Discovery Box1 Chronicles 5:26 
Context5:26 So the God of Israel stirred up 1 King Pul of Assyria (that is, King Tiglath-pileser of Assyria), 2 and he carried away the Reubenites, Gadites, and half-tribe of Manasseh and took them to Halah, Habor, Hara, and the river of Gozan, where they remain to this very day.
1 Chronicles 6:49
Context6:49 But Aaron and his descendants offered sacrifices on the altar for burnt offerings and on the altar for incense as they had been assigned to do in the most holy sanctuary. 3 They made atonement for Israel, just as God’s servant Moses had ordered. 4
1 Chronicles 12:17-18
Context12:17 David went out to meet them and said, 5 “If you come to me in peace and want to help me, then I will make an alliance with you. 6 But if you come to betray me to my enemies when I have not harmed you, 7 may the God of our ancestors 8 take notice and judge!” 12:18 But a spirit 9 empowered 10 Amasai, the leader of the thirty warriors, and he said: 11
“We are yours, O David!
We support 12 you, O son of Jesse!
May you greatly prosper! 13
May those who help you prosper! 14
Indeed 15 your God helps you!”
So David accepted them and made them leaders of raiding bands.
1 Chronicles 13:2
Context13:2 David said to the whole Israelite assembly, “If you so desire and the Lord our God approves, 16 let’s spread the word 17 to our brothers who remain in all the regions of Israel, and to the priests and Levites in their cities, 18 so they may join us.
1 Chronicles 17:21
Context17:21 And who is like your people, Israel, a unique nation 19 in the earth? Their God 20 went to claim 21 a nation for himself! You made a name for yourself by doing great and awesome deeds 22 when you drove out 23 nations before your people whom you had delivered from the Egyptian empire and its gods. 24
1 Chronicles 21:15
Context21:15 God sent an angel 25 to ravage 26 Jerusalem. As he was doing so, 27 the Lord watched 28 and relented from 29 his judgment. 30 He told the angel who was destroying, “That’s enough! 31 Stop now!” 32
Now the Lord’s angel was standing near the threshing floor of Ornan 33 the Jebusite.
1 Chronicles 23:28
Context23:28 Their job was to help Aaron’s descendants in the service of the Lord’s temple. They were to take care of the courtyards, the rooms, ceremonial purification of all holy items, and other jobs related to the service of God’s temple. 34
1 Chronicles 25:6
Context25:6 All of these were under the supervision of their fathers; they were musicians in the Lord’s temple, playing cymbals and stringed instruments as they served in God’s temple. Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman were under the supervision of the king.
1 Chronicles 26:32
Context26:32 Jeriah had 2,700 relatives who were respected family leaders. 35 King David placed them in charge of the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh; they took care of all matters pertaining to God and the king. 36
1 Chronicles 28:2
Context28:2 King David rose to his feet and said: “Listen to me, my brothers and my people. I wanted to build a temple where the ark of the Lord’s covenant could be placed as a footstool for our God. 37 I have made the preparations for building it.
1 Chronicles 28:4
Context28:4 The Lord God of Israel chose me out of my father’s entire family to become king over Israel and have a permanent dynasty. 38 Indeed, 39 he chose Judah as leader, and my father’s family within Judah, and then he picked me out from among my father’s sons and made me king over all Israel. 40
1 Chronicles 28:9
Context28:9 “And you, Solomon my son, obey 41 the God of your father and serve him with a submissive attitude and a willing spirit, 42 for the Lord examines all minds and understands every motive of one’s thoughts. If you seek him, he will let you find him, 43 but if you abandon him, he will reject you permanently.
1 Chronicles 28:21
Context28:21 Here are the divisions of the priests and Levites who will perform all the service of God’s temple. All the willing and skilled men are ready to assist you in all the work and perform their service. 44 The officials and all the people are ready to follow your instructions.” 45
1 Chronicles 29:2
Context29:2 So I have made every effort 46 to provide what is needed for the temple of my God, including the gold, silver, bronze, iron, wood, 47 as well as a large amount of onyx, settings of antimony and other stones, all kinds of precious stones, and alabaster.
1 tn Heb “stirred up the spirit of.”
2 tn Heb “and the spirit of Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria.” “Pul” and “Tilgath-pilneser” were names of the same Assyrian ruler, more commonly known as Tiglath-pileser (cf. 2 Kgs 15:29).
3 tn Heb “for all the work of the holy of holies.”
4 tn Heb “making atonement for Israel according to all which Moses the servant of God commanded.”
5 tn Heb “and David went out before them and answered and said to them.”
6 tn Heb “there will be to me concerning you a heart for unity.”
7 tn Heb “with no violence in my hands.”
8 tn Heb “fathers.”
9 tn Perhaps “the Spirit,” but the text has simply רוּחַ (ruakh) with no article (suggesting an indefinite reference).
10 tn Heb “clothed.”
11 tn The words “and he said” are supplied in the translation for clarity and for stylistic reasons.
12 tn Heb “are with.”
13 tn Heb “Peace, peace to you.” The Hebrew term שָׁלוֹם (shalom, “peace”) is repeated to emphasize degree.
14 tn Heb “and peace to the one who helps you.”
15 tn Or “for.”
16 tn Heb “If to you [it is] good and from the
17 tn Heb “let us spread and let us send.” The words “the word” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
18 tn Heb “in the cities of their pasturelands.”
19 tn Heb “a nation, one.”
20 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.
21 tn Heb “redeem” or “deliver.”
22 tn Heb “to make for yourself a name [with] great and awesome [deeds].”
23 tn Heb “to drive out.”
24 tn Heb “from Egypt, nations.” The parallel text in 2 Sam 7:23 reads “from Egypt, nations and its gods.”
25 tn The parallel text of 2 Sam 24:15 reports that God sent a plague, while 24:16-17 attributes this to the instrumentality of an angel.
26 tn Or “destroy.”
27 tn Heb “while he was destroying.”
28 tn Or “saw.”
29 tn Or “was grieved because of.”
30 tn Heb “concerning the calamity.”
31 tn For this nuance of the Hebrew word רַב (rav), see BDB 913 s.v. 1.f.
32 tn Heb “Now, drop your hand.”
33 tn In the parallel text in 2 Sam 24:16 this individual is called אֲרַוְנָא (’aravna’, “Aravna”), traditionally “Araunah.” The form of the name found here also occurs in vv. 18-28.
34 tn Heb “For their assignment was at the hand of the sons of Aaron for the work of the house of the
35 tn Heb “and his brothers, sons of respect, [were] 2,700, heads of fathers.”
36 tn Heb “with respect to every matter of God and matter of the king.”
37 tn Heb “I, with my heart to build a house of rest for the ark of the covenant of the
38 tn Heb “out of all the house of my father to become king over all Israel permanently.”
39 tn Or “for.”
40 tn Heb “and among the sons of my father he desired to make me king over all Israel.”
41 tn Heb “know.”
42 tn Heb “with a complete heart and a willing being.”
43 tn Heb “he will allow himself to be found by you.”
44 tn Heb “and with you in all work, for every willing [one] in skill for all service.”
45 tn Heb “and the officials and all the people to all your words.”
46 tn Heb “and according to all my strength.”
47 tn Heb “the gold for the gold, and the silver for the silver, and the bronze for the bronze, and the iron for the iron, and the wood for the wood.”
