1 Tawarikh 21:17

21:17 David said to God, “Was I not the one who decided to number the army? I am the one who sinned and committed this awful deed! ¹  As for these sheep – what have they done? O Lord my God, attack me and my family, ²  but remove the plague from your people!” ³ 

1 Tawarikh 17:13

17:13 I will become his father and he will become my son. I will never withhold my loyal love from him, as I withheld it from the one who ruled before you. ⁴ 

1 Tawarikh 17:16

David Praises God

17:16 David went in, sat before the Lord, and said: “Who am I, O Lord God, and what is my family, ⁵  that you should have brought me to this point?

1 Tawarikh 21:10

21:10 “Go, tell David, ‘This is what the Lord says: “I am offering you three forms of judgment from which to choose. Pick one of them.”’” ⁶ 

1 Tawarikh 22:7

22:7 David said to Solomon: “My son, I really wanted ⁷  to build a temple to honor ⁸  the Lord my God.

1 Tawarikh 22:10

22:10 He will build a temple to honor me; ⁹  he will become my son, and I will become his father. I will grant to his dynasty permanent rule over Israel.’ ¹⁰ 

1 Tawarikh 28:6

28:6 He said to me, ‘Solomon your son is the one who will build my temple and my courts, for I have chosen him to become my son and I will become his father.

1 Tawarikh 29:14

29:14 “But who am I and who are my people, that we should be in a position to contribute this much? ¹¹  Indeed, everything comes from you, and we have simply given back to you what is yours. ¹² 

1 Tawarikh 17:7

17:7 “So now, say this to my servant David: ‘This is what the Lord who commands armies ¹³  says: “I took you from the pasture and from your work as a shepherd ¹⁴  to make you a leader of my people Israel.

1 Tawarikh 28:2

28:2 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. ¹⁵  I have made the preparations for building it.

1 Tawarikh 29:17

29:17 I know, my God, that you examine thoughts ¹⁶  and are pleased with integrity. With pure motives ¹⁷  I contribute all this; and now I look with joy as your people who have gathered here contribute to you.

[21:17]  ¹ tn “and doing evil I did evil.” The infinitive absolute precedes the finite form of the verb for emphasis.

[21:17]  ² tn Heb “let your hand be on me and on the house of my father.”

[21:17]  ³ tn Heb “but on your people not for a plague.”

[17:13]  ⁴ sn The one who ruled before you is a reference to Saul, from whom the kingdom was taken and given to David.

[17:16]  ⁵ tn Heb “house.”

[21:10]  ⁶ tn Heb “Three I am extending to you; choose for yourself one of them and I will do it to you.”

[22:7]  ⁷ tn Heb “I was with my heart.”

[22:7]  ⁸ tn Heb “for the name of.”

[22:10]  ⁹ tn Heb “for my name.”

[22:10]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel permanently.”

[29:14]  ¹¹ tn Heb “that we should retain strength to contribute like this.”

[29:14]  ¹² tn Heb “and from you we have given to you.”

[17:7]  ¹³ tn Traditionally, “Lord of hosts.”

[17:7]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “and from after sheep.”

[28:2]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “I, with my heart to build a house of rest for the ark of the covenant of the Lord and for a stool of the feet of our God.”

[29:17]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “a heart.”

[29:17]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “with integrity of heart.”