1 Tawarikh 12:23

Support for David in Hebron

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 Tawarikh 17:21

17:21 And who is like your people, Israel, a unique nation ²  in the earth? Their God ³  went to claim ⁴  a nation for himself! You made a name for yourself by doing great and awesome deeds ⁵  when you drove out ⁶  nations before your people whom you had delivered from the Egyptian empire and its gods. ⁷ 

1 Tawarikh 19:2

19:2 David said, “I will express my loyalty ⁸  to Hanun son of Nahash, for his father was loyal ⁹  to me.” So David sent messengers to express his sympathy over his father’s death. ¹⁰  When David’s servants entered Ammonite territory to visit Hanun and express the king’s sympathy, ¹¹ 

1 Tawarikh 28:1

David Commissions Solomon to Build the Temple

28:1 David assembled in Jerusalem ¹²  all the officials of Israel, including the commanders of the tribes, the commanders of the army divisions that served the king, the commanders of units of a thousand and a hundred, the officials who were in charge of all the property and livestock of the king and his sons, the eunuchs, and the warriors, including the most skilled of them.

1 Tawarikh 28:4

28:4 The Lord God of Israel chose me out of my father’s entire family to become king over Israel and have a permanent dynasty. ¹³  Indeed, ¹⁴  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. ¹⁵ 

[12:23]  ¹ tn Heb “these are the numbers of the heads of the forces armed for battle [who] came to David in Hebron to turn over the kingdom of Saul to him according to the mouth of the Lord.”

[17:21]  ² tn Heb “a nation, one.”

[17:21]  ³ 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.

[17:21]  ⁴ tn Heb “redeem” or “deliver.”

[17:21]  ⁵ tn Heb “to make for yourself a name [with] great and awesome [deeds].”

[17:21]  ⁶ tn Heb “to drive out.”

[17:21]  ⁷ tn Heb “from Egypt, nations.” The parallel text in 2 Sam 7:23 reads “from Egypt, nations and its gods.”

[19:2]  ⁸ tn Heb “do loyalty.”

[19:2]  ⁹ tn Heb “did loyalty.”

[19:2]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “to console him concerning his father.”

[19:2]  ¹¹ tn Heb “and the servants of David came to the land of the sons of Ammon to Hanun to console him.”

[28:1]  ¹² map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[28:4]  ¹³ tn Heb “out of all the house of my father to become king over all Israel permanently.”

[28:4]  ¹⁴ tn Or “for.”

[28:4]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “and among the sons of my father he desired to make me king over all Israel.”