018:004 David took from him one thousand chariots, and seven
thousand horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen; and David
hamstrung all the chariot horses, but reserved of them
for one hundred chariots.
018:005 When the Syrians of Damascus came to help Hadarezer king
of Zobah, David struck of the Syrians twenty-two thousand men.
018:006 Then David put [garrisons] in Syria of Damascus;
and the Syrians became servants to David, and brought tribute.
Yahweh gave victory to David wherever he went.
018:007 David took the shields of gold that were on the servants
of Hadarezer, and brought them to Jerusalem.
018:008 From Tibhath and from Cun, cities of Hadarezer, David took
very much brass, with which Solomon made the bronze sea,
and the pillars, and the vessels of brass.
018:009 When Tou king of Hamath heard that David had struck all the army
of Hadarezer king of Zobah,
018:010 he sent Hadoram his son to king David, to Greet him, and to bless him,
because he had fought against Hadarezer and struck him;
(for Hadarezer had wars with Tou;) and [he had with him]
all manner of vessels of gold and silver and brass.
018:011 These also did king David dedicate to Yahweh, with the silver
and the gold that he carried away from all the nations;
from Edom, and from Moab, and from the children of Ammon,
and from the Philistines, and from Amalek.
018:012 Moreover Abishai the son of Zeruiah struck of the Edomites
in the Valley of Salt eighteen thousand.
018:013 He put garrisons in Edom; and all the Edomites became servants
to David. Yahweh gave victory to David wherever he went.
018:014 David reigned over all Israel; and he executed justice and
righteousness to all his people.
018:015 Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the army; and Jehoshaphat
the son of Ahilud was recorder;
018:016 and Zadok the son of Ahitub, and Abimelech the son of Abiathar,
were priests; and Shavsha was scribe;
018:017 and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites
and the Pelethites; and the sons of David were chief
about the king.
019:001 It happened after this, that Nahash the king of the children
of Ammon died, and his son reigned in his place.
019:002 David said, I will show kindness to Hanun the son
of Nahash, because his father shown kindness to me.
So David sent messengers to comfort him concerning his father.
David's servants came into the land of the children of Ammon
to Hanun, to comfort him.
019:003 But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun, Think you
that David does honor your father, in that he has sent
comforters to you? Aren't his servants come to you to search,
and to overthrow, and to spy out the land?
019:004 So Hanun took David's servants, and shaved them, and cut
off their garments in the middle, even to their buttocks,
and sent them away.
019:005 Then there went certain persons, and told David how the men
were served. He sent to meet them; for the men were
greatly ashamed. The king said, Stay at Jericho until your
beards be grown, and then return.
019:006 When the children of Ammon saw that they had made themselves
odious to David, Hanun and the children of Ammon sent one
thousand talents of silver to hire them chariots and horsemen
out of Mesopotamia, and out of Arammaacah, and out of Zobah.
019:007 So they hired them thirty-two thousand chariots, and the king
of Maacah and his people, who came and encamped before Medeba.
The children of Ammon gathered themselves together from
their cities, and came to battle.
019:008 When David heard of it, he sent Joab, and all the army
of the mighty men.
019:009 The children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in array
at the gate of the city: and the kings who had come were
by themselves in the field.
019:010 Now when Joab saw that the battle was set against him
before and behind, he chose of all the choice men of Israel,
and put them in array against the Syrians.
019:011 The rest of the people he committed into the hand of Abishai
his brother; and they put themselves in array against
the children of Ammon.
019:012 He said, If the Syrians be too strong for me, then you shall
help me; but if the children of Ammon be too strong for you,
then I will help you.
019:013 Be of good courage, and let us play the man for our people,
and for the cities of our God: and Yahweh do that which
seems him good.
019:014 So Joab and the people who were with him drew near before
the Syrians to the battle; and they fled before him.
019:015 When the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians were fled,
they likewise fled before Abishai his brother, and entered
into the city. Then Joab came to Jerusalem.
019:016 When the Syrians saw that they were put to the worse before Israel,
they sent messengers, and drew forth the Syrians who were beyond
the River, with Shophach the captain of the army of Hadarezer
at their head.
019:017 It was told David; and he gathered all Israel together,
and passed over the Jordan, and came on them, and set the battle
in array against them. So when David had put the battle
in array against the Syrians, they fought with him.
019:018 The Syrians fled before Israel; and David killed of the Syrians
[the men of] seven thousand chariots, and forty thousand footmen,
and killed Shophach the captain of the army.
019:019 When the servants of Hadarezer saw that they were put to the worse
before Israel, they made peace with David, and served him:
neither would the Syrians help the children of Ammon any more.
020:001 It happened, at the time of the return of the year, at the time
when kings go out [to battle], that Joab led forth the army,
and wasted the country of the children of Ammon, and came
and besieged Rabbah. But David stayed at Jerusalem.
Joab struck Rabbah, and overthrew it.
020:002 David took the crown of their king from off his head,
and found it to weigh a talent of gold, and there were
precious stones in it; and it was set on David's head:
and he brought forth the spoil of the city, exceeding much.
020:003 He brought forth the people who were therein, and cut [them]
with saws, and with harrows of iron, and with axes.
Thus did David to all the cities of the children of Ammon.
David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.
020:004 It happened after this, that there arose war at Gezer with
the Philistines: then Sibbecai the Hushathite killed Sippai,
of the sons of the giant; and they were subdued.
020:005 There was again war with the Philistines; and Elhanan the son
of Jair killed Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite,
the staff of whose spear was like a weaver's beam.
020:006 There was again war at Gath, where was a man of great stature,
whose fingers and toes were twenty-four, six [on each hand],
and six [on each foot]; and he also was born to the giant.
020:007 When he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea David's
brother killed him.
020:008 These were born to the giant in Gath; and they fell by the hand
of David, and by the hand of his servants.
021:001 Satan stood up against Israel, and moved David to number Israel.
021:002 David said to Joab and to the princes of the people, Go,
number Israel from Beersheba even to Dan; and bring me word,
that I may know the sum of them.
021:003 Joab said, Yahweh make his people a hundred times as many
as they are: but, my lord the king, aren't they all my
lord's servants? Why does my lord require this thing?
Why will he be a cause of guilt to Israel?
021:004 Nevertheless the king's word prevailed against Joab.
Therefore Joab departed, and went throughout all Israel,
and came to Jerusalem.
021:005 Joab gave up the sum of the numbering of the people to David.
All those of Israel were one million one hundred thousand
men who drew sword: and in Judah were four hundred seventy
thousand men who drew sword.
021:006 But he didn't count Levi and Benjamin among them; for the king's
word was abominable to Joab.
021:007 God was displeased with this thing; therefore he struck Israel.
021:008 David said to God, I have sinned greatly, in that I have done
this thing: but now, put away, I beg you, the iniquity
of your servant; for I have done very foolishly.
021:009 Yahweh spoke to Gad, David's seer, saying,
021:010 Go and speak to David, saying, Thus says Yahweh, I offer you
three things: choose you one of them, that I may do it to you.
021:011 So Gad came to David, and said to him, Thus says Yahweh, Take
which you will:
021:012 either three years of famine; or three months to be consumed
before your foes, while the sword of your enemies overtakes you;
or else three days the sword of Yahweh, even pestilence
in the land, and the angel of Yahweh destroying throughout
all the borders of Israel. Now therefore consider what answer
I shall return to him who sent me.
021:013 David said to Gad, I am in a great strait: let me fall, I pray,
into the hand of Yahweh; for very great are his mercies:
and let me not fall into the hand of man.
021:014 So Yahweh sent a pestilence on Israel; and there fell of Israel
seventy thousand men.
021:015 God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was
about to destroy, Yahweh saw, and he repented him of the evil,
and said to the destroying angel, It is enough; now stay your hand.
The angel of Yahweh was standing by the threshing floor
of Ornan the Jebusite.
021:016 David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of Yahweh standing
between earth and the sky, having a drawn sword in his hand
stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders,
clothed in sackcloth, fell on their faces.
021:017 David said to God, Isn't it I who commanded the people
to be numbered? It is even I who have sinned and done
very wickedly; but these sheep, what have they done?
Please let your hand, O Yahweh my God, be against me,
and against my father's house; but not against your people,
that they should be plagued.
021:018 Then the angel of Yahweh commanded Gad to tell David, that David
should go up, and raise an altar to Yahweh in the threshing
floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
021:019 David went up at the saying of Gad, which he spoke in the
name of Yahweh.
021:020 Ornan turned back, and saw the angel; and his four sons who were
with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat.
021:021 As David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David, and went
out of the threshing floor, and bowed himself to David
with his face to the ground.
021:022 Then David said to Ornan, Give me the place of this
threshing floor, that I may build thereon an altar to Yahweh:
for the full price shall you give it me, that the plague
may be stayed from the people.
021:023 Ornan said to David, Take it to you, and let my lord the king
do that which is good in his eyes: behold, I give [you] the oxen
for burnt offerings, and the threshing instruments for wood,
and the wheat for the meal offering; I give it all.
021:024 King David said to Ornan, No; but I will most certainly buy it
for the full price: for I will not take that which is yours
for Yahweh, nor offer a burnt offering without cost.
021:025 So David gave to Ornan for the place six hundred shekels
of gold by weight.
021:026 David built there an altar to Yahweh, and offered burnt offerings
and peace offerings, and called on Yahweh; and he answered
him from the sky by fire on the altar of burnt offering.
021:027 Yahweh commanded the angel; and he put up his sword again
into the sheath of it.
021:028 At that time, when David saw that Yahweh had answered
him in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite,
then he sacrificed there.
021:029 For the tent of Yahweh, which Moses made in the wilderness,
and the altar of burnt offering, were at that time in the high
place at Gibeon.
021:030 But David couldn't go before it to inquire of God; for he was
afraid because of the sword of the angel of Yahweh.
022:001 Then David said, This is the house of Yahweh God, and this
is the altar of burnt offering for Israel.
022:002 David commanded to gather together the foreigners who were
in the land of Israel; and he set masons to hew worked stones
to build the house of God.
022:003 David prepared iron in abundance for the nails for the doors
of the gates, and for the couplings; and brass in
abundance without weight;
022:004 and cedar trees without number: for the Sidonians and they
of Tyre brought cedar trees in abundance to David.
022:005 David said, Solomon my son is young and tender, and the house
that is to be built for Yahweh must be exceedingly magnificent,
of fame and of glory throughout all countries:
I will therefore make preparation for it. So David prepared
abundantly before his death.
022:006 Then he called for Solomon his son, and charged him to build
a house for Yahweh, the God of Israel.
022:007 David said to Solomon his son, As for me, it was in my heart
to build a house to the name of Yahweh my God.
022:008 But the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, You have shed
blood abundantly, and have made great wars: you shall not
build a house to my name, because you have shed much blood
on the earth in my sight.
022:009 Behold, a son shall be born to you, who shall be a man of rest;
and I will give him rest from all his enemies round about;
for his name shall be Solomon, and I will give peace and
quietness to Israel in his days:
022:010 he shall build a house for my name; and he shall be my son,
and I will be his father; and I will establish the throne
of his kingdom over Israel for ever.
022:011 Now, my son, Yahweh be with you; and prosper you, and build
the house of Yahweh your God, as he has spoken concerning you.
022:012 May Yahweh give you discretion and understanding, and put
you in charge of Israel; that so you may keep the law
of Yahweh your God.
022:013 Then shall you prosper, if you observe to do the statutes
and the ordinances which Yahweh gave Moses concerning Israel.
Be strong, and of good courage. Don't be afraid,
neither be dismayed.
022:014 Now, behold, in my affliction I have prepared for the house
of Yahweh one hundred thousand talents of gold, and one thousand
thousand talents of silver, and of brass and iron without weight;
for it is in abundance: timber also and stone have I prepared;
and you may add to them.
022:015 There are also workmen with you in abundance, cutters and workers
of stone and timber, and all kinds of men who are skillful
in every kind of work:
022:016 of the gold, the silver, and the brass, and the iron, there is
no number. Arise and be doing, and Yahweh be with you.
022:017 David also commanded all the princes of Israel to help Solomon
his son, [saying],
022:018 Isn't Yahweh your God with you? Hasn't he given you rest on
every side? for he has delivered the inhabitants of the land
into my hand; and the land is subdued before Yahweh,
and before his people.
022:019 Now set your heart and your soul to seek after Yahweh your God;
arise therefore, and build the sanctuary of Yahweh God, to bring
the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, and the holy vessels of God,
into the house that is to be built to the name of Yahweh.
023:001 Now David was old and full of days; and he made Solomon his son
king over Israel.
023:002 He gathered together all the princes of Israel, with the priests
and the Levites.
023:003 The Levites were numbered from thirty years old and upward:
and their number by their polls, man by man,
was thirty-eight thousand.
023:004 Of these, twenty-four thousand were to oversee the work of
the house of Yahweh; and six thousand were officers and judges;
023:005 and four thousand were doorkeepers; and four thousand praised
Yahweh with the instruments which I made, [said David],
for giving praise.
023:006 David divided them into divisions according to the sons
of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
023:007 Of the Gershonites: Ladan and Shimei.
023:008 The sons of Ladan: Jehiel the chief, and Zetham, and Joel, three.
023:009 The sons of Shimei: Shelomoth, and Haziel, and Haran, three.
These were the heads of the fathers' [houses] of Ladan.
023:010 The sons of Shimei: Jahath, Zina, and Jeush, and Beriah.
These four were the sons of Shimei.
023:011 Jahath was the chief, and Zizah the second: but Jeush and Beriah
didn't have many sons; therefore they became a fathers'
house in one reckoning.
023:012 The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel, four.
023:013 The sons of Amram: Aaron and Moses; and Aaron was separated,
that he should sanctify the most holy things, he and his sons,
forever, to burn incense before Yahweh, to minister to him,
and to bless in his name, forever.
023:014 But as for Moses the man of God, his sons were named among
the tribe of Levi.
023:015 The sons of Moses: Gershom and Eliezer.
023:016 The sons of Gershom: Shebuel the chief.
023:017 The sons of Eliezer were: Rehabiah the chief; and Eliezer
had no other sons; but the sons of Rehabiah were very many.
023:018 The sons of Izhar: Shelomith the chief.
023:019 The sons of Hebron: Jeriah the chief, Amariah the second,
Jahaziel the third, and Jekameam the fourth.
023:020 The sons of Uzziel: Micah the chief, and Isshiah the second.
023:021 The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. The sons of Mahli:
Eleazar and Kish.
023:022 Eleazar died, and had no sons, but daughters only:
and their brothers the sons of Kish took them [to wife].
023:023 The sons of Mushi: Mahli, and Eder, and Jeremoth, three.
023:024 These were the sons of Levi after their fathers' houses,
even the heads of the fathers' houses of those who were
counted individually, in the number of names by their polls,
who did the work for the service of the house of Yahweh,
from twenty years old and upward.
023:025 For David said, Yahweh, the God of Israel, has given rest
to his people; and he dwells in Jerusalem forever:
023:026 and also the Levites shall no more have need to carry the tent
and all the vessels of it for the service of it.
023:027 For by the last words of David the sons of Levi were numbered,
from twenty years old and upward.
023:028 For their office was to wait on the sons of Aaron for the service
of the house of Yahweh, in the courts, and in the chambers,
and in the purifying of all holy things, even the work
of the service of the house of God;
023:029 for the show bread also, and for the fine flour for a meal offering,
whether of unleavened wafers, or of that which is baked
in the pan, or of that which is soaked, and for all manner
of measure and size;
023:030 and to stand every morning to thank and praise Yahweh,
and likewise in the evening;
023:031 and to offer all burnt offerings to Yahweh, on the Sabbaths,
on the new moons, and on the set feasts, in number according
to the ordinance concerning them, continually before Yahweh;
023:032 and that they should keep the charge of the tent of meeting,
and the charge of the holy place, and the charge of the sons
of Aaron their brothers, for the service of the house of Yahweh.
024:001 These were the divisions of the sons of Aaron. The sons
of Aaron: Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.
024:002 But Nadab and Abihu died before their father, and had no children:
therefore Eleazar and Ithamar executed the priest's office.
024:003 David with Zadok of the sons of Eleazar, and Ahimelech of
the sons of Ithamar, divided them according to their ordering
in their service.
024:004 There were more chief men found of the sons of Eleazar
than of the sons of Ithamar; and [thus] were they divided:
of the sons of Eleazar there were sixteen, heads of fathers'
houses; and of the sons of Ithamar, according to
their fathers' houses, eight.
024:005 Thus were they divided impartially by drawing lots;
for there were princes of the sanctuary, and princes of God,
both of the sons of Eleazar, and of the sons of Ithamar.
024:006 Shemaiah the son of Nethanel the scribe, who was of the Levites,
wrote them in the presence of the king, and the princes,
and Zadok the priest, and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar,
and the heads of the fathers' [houses] of the priests and
of the Levites; one fathers' house being taken for Eleazar,
and one taken for Ithamar.
024:007 Now the first lot came forth to Jehoiarib, the second to Jedaiah,
024:008 the third to Harim, the fourth to Seorim,
024:009 the fifth to Malchijah, the sixth to Mijamin,
024:010 the seventh to Hakkoz, the eighth to Abijah,
024:011 the ninth to Jeshua, the tenth to Shecaniah,
024:012 the eleventh to Eliashib, the twelfth to Jakim,
024:013 the thirteenth to Huppah, the fourteenth to Jeshebeab,
024:014 the fifteenth to Bilgah, the sixteenth to Immer,
024:015 the seventeenth to Hezir, the eighteenth to Happizzez,
024:016 the nineteenth to Pethahiah, the twentieth to Jehezkel,
024:017 the twenty-first to Jachin, the twenty-second to Gamul,
024:018 the twenty-third to Delaiah, the twenty-fourth to Maaziah.
024:019 This was the ordering of them in their service, to come
into the house of Yahweh according to the ordinance [given]
to them by Aaron their father, as Yahweh, the God of Israel,
had commanded him.
024:020 Of the rest of the sons of Levi: of the sons of Amram, Shubael;
of the sons of Shubael, Jehdeiah.
024:021 Of Rehabiah: of the sons of Rehabiah, Isshiah the chief.
024:022 Of the Izharites, Shelomoth; of the sons of Shelomoth, Jahath.
024:023 The sons [of Hebron]: Jeriah [the chief], Amariah the second,
Jahaziel the third, Jekameam the fourth.
024:024 The sons of Uzziel, Micah; of the sons of Micah, Shamir.
024:025 The brother of Micah, Isshiah; of the sons of Isshiah, Zechariah.
024:026 The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi; the sons of Jaaziah: Beno.
024:027 The sons of Merari: of Jaaziah, Beno, and Shoham,
and Zaccur, and Ibri.
024:028 Of Mahli: Eleazar, who had no sons.
024:029 Of Kish; the sons of Kish: Jerahmeel.
024:030 The sons of Mushi: Mahli, and Eder, and Jerimoth.
These were the sons of the Levites after their fathers' houses.
024:031 These likewise cast lots even as their brothers the sons of Aaron
in the presence of David the king, and Zadok, and Ahimelech,
and the heads of the fathers' [houses] of the priests
and of the Levites; the fathers' [houses] of the chief even
as those of his younger brother.
025:001 Moreover, David and the captains of the army set apart for the service
certain of the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Jeduthun,
who should prophesy with harps, with stringed instruments,
and with cymbals: and the number of those who did the work
according to their service was:
025:002 of the sons of Asaph: Zaccur, and Joseph, and Nethaniah,
and Asharelah, the sons of Asaph, under the hand of Asaph,
who prophesied after the order of the king.
025:003 Of Jeduthun; the sons of Jeduthun: Gedaliah, and Zeri,
and Jeshaiah, Hashabiah, and Mattithiah, six, under the hands
of their father Jeduthun with the harp, who prophesied
in giving thanks and praising Yahweh.
025:004 Of Heman; the sons of Heman: Bukkiah, Mattaniah, Uzziel, Shebuel,
and Jerimoth, Hananiah, Hanani, Eliathah, Giddalti,
and Romamti-Ezer, Joshbekashah, Mallothi, Hothir, Mahazioth.
025:005 All these were the sons of Heman the king's seer in the words
of God, to lift up the horn. God gave to Heman fourteen sons
and three daughters.
025:006 All these were under the hands of their father for song in the house
of Yahweh, with cymbals, stringed instruments, and harps,
for the service of the house of God; Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman
being under the order of the king.
025:007 The number of them, with their brothers who were instructed
in singing to Yahweh, even all who were skillful,
was two hundred eighty-eight.
025:008 They cast lots for their offices, all alike, as well the small
as the great, the teacher as the scholar.
025:009 Now the first lot came forth for Asaph to Joseph:
the second to Gedaliah; he and his brothers and sons were twelve:
025:010 the third to Zaccur, his sons and his brothers, twelve:
025:011 the fourth to Izri, his sons and his brothers, twelve:
025:012 the fifth to Nethaniah, his sons and his brothers, twelve:
025:013 the sixth to Bukkiah, his sons and his brothers, twelve:
025:014 the seventh to Jesharelah, his sons and his brothers, twelve:
025:015 the eighth to Jeshaiah, his sons and his brothers, twelve:
025:016 the ninth to Mattaniah, his sons and his brothers, twelve:
025:017 the tenth to Shimei, his sons and his brothers, twelve:
025:018 the eleventh to Azarel, his sons and his brothers, twelve:
025:019 the twelfth to Hashabiah, his sons and his brothers, twelve:
025:020 for the thirteenth, Shubael, his sons and his brothers, twelve:
025:021 for the fourteenth, Mattithiah, his sons and his brothers, twelve: