1 Tawarikh 2:3

Judah’s Descendants

2:3 The sons of Judah:

Er, Onan, and Shelah. These three were born to him by Bathshua, ¹  a Canaanite woman. Er, Judah’s firstborn, displeased the Lord, so the Lord killed him. ² 

1 Tawarikh 7:2

7:2 The sons of Tola:

Uzzi, Rephaiah, Jeriel, Jahmai, Jibsam, ³  and Samuel. ⁴  They were leaders of their families. ⁵  In the time of David there were 22,600 warriors listed in Tola’s genealogical records. ⁶ 

1 Tawarikh 9:19

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. ⁷  Their ancestors had guarded the entrance to the Lord’s dwelling place. ⁸ 

1 Tawarikh 11:2

11:2 In the past, even when Saul was king, you were Israel’s commanding general. ⁹  The Lord your God said to you, ‘You will shepherd my people Israel; you will rule over my people Israel.’”

1 Tawarikh 11:23

11:23 He even killed an Egyptian who was seven and a half feet ¹⁰  tall. The Egyptian had a spear as big as the crossbeam of a weaver’s loom; Benaiah attacked ¹¹  him with a club. He grabbed the spear out of the Egyptian’s hand and killed him with his own spear.

1 Tawarikh 15:17

15:17 So the Levites appointed Heman son of Joel; one of his relatives, Asaph son of Berechiah; one of the descendants of Merari, ¹²  Ethan son of Kushaiah;

1 Tawarikh 23:24

23:24 These were the descendants of Levi according to their families, that is, the leaders of families as counted and individually listed who carried out assigned tasks in the Lord’s temple and were twenty years old and up. ¹³ 

1 Tawarikh 23:28

23:28 Their job was to help Aaron’s descendants in the service of the Lord’s temple. They were to take care of the courtyards, the rooms, ceremonial purification of all holy items, and other jobs related to the service of God’s temple. ¹⁴ 

1 Tawarikh 26:26

26:26 Shelomith ¹⁵  and his relatives were in charge of all the storehouses containing the consecrated items dedicated by King David, the family leaders who led units of a thousand and a hundred, and the army officers.

1 Tawarikh 26:31

26:31 As for the Hebronites: Jeriah was the leader of the Hebronites according to the genealogical records. In the fortieth year of David’s reign, they examined the records and discovered ¹⁶  there were highly respected men in Jazer in Gilead.

1 Tawarikh 28:8

28:8 So now, in the sight of all Israel, the Lord’s assembly, and in the hearing of our God, I say this: ¹⁷  Carefully observe ¹⁸  all the commands of the Lord your God, so that you may possess this good land and may leave it as a permanent inheritance for your children after you.

1 Tawarikh 28:20

28:20 David said to his son Solomon: “Be strong and brave! Do it! Don’t be afraid and don’t panic! ¹⁹  For the Lord God, my God, is with you. He will not leave you or abandon you before all the work for the service of the Lord’s temple is finished.

1 Tawarikh 29:4

29:4 This includes 3,000 talents ²⁰  of gold from Ophir and 7,000 talents of refined silver for overlaying the walls of the buildings,

[2:3]  ¹ tn The name means “daughter of Shua.” Shua is identified in Gen 38:2 as a “Canaanite man.”

[2:3]  ² tn Heb “was evil in the eyes of the Lord, so he [i.e., the Lord] killed him [i.e., Er].”

[7:2]  ³ tn Many English versions spell this name “Ibsam.”

[7:2]  ⁴ tn Many English versions retain a form of this name closer to the Hebrew, i.e., “Shemuel.”

[7:2]  ⁵ tn Heb “heads of the house of their fathers.”

[7:2]  ⁶ tn Heb “to Tola [there were] warriors by their generations, their number in the days of David [was] 22,600.”

[9:19]  ⁷ tn Heb “and his brothers belonging to the house of his father, the Korachites, to the work of the task, guardians of the threshold of the tent.”

[9:19]  ⁸ tn Heb “and their fathers to the camp of the Lord, guardians of the entrance.” Here “fathers” is used in a more general sense of “forefathers” or “ancestors” and is not limited specifically to their fathers only.

[11:2]  ⁹ tn Heb “you were the one who led out and the one who brought in Israel.”

[11:23]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “five cubits.” Assuming a length of 18 inches for the standard cubit, this individual would be 7.5 feet (2.3 m) tall.

[11:23]  ¹¹ tn Heb “went down to.”

[15:17]  ¹² tn The Hebrew text adds, “their brothers.”

[23:24]  ¹³ tn Heb “these were the sons of Levi according to the house of their fathers, heads of the fathers, according to their numberings, by number of names, according to their heads, doer[s] of the work for the service of the house of the Lord, from a son of twenty years and upwards.”

[23:28]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “For their assignment was at the hand of the sons of Aaron for the work of the house of the Lord concerning the courtyards and concerning the rooms and concerning the purification of all holiness and the work of the service of the house of God.”

[26:26]  ¹⁵ tc The MT reads “Shelomoth”; the name is spelled “Shelomith” in the marginal reading (Qere) of v. 25.

[26:31]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “and they were searched and there were found in them.”

[28:8]  ¹⁷ tn The words “I say this” are not in the Hebrew text, but are supplied in the translation for clarity and for stylistic reasons.

[28:8]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “Watch! Seek!”

[28:20]  ¹⁹ tn Or perhaps, “don’t be discouraged.”

[29:4]  ²⁰ tn See the note on the word “talents” in 19:6. Using the “light” standard talent of 67.3 lbs. (30.6 kg) as the standard for calculation, David had supplied 101 tons (91,800 kg) of gold and 235.5 tons (214,200 kg) of silver.