mount Gilboa.
1 Chronicles 13:10
Context13:10 The Lord was so furious with Uzzah, 7 he killed him, because he reached out his hand and touched the ark. 8 He died right there before God. 9
1 Chronicles 16:4
Context16:4 He appointed some of the Levites to serve before the ark of the Lord, to offer prayers, songs of thanks, and hymns to the Lord God of Israel.
1 Chronicles 19:15
Context19:15 When the Ammonites saw the Arameans flee, they fled before Joab’s 10 brother Abishai and withdrew into the city. Joab went back to Jerusalem. 11
1 Chronicles 19:18
Context19:18 The Arameans fled before Israel. David killed 7,000 12 Aramean charioteers and 40,000 infantrymen; he also killed Shophach 13 the commanding general.
1 Chronicles 21:4
Context21:4 But the king’s edict stood, despite Joab’s objections. 14 So Joab left and traveled throughout Israel before returning to Jerusalem. 15
1 Chronicles 21:30
Context21:30 But David could not go before it to seek God’s will, for he was afraid of the sword of the Lord’s messenger.
1 tn Heb “fathers.”
2 tn Heb “prostituted themselves after.”
3 tn Heb “the peoples of the land.”
4 tn Heb “they were serving…with music.”
5 tn Or traditionally “tabernacle.”
6 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
7 tn Heb “and the anger of the
8 tn Heb “because he stretched out his hand over the ark.”
9 sn The modern reader might think God seemed to overreact here, but Israel needed a vivid object lesson of God’s holiness. By loading the ark on a cart, David had violated the instructions in God’s law (Exod 25:12-14; Num 4:5-6, 15). Uzzah’s action, however innocent it may seem, betrayed a certain lack of reverence for God’s presence. God had to remind his people that his holiness could not under any circumstances be violated.
10 tn Heb “his”; the referent (Joab) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
11 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
12 tc The parallel text of 2 Sam 10:18 has “seven hundred.”
13 tn The parallel text of 2 Sam 10:18 has the variant spelling “Shobach.”
14 tn Heb “and the word of the king was stronger than Joab.”
15 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
