Discovery Box1 Chronicles 9:22 
Context9:22 All those selected to be gatekeepers at the entrances numbered 212. Their names were recorded in the genealogical records of their settlements. David and Samuel the prophet 1 had appointed them to their positions. 2
1 Chronicles 17:6
Context17:6 Wherever I moved throughout Israel, I did not say 3 to any of the leaders whom I appointed to care for my people Israel, 4 ‘Why have you not built me a house made from cedar?’”’
1 Chronicles 17:10
Context17:10 and during the time when I appointed judges to lead my people Israel. I will subdue all your enemies.
“‘“I declare to you that the Lord will build a dynastic house 5 for you!
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 tn The Hebrew term is רֹאֶה (ro’eh, “seer”), an older word for נָבִיא (navi’, “prophet”).
2 tn Heb “they – David appointed, and Samuel the seer, in their position.”
3 tn In the Hebrew text the statement is phrased as a rhetorical question (“Did I say?”) meaning “I did not say.”
4 tn Heb “to one of the judges of Israel whom I commanded to shepherd my people.”
5 tn Here the word “house” is used in a metaphorical sense, referring to a royal dynasty. The
