Discovery Box1 Chronicles 5:9 
Context5:9 In the east they settled as far as the entrance to the desert that stretches to the Euphrates River, for their cattle had increased in numbers in the land of Gilead.
1 Chronicles 6:60
Context6:60 Within the territory of the tribe of Benjamin they were allotted 1 Geba and its pasturelands, Alemeth and its pasturelands, and Anathoth and its pasturelands. Their clans were allotted thirteen cities in all.
1 Chronicles 7:2
Context7:2 The sons of Tola:
Uzzi, Rephaiah, Jeriel, Jahmai, Jibsam, 2 and Samuel. 3 They were leaders of their families. 4 In the time of David there were 22,600 warriors listed in Tola’s genealogical records. 5
1 Chronicles 7:21
Context7:21 his son Zabad, his son Shuthelah
(Ezer and Elead were killed by the men of Gath, who were natives of the land, when they went down to steal their cattle.
1 Chronicles 9:1
Context9:1 Genealogical records were kept for all Israel; they are recorded in the Scroll of the Kings of Israel.
The people of Judah 6 were carried away to Babylon because of their unfaithfulness.
1 Chronicles 9:13
Context9:13 Their relatives, who were leaders of their families, numbered 1,760. They were capable men who were assigned to carry out the various tasks of service in God’s temple. 7
1 Chronicles 9:33
Context9:33 The musicians and Levite family leaders stayed in rooms at the sanctuary 8 and were exempt from other duties, for day and night they had to carry out their assigned tasks.
1 Chronicles 10:7
Context10:7 When all the Israelites who were in the valley saw that the army 9 had fled and that Saul and his sons were dead, they abandoned their cities and fled. The Philistines came and occupied them.
1 Chronicles 10:12
Context10:12 all the warriors went and recovered the bodies of Saul and his sons 10 and brought them to Jabesh. They buried their remains 11 under the oak tree in Jabesh and fasted for seven days.
1 Chronicles 11:3
Context11:3 When all the leaders 12 of Israel came to the king at Hebron, David made an agreement 13 with them in Hebron before the Lord. They anointed 14 David king over Israel, just as the Lord had announced through Samuel. 15
1 Chronicles 12:1
Context12:1 These were the men who joined David in Ziklag, when he was banished 16 from the presence of Saul son of Kish. (They were among the warriors who assisted him in battle.
1 Chronicles 12:38
Context12:38 All these men were warriors who were ready to march. 17 They came to Hebron to make David king over all Israel by acclamation; 18 all the rest of the Israelites also were in agreement that David should become king. 19
1 Chronicles 14:11
Context14:11 So they marched against Baal Perazim and David defeated them there. David said, “Using me as his instrument, 20 God has burst out against my enemies like water bursts out.” So that place is called Baal Perazim. 21
1 Chronicles 15:16
Context15:16 David told the leaders of the Levites to appoint some of their relatives as musicians; they were to play various instruments, including stringed instruments and cymbals, and to sing loudly and joyfully. 22
1 Chronicles 16:5
Context16:5 Asaph was the leader and Zechariah second in command, followed by Jeiel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Mattithiah, Eliab, Benaiah, Obed-Edom, and Jeiel. They were to play stringed instruments; Asaph was to sound the cymbals;
1 Chronicles 19:7
Context19:7 They hired 32,000 chariots, along with the king of Maacah and his army, who came and camped in front of Medeba. The Ammonites also assembled from their cities and marched out to do battle.
1 Chronicles 19:17
Context19:17 When David was informed, he gathered all Israel, crossed the Jordan River, 23 and marched against them. 24 David deployed his army against the Arameans for battle and they fought against him. 25
1 Chronicles 23:32
Context23:32 They were in charge of the meeting tent and the holy place, and helped their relatives, the descendants of Aaron, in the service of the Lord’s temple. 26
1 Chronicles 24:4
Context24:4 The descendants of Eleazar had more leaders than the descendants of Ithamar, so they divided them up accordingly; the descendants of Eleazar had sixteen leaders, while the descendants of Ithamar had eight. 27
1 Chronicles 25:1
Context25:1 David and the army officers selected some of the sons of Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun to prophesy as they played stringed instruments and cymbals. 28 The following men were assigned this responsibility: 29
1 Chronicles 26:8
Context26:8 All these were the descendants of Obed-Edom. They and their sons and relatives were respected men, capable of doing their responsibilities. There were sixty-two of them related to Obed-Edom.
1 Chronicles 26:14
Context26:14 The lot for the east gate went to Shelemiah. 30 They then cast lots for his son Zechariah, a wise adviser, and the lot for the north gate went to him.
1 Chronicles 26:28
Context26:28 They were also in charge of everything dedicated by Samuel the prophet, 31 Saul son of Kish, Abner son of Ner, and Joab son of Zeruiah; Shelomith and his relatives were in charge of everything that had been dedicated.
1 Chronicles 26:30-31
Context26:30 As for the Hebronites: Hashabiah and his relatives, 1,700 respected men, were assigned responsibilities in Israel west of the Jordan; they did the Lord’s work and the king’s service.
26:31 As for the Hebronites: Jeriah was the leader of the Hebronites according to the genealogical records. In the fortieth year of David’s reign, they examined the records and discovered 32 there were highly respected men in Jazer in Gilead.
1 Chronicles 29:7
Context29:7 They donated for the service of God’s temple 5,000 talents 33 and ten thousand darics 34 of gold, 10,000 talents of silver, 18,000 talents of bronze, and 100,000 talents of iron.
1 Chronicles 29:20-21
Context29:20 David told the entire assembly: “Praise the Lord your God!” So the entire assembly praised the Lord God of their ancestors; they bowed down and stretched out flat on the ground before the Lord and the king.
29:21 The next day they made sacrifices and offered burnt sacrifices to the Lord (1,000 bulls, 1,000 rams, 1,000 lambs), along with their accompanying drink offerings and many other sacrifices for all Israel.
1 tn The parallel passage in Josh 21:17 adds “Gibeon and its pasturelands” (cf. NAB, NIV, NCV, NLT). The words “they were allotted” are supplied in the translation for both clarity and stylistic reasons.
2 tn Many English versions spell this name “Ibsam.”
3 tn Many English versions retain a form of this name closer to the Hebrew, i.e., “Shemuel.”
4 tn Heb “heads of the house of their fathers.”
5 tn Heb “to Tola [there were] warriors by their generations, their number in the days of David [was] 22,600.”
6 tn The Hebrew text has simply “Judah,” though the verb הָגְלוּ (hoglu, “carried away”) is plural.
7 tn Heb “capable [for] the work of the task of the house of God.”
8 tn Heb “were in rooms.” The words “at the sanctuary” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
9 tn Heb “they”; the referent (the army) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
10 tn Heb “arose and carried away the corpse of Saul and the corpses of his sons.”
11 tn Heb “their bones.”
12 tn Heb “elders.”
13 tn Or “covenant.”
14 tn Or “They poured olive oil on David to designate him as king.”
15 tn Heb “according to the word of the
16 tn Heb “kept from.”
17 tc Heb “all these [were] men of war, helpers of the battle line.” The present translation assumes an emendation of עֹדְרֵי (’odÿrey, “helpers of”) to עֹרְכֵי, (’orÿkhey, “prepared for”).
18 tn Heb “with a complete heart they came to Hebron to make David king over all Israel.”
19 tn Heb “and also all the rest of Israel [was of] one mind to make David king.”
20 tn Heb “by my hand.”
21 sn The name Baal Perazim means “Lord of outbursts” in Hebrew.
22 tn Heb “causing to be heard to lift up with a voice of joy.”
23 tn The word “River” is not in the Hebrew text, but has been supplied in the translation for clarity.
24 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.”
25 tn Heb “and David was deployed to meet Aram [for] battle and they fought with him.”
26 tn Heb “and they kept the charge of the tent of meeting and the charge of the holy place and the charge of the sons of Aaron, their brothers, for the service of the house of the
27 tn Heb “And the sons of Eleazar were found to be more, with respect to the heads of men, than the sons of Ithamar, and they divided them. To the sons of Eleazar there were sixteen heads, according to the house of the fathers; and to the sons of Ithamar there were eight, according to the house of their fathers.”
28 tn Heb “David and the officers of the army set apart for service the sons of Asaph and Heman and Jeduthun, the ones prophesying by harps, by lyres, and by cymbals.”
29 tn Heb “and their number was, the men of work for their service.”
30 tn “Shelemiah” is a variant of the name “Meshelemiah” (cf. 26:2).
31 tn Or “seer.”
32 tn Heb “and they were searched and there were found in them.”
33 tn See the note on the word “talents” in 19:6. Using the “light” standard talent of 67.3 lbs. (30.6 kg) as the standard for calculation, the people donated 168.3 tons (153,000 kg) of gold, 336.5 tons (306,000 kg) of silver, 605.7 tons (550,800 kg) of bronze, and 3,365 tons (3,060,000 kg) of iron.
34 tn On the “daric” as a unit of measure, see BDB 204 s.v. דַּרְכְּמוֹן. Some have regarded the daric as a minted coin, perhaps even referring to the Greek drachma, but this is less likely.
sn The daric was a unit of weight perhaps equal to between 8 and 9 grams (just under one-third of an ounce), so 10,000 darics of gold would weigh between 80 and 90 kilograms (between 176 and 198 pounds).
