The Book of Chronicles—Part First*
1 Adam; Sheth; Enosh; 2 Kenan; Mahalelel; Jered; 3 Enoc; Methushelah; Lemec; 4 Noah; Shem, Ham, and Jepheth.
5 Jepheth’s sons were Gomer and Magog and Media and Greece and Tubal and Moshc and Tyrrhenia; 6 and Gomer’s were Ashkenaz and Riphath and Togarmah; 7 and Greece’s were Sicily and Spain, Cyprus and Rhodes.
8 Ham’s sons were Nubia and Egypt, Put and Canaan; 9 and Nubia’s were Seba and Havilah and Sabta and Raghma and Sabteca; and Raghmah’s were Sheba and Dedan. 10 And Nubia had a son Nimrod: he was the first to become a potentate on earth. 11 And Egypt had sons, the Ludites and the ʽAnamites and the Lehabites and the Naphtuhites 12 and the Pathrusites and the Casluhites (where the Philistines came from) and the Caphtorites. 13 And Canaan had sons, Sidon his eldest and Heth, 14 and the Jebusites and the Amorites and the Girgashites 15 and the Hivvites and the ʽArkites and the Sinites 16 and the Arvadites and the Semarites and the Hamathites.
17 Shem’s sons were ʽElam and Assyria and Arpacshad and Lud and Syria; and Syria’s were ʽUs and Hul and Gether and Mash. 18 And Arpacshad had a son Shelah; and Shelah had a son ʽEber. 19 And ʽEber had two sons born to him; the one’s name was Peleg, because in his time the earth was divided, and his brother’s name was Joktan. 20 And Joktan had sons, Almodad and Sheleph and Hadramaut and Jerah 21 and Hadoram and Uzal and Diklah 22 and ʽEbal and Abimael and Sheba 23 and Ophir and Havilah and Jobab: all these were Joktan’s sons.
24 Shem; Arpacshad; Shelah; 25 ʽEber; Peleg; Reghu; 26 Serug; Nahor; Terah; 27 Abram, that is, Abraham. 28 Abraham’s sons were Isaac and Ishmaʽel.
29 These are their lines: Ishmaʽel’s firstborn Nebajoth, and Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam, 30 Mishmaʽ and Dumah, Massa, Hadad and Tema, 31 Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah; these are Ishmaʽel’s sons. 32 And the sons of Abraham’s concubine Keturah: she bore Zimran and Jokshan and Medan and Midian and Ishbak and Shuah; and Jokshan’s sons were Sheba and Dedan; 33 and Midian’s sons were Ghephah and ʽEpher and Hanoc and Abidaʽ and Eldaʽah; all these were Keturah’s sons.
34 And Abraham begot Isaac. Isaac’s sons were ʽEsau and Israel. 35 ʽEsau’s sons were Eliphaz, Reghuel, and Jeghush and Jaʽlam and Korah. 36 Eliphaz’s sons were Teman and Omar, Sephi and Gaʽtam, Kenaz and Timnaʽ and ʽAmalek. 37 Reghuel’s sons were Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah. 38 And Seʽir’s sons were Lotan and Shobal and Sibeon and Ghanah and Dishon and Eser and Dishan. 39 And Lotan’s sons were Hori and Heman; and Lotan’s sister was Timnaʽ. 40 Shobal’s sons were Ghalvan and Manahath and ʽEbal, Shephi and Onam. And Sibeon’s sons were Aijah and Ghanah. 41 Ghanah’s sons were Dishon. And Dishon’s sons were Hamram and Eshban and Ithran and Keran. 42 Eser’s sons were Bilhan and Zaʽvan and ʽAkan. Dishan’s sons were ʽUs and Aran.
43 And these are the kings that reigned in Edom before the sons of Israel had a king reign: Belaʽ the son of Beʽor, whose capital was named Dinhabah; 44 and Belaʽ died, and Jobab the son of Zerah from Bosrah succeeded him; 45 and Jobab died, and Husham from the Temanite country succeeded him; 46 and Husham died, and Hadad the son of Bedad succeeded him, who defeated Midian on the wolds of Moab; his capital was named Ghavith; 47 and Hadad died, and Samlah from Masrekah succeeded him; 48 and Samlah died, and Saul from Rehoboth-hannahar succeeded him; 49 and Saul died, and Baal-Hanan the son of ʽAcbor succeeded him; 50* and Baal-Hanan died, and Hadad succeeded him, whose capital was named Paghi and whose wife was named Mehetabel the daughter of Matred the son of Me-Zahab; 51 and Hadad died.
And the allufs of Edom are the alluf of Timnaʽ, the alluf of ʽAlvah, the alluf of Jetheth, 52 the alluf of Oholibamah, the alluf of Elah, the alluf of Pinon, 53 the alluf of Kenaz, the alluf of Teman, the alluf of Mibsar, 54 the alluf of Magdiel, the alluf of ʽIram; these are the allufs of Edom.
2 These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Shimeon, Levi and Judah, Issacar and Zebulun, 2 Dan, Joseph and Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.
3 The sons of Judah were ʽEr and Onan and Shelah, three born to him from Bath-Shuaʽ the Canaanite. And Judah’s eldest son ʽEr displeased Jehovah, and Jehovah caused his death. 4 And his daughter-in-law Tamar bore him Peres and Zerah; in all there were five of Judah’s sons. 5 Peres’s sons were Hesron and Hamul, 6 and Zerah’s were Zimri and Ethan and Heman and Calcol and Dardaʽ, five of them in all; 7* and Carmi’s were ʽAcar who troubled Israel, who was guilty of unfaithfulness in the deodand, 8 and Ethan’s were ʽAzariah.
9* And Hesron’s sons that were born to him, Jerahmeel and Ram and Caleb. 10 And Ram begot ʽAmminadab, and ʽAmminadab begot Nahshon prince of the sons of Judah, 11 and Nahshon begot Salma, and Salma begot Boʽaz, 12 and Boʽaz begot ʽObed, and ʽObed begot Jesse, 13 and Jesse begot Eliab his eldest, and Abinadab the second, and Shimea the third, 14 Nethanel the fourth, Raddai the fifth, 15 Osem the sixth, David the seventh; 16 and their sisters were Serujah and Abigail; and Serujah’s sons were Abshai and Joab and ʽAsah-El, three of them; 17 and Abigail bore ʽAmasa, and ʽAmasa’s father was Jether the Ishmaʽelite.
18* And Hesron’s son Caleb begot, by his wife ʽAzubah, Jeriʽoth; and these were her sons: Jesher and Shobab and Ardon. 19 And ʽAzubah died, and Caleb married Ephrath, and she bore him Hur, 20 and Hur begot Uri, and Uri begot Besalel.
21 And afterward Hesron went in to the daughter of Makir the father of Gilead, having married her when he was sixty years old, and she bore him Segub, 22 and Segub begot Jair; and he had twenty-three cities in Gilead, 23 but Geshur and Syria took the Havvoth of Jair from them, Kenath and its dependencies, sixty cities. All these belonged to the sons of Makir the father of Gilead. 24* And after Hesron’s death Caleb went in to his father Hesron’s widow Ephrath, and she bore him Ashhur the father of Tekoaʽ.
25 And the sons of Hesron’s eldest son Jerahmeel were Ram the eldest and Bunah and Oren and his brother Osem. 26 And Jerahmeel had another wife named ʽAtarah; she was the mother of Onam. 27 And the sons of Jerahmeel’s firstborn Ram were Maʽas and Jamin and ʽEker. 28 And Onam’s sons were Shammai and Jadaʽ; and Shammai’s were Nadab and Abishur. 29 And the name of Abishur’s wife was Abihail; and she bore him Ahban and Molid. 30 And Nadab’s sons were Seled and Appaim; but Seled died childless. 31 And Appaim’s sons were Ishei; and Ishei’s sons were Sheshan; and Sheshan’s sons were Ahlai. 32 And the sons of Shammai’s brother Jada were Jether and Jonathan; but Jether died childless. 33 And Jonathan’s sons were Peleth and Zaza. These were Jerahmeel’s sons.
34 And Sheshan did not have sons, but daughters. And Sheshan had an Egyptian slave named Jarhaʽ; 35 and Sheshan married his daughter to his slave Jarhaʽ, and she bore him ʽAttai, 36 and ʽAttai begot Nathan, and Nathan begot Zabad, 37 and Zabad begot Ephlal, and Ephlal begot ʽObed, 38 and ʽObed begot Jehu, and Jehu begot ʽAzariah, 39 and ʽAzariah begot Heles, and Heles begot Eleasah, 40 and Eleasah begot Sismai, and Sismai begot Shallum, 41 and Shallum begot Jekamiah, and Jekamiah begot Elishamaʽ.
42* And the sons of Jerahmeel’s brother Caleb were Meshaʽ his eldest; he was the father of Ziph; and the sons of Mareshah were the father of Hebron; 43 and the sons of Hebron were Korah and Tappuah and Rekem and Shemaʽ; 44 and Shemaʽ begot Raham the father of Jorkoʽam, and Rekem begot Shammai, 45 and Shammai’s son was Maʽon, and Maʽon was the father of Beth-Sur. 46* And Caleb’s concubine Ghephah bore Haran and Mosa and Gazes; and Mosa begot Gazes. 47 And Jahdai’s sons were Regem and Jotham and Geshan and Pelet and Ghephah and Shaʽaph. 48 And Caleb’s concubine Maʽacah bore Sheber and Tirhanah. 49 And Shaʽaph the father of Madmannah begot Sheva the father of Macbenah and of Gibea. 50 And Caleb’s daughter was ʽAcsah. These were Caleb’s sons.
The sons of Ephrathah’s eldest son Hur were Shobal the father of Kirjath-Jeʽarim, 51 Salma the father of Bethlehem, Hareph the father of Beth-Gader. 52* And Shobal the father of Kirjath-Jeʽarim had sons, Haroeh, half the Manahtites. 53 And the clans of Kirjath-Jeʽarim were the Ithrites and the Puthites and the Shumathites and the Mishraʽites; from these went out the Soreathites and the Eshtaulites. 54* The sons of Salma were Bethlehem and Netophathi, ʽAtroth, Beth-Joab, and half the Manahtites, the Soreites. 55 And the scribe clans that lived at Jaʽbes were Tirghathites, Shimeathites, Subathites. Those were the Cainites that came in from Hammath, the father of the house of Recab.
3 And these were David’s sons who were born to him at Hebron: Amnon the eldest, by Ahinoʽam the Jezreʽelite; Daniel the second, by Abigail the Carmelite; 2 Absalom the third, son of Maʽacah the daughter of King Talmai of Geshur; Adonijah the fourth, son of Haggith; 3 Shephatiah the fifth, by Abital; Ithream the sixth, by his wife ʽEglah. 4 Six were born to him at Hebron; and he reigned there seven years and six months, and reigned at Jerusalem thirty-three years. 5 And these were born to him at Jerusalem: Shimea and Shobab and Nathan and Solomon, four by Bath-Shuaʽ the daughter of ʽAmmiel, 6 and Ibhar and Elishuaʽ and Eliphelet 7 and Nogah and Nepheg and Japhiaʽ 8 and Elishamaʽ and Eljadaʽ and Eliphelet—nine. 9 All David’s sons, besides sons of concubines; and Tamar was their sister.
10 And Solomon’s son was Rehoboam; his son, Abijah; his son, Asa; his son, Jehoshaphat; his son, 11 Joram; his son, Ahaziah; his son, Joash; his son, 12 Amasiah; his son, ʽAzariah; his son, Jotham; his son, 13 Ahaz; his son, Hezekiah; his son, Manasseh; his son, 14 Amon; his son, Josiah; 15 and Josiah’s sons were Johanan the eldest, Jehojakim the second, Sidkijah the third, Shallum the fourth; 16 and Jehojakim’s sons were his son Jeconiah, his son Sidkijah. 17 And the sons of Jeconiah as prisoner were his son Shealtiel 18 and Malkiram and Pedajah and Shenassar, Jekamiah, Hoshamaʽ, and Nedabiah; 19 and Pedajah’s sons were Zerubbabel and Shimei; and Zerubbabel’s sons were Meshullam and Hananiah (and Shelomith was their sister), 20* and Hashubah and Ohel and Berekiah and Hasadiah, Jushab Hesed—five. 21 And Hananiah’s son was Pelatiah, and his son Isaiah; his son, Rephajah; his son, Arnan; his son, ʽObadiah; his son, 22 Shecaniah; and Shecaniah’s sons were Shemaʽiah, and Shemaʽiah’s sons were Hattush and Igal and Bariah and Neʽariah and Shaphat—six; 23 and Neʽariah’s sons were Eljoʽenai and Hezekiah and ʽAzrikam—three; 24 and Eljoʽenai’s sons were Hodaviah and Eljashib and Pelajah and ʽAkkub and Johanan and Delajah and ʽAnani—seven.
4* Judah’s sons were Peres, Hesron, and Carmi and Hur and Shobal. 2 And Shobal’s son Reajah begot Jahath, and Jahath begot Ahumai and Lahad; these are the clans of the Soreathites.
3* And these are the father of ʽEtam, Jezreʽel and Ishma and Idbash (and their sister’s name was Haslelponi) 4 and Penuel the father of Gedor and ʽEzer the father of Hushah; these are the sons of Hur, eldest son of Ephrathah the father of Bethlehem. 5 And Ashhur the father of Tekoaʽ had two wives, Helah and Naʽarah; 6 and Naʽarah bore him Ahuzzam and Hepher and Temni and the Ahashtarite—these are Naʽarah’s sons; 7* and Helah’s sons were Sereth and Sohar and Ethnan and Kos, 8 and Kos begot ʽAnub and Hassobebah and the clans of Aharhel the son of Harum. 9 And Jaʽbes came to outrank his brothers; and his mother had named him Jaʽbes “because I had a hard time bearing him,” 10 but Jaʽbes called on the God of Israel, saying “If you will bless me and increase my territory, and your hand be with me, and you make pasturage so that I do not have hard times,” and God brought to pass what he asked.
11 And Kelub the brother of Shuhah begot Mehir; he was the father of Eshton, 12 and Eshton begot Beth-Rapha and Paseah and Tehinnah the father of ʽIr-Nahash; these were Recah’s men. 13 And Kenaz’s sons were Ghothniel and Serajah; and Ghothniel’s sons were Hathath and Meʽonothai, 14 and Meʽonothai begot Ghophrah; and Serajah begot Joab the father of Carpenters’ Valley—for they were carpenters.
15* And the sons of Caleb the son of Jephunneh were ʽIr and Elah and Naʽam; and Elah’s sons were Kenaz. 16 And Jehallelel’s sons were Ziph and Ziphah, Tirja and Asarel. 17* And ʽEzrah’s sons were Jether and Mered and ʽEpher and Jalon; and she conceived Miriam and Shammai and Ishbah the father of Eshtemoaʽ. 18* And his Judahite wife bore Jered the father of Gedor and Heber the father of Soco and Jekuthiel the father of Zanoah; and these are the sons of the Pharaoh’s daughter Bithiah, whom Mered married. 19 And the sons of Hodijah’s wife, the sister of Naham the father of Keʽilah, were the Garmite and Eshtemoaʽ the Maʽacathite. 20 And the sons of Shimon were Amnon and Rinnah, Ben-Hanan and Tilon; and the sons of Ishei were Zoheth, and Zoheth’s son. 21 And the sons of Judah’s son Shelah were ʽEr the father of Lecah and Laghdah the father of Mareshah, and the clans of the Beth-Ashbeaʽ linen factory, 22*** and Jokim and the men of Cozeba and Joash and Saraph who had Moab, and Jashubi-Lehem (the affairs are old-time ones). 23* These are the potters and those who lived at Netaim and Gederah; they lived there with the king on his business.
24 Simeon’s sons were Nemuel and Jamin, Jarib, Zerah, Saul, 25 Shallum his son, Mibsam his son, Mishmaʽ his son; 26 and Mishmaʽ’s sons were Hammuel his son, Zaccur his son, Shimei his son; 27 and Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters, but his brothers did not have many sons, and all their clans did not become numerous comparably to the sons of Judah. 28 And they lived at Beer-Shebaʽ and Moladah and Hasar-Shuʽal 29 and at Bilhah and at ʽEsem and at Tolad 30 and at Bethuel and at Hormah and at Siklag 31 and at Beth-Marcaboth and at Hasar-Susim and at Beth-Biri and at Shaʽaraim; these were their cities till David became king. 32 And their villages were ʽEtam and ʽAjin, Rimmon and Token and ʽAshan, five cities, 33 and all their villages around these cities up to Baʽal. This was their settlement, and they have their genealogies.
34 And Meshobab and Jamlec and Joshah the son of Amasiah 35 and Joel and Jehu the son of Joshibiah the son of Serajah the son of ʽAsiel 36 and Eljoʽenai and Jaʽakobah and Ishohajah and ʽAsajah and ʽAdiel and Isimiel and Benajah 37 and Ziza the son of Shiphei the son of Allon the son of Jedajah the son of Shimri the son of Shemaʽiah,— 38 these who come in by name were princes in their clans, and their families spread greatly. 39* And they went at the entrance to Gerar to east of the valley looking for pasturage for their sheep and goats, 40 and found good fat pasturage, and the country spacious and quiet and prosperous (for those who used to live there were from Ham), 41 and these men who have been written down by name went in there in the days of King Hezekiah of Judah and made havoc of their tents and the Meʽunites who were found there, and destroyed them without quarter to remain a desolation to this day, and settled in their place, because there was pasturage there for their sheep and goats. 42 And of them, of the sons of Simeon, five hundred men went to the highland of Seʽir, with Pelatiah and Na’ariah and Rephajah and ʽUzziel the sons of Ishei at their head, 43 and struck down the surviving remnant of ʽAmalek, and are living there to this day.
5 And the sons of Reuben, Israel’s eldest son (for he was the eldest, but at his profaning his father’s couch the status of eldest was given to the sons of Israel’s son Joseph, but the genealogy is not to follow the status. 2 For Judah rose to preeminence among his brothers, and a warden out of him; but the status of eldest belongs to Joseph)— 3 the sons of Reuben, Israel’s eldest son, were Hanoc and Pallu, Hesron and Carmi. 4 Joel’s sons were Shemaʽiah his son, Gog his son, Shimei his son, 5 Micah his son, Reajah his son, Baʽal his son, 6 Beerah his son, whom King Tiglath-Pilneser of Assyria deported; he was a prince of the Reubenites. 7 And his brothers by clans, in genealogy line by line, were Jeʽiel the chief and Zecariah 8 and Belaʽ the son of ʽAzaz the son of Shemaʽ the son of Joel—he lived at ʽAroʽer and up to Nebo and Baal-Meʽon, 9 and on the east he lived up into the wilderness in the direction of the river Euphrates, because their livestock had grown numerous in Gilead. 10 And in Saul’s days they made war with the Hagarites, and they fell by their hands, and they lived in their tents all along the east frontier of Gilead.
11 And the sons of Gad lived next them in the Bashan country up to Salcah: 12 Joel the chief, and Shapham the second, and Jaʽnai and Shaphat, in the Bashan; 13 and their brothers by their families, Micael and Meshullam and Shebaʽ and Jorai and Jaʽcan and Ziaʽ and ʽEber—seven. 14 These were the sons of Abihail the son of Huri the son of Jaroah the son of Gilead the son of Micael the son of Jeshishai the son of Jahdo the son of Buz. 15 Ahi the son of ʽAbdiel the son of Guni was chief for their families. 16 And they lived in Gilead, in the Bashan and its dependencies, and on all the downs of Sharon to the extremities of them. 17 All of them had their census taken in the time of King Jotham of Judah and of King Jeroboam of Israel: 18 of the sons of Reuben and Gadites and the half of the tribe of Manasseh, of stalwart men, men to bear shield and sword and to bend bows, and trained in fighting, there were forty-four thousand seven hundred and sixty militia. 19 And they made war with the Hagarites and Jetur and Naphish and Nodab, 20 and were helped against them, and the Hagarites and all who were with them were given into their hands, because they cried to God in the war and he let himself be invoked because they had confidence in him. 21 And they captured their livestock, fifty thousand of their camels and two hundred and fifty thousand sheep and goats and two hundred thousand donkeys, and a hundred thousand living human beings— 22 for many had fallen in the fighting, because the war was from God. And they lived in their place till the deportation.
23 And the sons of the half of the tribe of Manasseh lived in the country from Bashan to Baal-Hermon and Senir and Mount Hermon; they were numerous. 24* And these were the heads of their families: ʽEpher and Ishei and Eliel and ʽAzriel and Jeremiah and Hodaviah and Jahdiel, solid men, men of reputation, heads of their families. 25 But they were unfaithful to their fathers’ God and prostituted themselves to go after the gods of the peoples of the country, whom God had rooted out before them; 26 and Israel’s God excited the spirit of King Pul of Assyria and of King Tiglath-Pilneser of Assyria, and he deported them, the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half of the tribe of Manasseh, and brought them to Halah and Habor and Hara and the river of Gozan, where they are to this day.
6 Levi’s sons were Gershon, Kehath, and Merari; 2 and Kehath’s sons were ʽAmram, Ishar, and Hebron and ʽUzziel; 3 and ʽAmram’s sons were Aaron and Moses and Miriam; and Aaron’s sons were Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar. 4 Eleazar begot Pinehas; Pinehas begot Abishuaʽ; 5 and Abishuaʽ begot Bukki; and Bukki begot ʽUzzi; and 6 ʽUzzi begot Zerahiah; and Zerahiah begot Merajoth; 7 and Merajoth begot Amariah; and Amariah begot Ahitub; 8 and Ahitub begot Sadok; and Sadok begot Ahimaʽas; 9 and Ahimaʽas begot ʽAzariah; and ʽAzariah begot Johanan; 10 and Johanan begot ʽAzariah—he was the one who served as priest in the house that Solomon built in Jerusalem; 11 and ʽAzariah begot Amariah; and Amariah begot Ahitub; 12 and Ahitub begot Sadok; and Sadok begot Shallum; 13 and Shallum begot Hilkijah; and Hilkijah begot ʽAzariah; and 14 ʽAzariah begot Serajah; and Serajah begot Jehosadak; 15 and Jehosadak went when Jehovah caused Judah and Jerusalem to be deported by Nebucadnessar’s hands.
16 Levi’s sons were Gershom, Kehath, and Merari. 17 And these are the names of Gershom’s sons: Libni and Shimei; 18 and Kehath’s sons were ʽAmram and Ishar and Hebron and ʽUzziel; 19 and Merari’s sons were Mahli and Mushi. And these are the clans of the Levites, from their fathers.
20 Of Gershom’s, Libni his son, Jahath his son, Zimmah his son, 21 Joah his son, ʽIddo his son, Zerah his son, Jeathrai his son. 22* Kehath’s sons were ʽAmminadab his son, Korah his son, Assir his son, 23 Elkanah his son, and Ebjasaph his son, and Assir his son, 24 Tahath his son, Uriel his son, ʽUzzijah his son, and Saul his son. 25 And Elkanah’s sons were ʽAmasai and Ahimoth, 26 Elkanah his son, Suphai his son, and Nahath his son, 27 Eliab his son, Jeroham his son, Elkanah his son, Samuel his son; 28 and Samuel’s sons were Joel the eldest and Abijah the second. 29 Merari’s sons were Mahli, Libni his son, Shimei his son, ʽUzzah his son, 30 Shimea his son, Haggijah his son, Asajah his son.
31* And these are the ones David stationed over the singing of Jehovah’s house from the coming to rest of the ark, 32 and they were in service in song before the tabernacle of the tent of meeting until Solomon built Jehovah’s house in Jerusalem and they came to stand properly in their service. 33 And these are those who were stationed, and their sons: of the sons of the Kehathites, Heman the chorister the son of Joel the son of Samuel 34 the son of Elkanah the son of Jeroham the son of Eliel the son of Toah 35 the son of Suph the son of Elkanah the son of Mahath the son of ʽAmasai 36 the son of Elkanah the son of Joel the son of ʽAzariah the son of Sephaniah 37 the son of Tahath the son of Assir the son of Ebjasaph the son of Korah the 38 son of Ishar the son of Kehath the son of Levi the son of Israel, 39 and his brother Asaph who stood at his right hand, Asaph the son of Berekiah the son of Shimea 40 the son of Micael the son of Baghasejah the son of Malkijah 41 the son of Ethni the son of Zerah the son of ʽAdajah 42 the son of Ethan the son of Zimmah the son of Shimei 43 the son of Jahath the son of Gershom the son of Levi. 44 And Merari’s sons, their brothers, on the left hand: Ethan the son of Kishi the son of ʽAbdi the son of Malluc 45 the son of Hashabiah the son of Amasiah the son of Hilkijah 46 the son of Amsi the son of Bani the son of Shemer 47 the son of Mahli the son of Mushi the son of Merari the son of Levi.
48 And their brothers the Levites were given for all service of the tabernacle of God’s house; 49 and Aaron and his sons made burnings on the altar of burnt-offering and on the altar of incense for all the most sacred business and for purging Israel in accordance with all that God’s servant Moses commanded.
50 And these were Aaron’s sons: Eleazar his son, Pinehas his son, Abishuaʽ his son, 51 Bukki his son, ‘Uzzi his son, Zerahiah his son, 52 Merajoth his son, Amariah his son, Ahitub his son, 53 Sadok his son, Ahimaʽas his son.
54* And these were their domiciles by their encampments in their territory. For the sons of Aaron: for the Kehathite clans, because they had the lot, 55 they were given Hebron in the country of Judah and its glebes around it, 56 but the range of the city and its villages they gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh; 57* and to the sons of Aaron they gave the cities of asylum, Hebron, and Libnah and its glebes, and Jattir, and Eshtemoaʽ and its glebes, 58 and Hilen and its glebes, Debir and its glebes, 59* and ʽAshan and its glebes, and Juttah and its glebes, and Beth-Shemesh and its glebes, 60** and out of the tribe of Benjamin Gibeon and its glebes and Gebaʽ and its glebes and ʽAlemeth and its glebes and ʽAnathoth and its glebes; all their cities came to thirteen cities with their glebes. 61* And for the rest of the sons of Kehath by their clans, out of the tribe of Ephraim and out of the tribe of Dan and out of half the tribe of Manasseh by lot ten cities; 62 and for the sons of Gershom by their clans, out of the tribe of Issacar and out of the tribe of Asher and out of the tribe of Naphtali and out of the tribe of Manasseh in Bashan thirteen cities; 63 and for the sons of Merari by their clans, out of the tribe of Reuben and out of the tribe of Gad and out of the tribe of Zebulun by lot twelve cities.
64* And the sons of Israel gave to the Levites the cities and their glebes. 65 And they gave by lot out of the tribe of Judah and out of the tribe of Simeon and out of the tribe of Benjamin these cities which are to be named. 66* And for the clans of the sons of Kehath, the cities of their territory were, out of the tribe of Ephraim 67* they gave them the cities of asylum, Shekem and its glebes, in the Ephraim highland, and Gezer and its glebes, 68 and Jokneam and its glebes, and Beth-Horon and its glebes, 69 and Aijalon and its glebes, and Gath-Rimmon and its glebes, 70 and out of the half-tribe of Manasseh ʽAner and its glebes, and Ibleam and its glebes, for the clan of the rest of the sons of Kehath. 71 For the sons of Gershom, out of the clan of half the tribe of Manasseh Golan in the Bashan and its glebes, and ʽAshtaroth and its glebes, 72 and out of the tribe of Issacar Kedesh and its glebes, and Daberath and its glebes, 73 and Ramoth and its glebes, and ʽAnem and its glebes, 74 and out of the tribe of Asher Mashal and its glebes, and ʽAbdon and its glebes, 75 and Hukok and its glebes, and Rehob and its glebes, 76 and out of the tribe of Naphtali Kedesh in the Mark and its glebes, and Hammon and its glebes, and Kirjathaim and its glebes. 77* And for the rest of the sons of Merari, out of the tribe of Zebulun Jokneam and its glebes, and Kartah and its glebes, and Rimmono and its glebes, and Tabor and its glebes, 78 and on the other side of the Jordan at Jericho, east of the Jordan, out of the tribe of Reuben Beser in the wilderness and its glebes, and Jahsah and its glebes, 79 and Kedemoth and its glebes, and Mephaʽath and its glebes, 80 and out of the tribe of Gad Ramoth in Gilead and its glebes, and Mahanaim and its glebes, 81 and Heshbon and its glebes, and Jaʽzer and its glebes.
7 And Issacar’s sons were Tolaʽ and Puah, Jashib and Shimron, four of them. 2* And Tolaʽ’s sons were ʽUzzi and Rephajah and Jeriel and Jahmai and Ibsam, heads of their families of Tolaʽ’s, solid men; line by line, their number in David’s time was twenty-two thousand and six hundred. 3 And ʽUzzi’s sons were Izrahiah; and Izrahiah’s sons were Micael and ʽObadiah and Joel and Isshijah—five, all heads; and about them, 4* line by line by families, raiding bands for military service, thirty-six thousand, because they had numerous wives and sons. 5 And of their brothers of all the clans of Issacar, stalwart men, there were eighty-seven thousand. All had their genealogical register.
6 Benjamin’s sons were Belaʽ and Beker and Jediʽael, three of them. 7* And Belaʽ’s sons were Esbon and ʽUzzi and ʽUzziel and Jerimoth and ʽIri, five, heads of families, stalwart men, and their genealogical register was twenty-two thousand and thirty-four. 8 And Beker’s sons were Zemirah and Joghash and Eliʽezer and Eljoʽenai and ʽOmri and Jeremoth and Abijah and ʽAnathoth and ʽAlemeth; all these were Beker’s sons, 9 and their genealogical register, line by line, heads of families, was twenty thousand and two hundred. 10 And Jediʽael’s sons were Bilhan, and Bilhan’s were Jeghush and Benjamin and Ehud and Kenaʽanah and Zethan and Tarshish and Ahishahar; 11 all these were Jediʽael’s sons by heads of families, stalwart men, seventeen thousand and two hundred who came out with the militia for war. 12*** And Shuppim and Huppim were sons of ʽIr; Hushim were sons of Aher.
13 The sons of Naphtali were Jahsiel and Guni and Jeser and Shallum, the sons of Bilhah.
14*** The sons of Manasseh, whom his Syrian concubine bore: she bore Makir the father of Gilead. 15** And Makir took a wife for Huppim and Shuppim, and his sister’s name was Maʽacah; and the second son’s name was Silpahad, and Silpahad had daughters. 16 And Makir’s wife Maʽacah bore a son and named him Peresh, and his brother’s name was Sheresh, and his sons were Ulam and Rekem, 17 and Ulam’s sons were Bedan; these are the sons of Gilead the son of Makir the son of Manasseh. 18 And his sister Hammoleketh bore Ishhod and Abiʽezer and Mahlah. 19 And Shemidaʽ’s sons were Ahjan and Shekem and Likhi and Aniʽam.
20 And Ephraim’s sons were Shuthelah and Bered his son and Tahath his son and Eleadah his son and Tahath his son 21 and Zabad his son and Shuthelah his son, and ʽEzer and Elead; and the men of Gath who were born in the country killed them, because they went down to take their livestock; 22 and their father Ephraim mourned a long time, and his brothers came to comfort him. 23 And he went in to his wife, and she conceived and had a son, and he named him Beriʽah because it was going badly with his family. 24 And his daughter was Sheerah; and she built Beth-Horon, the lower and the upper, and Uzzen-Sheerah. 25 And Rephah was his son, and Resheph, and Telah his son, and Tahan his son, 26 Laghdan his son, ʽAmmihud his son, Elishamaʽ his son, 27 Nun his son, Joshuaʽ his son.
28 And their properties and domiciles were Bethel and its dependencies, and on the east Naʽaran, and on the west Gezer and its dependencies, and Shekem and its dependencies, to Ghaijah and its dependencies. 29 And in the hands of the sons of Manasseh were Beth-Shean and its dependencies, Taʽanac and its dependencies, Megiddo and its dependencies, Dor and its dependencies. In these lived the sons of Joseph the son of Israel.
30 Asher’s sons were Imnah and Ishvah and Ishvi and Beriʽah and their sister Serah; 31 and Beriʽah’s sons were Heber and Malkiel—he was the father of Birzoth; 32 and Heber begot Japhlet and Shomer and Hotham and their sister Shuʽah; 33 and Japhlet’s sons were Pasac and Bimhal and ʽAshvath—these were Japhlet’s sons; 34* and his brother Shemer’s sons were Rohgah and Hubbah and Aram; 35 and his brother Helem’s sons were Sophah and Imnaʽ and Shelesh and ʽAmal, 36 and Sophah’s sons were Suah and Harnepher and Shughal and Beri and Imrah, 37 Beser and Hod and Shamma and Shilshah and Ithran and Beera, 38 and Jether’s sons were Jephunneh and Pispah and Ara, 39 and ʽUlla’s sons were Arah and Hanniel and Risja. 40* All these were Asher’s sons, the heads of families, sifted out, solid men, heads of the princes, and their genealogical register was by militia service in war; their number was twenty-six thousand men.
8 And Benjamin begot Belaʽ his eldest, Ashbel the second, and Ahrah the third, 2 Nohah the fourth, and Rapha the fifth. 3 And Belaʽ had sons, Addar and Gera and Abihud 4 and Abishuaʽ and Naʽaman and Ahoah 5 and Gera and Shephuphan and Huram. 6* And these are Ehud’s sons; these are heads of families of the inhabitants of Gebaʽ, but they deported them to Manahath, 7 and Naʽaman and Ahijah and Gera; he deported them; and he begot ʽUzza and Ahihud. 8 And Shaharaim begot in the Moabite countryside, from his sending them—his wives Hushim and Baʽara—away, he begot, 9 from his wife Hodesh, Jobab and Sibja and Mesha and Malcam 10 and Jeghus and Sacjah and Mirmah; these were his sons, heads of families. 11 And from Hushim he begot Abitub and Elpaʽal; 12 and Elpaʽal’s sons were ʽEber and Misheam and Shemed—he built Ono and Lod and its dependencies— 13 and Beriʽah and Shemaʽ; they were heads of families of the inhabitants of Aijalon; they drove the inhabitants of Gath into flight; 14* and his brother Shashak and Jeremoth 15 and Zebadiah and ʽArad and ʽEder 16 and Micael and Ishpah and Joha, the sons of Beriʽah; 17 and Zebadiah and Meshullam and Hizki and Heber 18 and Ishmerai and Izliah and Jobab, the sons of Elpaʽal; 19 and Jakim and Zicri and Zabdi 20 and Eliʽenai and Sillethai and Eliel 21 and ʽAdajah and Beraiah and Shimrath, the sons of Shimei; 22 and Ishpan and ʽEber and Eliel 23 and ʽAbdon and Zicri and Hanan 24 and Hananiah and ʽElam and ʽAnathothijah 25 and Iphdejah and Peniel, the sons of Shashak; 26 and Shamsherai and Shehariah and ʽAthaliah 27 and Jaghareshiah and Elijah and Zicri, the sons of Jeroham. 28 These were heads of families line by line, headmen; these lived in Jerusalem.
29 And at Gibeon lived Jeʽiel the father of Gibeon, whose wife’s name was Maʽacah, 30 and his eldest son ʽAbdon and Sur and Kish and Baʽal and Ner and Nadab 31 and Gedor and Ahjo and Zeker 32 and Mikloth; and Mikloth begot Shimah, and they too lived fronting their brothers at Jerusalem with their brothers. 33 And Ner begot Kish, and Kish begot Saul, and Saul begot Jonathan and Malki-Shuaʽ and Abinadab and Eshbaal, 34 and Jonathan’s son was Meribaal, and Meribaal begot Micah; 35 and Micah’s sons were Pithon and Melec and Tareaʽ and Ahaz, 36 and Ahaz begot Jehoʽaddah, and Jehoʽaddah begot ʽAlemeth and ʽAzmaveth and Zimri, and Zimri begot Mosa, 37 and Mosa begot Binea; Raphah his son, Eleasah his son, Asel his son; 38 and Asel had six sons, and these are their names: ʽAzrikam, Bokeru, and Ishmaʽel and Sheʽariah and ʽObadiah and Hanan—all these were Asel’s sons; 39 and his brother ʽEsek’s sons were Ulam his eldest, Jeghush the second, and Eliphelet the third. 40 And Ulam’s sons were stalwart men, archers, with many sons and grandsons, a hundred and fifty of them. All these were Benjamin’s sons.
9 And all Israel was genealogically listed, and will be found set down in the book of the kings of Israel. And Judah was deported to Babylon for their unfaithfulness. 2 And the first residents, who were on their properties in their cities, were Israel, the priests, the Levites, and the temple-servants.
3 And there lived in Jerusalem, of the sons of Judah and of the sons of Benjamin and of the sons of Ephraim and Manasseh, 4 Ghuthai the son of ʽAmmihud the son of ʽOmri the son of Imri the son of Bani, of the sons of Peres the son of Judah; 5* and of the Shelanites ʽAsajah the eldest and his sons; 6 and of the sons of Zerah Jeʽuel; and their brothers, six hundred and ninety. 7 And of the sons of Benjamin Sallu the son of Meshullam the son of Hodaviah the son of Hassenuah, 8 and Ibnejah the son of Jeroham, and Elah the son of ʽUzzi the son of Micri, and Meshullam the son of Shephatiah the son of Reghuel the son of Ibnijah, 9 and their brothers, line by line, nine hundred and fifty-six; all these were men that were ancestral heads of their families. 10 And of the priests Jedaʽiah and Jehojarib and Jakin 11 and ʽAzariah the son of Hilkijah the son of Meshullam the son of Sadok the son of Merajoth the son of Ahitub, warden of the house of God, 12 and ʽAdajah the son of Jeroham the son of Pashhur the son of Malkijah, and Maʽasai the son of ʽAdiel the son of Jahzerah the son of Meshullam the son of Meshillemith the son of Immer, 13 and their brothers, heads of their families, seventeen hundred and sixty, men stalwart for the business of the service of the house of God. 14 And of the Levites Shemaʽiah the son of Hasshub the son of ʽAzrikam the son of Hashabiah of the sons of Merari, 15 and Bakbakkar, Heresh, and Galal and Mattaniah the son of Mica the son of Zicri the son of Asaph, 16 and ʽObadiah the son of Shemaʽiah the son of Galal the son of Jeduthun, and Berekiah the son of Asa the son of Elkanah who lived in the Netophathite villages.
17 And the gatemen were Shallum and ʽAkkub and Talmon and Ahiman and their brothers; Shallum was the head, 18 and is till now at the king’s gate on the east. They were the gatemen for the camp of the sons of Levi, 19 and Shallum the son of Kore the son of Ebjasaph the son of Korah and his brothers for their family the Korahites over the business of the service, the threshold-guards for the Tent, and their fathers over Jehovah’s camp, the entrance-guards. 20 Pinehas the son of Eleazar was warden over them formerly—Jehovah be with him; 21 Zecariah the son of Meshelemiah was gateman at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting. 22 All of them, the eligibles for gatemen at the thresholds, came to two hundred and twelve; their genealogical listing was done in their villages. Them David and Samuel the seer had established in their trust, 23 and they and their sons were over the gates for Jehovah’s house, for the tent-house; 24* the gatemen were by watches on the four sides, east, west, north, and south, 25* and their brothers were in their villages to come in for seven days periodically with these, 26** for they were on honor. Those were the four sergeants of the gatemen.
The Levites were over the vestries and over the storerooms in the house of God, 27* and lodged around the house of God at night, because they were under a responsibility and had charge of the opening morning by morning; 28 and some of them were over the implements for the service, for they passed them in by count and passed them out by count, 29 and some of them were assigned to be over the furnishings and over all the sacred vessels and over the farina and the wine and the oil and the frankincense and the spices. 30 But some of the sons of the priests did the preparation of the spices; 31 and Mattithiah, one of the Levites (he was the eldest-born of Shallum the Korahite), was entrusted with the pancake-making; 32 and some of the sons of the Kehathites, brothers of theirs, were over the stacked bread, to prepare it sabbath by sabbath.
33** And these are the singers, Levite heads of families, exempt from service in the vestries because day and night they were under obligation in their function:—
34 These were Levite heads of families line by line, headmen; these lived in Jerusalem.
35 And at Gibeon lived the father of Gibeon, Jeʽiel, whose wife’s name was Maʽacah, 36 and his eldest son ʽAbdon and Sur and Kish and Baʽal and Ner and Nadab 37 and Gedor and Ahjo and Zecariah and Mikloth; 38 and Mikloth begot Shimam, and they too lived fronting their brothers at Jerusalem with their brothers. 39 And Ner begot Kish, and Kish begot Saul, and Saul begot Jonathan and Malki-Shuaʽ and Abinadab and Eshbaal, 40 and Jonathan’s son was Meribaal, and Meribaal begot Micah; 41 and Micah’s sons were Pithon and Melec and Tahreaʽ and Ahaz, 42 and Ahaz begot Jaʽdah, and Jaʽdah begot ʽAlemeth and ʽAzmaveth and Zimri, and Zimri begot Mosa, 43 and Mosa begot Binea and Rephajah his son, Eleasah his son, Asel his son; 44 and Asel had six sons, and these are their names: ʽAzrikam, Bokeru, and Ishmaʽel and Sheʽariah and ʽObadiah and Hanan—these were Asel’s sons.
10 And the Philistines fought the Israelites, and the men of Israel ran before the Philistines, and fell stabbed through on Mount Gilboaʽ. 2 And the Philistines kept close after Saul and his sons; and the Philistines killed Saul’s sons Jonathan and Abinadab and Malki-Shuaʽ. 3 And the onslaught on Saul was fierce, and the archers hit him, and he was hurt by the archers. 4 And Saul said to his squire “Draw your sword and run me through with it, for fear these uncircumcised fellows should come and amuse themselves with me”; but his squire would not, because he was too much afraid. But Saul took his sword and threw himself on it; 5 and his squire saw that Saul was dead, and he too threw himself on his own sword and died. 6 And Saul and his three sons and all his household died. 7 And all the men of Israel in the Vale saw that they had fled and that Saul and his sons were dead, and they left their cities and fled, and the Philistines came and lived in the cities.
8 And on the next day the Philistines came to strip the killed, and found Saul and his sons fallen on Mount Gilboaʽ; 9 and they stripped him and took his head and his equipment and sent them around through the Philistine country to bring the news to their idols and the people, 10 and put his equipment in the temple of their god; and his skull they pegged up in the temple of Dagon.
11 And all Jabesh in Gilead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul; 12* and all the bravest men set out and took up the remains of Saul and his sons and brought them to Jabesh, and buried their bones under the terebinth tree at Jabesh, and fasted seven days.
13 And Saul died for his unfaithfulness that he had committed against Jehovah as to Jehovah’s word which he did not observe, and also in that he asked for a medium to inquire of, 14 and did not inquire of Jehovah, and he brought him to death and diverted the kingship to David the son of Jesse.
11 And all Israel gathered to David at Hebron saying “Here we are, your flesh and blood. 2 Even formerly, even when Saul was king, it was you that led Israel out and in; and your God Jehovah said to you ‘You shall be shepherd of my people Israel, you shall be warden over my people Israel.’” 3 And all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron, and David gave pledges to them at Hebron before Jehovah, and they anointed David king over Israel in accordance with Jehovah’s word by Samuel,
4 And David and all Israel went to Jerusalem, that is, Jebus; and the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the country, were there. 5 And the inhabitants of Jebus said to David “You will not get in here.” And David took the fastness of Sion, what is now David’s City. 6 And David said “Anyone who strikes down a Jebusite first shall be chief and captain”; and Joab the son of Serujah was first up, and became chief. 7 And David fixed his residence in the fastness (that is why they call it David’s City) 8* and built the fortifications of the city all round, from the Millo the full circuit, and Joab renewed the remainder of the city. 9 And David grew greater and greater, and Jehovah of Armies was with him.
10 And these were David’s chief champions who were active in his service in his reign over all Israel, to make him king in accordance with Jehovah’s word by Samuel. 11* And this is the count of the champions David had: Ishbaal the son of Hacmoni, head of the Thirty; he brandished his spear over three hundred killed at one time. 12 And next to him Eleazar the son of Dodo the Ahohite; he was among the Three Champions; 13 he had been with David at Pas-Dammim, and the Philistines had come together there for war, and there was a field full of barley, and the people had fled from the Philistines; 14 and he took his stand in the middle of the field and rescued it; and they defeated the Philistines, and Jehovah granted a great victory.
15 And three of the Chief Thirty went down to the rock to David at the cave of ʽAdullam, when a Philistine army was camping in Ghost Hollow; 16* and David was in the fastness then, and the Philistine prefect was then at Bethlehem. 17 And David was taken with a craving, and said “I wish I had a drink of water out of the Bethlehem well at the gate”; 18 and the three burst through the Philistine camp and drew water out of the Bethlehem well at the gate and carried it away to David. But David would not drink it, but poured it out as an offering to Jehovah, 19* and said “My God forbid the thought of my doing this: shall I drink these men’s blood with their lives in it?” because they had brought it at the risk of their lives; and he would not drink it.
These things the three champions did.
20 And Joab’s brother Abishai, he was head of the Three; and he brandished his spear over three hundred killed, and used to be named among the Three. 21* He was more honored in fame than the Three, and became captain over them, but he did not get into the Three.
22 Benajah the son of Jehojadaʽ, a man of mettle and of many exploits, from Kabseel: it was he who killed the two Ariels of Moab, and who went down and killed the lion in the cistern on the day of the snowstorm, 23 and who killed the Egyptian, a tall man, seven and a half feet, the Egyptian having in his hand a spear like a weaver’s pole and he going down to him with a cudgel and snatching the spear out of the Egyptian’s hand and killing him with his own spear. 24 These things Benajah the son of Jehojadaʽ did, and used to be named among the Three Champions; 25 he was, be it noted, more honored than the Thirty, but did not get into the Three; but David set him over his guard.
26 And the champions of the troops: Joab’s brother ʽAsahel, Elhanan the son of Dodo from Bethlehem, 27 Shammoth the Harodite, Heles the Pelonite, 28 ʽIra the son of ʽIkkesh the Tekoʽite, Abiʽezer the ʽAnathothite, 29 Sibbecai the Hushathite, ʽIlai the Ahohite, 30 Maharai the Netophathite, Heled the son of Baʽanah the Netophathite, 31 Ithai the son of Ribai from Gibeah of the Benjamites, Benajah the Pireathonite, 32 Hurai from the Gaʽash ravines, Abiel the ʽArbathite, 33 ʽAzmaveth the Baharumite, Eljahba the Shaʽalbonite, 34 the sons of Hashem the Gizonite, Jonathan the son of Shagah the Hararite, 35 Ahiam the son of Sacar the Hararite, Eliphal the son of Ur, 36 Hepher the Mekerathite, Ahijah the Pilonite, 37 Hesro the Carmelite, Naʽarai the son of Ezbai, 38 Joel the brother of Nathan, Mibhar the son of Hagri, 39 Selek the ʽAmmonite, Naharai the Beerothite, squire to Joab the son of Serujah, 40 ʽIra the Jetherite, Gareb the Jetherite, 41 Urijah the Hittite, Zabad the son of Ahlai, 42** ʽAdina the son of Shiza the Reubenite, a chief of the Reubenites and about him thirty, 43 Hanan the son of Maʽacah and Joshaphat the Mathnite, 44 ʽUzija the ʽAshterathite, Shamaʽ and Jeʽuel the sons of Hotham the ʽAroʽerite, 45 Jediʽael the son of Shimri and his brother Joha the Tisite, 46* Eliel the Mahumite and Jeribai and Joshaviah the sons of Elnaʽam, and Ithmah the Moabite, 47* Eliel and ʽObed and Jaʽasiel the Mesobajah.
12 And these are those who came to David at Siklag while he was still under ban from Saul the son of Kish; and they were among the champions, a great help in battle, 2 armed with bows, using both right and left hand to send stones and arrows with the bow, brothers of Saul’s from Benjamin: 3 Ahiʽezer the chief and Joash, the sons of Hasshemaʽah the Gibeathite, and Jeziel and Pelet the sons of ʽAzmaveth, and Beracah, and Jehu the ʽAnathothite, 4 and Ishmaʽiah the Gibeonite, a champion among the Thirty and over the Thirty, and Jeremiah and Jahaziel and Johanan and Jozabad the Gederathite, 5 Eleuzai and Jerimoth and Beʽaliah and Shemariah and Shephatiah the Hariphite, 6 Elkanah and Isshijah and ʽAzarel and Joʽezer and Jashobeam the Korahites, 7 and Joʽelah and Zebadiah the sons of Jeroham from Gedor.
8* And of the Gadites there broke away to David at the fastness in the wilderness the stoutest champions, men to fight in the army, to stand in line with shield and pike, with faces like lions’ faces and in swiftness like gazelles on the mountains, 9 ʽEzer the first, ʽObadiah the second, Eliab the third, 10 Mishmannah the fourth, Jeremiah the fifth, 11 ʽAttai the sixth, Eliel the seventh, 12 Johanan the eighth, Elzabad the ninth, 13* Jeremiah the tenth, Macbannai the eleventh. 14 These were sons of Gad, heads in army service, one for a hundred the least and the greatest for a thousand. 15* These were the ones who crossed the Jordan in the first month when it was filling its floodplain and drove back all the vales to east and to west.
16 And there came some of the sons of Benjamin and Judah to David at the fastness; 17* and David came out before them and answered them “If you have come amicably to me to help me, I will be one in heart with you; but if to cheat me for my foes, for no injury at my hands, let the God of our fathers see and give his verdict.” 18 And ʽAmasai, head of the thirty, was inspired: “For you, David, and with you, son of Jesse; peace, peace to you and peace to your helpers, because your God helps you.” And David received them and put them among the heads of the raiders.
19* And of Manasseh there fell off to David when he came with the Philistines to the battle against Saul (but he did not help them, because on advice the Sarns of the Philistines sent him away, thinking “He will come down on our heads, deserting to his master Saul”); 20 when he was on his way to Siklag there fell off to him, of Manasseh, ʽAdnah and Jozabad and Jediʽael and Micael and Jozabad and Elihu and Sillethai, the chiefs of thousands of Manasseh; 21 and they helped David against the raiders, for all of them were stalwart champions; and they became captains in the army. 22** At every time, day by day, there came to David to help him so many as to make a great camp, like God’s camp.
23** And these are the numbers of the heads of the body armed for service that came to David in Hebron to turn over Saul’s kingship to him in accordance with Jehovah’s voice:
24 Sons of Judah, carrying shield and pike, sixty-eight hundred armed for service.
25 Of the sons of Simeon, stalwart champions for the service, seventy-one hundred.
26 Of the sons of the Levites, forty-six hundred, 27 and Jehojadaʽ the warden for Aaron and with him thirty-seven hundred, 28 and Sadok, a youth, a stalwart champion, and his family, twenty-two captains.
29 And of the sons of Benjamin, Saul’s brothers, three thousand; but up to then the majority of them were maintaining allegiance to Saul’s family.
30 And of the sons of Ephraim twenty thousand and eight hundred, stalwart men, men of reputation in their families.
31 And of the half-tribe of Manasseh eighteen thousand who were picked out by name to come to make David king.
32 And of the sons of Issacar, men with sagacious knowledge of times to know what Israel was to do, their heads two hundred and all their brothers following their directions.
33* And of Zebulun, men who went out on service, who went into line of battle with all fighting equipment, five thousand, and to hold with no halfheartedness.
34 And of Naphtali a thousand captains, and with them, with shield and spear, thirty-seven thousand.
35 And of the Danites, men who went into line of battle, twenty-eight thousand and six hundred.
36 And of Asher, men who went out in service entering line of battle, forty thousand.
37 And from across the Jordan, of the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh, with all equipment for service in war, a hundred and twenty thousand.
38 All these were fighting men who would hold in line of battle with whole heart, who had come to Hebron to make David king over all Israel; and the remainder of Israel too was unanimously for making David king. 39 And they were there with David three days, eating and drinking; for their brothers had made preparations for them, 40 and also those who were near them, out to Issacar and Zebulun and Naphtali, were bringing provisions on donkeys and camels and mules and cows, flour products and cakes of figs and clusters of raisins and wine and oil and cattle and sheep and goats in quantities, because there was merrymaking in Israel.
13 And David consulted with the captains of thousands and of hundreds, every official; 2* and David said to all the assembly of Israel “If you think it best, and it is sanctioned by our God Jehovah, let us send to the remainder of our brothers in all parts of the land of Israel, and with them the Levite priests in their glebe cities, and have them gather to us, 3 and we will get the ark of our God over to us; for we did not look it up in Saul’s time.” 4 And all the assembly said they should do so, because the proposal suited all the people.
5 And David assembled all Israel from the Delta River in Egypt to Lebo-Hamath to bring the ark of God from Kirjath-Jeʽarim; 6* and David and all Israel went up to Baalah, to Kirjath-Jeʽarim, which belongs to Judah, to bring up from there the ark of God Jehovah who sits upon the cherubs, which happened to be there. 7* And they took the ark of God in a new cart out of Abinadab’s house; and ʽUzza and Ahjo were driving for the cart, 8* and David and all Israel were playing before God with all energy and with songs and with lyres and harps and tambourines and cymbals and trumpets. 9* And they came to Kidon’s threshing-floor, and ʽUzza put out his hand to hold the ark, because the oxen jolted it. 10 And Jehovah was angry with ʽUzza, and smote him down for having put out his hand to the ark, and he died there before God. 11 And David was shocked that Jehovah had scathed ʽUzza, and called that place ʽUzza’s Scathe, which name it bears to this day. 12 And David became afraid of God that day, thinking “How can I bring the ark of God to my home?” 13 And David did not move the ark to his home in David’s City, but took it into the house of ʽObed-Edom the Gathite. 14* And the ark of God remained with ʽObed-Edom’s family in his house three months, and Jehovah blessed ʽObed-Edom’s family and everything that belonged to him.
14 And King Hiram of Tyre sent envoys to David, and cedar timber and masons and carpenters to build him a house. 2 And David knew that Jehovah had established him as king over Israel because his empire was exalted on high for the sake of his people Israel. 3 And David took more wives at Jerusalem; and David begot more children. 4 And these are the names of the sons he had at Jerusalem: Shammuaʽ and Shobab, Nathan and Solomon 5 and Ibhar and Elishuaʽ and Elphelet 6 and Nogah and Nepheg and Japhiaʽ 7 and Elishamaʽ and Beʽeljadaʽ and Eliphelet.
8 And the Philistines heard that David had been anointed king over all Israel; 9 and all the Philistines came up to look for David; 10 and David heard of it and went out before them. And the Philistines had come and spread out in Ghost Hollow; and David put the question to God “Shall I go up against the Philistines, and will you give them into my hands?” and Jehovah said to him “Go up, and I will give them into your hands.” 11 And they went up at Baal-Perasim, and David defeated them there; and David said “God has burst my enemies by my hands like a bursting dam”; hence the place is named Baal-Perasim, “Baal of bursts.” 12 And they left their gods there, and by David’s orders they were burned up.
13 And again the Philistines spread out in the vale, 14* and David again questioned God, and God said to him “Do not go up behind them; make a circuit away from them and come to them opposite the pear-trees, 15 so that when you hear the sound of stepping in the tops of the pear-trees, then you may come out with an attack because God has gone out before you to strike down the Philistine army.” 16 And David did as God ordered, and they routed the Philistine army from Gibeon to Gezer. 17 And David’s fame went out through all countries, and Jehovah put the dread of him upon all nations.
15 And he made himself houses in David’s City, and prepared a place for the ark of God and pitched a tent for it. 2* Then David said “There should nobody carry the ark of God but the Levites, because they were the ones Jehovah chose for carrying the ark of God and for tending it forever.” 3 And David assembled all Israel at Jerusalem to bring the ark of Jehovah up to its place which he had prepared for it.
4 And David brought together the sons of Aaron and the Levites: 5 for the sons of Kehath, Uriel the chief, and a hundred and twenty his brothers; 6 for the sons of Merari, ʽAsajah the chief, and a hundred and twenty his brothers; 7 for the sons of Gershom, Joel the chief, and a hundred and thirty his brothers; 8 for the sons of Elisaphan, Shemaʽiah the chief, and two hundred his brothers; 9 for the sons of Hebron, Eliel the chief, and eighty his brothers; 10 for the sons of ʽUzziel, ʽAmminadab the chief, and a hundred and twelve his brothers. 11 And David called the priests Sadok and Abiathar, and the Levites Uriel, ʽAsajah, and Joel, Shemaʽiah and Eliel and ʽAmminadab, 12 and said to them “You are the Levite heads of families; hallow yourselves, you and your brothers, and bring up the ark of Israel’s God Jehovah to what I have prepared for it. 13* For because it was not you the first time our God Jehovah scathed us because we did not attend to it in the regular way.” 14 And the priests and Levites hallowed themselves to bring up the ark of Israel’s God Jehovah; 15 and the sons of the Levites carried the ark of God, as Moses had commanded in accordance with Jehovah’s word, on their shoulders by poles over them.
16 And David told the chiefs of the Levites to station their brothers the singers with musical instruments, harps and lyres and sonorous cymbals to make a high sound of gladness. 17 And the Levites stationed Heman the son of Joel, and of his brothers Asaph the son of Berekiah, and of their brothers the sons of Merari Ethan the son of Kushajah, 18 and with them their brothers to take second parts, Zecariah and Jaʽaziel and Shemiramoth and Jehiel and ʽUnni and Eliab and Benajah and Maʽasejah and Mattithiah and Eliphelehu and Miknejah and ʽObed-Edom and Jeʽiel the gatemen; 19 and the singers Heman, Asaph, and Ethan were with bronze cymbals to clang, 20* and Zecariah and ʽAziel and Shemiramoth and Jehiel and ‘Unni and Eliab and Maʽasejah and Benajah with harps of high pitch, 21* and Mattithiah and Eliphelehu and Miknejah and ʽObed-Edom and Jeʽiel and ʽAzaziah with lyres of bass pitch to keep the time. 22 And Kenaniah, chief of the Levites in carrying, was manager about the carrying, because he had good judgment; 23 and Berekiah and Elkanah were gatemen for the ark; 24 and the priests Shebaniah and Joshaphat and Nethanel and ʽAmasai and Zecariah and Benajah and Eliʽezer blew the trumpets before the ark of God; and ʽObed-Edom and Jehijah were gatemen for the ark. 25 And David and the elders of Israel and the captains of thousands were the marchers to bring the ark of Jehovah’s covenant up from ʽObed-Edom’s house with festivity.
26 And when God helped the Levites who carried the ark of Jehovah’s covenant, they sacrificed seven steers and seven rams. 27* And David was attired in a linen robe, and all the Levites who carried the ark and the singers and Kenaniah the chief of the carrying of the singers; and David had a linen ephod on him. 28 And all Israel brought up the ark of Jehovah’s covenant with cheering and blasts of ram-horns and with trumpets and with sonorous cymbals and with harps and lyres. 29 And when the ark of Jehovah’s covenant came to David’s City, Mical the daughter of Saul looked out through the window and saw King David dancing and playing, and felt a contempt for him.
16 And they brought the ark of God in and set it in the tent David had pitched for it, and presented burnt-offerings and welfare-sacrifices before God. 2 And when David finished offering the burnt-offering and the welfare-sacrifices he blessed the people in the name of Jehovah, 3* and distributed to all the men of Israel, women as well as men, a biscuit apiece and a steak and a cake of raisins.
4 And he put before the ark of Jehovah some of the Levites as attendants and to sing for the memorial and give thanks and praise to Israel’s God Jehovah: 5* Asaph the head, and second under him Zecariah, Jeʽiel and Shemiramoth and Jehiel and Mattithiah and Eliab and Benajah and ʽObed-Edom and Jeʽiel, with instruments, harps and lyres and Asaph sounding cymbals, 6 and the priests Benajah and Jahaziel with perpetual trumpets before the ark of God’s covenant. 7 On that day David then first put the giving of thanks to Jehovah into the hands of Asaph and his brothers:
8 “Thank Jehovah, proclaim his name,
make known among the peoples his deeds;
9 Sing for him, make music for him,
review all his wonders,
10 Boast of his holy name,
let the hearts of those who seek Jehovah be glad.
11 Look to Jehovah and his strength;
always be looking for his face.
12 Remember his wonders that he has done,
his miracles and the judgments of his mouth,
13 You descendants of his servant Israel,
sons of Jacob, his chosen ones.
14 He is our God Jehovah,
his judgments run throughout the earth.
16 Which he undertook with Abraham,
and Isaac had his oath,
17 And he confirmed it to be a decree for Jacob,
a perpetual covenant for Israel,
18 ‘To you I will give Canaan
as your definite estate,’
19 When they were few in number,
a mere handful, and immigrants in it,
20 And going about from nation to nation,
and from a kingdom to another people.
21 He did not let any man deny them justice,
but reproved kings on their account,
22 ‘Do not touch my anointed ones
nor harm my prophets.’
23 Sing for Jehovah, all the earth!
Tell the good news of his salvation day after day,
24 Tell the tale of his glory among the nations,
among all the peoples his wondrous feats,
25 Because Jehovah is great and high-praised,
and he is terrible over all gods,
26 For all the peoples’ gods are trumperies,
but Jehovah made the skies.
27 Majesty and splendor are before him,
strength and glee in the place where he is.
28 Give to Jehovah, clans of peoples,
give to Jehovah glory and might!
29 Give to Jehovah the glory that belongs to his name;
carry an offering, and come in before him.
Do reverence to Jehovah in stately sacred garb;
30 tremble before him, all the earth,
be the world established too, not to be disturbed.
31 Let the heavens be glad and the earth jubilant,
and let them say among the nations ‘Jehovah is king!’
32 Let the sea and what fills it thunder,
let the fields and everything in them exult,
33 Then let the trees on the rocks shout,
before Jehovah, because he has come to judge the earth!
34 Thank Jehovah, because he is good,
because his friendship lasts forever,
35 And let them say ‘Save us, God of our salvation,
and gather us and deliver us out of the nations,
To give thanks to your holy name,
to glory in your praise.
36 Blessed be Israel’s God Jehovah
from eternity to eternity.’”
And all the people said “Amen” and gave praise to Jehovah.
37 And he left there before the ark of Jehovah’s covenant Asaph and his brothers to officiate regularly before the ark, giving the daily service each day, 38* and ʽObed-Edom the son of Jeduthun and Hosah and their brothers, sixty-eight of them, for gatemen; 39 and before Jehovah’s tabernacle at the height in Gibeon 40 Priest Sadok to offer burnt-offerings to Jehovah on the altar of burnt-offering regularly morning and evening, and for everything that is written in Jehovah’s code which he commanded to Israel, 41 and with them Heman and Jeduthun and the remainder of the sifted men who have been specified by name, to give thanks to Jehovah because his friendship lasts forever, 42* and with them trumpets and cymbals for sounding and the instruments for the sacred songs, and Jeduthun’s sons for the gate. 43 And all the people went to their several homes, and David went around to bless his family.
17 And when David had sat down in his house, David said to the prophet Nathan “Here I am living in the cedar house, but the ark of Jehovah’s covenant is under curtains.” 2 And Nathan said to David “Whatever you have in mind do; for God is with you.”
3 But that night God’s word came to Nathan 4 “Go and say to my servant David ‘Says Jehovah, Are you to build me the house to live in? 5* for I have never lived in a house from the day that I brought Israel up until this day, but have been from tent to tent, and from tabernacle. 6 In all my going about in all Israel did I ever speak with one of the judges of Israel whom I commissioned to be shepherds of my people Israel to say “Why have you not built me a cedar house?”’ 7 And now you are to say to my servant David ‘Says Jehovah of Armies, I took you from the pasture, from following the sheep, to be warden over my people Israel, 8 and I was with you wherever you went and exterminated all your enemies before you; and I will make you a name like the names of the great of the earth, 9 and will fix a place for my people Israel and plant them, and they shall dwell in one spot and never be disturbed again, and no longer shall the men of foul play wear them down as they formerly did, 10 ever since the days when I commissioned judges over my people Israel; and I will humble all your enemies, and will make you great; and Jehovah will build a house for you, 11 and when your time is full for going to be with your fathers, I will raise up after you your issue, who shall be a son of yours, and I will establish his kingship. 12 He shall build me a house, and I will make his throne firm forever. 13 I will be father to him and he shall be son to me, and my friendship I will never withdraw from him as I withdrew it from the one that was before you, 14 but I will let him stand in my house and my kingdom forever; and his throne shall be firm forever.’” 15 Just these words, just this vision, Nathan spoke to David.
16 And King David went in and sat down before Jehovah and said “Who am I, Jehovah God, and who are my house, that you have brought me so far as this? 17* And this has seemed to you a little thing too, God, and you have made promises about your servant’s house to distant times, and have viewed me in the aspect of rising men, Jehovah God. 18 What more should David add to you for glory? but you know your servant. 19 Jehovah, for your servant’s sake, and in accordance with your own will, you have done all this great work, to make known all the great things. 20 Jehovah, there is none like you and no God but you, as in everything that we have heard with our ears; 21 and who is like your people Israel, a single nation on earth which God has gone to redeem for a people of his own to make you a name? great and terrible things, driving out nations before your people whom you redeemed out of Egypt, 22 and making your people Israel your own people forever, and you, Jehovah, becoming their own God! 23 And now, Jehovah, let the promise you have given about your servant and his house be sure forever, and do as you have promised, 24 and your name will be sure and great forever, men saying ‘Israel has for its God Jehovah of Armies, Israel’s God,’ and your servant David’s house will be firm before you; 25 because you, my God, have made to your servant the disclosure of building a house for him—this is why your servant, has found it possible to pray before you. 26 And now, Jehovah, you are God, and you have promised for your servant this much good; 27 now you have been willing to bless your servant’s house that it may be forever before you, because you, Jehovah, have blessed, and it is blessed forever.”
18 And after this David defeated the Philistines and humbled them, and took Gath and its dependencies out of the Philistines’ hands. 2 And he defeated the Moabites, and the Moabites became subject to David as tributaries.
3* And David defeated King Hadarʽezer of Sobah at Hamath, when he went to set up his power by the river Euphrates; 4 and David took from him a thousand chariots and seven thousand horsemen and ten thousand footmen, and hamstrung all the chariot ponies, leaving a hundred teams. 5 And the Syrians of Damascus came to help King Hadarʽezer of Sobah; and David killed twenty-two thousand men of the Syrians. 6* And David set up prefects in Damascene Syria, and the Syrians became tributary subjects of David; and Jehovah made David victorious wherever he went.
7* And David took the golden bucklers that were on Hadarʽezer’s officers, and brought them to Jerusalem. 8 And from Tibhath and from Cun, Hadarʽezer’s cities, David took very much bronze; with it Solomon made the bronze sea and the pillars and the bronze vessels. 9 And King Toghu of Hamath heard that David had defeated all the forces of King Hadarʽezer of Sobah, 10 and he sent his son Hadoram to King David to ask how he was doing and to bless him for having fought and beaten Hadarʽezer (for Hadarʽezer was a standing enemy of Toghu), and all sorts of articles of silver and gold and bronze; 11 these too King David dedicated to Jehovah, with the silver and gold that he had carried away from all the nations, Edom and Moab and the ʽBene-Ammon and the Philistines and the ʽAmalekites. 12* And when he came back he defeated the Edomites in Salt Valley, killing eighteen thousand; 13 and he set up prefects in Edom, and all the Edomites became subjects of David; and Jehovah made David victorious wherever he went.
14 And David reigned over all Israel, and did justice and equity for all his people. 15 And Joab the son of Serujah was over the army, and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was private secretary, 16 and Sadok the son of Ahitub and Abimelec the son of Abiathar were priests, and Shausha was secretary for documents, 17 and Benajah the son of Jehojadaʽ was over the Cretans and the Pletans, and David’s first sons were at the king’s side.
19 And after this King Nahash of the Bene-ʽAmmon died, and his son succeeded him. 2 And David thought “I will be friendly to Hanun the son of Nahash, since his father was friendly to me”; and David sent messengers to express sympathy with him at the loss of his father. 3* And David’s officers came to Hanun in the country of the Bene-ʽAmmon to bring him expressions of sympathy; but the chiefs of the Bene-ʽAmmon said to Hanun “Do you think David is honoring your father when he sends you ambassadors of condolence? is it not for the sake of examining and exploring and spying into the country that his officers have come to you?” 4* And Hanun took David’s officers and shaved them and cut off their habiliments in the middle, up to their hams, and sent them off, and off they went. 5 And David was told about the men, and he sent to meet them (for the men were greatly humiliated); and the king said “Stay at Jericho till your beards grow, and then come back.”
6 And the Bene-ʽAmmon saw that they were at deadly feud with David; and Hanun and the Bene-ʽAmmon sent a thousand hundred-weight of silver to hire chariots and cavalry from Mesopotamia and from Maʽacathite Syria and from Sobah, 7 and hired themselves thirty-two thousand chariots and the king of Maʽacah and his people, and they came and camped in front of Medeba; and the Bene-ʽAmmon came together out of their cities and came in for the war. 8 And David heard, and sent Joab with all the force of the champions; 9 and the Bene-ʽAmmon came out and drew up their line of battle at the city gate, and the kings who had come were by themselves in the open. 10 And Joab saw that he had the front of the battle in his front and in his rear; and he made a selection of picked men out of the whole Israelite body, and drew them up to face the Syrians, 11 and the rest of the men he put into the hands of his brother Abshai, and they formed a line to face the Bene-ʽAmmon; 12 and he said “If the Syrians are too strong for me, then you shall be a rescue to me; and if the Bene-ʽAmmon are too strong for you, I will rescue you. 13 Hold fast, and let us do our best for our people and for the cities of our God, and Jehovah will do as he sees fit.” 14 And Joab and the troops that he had with him came on to the attack on the Syrian front, and they fled before him; 15 and the Bene-ʽAmmon saw that the Syrians had fled, and they too fled before his brother Abshai and entered the city. And Joab came to Jerusalem.
16 And the Syrians saw that they were beaten by the Israelites; and they sent messengers and called out the Syrians beyond the River, with Shophac, Hadarʽezer’s general, at their head. 17* And David was told, and he brought together all the Israelites and crossed the Jordan and came to them and offered them battle. And David offered battle to the Syrians, and they fought him. 18 And the Syrians fled before the Israelites, and David killed of the Syrians seven thousand chariotry and forty thousand infantry, and struck dead Shophac, the general. 19 And Hadarʽezer’s subjects saw that they were beaten by the Israelites, and made peace with David and became his subjects; and the Syrians were not willing to help the Bene-ʽAmmon any longer.
20 And at the return of the year, at the time when kings go out, Joab led out the militia forces and ravaged the country of the Bene-ʽAmmon and came and laid siege to Rabbah, David remaining in Jerusalem; and Joab conquered Rabbah and demolished it. 2 And David took the crown of Malcam off his head, and found it to weigh a hundredweight of gold; and it had a precious stone in it, which came to be on David’s head. And he took out the plunder of the city, a very great amount; 3** and the people in it he took out and put them to saws and iron cuts and picks; and so he did with all the cities of the Bene-ʽAmmon. And David and all the people went back to Jerusalem.
4 And after that there was a war on foot at Gezer with the Philistines; then Sibbecai the Hushathite killed Sippai, of the breed of the ogres, and they were humbled.
5 And there was war with the Philistines again; and Elhanan the son of Jaʽir killed Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gathite; the shaft of his spear was like a weaver’s pole.
6 And there was war at Gath again; and there was a tall man with fingers and toes by sixes, twenty-four of them,—he too was bred of the ogre,— 7 who flouted the Israelites, and Jonathan the son of Shimea David’s brother killed him.
8 These were bred of the ogre at Gath, and fell by the hands of David and of his soldiers.
21 And a Satan stood up against Israel and instigated David to count Israel. 2* And David said to Joab and the captains of the people “Go enumerate Israel from Dan to Beer-Shebaʽ and bring me the result, so that I may know the number of them.” 3 And Joab said “Jehovah make the people a hundred times as many again! is my lord not the king? my lord has all of them for subjects—why should my lord call for this? why should it bring guilt on Israel?” 4 But David’s word overbore Joab, and Joab went out and went back and forth throughout Israel, and came in to Jerusalem. 5 And Joab gave the count of the census to the king; and all Israel came to eleven hundred thousand fighting men, and Judah to four hundred and seventy thousand fighting men. 6 But Levi and Benjamin he did not count in among them, because the king’s word was abhorrent to Joab.
7 And God disliked this thing, and struck at Israel. 8 And David said to God “I was very wrong in doing this thing; now set your servant’s offense aside, for I did very foolishly.” 9 And Jehovah spoke to Gad, David’s seer, saying 10 “Go and speak to David, telling him ‘Says Jehovah, I make you three offers; choose one of these and have me do it to you.’” 11 And Gad came to David and said to him “Says Jehovah, Take your option, 12 either three years of famine or three months of being in flight before your foes, your enemy’s sword coming up with you, or three days of Jehovah’s sword and pestilence in the country and Jehovah’s angel ravaging throughout Israel’s territory. Now see what answer I shall return to the one who sent me.” 13 And David said to Gad “It is a very hard case; let me fall into Jehovah’s hands, because he has very great kindliness; let me not fall into men’s hands.”
14 And Jehovah gave a pestilence in Israel, and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men. 15 And God sent an angel to Jerusalem to ravage it; but when he was ravaging Jehovah saw and took the evil to heart and said to the ravaging angel “That will do; now hold your hand.” And the angel of Jehovah was standing by Ornan the Jebusite’s threshing-floor; 16 and David raised his eyes and saw the angel of Jehovah standing between the earth and the sky with his drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem, and David and the elders, with sackcloths for covering, threw themselves down on their faces. 17 And David said to God “It was I, was it not, that ordered the people counted, and I was the one who sinned and did evil, and these are the sheep; what have they done? my God Jehovah, let your hand be on me and my family, but on your people not for havoc.”
18 And Jehovah’s angel told Gad to tell David that David should go up to erect an altar to Jehovah on Ornan the Jebusite’s threshing-floor; 19 and David went up at Gad’s word which he spoke in Jehovah’s name. 20 And Ornan turned back and saw the angel, and his four sons with him were hiding themselves, but Ornan was threshing wheat. 21 And David came where Ornan was; and Ornan looked and saw David, and came out from the threshing-floor and did reverence to David with his face to the ground. 22 And David said to Ornan “Give me the site of the threshing-floor to build an altar to Jehovah on—give it to me for full money—to have the deaths among the people shut off.” 23 And Ornan said to David “Take it, and your majesty may do what you think best; see, I give you the cattle for the offerings and the threshing-boards for fuel and the wheat for the meal-offering; I give you all.” 24 But King David said to Ornan “No, I will buy it for full money, and not pick up what is yours for Jehovah and offer a burnt-offering that costs nothing”; 25 and David gave Ornan for the site six hundred shekels of gold by weight. 26* And David built an altar to Jehovah there, and offered burnt-offerings and welfare-sacrifices, and called to Jehovah, and he answered him with fire out of the sky upon the altar of burnt-offering, and it consumed the burnt-offering. 27 And Jehovah gave the angel word, and he sheathed his sword.
28 At that time, when David saw that Jehovah had answered him on Ornan the Jebusite’s threshing-floor, he sacrificed there 29 (though Jehovah’s tabernacle which Moses made was at that time at the height in Gibeon; 30 but David could not go before it to invoke God because he was terrorized by the sword of Jehovah’s angel);
22 and David said “This is the house of Jehovah God, and this the altar for burnt-offering for Israel.” 2 And David ordered the immigrants in the country of Israel collected, and appointed stonecutters to cut dressed stones for building the house of God; 3 and David got ready iron in large quantity for the nails for the gates and for the cramps, and bronze in quantity beyond weighing, 4 and cedar timber beyond counting; for the Sidonians and Tyrians brought David cedar timber in great quantity. 5* And David thought “My son Solomon is an immature boy, and the house to be built for Jehovah is to be made surpassingly great for name and fame to all countries: let me make preparations for it”; and David made preparations in great quantities before his death, 6 and called his son Solomon and commanded him to build a house for Israel’s God Jehovah. 7* And David said to his son Solomon
“I had it in mind myself to build a house for the name of my God Jehovah; 8 but Jehovah’s word came to me ‘You have shed blood in great quantities and waged great wars; you shall not build a house for my name, because you have poured much blood on the earth before me. 9 Here is a son being born to you; he shall be a restful man, and I will give him rest from all his enemies on every side; for his name shall be Solomon, “Peaceman,” and I will give peace and quiet over Israel in his time. 10 He shall build a house for my name, and he shall be son to me and I will be father to him, and I will set the throne of his kingship firm over Israel forever.’
11 “Now, my son, Jehovah be with you, and may you prosper and build the house of your God Jehovah as he predicted it of you. 12 Only may Jehovah give you good sense and discernment and his commission for Israel and that you may observe the instructions of your God Jehovah; 13 then will you prosper, if you take care to live up to the usages and laws which Jehovah charged Moses with for Israel. Courage, and do your best; do not be afraid nor dismayed. 14 And here with my scanty means I have got ready for Jehovah’s house five thousand tons of gold and fifty thousand tons of silver, and bronze and iron left unweighed because they were in such quantities; and I have got ready timber and stones, and you will add to them. 15 And you have about you a great body of skilled labor, quarrymen and stonecutters and carpenters and men with all kinds of skill in all kinds of work 16 in gold, silver, and bronze and iron, beyond counting. Up and to work, and Jehovah be with you!”
17 And David charged all the princes of Israel to help his son Solomon: 18 “you have your God Jehovah with you, and he has given you rest on every side, because he gave the inhabitants of the country into my hands and the country is subjugated before Jehovah and before his people. 19 Now put your hearts and souls into invoking your God Jehovah, and stand up and build the sanctuary of your God Jehovah, to bring in the ark of Jehovah’s covenant and the vessels consecrated to God into the house that is built for Jehovah’s name.”
23 And David grew old, had lived as long as he wanted to, and he made his son Solomon king over Israel. 2 And he brought together all the princes of Israel, and the priests and the Levites. 3 And the Levites were counted, from thirty years old up; and the number of them poll by poll, of men, was thirty-eight thousand. 4* Of these, to direct the work on Jehovah’s house there were twenty-four thousand, and marshals and judges six thousand, 5 and four thousand gatemen, and four thousand praising Jehovah “with the instruments I made for praising.”
6 And David arranged them in divisions by Levi’s sons, Gershon, Kehath, and Merari:
7 Of the Gershonites, Laghdan and Shimei. 8 Laghdan’s sons, Jehiel the head, and Zetham and Joel, three. 9 Shimei’s sons, Shelomith and Haziel and Haran, three. These were Laghdan’s heads of families. 10 And Shimei’s sons, Jahath, Ziza, and Jeghush and Beriʽah; these were Shimei’s sons, four. 11 And Jahath was the head and Ziza the second; and Jeghush and Beriʽah did not have many children, and became a family for one assignment.
12 The sons of Kehath were ʽAmram, Ishar, Hebron, and ʽUzziel, four. 13 The sons of ʽAmram were Aaron and Moses; and Aaron was set apart to be consecrated holiest of the holy, he and his sons forever, to burn incense before Jehovah, to wait on him, and to bless in his name, forever, 14 but the sons of Moses the man of God went under the name of the tribe of Levi. 15 The sons of Moses were Gershom and Eliʽezer. 16 The sons of Gershom were Shubael the head; and the sons of Eliʽezer were Rehabiah the head; 17 and Eliʽezer had no other sons, but Rehabiah’s sons were uncommonly numerous. 18 The sons of Ishar were Shelomith the head. 19 The sons of Hebron were Jerijah the head, Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, and Jekameam the fourth. 20 The sons of ʽUzziel were Micah the head and Isshijah the second.
21 The sons of Merari were Mahli and Mushi. The sons of Mahli were Eleazar and Kish. 22 And Eleazar died having no sons but daughters, whom the sons of their brother Kish married. 23 The sons of Mushi were Mahli and Gheder and Jeremoth, three.
24 These were the sons of Levi by their families, heads of families by their muster in number of names poll by poll, doing the work for the service of Jehovah’s house from twenty years old up. 25 For David thought “Israel’s God Jehovah has given his people rest and taken up his abode in Jerusalem forever, 26 and neither will the Levites have to carry the tabernacle and all the vessels for its service.” 27 (For by David’s last words they, the count of the sons of Levi, were from twenty years old up.) 28 For their station was at the side of the sons of Aaron for the service of Jehovah’s house, over the courts and the vestries and cleansing for every sacred purpose, and the doing of the service of God’s house 29 as to the stacked bread and the farina for the meal-offering and for the sheet-matzoth and for the griddle and for the beaten dish, and as to all measures of capacity and of length, 30 and to stand morning by morning to give thanks and praise to Jehovah, and the same for evening 31 and for all presentations of burnt-offerings to Jehovah, for the sabbaths, the new moons, and the annual dates, by number in accordance with the law for them, regularly before Jehovah; 32 and they were to do the duties for the Tent of Meeting and for the sacred things and for their brothers the sons of Aaron as to the service of God’s house.
24 And the sons of Aaron had their divisions. Aaron’s sons were Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar; 2 but Nadab and Abihu died before their father and had no sons, and Eleazar and Ithamar took the priesthood. 3 And David, and Sadok of the sons of Eleazar, and Ahimelec of the sons of Ithamar, divided them for their assignments in their service; 4 and the sons of Eleazar were found more numerous by heads of men than the sons of Ithamar, and they made the divisions of them, for the sons of Eleazar sixteen heads by families, and for the sons of Ithamar by their families eight. 5 And they divided them by lot, these with those, for there were princes of sacred ritual and princes of God from the sons of Eleazar and from the sons of Ithamar; 6* and Secretary Shemaʽiah the son of Nethaneel, of the Levites, wrote them down before the king and the princes and Priest Sadok and Ahimelec the son of Abiathar and the heads of families of the priests and of the Levites; one family was taken for Eleazar and one taken for Ithamar.
7 And the first lot came out for Jehojarib, for Jedaʽiah the second, 8 for Harim the third, for Seʽorim the fourth, 9 for Malkijah the fifth, for Mijamin the sixth, 10 for Hakkos the seventh, for Abijah the eighth, 11 for Jeshuaʽ the ninth, for Shecaniah the tenth, 12 for Eljashib the eleventh, for Jakim the twelfth, 13* for Huppah the thirteenth, for Ishbaal the fourteenth, 14 for Bilgah the fifteenth, for Immer the sixteenth, 15 for Hezir the seventeenth, for Happisses the eighteenth, 16 for Pethahiah the nineteenth, for Jehezkel the twentieth, 17 for Jakin the twenty-first, for Gamul the twenty-second, 18 for Delajah the twenty-third, for Maʽaziah the twenty-fourth. 19 These were their assignments for their service, to go into God’s house in accordance with the law received for them through their father Aaron, as Israel’s God Jehovah gave him the order.
20 And of the rest of the sons of Levi: of the sons of ʽAmram, Shubael; of the sons of Shubael, Jehdejah; of Rehabiah, 21 of the sons of Rehabiah, the chief, Isshijah. 22 Of Ishar, Shelomoth; of the sons of Shelomoth, Jahath. 23 And the sons of Hebron, Jerijah the chief, Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, Jekemeam the fourth. 24 The sons of ʽUzziel, Micah; of the sons of Micah, Shamir; 25 Micah’s brother, Isshijah; of the sons of Isshijah, Zecariah. 26* The sons of Merari, Mahli and Mushi; the sons of his son Jaʽazijah; 27 and the sons of Merari by his son Jaʽazijah, Shoham and Zaccur and ʽIbri; 28 of Mahli, Eleazar, but he did not have sons; 29 of Kish, the sons of Kish, Jerahmeel; 30 and the sons of Mushi, Mahli and Gheder and Jerimoth. These were the sons of the Levites by their families. 31* They too cast lots along with their brothers the sons of Aaron before King David and Sadok and Ahimelec and the heads of the families of the priests and of the Levites, the chief’s families along with his youngest brother.
25 And David and the generals set apart for service the sons of Asaph and Heman and Jeduthun, those who played impromptu on lyres and harps and cymbals. And the number of them, the specialists by their service, was, 2 of the sons of Asaph, Zaccur and Joseph and Nethaniah and Asarelah, the sons of Asaph, under the direction of Asaph who composed under the direction of the king; 3 of Jeduthun, the sons of Jeduthun, Gedaliah and Seri and Isaiah, Hashabiah and Mattithiah, six, under the direction of their father Jeduthun on the lyre, who composed for thanks and praise to Jehovah; 4* of Heman, the sons of Heman, Bukkijah, Mattaniah, ʽUzziel, Shebuel, and Jerimoth, Hananiah, Hanani, Eliatha, Giddalti, and Romamti-ʽEzer, Joshbekashah, Mallothi, Hothir, Mahazioth. 5* All these were sons of Heman, the king’s seer in divine matters; to lift his horn high God gave Heman fourteen sons and three daughters. 6 All these were under their father’s direction in the singing of Jehovah’s house, with cymbals, harps, and lyres for the service of God’s house, under the direction of the king, Asaph and Jeduthun and Heman. 7 And the number of them, with their brothers who were taught to sing for Jehovah, all the experts, was two hundred and eighty-eight.
8* And they cast lots for duty on the principle of small and great alike, expert with pupil. 9* The first lot came out for Asaph, for Joseph, his sons, and his brothers, twelve; for Gedaliah the second, him and his brothers and his sons, twelve; 10 the third for Zaccur, his sons, and his brothers, twelve; 11 the fourth for Isri, his sons, and his brothers, twelve; 12 the fifth for Nethaniah, his sons, and his brothers, twelve; 13 the sixth for Bukkijah, his sons, and his brothers, twelve; 14 the seventh for Jesarelah, his sons, and his brothers, twelve; 15 the eighth for Isaiah, his sons, and his brothers, twelve; 16 the ninth for Mattaniah, his sons, and his brothers, twelve; 17 the tenth for Shimei, his sons, and his brothers, twelve; 18 the eleventh for ʽAzarel, his sons, and his brothers, twelve; 19 the twelfth for Hashabiah, his sons, and his brothers, twelve; 20 the thirteenth for Shubael, his sons, and his brothers, twelve; 21 the fourteenth for Mattithiah, his sons, and his brothers, twelve; 22 the fifteenth for Jeremoth, his sons, and his brothers, twelve; 23 the sixteenth for Hananiah, his sons, and his brothers, twelve; 24 the seventeenth for Joshbekashah, his sons, and his brothers, twelve; 25 the eighteenth for Hanani, his sons, and his brothers, twelve; 26 the nineteenth for Mallothi, his sons, and his brothers, twelve; 27 the twentieth for Elijathah, his sons, and his brothers, twelve; 28 the twenty-first for Hothir, his sons, and his brothers, twelve; 29 the twenty-second for Giddalti, his sons, and his brothers, twelve; 30 the twenty-third for Mahazioth, his sons, and his brothers, twelve; 31 the twenty-fourth for Romamti-ʽEzer, his sons, and his brothers, twelve.
26 As to divisions of gatemen: of the Korahites, Meshelemiah the son of Kore, of the sons of Abiasaph; 2 and Meshelemiah had sons, Zecariah the eldest, Jediʽael the second, Zebadiah the third, Jathniel the fourth, 3 ʽElam the fifth, Jehohanan the sixth, Eljehoʽenai the seventh. 4 And ʽObed-Edom had sons, Shemaʽiah the eldest, Jehozabad the second, Joah the third, and Sacar the fourth and Nethaneel the fifth, 5 ʽAmmiel the sixth, Issacar the seventh, Peʽullethai the eighth, because God had blessed him. 6 And his son Shemaʽiah had sons born to him; they were rulers of their family because they were stalwart men; 7 Shemaʽiah’s sons were Ghothni and Rephael and ʽObed, Elzabad, his brothers, stalwart men, Elihu and Semakiah. 8 All these were sons of ʽObed-Edom, they and their sons and brothers, stalwart men with powers for service, sixty-two of ʽObed-Edom’s. 9 And Meshelemiah had sons and brothers, stalwart men, eighteen of them. 10 And Hosah, of the sons of Merari, had sons, Shimri the chief (for he was not eldest, but his father made him chief), 11 Hilkijah the second, Tebaliah the third, Zecariah the fourth; all sons and brothers of Hosah’s, thirteen.
12 Of these there were the courses of the gatemen by heads of men, duties parallel to those of their brothers, to officiate in Jehovah’s house; 13 and they cast lots, small and great alike by families, for each gate. 14* And the eastward lot fell for Shelemiah; and his son Zecariah was a shrewd adviser; they cast lots, and his lot came out northward. 15 For ʽObed-Edom southward, and for his sons, the storehouse. 16 And for Hosah to the west, with the throwing-gate at the highway up the slope. Guard by guard, 17* to the east six a day, to the north four a day, to the south four a day and two each for the stores; 18 at the addition to the west, four to the highway, two to the addition. 19 These were the divisions of the gatemen, of the sons of the Korahites and of the sons of Merari.
20 And their brother Levites over the storages of God’s house and for the storages of the sacred things: 21 the sons of Laghdan, the sons of the Gershonites by Laghdan, the heads of families of Laghdan the Gershonite, Jehielites; 22 the sons of Jehiel, Zetham and his brother Joel, were over the storages of Jehovah’s house. 23 Of the ʽAmramites, of the Isharites, of the Hebronites, of the ʽUzzielites, 24 Shebuel the son of Gershom the son of Moses was warden over the storages; 25* and his brothers by Eliʽezer, his son Rehabiah and his son Isaiah and his son Joram and his son Zicri and his son Shelomith. 26* He, Shelomith, and his brothers were over all the storages of the sacred things which King David and the heads of families of the captains of thousands and of hundreds and the generals had dedicated; 27 out of the wars and out of the booty they had dedicated them for keeping up Jehovah’s house; 28* and all that Samuel the seer had dedicated, and Saul the son of Kish and Abner the son of Ner and Joab the son of Serujah, everyone who had dedicated, was under the hands of Shelomith and his brothers.
29 Of the Isharites, Conaniah and his sons were for the outside business, over Israel as marshals and as judges. 30 Of the Hebronites, Hashabiah and his brothers, seventeen hundred stalwart men, were in charge of all Israel on the west side of the Jordan for all business of Jehovah’s and for the king’s service. 31 Of the Hebronites Jerijah was the chief; the Hebronites, line by line, by families, were investigated in the year forty of David’s reign, and there were found among them first-class men at Jaʽzer in Gilead; 32 and of his brothers there were twenty-seven hundred stalwart men, heads of families; and King David put them in charge of the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half-tribe of the Manassites for all affairs of God’s and for the king’s affairs.
27 And the sons of Israel by number, the heads of families and the captains of thousands and of hundreds and their marshals who officiated for the king in every matter of the divisions, the one that came in and the one that went out month by month for all the months of the year, one division twenty-four thousand, 2 —over the first division for the first month was Ishbaal the son of Zabdiel, and on his division twenty-four thousand; 3 of the sons of Peres, the chief for all the captains of the levies for the first month. 4* And over the second-month division was Dodai the Ahohite; and his division, and Mikloth the warden; and on his division twenty-four thousand. 5* The captain of the third levy for the third month was Benajah the son of High Priest Jehojadaʽ, and on his division twenty-four thousand; 6* that was Benajah the champion of the Thirty and over the Thirty, and his division his son ʽAmmizabad. 7 The fourth, for the fourth month; was Joab’s brother ʽAsahel, and his son Zebadiah after him; and on his division twenty-four thousand. 8 The fifth, for the fifth month, the captain was Shamhuth the Izrahite, and on his division twenty-four thousand. 9 The sixth, for the sixth month, was ʽIra the son of ʽIkkesh the Tekoite, and on his division twenty-four thousand. 10 The seventh, for the seventh month, was Heles the Pelonite, of the sons of Ephraim, and on his division twenty-four thousand. 11 The eighth, for the eighth month, was Sibbecai the Hushathite, of the Zerahites, and on his division twenty-four thousand. 12 The ninth, for the ninth month, was Abiʽezer the ʽAnathothite, of the Benjamites, and on his division twenty-four thousand. 13 The tenth, for the tenth month, was Maharai the Netophathite, of the Zerahites, and on his division twenty-four thousand. 14 The eleventh, for the eleventh month, was Benajah the Pireathonite, of the sons of Ephraim, and on his division twenty-four thousand. 15 The twelfth, for the twelfth month, was Heldai the Netophathite, of Ghothniel’s, and on his division twenty-four thousand.
16 And over the tribes of Israel: warden for the Reubenites, Eliʽezer the son of Zicri; for the Simeonites, Shephatiah the son of Maʽacah; 17 for the Levites, Hashabiah the son of Kemuel; for Aaron, Sadok; 18 for Judah, Elihu, a brother of David’s; for Issacar, ʽOmri the son of Micael; 19 for Zebulun, Ishmaʽiah the son of ʽObadiah; for Naphtali, Jerimoth the son of ʽAzriel; 20 for the sons of Ephraim, Hosheaʽ the son of ʽAzaziah; for half the tribe of Manasseh, Joel the son of Pedajah; 21 for the half of Manasseh in Gilead, Iddo the son of Zecariah; for Benjamin, Jaʽasiel the son of Abner; 22 for Dan, ʽAzarel the son of Jeroham. These were the captains of the tribes of Israel.
23 And David did not take the number of them below twenty years old, because Jehovah had said he would make Israel numerous as the stars in the sky. 24 Joab the son of Serujah began to count but did not finish, and for this there was wrath against Israel; and the number did not go into King David’s book of chronicles.
25* And over the royal treasuries was ʽAzmaveth the son of ʽAdiel. And over the storages in the countryside, in the cities and the villages and the towers, was Jehonathan the son of ʽUzzijah. 26* And over the administrators of the business in the countryside, for the working of the soil, was ʽEzri the son of Kelub. 27* And over the vineyards was Shimei the Ramathite. And over what was in the vineyards, for storages of wine, was Zabdi the Shiphmite. 28 And over the olive-trees and sycamores in the lowlands was Baal-Hanan the Gederite. And over the storages of oil was Joʽash. 29 And over the cattle that grazed in the Sharon was Shitrai the Sharonite. And over the cattle in the Vales was Shaphat the son of ʽAdlai. 30* And over the camels was Obil the Ishmaelite. And over the donkeys was Jehdejah the Meronothite. 31 And over the sheep and goats was Jaziz the Hagarite. All these were King David’s ministers of chattels.
32 And David’s uncle Jehonathan was a counselor, a sagacious and literate man; he and Jehiel the son of Hacmoni were with the king’s sons. 33 And Ahithophel was a counselor of the king’s. And Hushai the Arkite was the king’s friend. 34 And after Ahithophel, Jehojadaʽ the son of Benajah, and Abiathar. And Joab was the king’s general.
28* And David assembled all the captains of Israel, the captains of the tribes and the captains of divisions who officiated for the king and the captains of thousands and of hundreds and the king’s ministers for all chattels and stock and his sons with the eunuchs and the champions and every leading man, to Jerusalem. 2 And King David rose to his feet and said
“Hear me, my brothers and my people. I myself had it in mind to build a house of rest for the ark of Jehovah’s covenant and for the footstool of our God, and I made preparations for building; 3 but God said to me ‘You shall not build a house for my name, because you are a man of wars and have been shedding blood.’ 4 But Israel’s God Jehovah chose me out of all my family to become king over Israel forever, because he chose Judah for warden, and in the house of Judah my family, and among my father’s sons he was pleased to take me to install as king over all Israel. 5 And out of all my sons (for Jehovah gave me many sons) he chose my son Solomon to sit on the throne of Jehovah’s empire over all Israel; 6 and he said to me ‘Your son Solomon, he shall build my house and my courts, because I have chosen him to be son to me and I will be father to him; 7 and I will make his kingship firm forever if he is determined to live up to my commandments and laws as is done at this day.’
8 “And now, before the eyes of all Israel, Jehovah’s assembly, and in the hearing of our God: Observe and study all the commandments of your God Jehovah, in order that you may possess the good country and pass on the inheritance to your sons after you forever! 9 And do you, son Solomon, know your father’s God and serve him with earnest heart and willing soul, because Jehovah examines all hearts and is aware of all the drift of thoughts; if you invoke him he will let you find him, but if you leave him he will repudiate you forevermore. 10 Look out now, because Jehovah has chosen you to build a house for his sanctuary; be resolute and go to work.”
11** And David gave his son Solomon the specifications for the porch and its houses and its treasuries and its roof-chambers and its inner chambers and the housing for the mercy-seat, 12 and the specifications for everything he had been inspired with for the courts of Jehovah’s house and for all the surrounding vestries and for the storages of God’s house and of the sacred things, 13 and for the divisions of the priests and the Levites and for all the care of Jehovah’s house and for all the furnishings of Jehovah’s house: 14 for the gold by weight for the gold for all vessels for each purpose, for all the silver vessels by weight for all vessels for each purpose, 15 and weight for the gold lampstands and their lamps, gold by weight for each stand and its lamps, and for the silver lampstands by weight for a stand and its lamps for the purposes of each stand, 16 and the gold a weight for the stack-tables, for each table, and silver for the silver tables, 17 and the forks and bowls and flagons pure gold, and for the golden stoups by weight for each stoup, and for the silver stoups by weight for each stoup, 18 and for the altar of incense refined gold by weight, and for the model of the chariot, of the cherubs, gold, for those that were to spread out and overarch the ark of Jehovah’s covenant: 19* “all in writing, from Jehovah’s hand, he notified to me, all the execution of the specifications.”
20 And David said to his son Solomon “Courage, put your best foot foremost, and go to work; do not be afraid nor dismayed, for you have with you Jehovah God, my God; he will not neglect you nor abandon you till all the business of the work on Jehovah’s house is finished. 21 And here are the divisions of the priests and the Levites for all the service of the house of God, and in every task you have by you all sorts of volunteers with skill for all sorts of work, and the captains and all the people for all your affairs.”
29* And King David said to all the assembly “My son Solomon, whom God has chosen, is young and tender, and the undertaking is a great one, for the castle is not for human beings but for Jehovah God. 2** And to the utmost of my power I have made ready for the house of my God the gold for the gold and the silver for the silver and the bronze for the bronze work and the iron for the ironwork and the wood for the woodwork, beryls and stones for setting, jet and agate and all sorts of precious stones, and marble in great quantity. 3 And furthermore, in my esteem for the house of my God I have a private fund of silver and gold; I give to the house of my God, over and above all that I have prepared for the sanctuary, 4* three thousand hundredweight of gold out of Ophir gold, and seven thousand hundredweight of refined silver to coat the walls of the houses, 5 for gold for the gold and for silver for the silver and for all work by the artists’ hands. And who volunteers to make his offering of consecration to Jehovah today?”
6 And the chiefs of families and the chiefs of tribes of Israel and the captains of thousands and of hundreds and the chief administrative officers came forward voluntarily 7* and gave for the work of the house of God gold five thousand hundredweight and twenty-seven hundred ounces, and silver ten thousand hundredweight, and bronze eighteen thousand hundredweight, and iron a hundred thousand hundredweight; 8 and any who had stones in their possession gave them to the stores of God’s house, into the hands of Jehiel the Gershonite. 9 And the people rejoiced over their contribution, because they contributed to Jehovah with all their hearts; and King David too rejoiced greatly.
10 And David blessed Jehovah in the presence of all the assembly; and David said “Blessed be you, Jehovah, God of our father Israel, from age to age. 11* Yours, Jehovah, are greatness and might and magnificence and continuance and majesty, because everything in the heavens and on earth is yours; yours, Jehovah, is empire, and upraising to headship over all; 12 and wealth and state come from before you; and in your hands are power and might, and in your hands it is to give greatness and strength to all. 13 And now, our God, we are thanking you and praising your sublime name— 14 for who am I and who are my people, that we should hold power to come forward with gifts like these? for everything comes from you, and it is out of your own hands that we have given to you. 15 For we are visitors and tenants in your presence, as all our fathers were; our lifetime is like a shadow over the earth, and there is nothing to look forward to. 16 Jehovah our God, all this accumulation that we have got ready for building you a house for your holy name comes from your hands, and all belongs to you. 17 And I know, my God, that you probe hearts and approve sincere courses; it was in the sincerity of my heart that I volunteered all these things, and now I see with joy your people who have made their appearance here volunteer their offerings to you. 18 Jehovah, God of our fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, keep this the bent of the thoughts of your people’s hearts forever and hold their hearts firmly toward you; 19 and give my son Solomon a staunch heart to keep your commandments, your lessons, and your rules, and to do all and build the castle I have prepared for.”
20 And David said to all the assembly “Bless your God Jehovah”; and all the assembly blessed their fathers’ God Jehovah, and bowed down and did reverence to Jehovah and to the king; 21 and they made sacrifices to Jehovah and offered burnt-offerings to Jehovah on the day following that, a thousand steers and a thousand rams and a thousand sheep and the libations for them, and sacrifices in great numbers for all Israel, 22* and ate and drank before Jehovah that day with a great merrymaking; and they installed David’s son Solomon as king, and anointed him as warden for Jehovah, and Sadok as priest.
23 And Solomon took his seat on Jehovah’s throne as king in place of his father David, and had good success, and all Israel listened to him. 24 And all the captains and the champions, and also all King David’s sons, gave homage to King Solomon. 25 And Jehovah made Solomon surpassingly great before the eyes of all Israel, and surrounded him with such royal grandeur as no king before him over Israel had had about him.
26 And David the son of Jesse reigned over all Israel. 27 And the time that he reigned over Israel was forty years: at Hebron he reigned seven years and at Jerusalem he reigned thirty-three. 28 And he died at a good old age, having had all he wanted of lifetime and wealth and glory; and his son Solomon succeeded him. 29 And the histories of King David, the earlier and the later, are written in the histories of the seer Samuel and of the prophet Nathan and of the seer Gad, 30 together with all his empire and his prowess and the events that befell to him and to Israel and to all the kingdoms of the different countries.
MARGINAL NOTES TO FIRST CHRONICLES
In the first nine chapters many names are differently spelled in different copies, or some copies put in names that other copies leave out; also many names here do not agree with the way the same matter is given in other books of the Bible, in which cases it is commonly to be understood that the other book is right and the text of Chronicles needs to be corrected to agree with the other book; it is commonly not clear whether the mistake was made in the original writing of Chronicles or in copying the book after it was written.
1:50 Var. daughter of Me-Zahab
2:7 Conj. and Zimri’s sons were Carmi, and Carmi’s were
2:9 Codd. and Ram and Kelubai.
2:18 (first half) Susp.
2:24 Codd. went in, and Hesron’s widow Abijah bore him
2:42 (the father of) Susp.
2:46 Susp.
2:52 Codd. half the resting-places
2:54-55 Susp.
3:20 Conj. and Meshullam’s sons were Hashubah and
4:1 Conj. Hesron, and Caleb and Hur
4:3 Conj. that after these are the words Hur’s sons: Elah (if not more than this) have been lost in copying
4:7 Var. and Ethnan, and Kos begot
4:15 Var. Elah’s sons and Kenaz. Conj. that words have been lost in copying
4:17 (and Jalon; and she conceived) Susp.; var. and Jether begot Conj. that the last half of verse 18 belongs before and she conceived
4:18 Or his wife Hajehudijah
4:22 (had) Susp.
4:22 (and Jashubi-Lehem) Conj. and came back to Bethlehem
4:22 (affairs) Or words
4:23 Conj. the potters who lived
4:39 (first half) Unc., susp.
5:24 Or stalwart men
6:22 Conj. were Ishar his son, Korah
6:31 Lit. alongside the singing
6:54 Conj. the first lot
6:57 Conj. city
6:59 (Juttah) Codd. ʽEther Var. leaves out and Juttah and its glebes
6:60 Codd. leave out Gibeon and its glebes and
6:60 Codd. with their clans
6:61 Codd. of Kohath out of the clan of the tribe, out of half the
6:64 Var. these cities and
6:66 Var. And out of the clans
6:67 Conj. city
6:77 Codd. of Zebulun Jekoman and its glebes, and Kedesh and its glebes, and Remmon and Var. of Zebulun Rimmono and
7:2 Or stalwart men
7:4 Lit. and on them
7:7 Or solid men
7:12 Susp.
7:12 Conj. And Shuppim and Huppim were sons of Dan
7:12 Or Hushim were sons of another
7:14-15 Susp.
7:14 Codd. of Manasseh were Asriel, whom
7:14 Or whom she bore; his Syrian concubine bore
7:15 Or a woman of Huppim’s and Shuppim’s
7:15 Codd. the second one’s (the grammatical form implying a man, not a woman)
7:34 Codd*. and Shemer’s sons were Ahi and Rohgah
7:40 Or stalwart men
8:6-8 Susp.
8:14 Susp.
9:5 Codd. Shilonites
9:24 Lit. to the four winds
9:25 Lit. for the seven days
9:26 Susp.
9:26 Lit. the four champions of
9:27 Codd. the opening and morning by morning
9:33 Lit. in the function
9:33 Probably a list of names has been left out in copying
10:12 Or oak tree
11:8 Lit. Joab revived the
11:11 Lit. these are the count
11:16 Or the Philistine post
11:19 Or at the price of
11:21 Codd. more honored in the two than the Three
11:42 Susp.
11:42 Or and up to him
11:46 (Mahumite) Susp.
11:47 (Mesobajah) Susp.; conj. Egyptians
12:8 Var. to David in the wilderness
12:13 Var. Macon the tenth
12:15 Codd. and they drove back Conj. and it was driving back
12:17 Var. amicably to me, I will be
12:19 Or With our heads he will desert
12:22 Codd. For at the time of day by day
12:22 Lit. there came to David, to help him, up to a great camp
12:23 (first half) Susp.
12:23 Lit. Jehovah’s mouth
13:2 Lit. all the lands of Israel
13:6 (last words) Susp., unc.
13:7 Or ʽUzza and his brother were
13:8 (with all energy) Unc.; perhaps the name of a dance
13:9 Or the oxen slipped Or the oxen tilted it Or the oxen jerked him
13:14 Or in its house
14:14, 15 (pear-trees) Unc.
15:2 Var. of Jehovah and for
15:13 (first part) Unc., susp.
15:20 (last words) Unc.
15:21 (last words) Unc.
15:27 (the chief of the carrying of the singers) Susp.
16:3 (steak) Unc.
16:5 Lit. with instruments of harps and with lyres
16:15 Conj. he remembers
16:38 Codd. and ʽObed-Edom and their brothers, sixty-eight of them, and ʽObed-Edom the son of Jeduthun and Hosah for gatemen
16:42 Lit. for the songs of God
17:5 Conj. have been going from tent to tent and from tabernacle to tabernacle
17:17 (last part) Unc., susp.
18:3 (to set up his power) Unc.
18:7 (bucklers) Unc.
18:12 Codd. And Abshai the son of Serujah defeated
19:3 Codd. examining and laying in ruins and spying
19:4 Or to their crotches
19:17 Var. came to them; and David offered battle to
20:3 Codd. and sawed them with saws and
20:3 (iron cuts and picks) Unc.
21:2 Lit. and bring to me, so that
21:26 Var. upon the altar of burnt-offering. And Jehovah gave
22:5 Or preparations for him
22:7 Var. said to Solomon “My son, I had it
23:4 Or to direct the administration of
24:6 Var. one family at a time for Eleazar and one at a time for Ithamar
24:13 Var. for Jeshebab the fourteenth
24:26-27 Susp.
24:31 Lit. the chief’s fathers
25:4 The last nine names may be read as a bit of a psalm, Be gracious to me, Jehovah, be gracious to me; you are my God; I have made great and lofty the help of one who sits in hardship; I have spoken making visions to superabound. Some think that it was originally so written as to give a rather smoother sense and that there have been small errors in copying
25:5 Codd*. matters, to lift a high horn; and God gave
25:8 Var. cast lots, duty against duty, small and
25:9 Conj. that for Asaph does not belong here Var. leaves out his sons, and his brothers, twelve
26:14 (middle part) Susp.
26:17 Codd. to the east the Levites were six, to the north four a day
26:25 Susp.
26:26 Var. and the captains
26:28 Conj. Serujah,—everything that had been dedicated was
27:4 (and his division, and Mikloth the warden) Susp.; var. leaves out these words
27:5 Codd. son of Priest Jehojadaʽ as chief
27:6 Var. and over his division
27:25 Or royal stores
27:26 Var. leaves out for the working of the soil
27:27 Conj. Siphmite
27:30 (donkeys) Lit. jennies
28:1 Or the king’s and his sons’ ministers for all chattels and stock with the eunuchs
28:11, 12, 19 (specifications) Or pattern
28:11 Conj. the porch and the house and its treasuries
28:19 Conj. notified to him and omit quotation marks
29:1 Var. has singled out
29:2 (jet) Unc.
29:2 (agate) Or stones for mosaics
29:4 Or of the rooms
29:7 (twenty-seven hundred ounces) Or ten thousand darics
29:11 Codd. and on earth is; yours, Jehovah,
29:22 Var. as king a second time, and