Discovery Box| (1.00) | 1Ch 9:19 |
| Shallum son of Kore, son of Ebiasaph, son of Korah, and his relatives from his family (the Korahites) were assigned to guard the entrance to the sanctuary. 1 Their ancestors had guarded the entrance to the Lord’s dwelling place. 2 |
| (1.00) | 1Ch 9:23 |
| They and their descendants were assigned to guard the gates of the Lord’s sanctuary (that is, the tabernacle). 1 |
| (1.00) | 1Ch 9:28 |
| Some of them were in charge of the articles used by those who served; they counted them when they brought them in and when they brought them out. 1 |
| (1.00) | 1Ch 9:31 |
| Mattithiah, a Levite, the firstborn son 1 of Shallum the Korahite, was in charge of baking the bread for offerings. |
| (1.00) | 1Ch 9:33 |
| The musicians and Levite family leaders stayed in rooms at the sanctuary 1 and were exempt from other duties, for day and night they had to carry out their assigned tasks. |
| (1.00) | 1Ch 10:9 |
| They stripped his corpse, and then carried off his head and his armor. They sent messengers throughout the land of the Philistines proclaiming the news to their idols and their people. |
| (1.00) | 1Ch 10:13 |
| So Saul died because he was unfaithful to the Lord and did not obey the Lord’s instructions; he even tried to conjure up underworld spirits. 1 |
| (1.00) | 1Ch 11:3 |
| When all the leaders 1 of Israel came to the king at Hebron, David made an agreement 2 with them in Hebron before the Lord. They anointed 3 David king over Israel, just as the Lord had announced through Samuel. 4 |
| (1.00) | 1Ch 11:10 |
| These were the leaders of David’s warriors who helped establish and stabilize his rule over all Israel, in accordance with the Lord’s word. 1 |
| (1.00) | 1Ch 11:23 |
| He even killed an Egyptian who was seven and a half feet 1 tall. The Egyptian had a spear as big as the crossbeam of a weaver’s loom; Benaiah attacked 2 him with a club. He grabbed the spear out of the Egyptian’s hand and killed him with his own spear. |
| (1.00) | 1Ch 12:14 |
| These Gadites were military leaders; the least led a hundred men, the greatest a thousand. 1 |
| (1.00) | 1Ch 12:23 |
| The following is a record of the armed warriors who came with their leaders and joined David in Hebron in order to make David king in Saul’s place, in accordance with the Lord’s decree: 1 |
| (1.00) | 1Ch 13:2 |
| David said to the whole Israelite assembly, “If you so desire and the Lord our God approves, 1 let’s spread the word 2 to our brothers who remain in all the regions of Israel, and to the priests and Levites in their cities, 3 so they may join us. |
| (1.00) | 1Ch 13:8 |
| while David and all Israel were energetically 1 celebrating before God, singing and playing various stringed instruments, 2 tambourines, cymbals, and trumpets. |
| (1.00) | 1Ch 15:2 |
| Then David said, “Only the Levites may carry the ark of God, for the Lord chose them to carry the ark of the Lord and to serve before him perpetually. |
| (1.00) | 1Ch 15:15 |
| The descendants of Levi carried the ark of God on their shoulders with poles, just as Moses had ordered according to the divine command. |
| (1.00) | 1Ch 15:26 |
| When God helped the Levites who were carrying the ark of the Lord’s covenant, they sacrificed seven bulls and seven rams. |
| (1.00) | 1Ch 15:27 |
| David was wrapped in a linen robe, as were all the Levites carrying the ark, the musicians, and Kenaniah the supervisor of transport and the musicians; 1 David also wore a linen ephod. 2 |
| (1.00) | 1Ch 16:1 |
| They brought the ark of God and put it in the middle of the tent David had pitched for it. Then they offered burnt sacrifices and peace offerings 1 before God. |
| (1.00) | 1Ch 16:2 |
| When David finished offering burnt sacrifices and peace offerings, he pronounced a blessing over the people in the Lord’s name. |
