1 Chronicles 20:1 In the spring when kings march out to war, Joab led the efficient army and put an end to[1] the Ammonites’ land. He came to Rabbah and besieged it, but David remained in Jerusalem. Joab struck down Rabbah and demolished it.
1 Chronicles 20:2 Then David took the crown from the head of their king, and it was placed on David’s head. He found that the crown weighed seventy-five pounds of gold, and there was a precious stone in it. In addition, David took away a large quantity of plunder[2] from the city.
1 Chronicles 20:3 He brought out the people who were in it and put them to work with saws, iron picks, and axes. David did the same to all the Ammonite cities. Then he and all his troops returned to Jerusalem.
1 Chronicles 20:4 After this, a war broke out with the Philistines at Gezer. At that time Sibbecai the Hushathite struck down Sippai, a descendant of the Rephaim, and the Philistines were subdued.
1 Chronicles 20:5 Once again there was a battle with the Philistines, and Elhanan son of Jair struck down Lahmi the brother of Goliath of Gath. The shaft of his spear was like a weaver’s beam.
1 Chronicles 20:6 There was still another battle at Gath where there was a man of extraordinary stature with six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot– twenty-four in all. He, too, was descended from the giant.
1 Chronicles 20:7 When he taunted Israel, Jonathan son of David’s brother Shimei struck him down.
1 Chronicles 20:8 These were the descendants of the giant in Gath killed by David and his slaves.
[1] שָׁחַת = spoil, devastate, put an end to, corruptly. 1 Chronicles 20:1; 21:12, 15.
1 Chronicles 19:1 Some time later, King Nahash of the Ammonites died, and his son became king in his place.
1 Chronicles 19:2 Then David said, “I’ll show covenant faithfulness to Hanun son of Nahash, because his father showed covenant faithfulness to me.” So, David sent slaves to console him concerning his father. However, when David’s agents arrived in the land of the Ammonites to console him,
1 Chronicles 19:3 the Ammonite captains said to Hanun, “Just because David has sent men with condolences for you, do you really believe he’s showing respect for your father? Instead, haven’t his slaves come to scout out, overthrow, and spy on the land?”
1 Chronicles 19:4 So Hanun took David’s slaves, shaved them, cut their clothes in half at the hips, and sent them away.
1 Chronicles 19:5 It was reported to David about his men, so he sent messengers to meet them since the men were deeply humiliated. The king said, “Stay in Jericho until your beards grow back; then return.”
1 Chronicles 19:6 When the Ammonites realized they had made themselves repulsive to David, Hanun and the Ammonites sent thirty-eight tons of silver to hire chariots and horsemen from Aram-naharaim, Aram-maacah, and Zobah.
1 Chronicles 19:7 They hired thirty-two thousand chariots and the king of Maacah with his army, who came and camped before Medeba. The Ammonites also gathered from their cities for the battle.
1 Chronicles 19:8 David heard about this and sent Joab and all the elite army.
1 Chronicles 19:9 The Ammonites marched out and lined up in battle formation at the entrance of the city while the kings who had come were in the field by themselves.
1 Chronicles 19:10 When Joab saw that there was a battle line before him and another behind him, he chose some of Israel’s finest young men and lined up in formation to engage the Arameans.
1 Chronicles 19:11 He placed the rest of the forces under the command of his brother Abishai. They lined up in formation to engage the Ammonites.
1 Chronicles 19:12 “If the Arameans are too strong for me,” Joab said, “then you’ll be my rescue. However, if the Ammonites are too strong for you, I’ll rescue you.
1 Chronicles 19:13 Be strong! Let’s prove ourselves strong for our people and for the cities of our God. May Yahveh’s will be done.”
1 Chronicles 19:14 Joab and the people with him approached the Arameans for battle, and they fled before him.
1 Chronicles 19:15 When the Ammonites saw that the Arameans had fled, they likewise fled before Joab’s brother Abishai and entered the city. Then Joab went to Jerusalem.
1 Chronicles 19:16 When the Arameans realized that Israel had defeated them, they sent agents to summon the Arameans who were beyond the Euphrates River. They were led by Shophach, the captain of Hadadezer’s army.
1 Chronicles 19:17 When David was informed of this, he gathered all Israel and crossed the Jordan. He then came up to the Arameans and lined up against them. When David lined up to engage them, they fought against him.
1 Chronicles 19:18 But the Arameans fled before Israel, and David killed seven thousand of their charioteers and forty thousand foot soldiers. He also killed Shophach, captain of the army.
1 Chronicles 19:19 When Hadadezer’s slaves saw that Israel had defeated them, they made peace with David and slaved for[1] him. After this, the Arameans were not willing to rescue the Ammonites again.
1 Chronicles 17:1 When David had settled into his house, he said to the prophet Nathan, “Notice! I am living in a cedar house while the ark of Yahveh’s covenant is under tent curtains.”
1 Chronicles 17:2 So Nathan told David, “Do all that is on your mind, for God is with you.”
1 Chronicles 17:3 But that night the word of God came to Nathan:
1 Chronicles 17:4 “Go to David my slave and say, ‘This is what Yahveh says: You are not the one to build me a house to dwell in.
1 Chronicles 17:5 From the time I brought Israel out of Egypt until today, I have not dwelt in a house; instead, I have moved from one tent site to another and from one tabernacle location to another.
1 Chronicles 17:6 In all my journeys throughout Israel, have I ever spoken a word to even one of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to shepherd my people, asking: Why haven’t you built me a house of cedar? ‘
1 Chronicles 17:7 “So now this is what you are to say to my slave David: ‘This is what Yahveh of Armies says: I took you from the pasture, from tending the flock, to be ruler over my people Israel.
1 Chronicles 17:8 I have been with you wherever you have gone, and I have cut down all your enemies before you. I will make a name for you like that of the greatest on the land.
1 Chronicles 17:9 I will place a place for my people Israel and plant them, so that they may live there and not be disturbed again. Evildoers will not add oppression to them as they have done
1 Chronicles 17:10 ever since the day I ordered judges to be over my people Israel. I will also subdue all your enemies. ” ‘Furthermore, I declare to you that Yahveh himself will build a house for you.
1 Chronicles 17:11 When your time comes to be with your fathers, I will raise after you your seed, who is one of your sons, and I will establish his kingdom.
1 Chronicles 17:12 He is the one who will build a house for me, and I will establish his throne permanently.
1 Chronicles 17:13 I will be his father, and he will be my son. I will not remove my covenant faithfulness from him as I removed it from the one who was before you.
1 Chronicles 17:14 I will appoint him over my house and my kingdom forever, and his throne will be established permanently.'”
1 Chronicles 17:15 Nathan reported all these words and this entire vision to David.
1 Chronicles 17:16 Then King David went in, sat in Yahveh’s face, and said, Who am I, Yahveh God, and what is my house that you have brought me this far?
1 Chronicles 17:17 This was a little thing to you, God, for you have spoken about your slave’s house in the distant future. You regard me as a man of distinction, Yahveh God.
1 Chronicles 17:18 What more can David add to you for rewarding your slave? You know your slave.
1 Chronicles 17:19 Yahveh, you have done this whole great thing, making known all these great promises for the sake of your slave and according to your will.
1 Chronicles 17:20 Yahveh, there is no one like you, and there is no God besides you, as all we have heard confirms.
1 Chronicles 17:21 And who is like your people Israel? God, you came to one nation on the land to redeem a people for yourself, to place a name for yourself through great and awesome works by driving out nations before your people you redeemed from Egypt.
1 Chronicles 17:22 You made your people Israel your own permanent people, and you, Yahveh, have become their God.
1 Chronicles 17:23 Now, Yahveh, let the word that you have spoken concerning your slave and his house be confirmed permanently, and do as you have promised.
1 Chronicles 17:24 Let your name be confirmed and magnified permanently in the saying, “Yahveh of Armies, the God of Israel, is God over Israel.” May the house of your slave David be established before you.
1 Chronicles 17:25 Since you, my God, have revealed to your slave that you will build him a house, your servant has found courage to pray in your face.
1 Chronicles 17:26 Yahveh, you indeed are God, and you have promised this good thing to your slave.
1 Chronicles 17:27 So now, you have been pleased to endorse your slave’s house that it may continue before you permanently. For you, Yahveh, have endorsed it, and it is endorsed permanently.
1 Chronicles 16:1 They brought the ark of God and placed it inside the tent David had pitched for it. Then they offered ascending offerings and sacrifices for healthy relationships[1] in God’s face.
1 Chronicles 16:2 When David had finished offering the ascending offerings and the sacrifices for healthy relationships, he empowered the people in the name of the Lord.
1 Chronicles 16:3 Then he distributed to each and every Israelite, both men and women, a loaf of bread, a date cake, and a raisin cake.
1 Chronicles 16:4 David appointed some of the Levites to minister before the ark of the Lord, to celebrate Yahveh God of Israel, and to give thanks and praise to him.
1 Chronicles 16:5 Asaph was the chief and Zechariah was second to him. Jeiel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Mattithiah, Eliab, Benaiah, Obed-edom, and Jeiel played the harps and lyres, while Asaph sounded the cymbals
1 Chronicles 16:6 and the priests Benaiah and Jahaziel blew the trumpets continually[2] before the ark of the covenant of God.
1 Chronicles 16:7 On that day David decreed for the first time that thanks be given to Yahveh by Asaph and his relatives:
1 Chronicles 16:8 Give thanks to the Lord; call on his name; proclaim his deeds among the peoples.
1 Chronicles 16:9 Sing to him; sing praise to him; tell about all his overwhelming[3] works!
1 Chronicles 16:10 Honor his sacred name; let the hearts of those who seek Yahveh enjoy[4] him.
1 Chronicles 16:11 Seek Yahveh and his strength; seek his face continually.
1 Chronicles 16:12 Remember the overwhelming works he has done, his wonders, and the judgments he has pronounced,
1 Chronicles 16:13 you seed[5] of Israel his slave, Jacob’s descendants — his chosen ones.
1 Chronicles 16:14 He is Yahveh our God; his judgments govern the whole land.
1 Chronicles 16:15 Remember his covenant permanently — the promise he ordained for a thousand generations,
1 Chronicles 16:16 the covenant he established with Abraham, swore to Isaac,
1 Chronicles 16:17 and confirmed to Jacob as a prescribed task,[6] and to Israel as a permanent covenant:
1 Chronicles 16:18 “I will give the land of Canaan to you as your inherited portion.”
1 Chronicles 16:19 When they were few in number, very few indeed, and resident guests[7] in Canaan
1 Chronicles 16:20 wandering from nation to nation and from one kingdom to another,
1 Chronicles 16:21 he allowed no one to exploit[8] them; he rebuked kings on their behalf: 1 Chronicles 16:22 “Do not touch my anointed ones or harm my prophets.”
1 Chronicles 16:23 Let the whole land sing to the Lord. Proclaim his salvation from day to day.
1 Chronicles 16:24 Declare his impressive appearance[9] among the nations, his overwhelming works among all peoples.
1 Chronicles 16:25 Because Yahveh is great and highly praised; he is feared above all gods.
1 Chronicles 16:26 Because all the gods of the peoples are idols, but Yahveh made the sky.[10]
1 Chronicles 16:27 Splendor and majesty are before him; strength and joy are in his place.
1 Chronicles 16:28 Ascribe to the Lord, clans of the peoples, ascribe to Yahveh impressive appearance and strength.
1 Chronicles 16:29 Ascribe to Yahveh the impressive appearance of his name; bring a tribute offering[11] and come before him. Worship Yahveh in the splendor of his sacredness;
1 Chronicles 16:30 let the whole land tremble before him. The world is firmly established; it cannot be shaken.
1 Chronicles 16:31 Let the sky be glad and the land enjoy, and let them say among the nations, “Yahveh reigns!”
1 Chronicles 16:32 Let the sea and all that fills it resound; let the fields and everything in them exult.
1 Chronicles 16:33 Then the trees of the forest will shout for joy before the Lord, for he is coming to judge the land.
1 Chronicles 16:34 Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; his covenant faithfulness[12] endures permanently.
1 Chronicles 16:35 And say: “Rescue us, God of our rescue; gather us and strip us from the nations so that we may give thanks to your sacred name and rejoice in your praise.
1 Chronicles 16:36 Praised be Yahveh God of Israel from age to age.” Then all the people said, “Amen” and “Praise the Lord.”
1 Chronicles 16:37 So David left Asaph and his relatives there before the ark of Yahveh’s covenant to minister continually before the ark according to the daily requirements.
1 Chronicles 16:38 He assigned Obed-edom and his sixty-eight relatives. Obed-edom son of Jeduthun and Hosah were to be gatekeepers.
1 Chronicles 16:39 David left the priest Zadok and his fellow priests before the tabernacle of Yahveh at the high place in Gibeon
1 Chronicles 16:40 to offer ascending offerings continually, morning and evening, to Yahveh on the altar of ascending offerings and to do everything that was written in the instruction[13] of the Lord, which he had commanded Israel to keep.
1 Chronicles 16:41 With them were Heman, Jeduthun, and the rest who were chosen and designated by name to give thanks to the Lord — for his covenant faithfulness endures permanently.
1 Chronicles 16:42 Heman and Jeduthun had with them trumpets and cymbals to play and musical instruments of God. Jeduthun’s sons were at the city gate.
1 Chronicles 16:43 Then all the people went home, and David returned home to empower his house.
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