1 Tawarikh 21:27

21:27 The Lord ordered the messenger ¹  to put his sword back into its sheath.

1 Tawarikh 10:4-5

10:4 Saul told his armor bearer, “Draw your sword and stab me with it. Otherwise these uncircumcised people will come and torture me.” ²  But his armor bearer refused to do it, because he was very afraid. So Saul took the sword and fell on it. 10:5 When his armor bearer saw that Saul was dead, he also fell on his sword and died.

1 Tawarikh 21:30

21:30 But David could not go before it to seek God’s will, for he was afraid of the sword of the Lord’s messenger.

1 Tawarikh 21:5

21:5 Joab reported to David the number of warriors. ³  In all Israel there were 1,100,000 ⁴  sword-wielding soldiers; Judah alone had 470,000 sword-wielding soldiers. ⁵ 

1 Tawarikh 21:12

21:12 three ⁶  years of famine, or three months being chased by your enemies and struck down by their swords, ⁷  or three days being struck down by the Lord, during which a plague will invade the land and the Lord’s messenger will destroy throughout Israel’s territory.’ ⁸  Now, decide what I should tell the one who sent me.”

1 Tawarikh 21:16

21:16 David looked up and saw the Lord’s messenger standing between the earth and sky with his sword drawn and in his hand, stretched out over Jerusalem. David and the leaders, covered with sackcloth, threw themselves down with their faces to the ground. ⁹ 

1 Tawarikh 5:18

5:18 The Reubenites, Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh had 44,760 men in their combined armies, warriors who carried shields and swords, were equipped with bows, and were trained for war. ¹⁰ 

[21:27]  ¹ tn Heb “spoke to the messenger.”

[10:4]  ² tn Heb “so these uncircumcised ones might not come and abuse me.”

[21:5]  ³ tn Heb “and Joab gave to David the number of the numbering of the army [or “people”].”

[21:5]  ⁴ tn Heb “a thousand thousands and one hundred thousand.”

[21:5]  ⁵ tc The parallel text in 2 Sam 24:9 has variant figures: “In Israel there were eight hundred thousand sword-wielding warriors, and in Judah there were five hundred thousands soldiers.”

[21:12]  ⁶ tc The parallel text in the MT of 2 Sam 24:13 has “seven,” but LXX has “three” there.

[21:12]  ⁷ tc Heb “or three months being swept away from before your enemies and the sword of your enemies overtaking.” The Hebrew term נִסְפֶּה (nisppeh, Niphal participle from סָפָה, safah) should probably be emended to נֻסְכָה (nusÿkhah, Qal infinitive from נוּס [nus] with second masculine singular suffix). See 2 Sam 24:13.

[21:12]  ⁸ tn Heb “or three days of the sword of the Lord and plague in the land, and the messenger [or “angel”] of the Lord destroying in all the territory of Israel.”

[21:16]  ⁹ tn Heb “and David and the elders, covered with sackcloth, fell on their faces.”

[5:18]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “the sons of Reuben and the Gadites and half of the tribe of Manasseh, from the sons of bravery, men carrying a shield and sword and treading a bow and trained for war, 44,760 going out for warfare.”