1Adam, Seth, Enosh, 2 Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared, 3 Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech, 4 Noah. The sons of Noah: Shem, Ham, Japheth. 5 The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Elishah, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras. 6 And the sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Diphath, and Togarmah. 7 And the sons of Javan: Elishah, Tharshish, Kittim, and Rodanim. 8 And the sons of Ham: Cush, Egypt, Put, and Canaan. 9 And the sons of Cush: Sheba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raama, and Sabteca. And the sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan. 10 And Cush became the father of Nimrod. This one began to be a mighty hunter upon the earth. 17 The sons of Shem: Elam, Assyria,a 24 Arphaxad, Shelah, 25 Eber, Peleg, Reu, 26 Serug, Nahor, Terah, 27 Abraham. 28 And the sons of Abraham: Isaac and Ishmael. 29 Now these are the generations of the firstborn, Ishmael: Nebaioth, Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam, 30 Mishma, Dumah, Massa, Hadad, Teman, 31 Jetur, Naphish, Kedemah. These are the sons of Ishmael. 32 The sons of Keturah, Abraham’s concubine: and she bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Midian, Medan, Ishbak, Shuah. And the sons of Jokshan: Dedan and Sheba. 33 The sons of Midian: Ephah, Epher, Enoch, Abida, and Eldaah. All these were sons of Keturah. 34 And Abraham became the father of Isaac, and the sons of Isaac: Jacob and Esau. 35 The sons of Esau: Eliphaz, Reuel, Jeush, Jalam, Korah. 36 The sons of Eliphaz: Teman, Omar, Zephi, Gatam, Kenaz, Amalek by Timnah. 37 And the sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah. 38 The sons of Seir: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah, Dishon, Ezer. 39 And the sons of Lotan: Hori, Homam, Elath, and Timna. 40 The sons of Shobal: Alian, Manahath, Ebal, Shephi, and Onam. And the sons of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah. 41 The son of Anah: Dishon. And the sons of Dishon: Hamran, Eshban, Ithran, and Keran. 42 The sons of Ezer: Bilhan, Zaavan, and Jaakan. The sons of Dishon: Uz and Aran. 43 Now these were their kings: Bela the son of Beor, and the name of his city was Dinhabah. 44 And Bela died, and Jobab the son of Zerah, from Bozrah, reigned in his place. 45 And Jobab died, and Husham from the land of Teman reigned in his place. 46 And Husham died, and Hadad son of Bedad, the one who struck Midian in the field of Moab, reigned in his place. And the name of his city was Avioth. 47 And Hadad died, and reigning in his place was 49 Baalhanan son of Acbor. 50 And Baal-hanan son of Acbor died, and Hadad son of Bedad reigned in his place, and the name of his city was Pau. 51 And Hadad died, and Samlah from Masrekah reigned in his place. Samlah died, and reigning in his place was Shaul from Rehoboth beside the river. And Shaul died. Now the chiefs of Edom were: Chief Timna, Chief Aliah, Chief Jetheth, 52 Chief Oholibamah, Chief Elah, Chief Pinon, 53 Chief Kenaz, Chief Teman, Chief Mibzar, 54 Chief Magdiel, Chief Imram. These were the chiefs of Edom.
2These are the names of the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun, 2 Dan, Joseph, Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, Asher. 3 The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah. These three were born to him by the daughter of Shua, the Canaanite woman. And Er, the firstborn of Judah, was wicked before the Lord, and he killed him. 4 Tamar, his bride, bore to him Perez and Zerah. All the sons of Judah were five. 5 The sons of Perez: Hezron and Hamul. 6 The sons of Zerah: Zimri, Ethan, Heman, Calcol, and Dara, five in all. 7 The sons of Carmi: Achar, the hindrance of Israel, who broke faith for the cursed thing. 8 The son of Ethan: Azariah. 9 The sons of Hezron, who were born to him: Jerahmeel, Ram, Caleb, and Aram. 10 Ram fathered Amminadab, and Amminadab fathered Nahshon, the ruler of the house of Judah. 11 Nahshon fathered Salmon, and Salmon fathered Boaz. 12 Boaz fathered Obed, and Obed fathered Jesse. 13 Jesse fathered his firstborn, Eliab; Abinadab, the second; Shimea, the third; 14 Nethanel, the fourth; Raddai, the fifth; 15 Ozem, the sixth; David, the seventh, 16 and their sister, Zeruiah. And the sons of Zeruiah: Abishai, Joab, and Asahel, three in all. 17 Abigail bore Amasa, and the father of Amasa was Jether, the Ishmaelite. 18 Caleb the son of Hezron, fathered by Azubah, his wife, and by Jerioth. These are her sons: Jesher, Shobab, and Ardon. 19 Azubah died, and Caleb took for himself Ephrathah, and she fathered Hur for him. 20 Hur fathered Uri, and Uri fathered Bezalel. 21 After these things Hezron went in to the daughter of Machir, the father of Gilead. And he took her, and he was sixty years old, and she bore to him Segub. 22 Segub fathered Jair, and there were to him twenty-three cities in Gilead. 23 Now, he took Geshur and Aram, the villages of Jair, from them, Kenath and its villages, sixty cities. All these were of the sons of Machir, father of Gilead. 24 Now, after Hezron died, Caleb came into Ephrathah, and the wife of Hezron was Abijah, and she bore for him Ashhur, father of Tekoa. 25 The sons of Jerahmeel, the firstborn of Hezron, were the firstborn Ram and Bunah and Oren and Ozem and Ahijah, his brother. 26 There was another wife to Jerahmeel, and her name was Atarah. She is the mother of Onam. 27 These were sons of Ram, the firstborn of Jerahmeel: Maaz and Jamin and Eker. 28 These were sons of Onam: Shammai and Jada. And the sons of Shammai: Nadab and Abishur. 29 The name of the wife of Abishur was Abihail, and she bore to him Ahban and Molid. 30 The sons of Nadab: Seled and Appaim. Seled died not having children. 31 The sons of Appaim: Ishi. And the sons of Ishi: Sheshan. and the son of Sheshan: Ahlai. 32 The sons of Jada: Achishammai, Jether, Jonathan. Jether died, not having children. 33 The sons of Jonathan: Peleth and Zaza. These were the sons of Jerahmeel. 34 There were no sons to Sheshan, but daughters. And to Sheshan there was an Egyptian servant, and his name was Jarha. 35 Now, Sheshan gave his daughter to Jarha, his servant, for a wife, and she bore to him Attai. 36 Attai fathered Nathan, and Nathan fathered Zabad. 37 Zabad fathered Ephlal, and Ephlal fathered Obed. 38 Obed fathered Jehu, and Jehu fathered Azariah. 39 Azariah fathered Helez, and Helez fathered Eleasah. 40 Eleasah fathered Sismai, and Sismai fathered Shallum. 41 Shallum fathered Jekamiah, and Jekamiah fathered Elishama. 42 The sons of Caleb, brother of Jerahmeel: Mesha, his firstborn. He was the father of Ziph. The sons of Mareshah, the father of Hebron. 43 The sons of Hebron: Korah and Tappuah and Rekem and Shema. 44 Shema fathered Raham, father of Jorkeam, and Rekem fathered Shammai. 45 His son was Maon, and Maon was the father of Zur. 46 Ephah, concubine of Caleb, bore Haran and Moza and Gazez, and Haran fathered Gazez. 47 The sons of Jahdai: Regem, Jotham, Geshan, Pelet, Ephah, and Shaaph. 48 The concubine of Caleb, Maacah, bore Sheber and Tirhanah. 49 She bore Shaaph, father of Madmannah, and Sheva, father of Machbenah and father of Gibea. And the daughter of Caleb was Achsah. 50 These were the sons of Caleb. The sons of Hur, the firstborn of Ephrathah: Shobal, the father of Kiriath-jearim; 51 Solomon, the father of Betha; Lammon, the father of Bethlehem; Hareph, the father of Bethgader. 52 These were sons to Shobal, father of Kiriath-jearim: Haio, Heseira, Manahoth, 53 Emospheos, the cities of Kiriathjearim, Aithalim, and Puthites and Shumathites and Mishraites; from these the Zorathites and the sons of the Eshtaolites went out. 54 The sons of Solomon: Bethlehem, Netophathite, Atroth from the house of Joab, and half of the Manahathites, Zorites. 55 The lineage of the scribes who dwell in Jabez: Tirathites, Shimeathites, Sucathites; these are the Kenites who came out from Hammath, the father of the house of Rechab.
3These were the sons of David who were born to him in Hebron: the firstborn Amnon, by Ahinoam the Israelite; the second, Daniel, by Abigail the Carmelite; 2 the third, Absalom, the son of Maacah, daughter of Talmai, king of Geshur; the fourth, Adonijah, the son of Haggith; 3 the fifth, Shephatiah of Abital; the sixth Ithream, by Eglah, his wife. 4 Six were born to him in Hebron, and he reigned in Jerusalem thirty-three years. 5 These were born to him in Jerusalem: Shimea, Shobab, Nathan, and Solomon, four to Bath-shua, daughter of Ammiel; 6 and Ibhar and Elishama and Eliphelet 7 and Nogah and Nepheg and Japhia 8 and Elishama and Eliada and Eliphelet, nine in all. 9 All were the sons of David, besides the sons of the concubines, and Tamar their sister. 10 The sons of Solomon: Rehoboam, Abijah his son, Asa his son, Jehoshaphat his son, 11 Joram his son, Ahaziah his son, Joash his son, 12 Amaziah his son, Azariah his son, Jotham his son, 13 Ahaz his son, Hezekiah his son, Manasseh his son, 14 Amon his son, Josiah his son. 15 The sons of Josiah: the firstborn Johanan, the second, Jehoiakim; the third, Zedekiah; the fourth, Shallum. 16 The sons of Jehoiakim: Jeconiah his son, Zedekiah his son. 17 The sons of Jeconiah: Aseir, Shealtiel his son; 18 Malchiram and Pedaiah and Shenazzar and Jekamiah and Hoshama and Nedabiah. 19 The sons of Shealtiel: Zerubbabel, Meshullam, and Hananiah, and Shelomith, their sister, 20 and Hashubah and Ohel and Berechiah and Hasadiah and Jushab-hesed, five in all. 21 The sons of Hananiah: Pelatiah and Jeshaiah his son, Rephaiah his son, Arnan his son, Obadiah his son, Shecaniah his son. 22 The son of Shecaniah: Shemaiah. And the son of Shemaiah: Hattush and Igal and Bariah and Neariah and Shaphat, six in all. 23 The sons of Neariah: Elioenai and Hezekiah and Azrikam, three in all. 24 The sons of Elioenai: Hodaviah and Eliashib and Pelaiah and Akkub and Johanan and Delaiah and Anani, seven in all.
4The sons of Judah: Perez and Hezron and Carmi and Hur and Shobal 2 and Reaiah his son. Shobal fathered Jahath, and Jahath fathered Ahumai and Lahad. These are the generations of the Zorathites. 3 These are the sons of Etam: Jezreel and Ishma and Idbash, and the name of their sister was Hazzelponi. 4 Penuel, the father of Gedor, and Ezer, the father of Hushah. These are the sons of Hur, the firstborn of Ephrathah, the father of Bethlehem. 5 To Ashhur, father of Tekoa, were two wives: Helah and Naarah. 6 Naarah bore for him Ahuzzam and Hepher and Temeni and Ahashtari; all these are the sons of Naarah. 7 The sons of Helah: Zereth and Izhar and Ethan. 8 Koz fathered Anub and Zobebah, and you will father the brother of Rechab, son of Jearim. 9 Jabez was held in esteem more than his brothers, and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, “I have fathered as ‘gabes.’ ”a 10 Jabez called upon the God of Israel, saying, “If blessing you will bless me and increase my borders, and your hand be with me, and may you produce knowledge to not humble me.” And God brought everything, as much as he requested. 11 Caleb, the father of Achsah, fathered Machir. He was the father of Eshton. 12 Eshton fathered Beth-rapha and Paseah and Tehinnah, father of the city of Nahash, brother of Eselon the Kenezi; these are the men of Recah. 13 The sons of Kenaz: Othniel and Seraiah. And the son of Othniel: Hathath. 14 Meonothai fathered Ophrah, and Seraiah fathered Joab, father of Ge-harashim, because they were craftsmen. 15 The sons of Caleb son of Jephunneh: Elah and Adai and Naam. The son of Elah: Kenaz, 16 and his son Geseel and Ameachi and Ziphah and Zaira and Asarel. 17 The sons of Ezrah: Jether and Mered and Epher and Jalon, and Jether fathered Miriam and Shammai and Mareth, father of Eshtemoa. 18 His wife, she is Adia, bore Jared, father of Gedor; and Heber, father of Socoh; and Jekuthiel, father of Zanoah. These are the sons of Gelia, the daughter of Pharaoh, whom Mered took. 19 The sons of the wife of Hodiah, sister of Naham. And Daleilia, the father of Keilah; and Semegon, the father of Ioman; and Manaem, the father of Keilah: Hatamei and Esthemoa and Nochathei. 20 The sons of Shimon: Amnon and Rinnah, the son of Hanan, and Tolon. The sons of Ishi: Zoheth and the sons of Zoheth. 21 The sons of Shelah son of Judah: Er, the father of Lecah, and Laadah, the father of Mareshah and the generations of the houses of Ephrath Abak to the house of Beth-ashbea. 22 And Jokim and the men of Cozeba and Joash and Saraph, who dwelled in Moab; and Abederin Athukiin turned them back. 23 These are the potters who dwelled in Netaim and Gaderah with the king in his dominion. They grew strong and dwelled there. 24 The sons of Simeon: Nemuel, Jamin, Jarib, Zerah, Saul; 25 Shallum his son, Mibsam his son, Mishma his son, 26 Shimei his son. 27 To Shimei there were sixteen sons and three daughters. But to their brothers there were not many sons, and all their lineage did not increase like the sons of Judah. 28 They lived in Beer-sheba and Shema and Moladah and Hazar-shual, 29 Bilhah and Ezem and Tolad 30 and Bethuel and Hormah and Ziklag 31 and Beth-marcaboth and Hazar-susah and the house of Biri-shaaraim. These were their cities until King David. 32 Their villages were Etam and Rimmon and Tochen and Ashan, fiveb cities in all. 33 All their villages were around these cities up to Baal. This was their possession and their distribution. 34 Meshobab and Jamlech and Joshah son of Amaziah, 35 and Joel, and he was the son of Joshibiah the son of Seraiah, the son of Asiel, 36 and Elioenai and Jaakobah and Jeshohaiah and Asaiah, the sons of Aosal the son of Saphal, 37 son of Allon, son of Jedaiah, son of Shimri, son of Shemaiah. 38 These are the ones who went by the names of rulers in their families, and in the houses of their lineage they multiplied into a multitude. 39 They went until coming to Gerar, to the east of Ai, to seek pasture for their livestock. 40 They discovered rich and good pasture, and the land was spread before them, and there was peace and quiet because there were some of the sons of Ham who dwelled there before. 41 These, who were written by name, came in the days of Hezekiah, king of Judah, and they struck their houses and the Meunim whom they found there. They cursed them until this day, and they occupied instead of them, because there was pasturage for their livestock there. 42 Some of them from the sons of Simeon came to the mountain of Seir, five hundred men; and Pelatiah and Neariah and Rephaiah and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi, were their rulers. 43 And they struck down the remaining ones of the remnants of Amalek up to this day.
5The sons of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel (for he was the firstborn, but in the going up to his father’s bed, he gave his blessing to his son, Joseph, son of Israel; and hea was not considered as the firstborn, 2 because Judah was mighty in strength even among his brothers and a leader was possible from him, but the blessing was Joseph’s). 3 The sons of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel: Enoch and Pallu and Hezron and Carmi. 4 The sons of Joel: Shimei and Benaiah, his son, and the sons of Gog son of Shimei. 5 His son Micah, his son Reaiah, his son Baal, 6 his son Beerah, whom Tiglath-pileser, king of Assyria, took away captive. He was the commander of Reuben. 7 And his brothers in his country in their distribution according to their family: the commander Joel and Zechariah 8 and Bela son of Azaz, son of Shema, son of Joel; he dwelled in Aroer and at Nebo and Baal-meon. 9 He dwelled toward the east until the beginning of the desert from the river Euphrates, because he had many livestock in the land of Gilead. 10 In the days of Saul they made war against the sojourners and fell by their hands, those dwelling in tents, all those to the east of the Gilead. 11 The sons of Gad dwelled opposite them in the Bashan, up to Salecah. 12 Joel the firstborn, and Shapham, the second, and Janai, the scribe, in Bashan. 13 And their brothers according to the houses of their families: Michael and Meshullam and Sheba and Jorai and Jacan and Zia and Eber, eight in all. 14 These are the sons of Abihail son of Huri, son of Jaroah, son of Gilead, son of Michael, son of Jeshishai, son of Jahdo, son of Buz, 15 son of Abdiel, son of Guni, commander of their paternal house. 16 These were among those dwelling in Gilead, in Bashan, and in their villages, and all the region around Sharon up to the exodus. 17 The registration of all happened in the days of Jotham, king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam, king of Israel. 18 The sons of Reuben and Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh: from mighty sons, men raising shields and sword and extending bow and teaching war, forty-four thousand seven hundred and sixty who went forth into battle. 19 They made war with the Hagrites and Jetur and Naphish and Nodab, 20 and they prevailed against them, and the Hagrites and all their dwellings were given over into their hands because they cried aloud to God during the battle, and he heard them, because they put their hope in him. 21 They took captive their goods: five thousand camels, two hundred and fifty thousand sheep, two thousand asses, and one hundred thousand lives of men. 22 For many fell wounded because the war was from God, and they dwelled there instead of them until the captivity. 23 The half-tribe of Manasseh dwelled from Bashan up to Baal-hermon and Senir and Mount Hermon, and they multiplied in Lebanon. 24 These were the leaders of the house of their families: Epher and Ishi and Eliel and Azriel and Jeremiah and Hodaviah and Jahdiel, strong men with power, famous men, rulers of the houses of their families. 25 They denied the God of their ancestors and prostituted after the gods of the peoples of the land, whom God had removed from their face. 26 The God of Israel raised the spirit of Pul, king of Assyria—even the spirit of Tiglath-pileser, king of Assyria—and he led captive Reuben and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh and led them into Halah and Habor and to the river Gozan until this day.
6aThe sons of Levi: Gershom, Kohath, and Merari. 2 The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel. 3 The sons of Amram: Aaron and Moses and Miriam. And the sons of Aaron: Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar. 4 Eleazar fathered Phinehas, Phinehas fathered Abishua, 5 Abishua fathered Bukki, and Bukki fathered Uzzi. 6 Uzzi fathered Zerahiah, Zerahiah fathered Meraioth, 7 and Meraioth fathered Amariah, and Amariah fathered Ahitub, 8 and Ahitub fathered Zadok, and Zadok fathered Ahimaaz, 9 and Ahimaaz fathered Azariah, and Azariah fathered Johanan, 10 and Johanan fathered Azariah. He was priest in the house that Solomon built in Jerusalem. 11 Azariah fathered Amariah, and Amariah fathered Ahitub, 12 and Ahitub fathered Zadok, and Zadok fathered Shallum, 13 and Shallum fathered Hilkiah, and Hilkiah fathered Azariah, 14 and Azariah fathered Seraiah, and Seraiah fathered Jehozadak. 15 Jehozadak went into the captivity with Judah and Jerusalem by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar. 16 The sons of Levi: Gershom, Kohath, and Merari. 17 These are the names of the sons of Gershom: Libni and Shimei. 18 The sons of Kohath: Amram and Izhar and Hebron and Uzziel. 19 The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the progeny of Levi according to their families. 20 To Gershom, to Libni, his son: Jahath his son, Zimmah his son, 21 Joah his son, Iddo his son, Zerah his son, Jeatherai his son. 22 The sons of Kohath: Amminadab his son, Korah his son, Assir his son, 23 Elkanah, and Ebiasaph his son, Assir his son, 24 Tahath his son, Uriel his son, Uzziah his son, Saul his son. 25 The sons of Elkanah: Amasai and Ahimoth, 26 Elkanah his son, Zophai his son, Nahath his son, 27 Eliab his son, Idaer his son, Elkanah his son. 28 The sons of Samuel: the firstborn Sani and Abijah. 29 The sons of Libni his son, Shimei his son, Uzzah his son, 30 Shimea his son, Haggiah his son, Asaiah his son. 31 These are the ones whom David appointed on the hands of the singers in the house of the Lord at the resting of the ark. 32 They were ministering before the tent of the house of witness with instruments until Solomon built the house in Jerusalem, and they stood according to their judgment at their ministries. 33 These are the ones who stood, and their sons, from the sons of Kohath: Heman, the psalmist, the son of Joel, son of Samuel, 34 son of Elkanah, son of Jeroham, son of Eliel, son of Toah, 35 son of Ziph, son of Elkanah, son of Mahath, son of Amasai, 36 son of Elkanah, son of Joel, son of Azariah, son of Zephaniah, 37 son of Tahath, son of Assir, son of Ebiasaph, son of Korah, 38 son of Izhar, son of Kohath, son of Levi, son of Israel. 39 His brother Asaph, who stood at his right: Asaph son of Berechiah, son of Shimea, 40 son of Michael, son of Baaseiah, son of Malchijah, 41 son of Ethni, son of Zerah, son of Adaiah, 42 son of Ethan, son of Zimmah, son of Shimei, 43 son of Echa, son of Gershom, son of Levi. 44 The sons of Merari, their brother, on the left: Ethan son of Kishi, son of Abdi, son of Malluch, 45 son of Hashabiah, son of Amaziah, 46 son of Bani, son of Shemer, 47 son of Mahli, Mushi, son of Merari, son of Levi. 48 Their brothers according to the houses of their families: the Levites, who devoted themselves to every work of ministry in the tent of the house of God. 49 Aaron and his sons burned incense at the altar of the whole burnt offerings, and on the altar of incense for all the daily ministry, at the holy of holies, and to make atonement concerning Israel according to everything that Moses, the servant of God, commanded. 50 These are the sons of Aaron: Eleazar his son, Phinehas his son, Abishua his son, 51 Bukki his son, Uzzi his son, Zerahiah his son, 52 Meraioth his son, Amariah his son, Ahitub his son, 53 Zadok his son, Ahimaaz his son. 54 These are their dwellings in their villages in their boundaries for the sons of Aaron, their family of Kohathites, for the lot came to them. 55 They gave them Hebron in Judea and its surrounding cities around it. 56 The fields of the city and its villages they gave to Caleb, son of Jephunneh. 57 To the sons of Aaron they gave the cities of refuge: Hebron, and Libnah and its surrounding cities, and Hilen and its surrounding cities, and Eshtemoa and its surrounding cities, 58 and Jattir and its surrounding cities, and Debir and its surrounding cities, 59 and Ashan and its surrounding cities, and Attan and its surrounding cities, and Beth-shemesh; 60 and from the tribe of Benjamin, Geba and its surrounding cities, and Alemeth and its surrounding cities, and Anathoth and its surrounding cities. All their cities were thirteen cities according to their families. 61 To the sons of Kohath, to the ones who remained from the families, from the tribe of the half-tribe of Manasseh, they were given by lot ten cities. 62 To the sons of Gershom, according to their families, from the tribe of Issachar, from the tribe of Asher, from the tribe of Naphtali, from the tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities were given. 63 To the sons of Merari, according to their families, from the tribe of Reuben, from the tribe of Dan, from the tribe of Zebulun, twelve cities were given by lot. 64 The sons of Israel gave to the Levites the cities and their surrounding cities. 65 They gave these cities which he named them, by lot from the tribe of the sons of Judah and from the tribe of the sons of Simeon, which they named them. 66 For the families of the sons of Kohath there were also cities of their boundaries from the tribe of Ephraim. 67 Also they gave to it the cities of refuge: Shechem and its surrounding cities, at mount Ephraim, and Gezer and its surrounding cities, 68 and Jokmeam and its surrounding cities, and Beth-horon and its surrounding cities, 69 and Aijalon and its surrounding cities, and Gath-rimmon and its surrounding cities; 70 and from the half-tribe of Manasseh, Aner and its surrounding cities, according to the family by the sons of Kohath who remained. 71 To the sons of Gershom from the lineage of the half-tribe of Manasseh: Golan from Bashan and its surrounding cities, and Ashteroth and its surrounding cities. 72 From the tribe of Issachar: Kedesh and its surrounding cities, and Daberath and its surrounding cities, and Dabor and its surrounding cities. 74 From the tribe of Asher: Mashal and its surrounding cities, and Abdon and its surrounding cities, 75 and Hukok and its surrounding cities, and Rehob and its surrounding cities. 76 From the tribe of Naphtali: Kedesh in Galilee and its surrounding cities, and Hammon and its surrounding cities, and Kiriathaim and its surrounding cities. 77 To the sons of Merari who remained, from the tribe of Zebulun: Rimmono and its surrounding cities, and Tabor and its surrounding cities. 78 From beyond the Jordan and Jericho to the west of the Jordan, from the tribe of Reuben: Bezer in the desert and its surrounding cities, 79 and Kedemoth and its surrounding cities, and Mephaath and its surrounding cities. 80 From the tribe of Gad: Ramoth Gilead and its surrounding cities, and Mahanaim and its surrounding cities, 81 and Heshbon and its surrounding cities, and Jazer and its surrounding cities.
7Now, to the sons of Issachar: Tola and Puah and Jashub and Shimron, four in all. 2 The sons of Tola: Uzzi and Rephaiah and Jeriel and Jahmai and Ibsam and Samuel. Rulers of their paternal houses in Tola, they were strong in might according to their generations; their number in the days of David was twenty-two thousand six hundred. 3 The sons of Uzzi: Izrahiah and Michael. And the sons of Izrahiah: Obadiah and Joel and Isshiah, five in all, all rulers. 4 Among them, according to their generations, according to the houses of their heritage, strong men, arrayed for war, thirty-six thousand, because they multiplied women and children. 5 Their brothers in all the families of Issachar, also mighty men in strength, eighty-seven thousand, the number of all of them. 6 Benjamin and Becher and Jediael, three in all. 7 The sons of Bela: Ezbon and Uzzi and Uzziel and Jerimoth and Iri, five in all, rulers of the houses of families, strong men in might, and their number was twenty-two thousand thirty-four. 8 The sons of Becher: Zemirah and Joash and Eliezer and Elioenai and Omri and Jeremoth and Abijah and Anathoth and Alemeth; all these were the sons of Becher. 9 Their number according to their generations, rulers of their paternal houses, strong men in might, was twenty thousand two hundred. 10 The son of Jediael: Bilhan. And the sons of Bilhan: Jeush and Benjamin and Ehud and Chenaanah and Zethan and Tarshish and Ahishahar. 11 All these were the sons of Jediael, rulers of families, strong men in might, seventeen thousand two hundred going out in strength to war. 12 Shuppim and Huppim and the sons of Raom, his son Aher. 13 The sons of Nephthali: Jahziel and Guni and Jezer and Shallum, the sons of Bilhah. 14 The sons of Manasseh: Asriel, whom his Syrian concubine bore; she bore Machir, father of Gilead. 15 Machir took a wife for Huppim and Shuppim, and the name of his sister was Maacah, and the name to the second son was Zelophehad. 16 Maacah, wife of Machir, bore a son, and she called his name Sheresh. His son was Ulam. 17 Bedan. These are the sons of Gilead son of Machir, son of Manasseh. 18 His sister, Hammolecheth, bore Ishhod and Abiezer and Mahlah. 19 The sons of Shemida were Ahian and Shechem and Likhi and Aniam. 20 The sons of Ephraim: Shuthelah, the sons of Eleadah, his son Tahath, 21 his son Zabad, his sons Ezer and Elead. And the men from Gath, who were born in the land, killed him, because they went down to take their livestock. 22 Their father, Ephraim, mourned many days, and their brothers came to comfort him. 23 He went to his wife, and she became pregnant and bore a son, and he called his name Beriah because, “He came during evil times in my house.” 24 He was among those who remained, and he built Beth-horon, the lower and the upper. And the sons of Uzzen: Sheerah 25 and Rephah his sons, Resheph and Telah his sons, Tahan his son. 26 To Ladan, his son: the sons of Ammihud, the sons of Elishama, 27 the sons of Nun, the sons of Joshua, his sons. 28 Their possession and their settlement was Bethel and its villages, and according to the east, Naaran, and to the west, Gezer and its villages, and Shechem and its villages, up to Aijah and its villages. 29 Up to the boundaries of the sons of Manasseh, Beth-shean and its villages, Taanach and its villages, and Balad and its villages, Megiddo and its villages, Dor and its villages. The sons of Joseph, son of Israel, dwelt in this way. 30 The sons of Asher: Imnah and Ishvah and Ishvi and Beriah and Serah, and their sister. 31 The sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel. He is the father of Birzaith. 32 Heber fathered Japhlet and Shomer and Hotham and Shua, their sister. 33 The sons of Japhlet: Pasach and Bimhal and Ashvath. These are the sons of Japhlet. 34 And the sons of Shemer: Ahi Rohgah and Jehubbah Aram 35 and Helem. His brothers were Zophah and Imna and Shelesh and Amal. 36 The sons of Zophah: Suah and Harnepher and Shual and Beri and Imrah 37 and Bezer and Hod and Shamma and Shilshah and Ithran and Beera. 38 And the sons of Jether: Jephunneh and Pispah and Ara. 39 And the sons of Ulla: Arah Hanniel and Rizia. 40 All these were the sons of Asher, all rulers of families, select ones, strong in might, rulers, leaders, their number for arrangement for battle to make war. Their number was twenty-six thousand men.
8Now Benjamin fathered Bela his firstborn, and Ashbel, the second, Aharah, the third, 2 Nohah, the fourth, and Rapha, the fifth. 3 The sons to Bela were Addar and Gera and Abihud 4 and Abishua and Naaman and Ahoah 5 and Gera and Shephuphan and Huram. 6 These are the sons of Ehud. These were rulers of families for those who dwelled in Geba and led them to Manahath. 7 And Naaman and Ahijah and Gera, that is, Higaam, he fathered Uzza and Ahihud. 8 Shaharaim fathered sons by the plain of Moab after he sent away Hushim and Baara, his wife. 9 He fathered by Hodesh, his wife, Jobab and Zibia and Mesha and Malcam 10 and Jeuz and Sachia and Mirmah. These were rulers of families. 11 By Hushim he fathered Abitub and Elpaal. 12 And the sons of Elpaal were Eber, Misham, Shemed. He built Ono and its villages. 13 And Beriah and Shema: these were the rulers of families who dwelled in Elam. These drove out those who dwelled in Gath. 14 His brother was Shashak and Jeremoth 15 and Zebadiah and Arad and Eder 16 and Michael and Ishpah and Joha, the sons of Beriah. 17 And Zebadiah and Meshullam and Hizki and Heber 18 and Ishmerai and Izliah and Jobab, the sons of Elpaal 19 And Jakim and Zichri and Zabdi 20 and Elienai and Zillethai and Eliel 21 and Adaiah and Beriga and Beraiah and Shimrath, sons of Shimei. 22 And Ishpan and Eber and Eliel 23 and Abdon and Zichri and Hanan 24 and Hananiah and Omri and Elam and Anthothijah 25 and Athin and Iphdeiah and Peniel, the sons of Shashak. 26 And Shamsherai and Shehariah and Athaliah 27 and Jaareshiah and Saraia and Elijah and Zichri, the sons of Jeroham. 28 These were rulers of families according to their generations; these rulers dwelled in Jerusalem. 29 The father of Gibeon dwelled in Gibeon, and the name of his wife was Maacah. 30 Her firstborn son was Abdon, and Zur and Kish and Baal and Nadab 31 and Gedor, and his brother, and Zecher and Mikloth. 32 Mikloth fathered Shimeah, for these dwelled in Jerusalem opposite their brothers with their brothers. 33 And Ner fathered Kish, and Kish fathered Saul, and Saul fathered Jonathan and Malchishua and Abinadab and Esh-baal. 34 The sons of Jonathan: Merib-baal, and Merib-baal fathered Micah. 35 The sons of Micah: Pithon and Melech and Tarea and Ahaz. 36 Ahaz fathered Jehoaddah and Iada, and Iada fathered Alemeth and Azmaveth and Zimri. And Zimri fathered Moza. 37 Moza fathered Binea; Raphah was his son, Eleasah his son, Azel his son. 38 To Azel there were six sons, and these are their names: Azrikam his firstborn, and Ishmael and Shearaiah and Obadiah and Hanan. All these were the sons of Azel. 39 The sons of Eshek, his brother: Ulam his firstborn, and Jeush, the second, and Eliphelet, the third. 40 The sons of Ulam were strong men with power, stretching the bow and multiplying sons and sons of sons, one hundred and fifty. All these were from the sons of Benjamin.
9This is all Israel, their census, and these are written in the document of the kings of Israel and Judah, with the ones who were made to dwell in Babylon due to their lawlessness. 2 The ones who dwelled before in their possessions, in the cities: Israel, the Levite sons, the priests, and the appointed ones. 3 They dwelled in Jerusalem, some of the sons of Judah and some of the sons of Benjamin and some of the sons of Ephraim and Manasseh. 4 And Uthai, and the son of Ammihud, the son of Omri, the sons of the sons of Perez, and the son of Judah. 5 And the sons of the Shilonites, Asaiah his firstborn. 6 From the sons of Zerah: Jeuel and their brothers, six hundred and ninety. 7 From the sons of Benjamin: Sallu son of Meshullam, the son of Hodaviah, the son of Senuah; 8 and Ibneiah son of Jeroham. These were the sons of Uzzi the son of Micri and Meshullam the son of Shephatiah, the son of Reuel, the son of Ibnijah, 9 and their brothers according to their generations, nine hundred and fifty-six, all the men rulers of families according to the houses of their families. 10 From the priests: Jedaiah and Jehoiarib and Jachin 11 and Azariah, the sons of Hilkiah son of Meshullam, son of Zadok, son of Meraioth, son of Ahitub, leader of the house of God; 12 and Adaiah the son of Jeroham, son of Pashhur, son of Malchijah; and Maasai the son of Adiel, son of Jahzerah, son of Meshullam, son of Meshillemoth, son of Immer; 13 and their brothers, rulers of the houses of families, one thousand seven hundred and sixty, strong in might, for the daily ministry of service for the house of God. 14 From the Levites: Shemaiah the son of Hasshub, son of Azrikam, son of Hashabiah, from the sons of Merari; 15 and Bakbakkar and Heresh and Galal and Mattaniah the son of Mica, son of Zichri, son of Asaph; 16 and Obadiah the son of Shemaiah, son of Galal, son of Jeduthun; and Berechiah the son of Asa, son of Elkanah, who settled in the Netophathite villages. 17 The gatekeepers: Shallum, Akkub, Talmon, and Ahiman, and their brothers. Shallum was the ruler. 18 And he was until this time at the gates of the king at the East. These are the gates of the encampments of the sons of Levi. 19 And Shallum the son of Kore, son of Ebiasaph, son of Korah, and his brothers in the house of his father. The Korahites were over the affairs of the ministry, keeping the guards of the tabernacle, and their fathers were over the encampment guarding the entrance. 20 Phinehas the son of Eleazar was leader over them before, and these were with him: 21 Zechariah the son of Meshelemiah was gatekeeper of the entrance of the tent of witness. 22 All the selected ones for the gates, at the gates, were two hundred and twelve. These were their distribution at their courts. David and Samuel the seer placed these in their trust. 23 These and their sons were at the gates at the house of the Lord in the house of the tabernacle to keep watch. 24 The gates were toward the four winds: to the east, west, north, south. 25 Their brothers were in their courts to enter every seven days from time to time with these. 26 For four strong men were in the trust of the gates. The Levites were over the priest’s chamber, and they camped over the treasury for the house of God 27 because the guard was for them, and these were over the keys to open early in the day the doors of the temple. 28 Some of them were over the implements for ministry, that they would carry them in by number. 29 Some of them were appointed over the implements and over all sacred implements and over the fine flour, the wine, the oil, the frankincense, and the spices. 30 Some of the sons of the priests were makers of scents and for spices. 31 Mattithiah, from the Levites (he was the firstborn to Shallum the Korahite) was in charge over the affairs of the sacrifices of the pan of the great priest. 32 Benaiah the Kohathite, from their brothers, was over the bread of presentation to prepare for the Sabbath, according to the Sabbath. 33 These are the singers, rulers of the families of the Levites, appointed for the daily service, for day and night they were over them in the affairs. 34 These were the rulers of the families, rulers according to their generations; these ones dwelled in Jerusalem. Genealogy of Saul 35 Jeiel, the father of Gibeon, dwelled in Gibeon, and the name of his wife was Maacah. 36 His firstborn son was Abdon, and Zur and Kish and Baal and Ner and Nadab 37 and Gedor and his brother and Zechariah and Mikloth. 38 Mikloth fathered Shimeah, and these dwelled in the midst of their brothers in Jerusalem, in the midst of their brothers. 39 Ner fathered Kish, and Kish fathered Saul, and Saul fathered Jonathan and Malchishua and Abinadab and Esh-baal. 40 The son of Jonathan was Merib-baal, and Merib-baal fathered Micah. 41 The sons of Micah were Pithon and Melech and Tahrea. 42 Ahaz fathered Jarah, and Jarah fathered Alemeth and Azmaveth and Zimri, and Zimri fathered Moza. 43 Moza fathered Binea, Rephaiah his son, Eleasah his son. 44 To Azel there were six sons, and these were their names: Azrikam his firstborn, and Ishmael and Sheariah and Obadiah and Hanan. These were the sons of Azel.
10The foreigners made war against Israel, and they fled from the face of the foreigners, and they fell wounded at Mount Gilboa. 2 The foreigners pursued after Saul and after his sons, and the foreigners struck Jonathan and Abinadab and Malchishua, the sons of Saul. 3 The war weighed heavily upon Saul, and the bowmen found them with bows, also for affliction, and they suffered from the bows. 4 Then Saul said to the one who carried his weapons, “Draw your sword and strike me with it, lest these uncircumcised come and mock me.” The one who carried his weapons did not want to because he was very afraid, so Saul took the sword and fell upon it. 5 The one who carried his weapons saw that Saul died, so he also fell upon his sword. 6 Saul and three of his sons died on that day, and his whole household died at the same time. 7 Every man of Israel who was in the valley saw that Israel fled, and that Saul and his sons died, so they abandoned their cities and fled. Then the foreigners came and dwelled in them. 8 It happened on the next day, when the foreigners came to strip the wounded, that they found Saul and his fallen sons at Mount Gilboa. 9 They stripped him and took his head and his weapons, and they sent them around the land of the foreigners to bring good news to their idols and the people. 10 They put their weapons in the house of their god, and they put his head in the house of Dagon. 11 Everyone who dwelled in Gilead heard everything that the foreigners had done to Saul and Israel. 12 Every mighty man was roused from Gilead, and they took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons and brought them to Jabesh. They buried their bones under the oak in Jabesh and fasted seven days. 13 Saul died in his lawlessness, in which he had acted wickedly against God, against the word of the Lord, since he had not kept it; for Saul had inquired by the ventriloquist to seek advice, and Samuel the prophet had answered him. [1] 14 He did not seek the Lord, so he killed him and turned the kingdom over to David son of Jesse.
11All Israel came to David at Hebron, saying, “Behold, we are your bones and your flesh. 2 And yesterday and the third, when Saul was king, you were the one leading Israel in and out, and the Lord of Israel said to you, ‘You shall care for my people Israel, and you shall be a leader over Israel.’ ” 3 All the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron, and King David arranged a covenant with them at Hebron, at Hebron before the Lord. And they anointed David as king over Israel according to the word of the Lord by the hand of Samuel. 4 Now the king and his men went to Jerusalem, that is, Jebus, and there were the Jebusites, who dwelled in Jebus. 5 They said to David, “You shall not enter here.” But he seized the whole extent of Zion. This is the city of David. 6 David said, “Anyone who beats a Jebusite first, he will also be a commander and a general.” Joab son of Zeruiah went up against it first, and he became commander. 7 David set himself up in the whole area; on this account, he called it the city of David. 8 He built the city round about and made war and took the city. 9 David went, advancing, and the Lord Almighty was with him. 10 These are the commanders of the mighty men who were with David, who prevailed with him in his reign with all Israel, to make him king according to the word of the Lord, over Israel. 11 This is the number of the mighty men of David: Jashobeam son of Hachmoni, first of the thirty. He drew his sword once against three hundred, whom he killed at one time. 12 After him was Eleazar son of Dodo, the Ahohite. He was among the three mighty men. 13 He was with David in Pasdammim, and the foreigners gathered there for battle. And there was a part of the field full of barley, and the people fled from the face of the foreigners. 14 He stood in the midst of the portion and held it and struck the foreigners, and the Lord made a great deliverance. 15 Three of the thirty commanders went down to the rock to David, into the cave of Adullam, and the encampment of the foreigners was at the valley of the giants. 16 David was then in the enclosure, and the troops of the foreigners were at that time in Bethlehem. 17 David desired and said, “Who will give me water to drink from the well at Bethlehem, which is at the gate?” 18 The three breached the encampment of the foreigners and drew water from the well, which is in Bethlehem, which was at the gate, and they took it to David. But David did not want to drink it. He poured it to the Lord. 19 He said, “May God be gracious to me to do this word. Shall I drink the blood of these men with their lives? For by their lives they brought it.” So, he did not want to drink it. The three mighty men did these things. 20 Abishai, brother of Joab, was commander of the three. He drew his sword against three hundred, whom he killed at one time, and he was famous among the three. 21 Of the three, he was held in more esteem than the other two, and he was a commander for them. But he did not attain to the distinction of the first three. 22 Benaiah son of Jehoiada was the son of a mighty man. His many deeds were beyond Kabzeel. He struck the two sons of Ariel of Moab, and he descended and struck the lion in the pit on a snowy day. 23 He struck an Egyptian man, an eye-catching man, five cubits high. In the hand of the Egyptian was a spear like a weavers’ beam, and Benaiah descended against him with a rod and took away the spear from the hand of the Egyptian and killed him with his spear. 24 Benaiah son of Jehoiada did these things, and his name was among the three mighty men. 25 He was held in more esteem than the thirty, but he did not come close to the three. And David appointed him over his family. 26 The mighty men of the forces: Asahel, brother of Joab; Elhanan son of Dodo, of Bethlehem; 27 Shammoth the Harorite; Helez the Pelonite; 28 Ira son of Ikkesh, of Tekoa; Abiezer the Anathothite; 29 Sibbecai the Hushathite; Ilai the Ahohite; 30 Maharai the Netophathite; Heled son of Baanah, the Netophathite; 31 Ittai son of Ribai, from the hill of Benjamin; Benaiah the Pirathonite; 32 Hurai, from the brooks of Gaash; Abiel the Arbathite; 33 Azmaveth the Baharumite; Eliahba the Shaalbonite; 34 Bennaias the Gizonite; Jonathan son of Shagee, the Hararite; 35 Ahiam son of Sacar, the Hararite; Eliphal son of Ur; 36 Hepher the Mekerathite; Ahijah the Pelonite; 37 Hezro the Carmelite; Naarai son of Ezbai; 38 Joel son of Nathan; Mibhar son of Hagri; 39 Zelek the Ammonite; Naharai the Beerothite, who carried the weapons to the son of Zeruiah; 40 Ira the Ithrite; Gareb the Ithrite; 41 Uriah the Hittite; Zabad son of Ahlai; 42 Adina son of Shiza, commander of Reuben, and thirty with him; 43 Hanan son of Maacah; and Jehoshaphat the Mithnite; 44 Uzzia the Ashterathite; Shama and Jeiel, sons of Hotham, the Aroerite; 45 Jediael son of Shimri, and Joha, his brother, the Tizite; 46 Eliel the Mahavite; and Jeribai and Joshaviah, his son Elnaam; and Ithmah the Moabite; 47 Eliel and Obed; and Jaasiel the Mezobaite.
12These are the ones who came to David at Ziklag, while he was still constrained from the face of Saul, son of Kish, and these were among the mighty men who helped with the battle, 2 also with the bow, from the right and from the left, and slingers with stones and bows. Among the brothers of Saul from the Benjamites: 3 the commander was Ahiezer; and Joash the son of Shemaah, the Gibeathite; and Jeziel and Pelet, the sons of Azmaveth; and Beracah and Jehu the Anathothite; 4 and Ishmaiah the Gibeonite, mighty among the thirty and over the thirty;a Jeremiah and Jehaziel and Johanan and Jozabad the Gederathite; 5 Eluzai and Jerimoth and Bealiah and Shemariah and Shephatiah the Haruphite; 6 Elkanah and Isshiah and Azarel and Joezer Kaina and Jashobeam and the Korahites; 7 and Joelah and Zebadiah, sons of Jeroham; and those of Gedor. 8 From the Gadites they were separated to David from the desert, strong, mighty men prepared for battle, raising shields and spears, and their faces like the face of a lion, and nimble like the gazelle over the mountains with swiftness. 9 Ezer was the commander, Obadiah the second, Eliab the third, 10 Mishmannah the fourth, Jeremiah the fifth, 11 Attai the sixth, Eliel the seventh, 12 Johanan the eighth, Elzabad the ninth, 13 Jeremiah the tenth, Machbannai the eleventh. 14 These were commanders of the army from the sons of Gad, the least one against the hundred and the greatest against the thousand. 15 These are the ones who stepped across the Jordan in the first month, and it overflowed over all its banks, and they drove out all the inhabitants of the channels from the east to the west. 16 There came from the sons of Benjamin and Judah some to help David. 17 David went out to meet them and said to them, “If you have come to me in peace, may my heart be according to itself upon you; but if to give me over to my enemies, not with truth of hand, may the God of your fathers see, and may you be put to shame.” 18 The spirit came upon Amasai, commander of the thirty, and he said, “Go forth, David, son of Jesse, and your people; peace, peace be to you, and peace to your assistants, for your God has helped you.” And David accepted them and appointed them rulers of the forces. 19 And some from Manasseh went to David when the foreigners came into battle against Saul; and he did not help them, because it happened in a plan with the generals of the foreigners, saying, “He will return to his master Saul with the heads of those men.” 20 When he came to Ziklag, some went to him from Manasseh, Adnah and Jozabad and Jediael and Michael and Jehozabad and Elihu and Zillethai. They were the leaders of thousands from Manasseh. 21 They formed an alliance with David against the Geddour because they were all mighty men of strength, and they were leaders in the army due to their strength. 22 For day by day they went to David, forming into a great power, as the host of God. 23 These are the names of the commanders of the army who came to David at Hebron, to return the dominion of Saul to him according to the word of the Lord. 24 The sons of Judah, bearing shields and spears, six thousand eight hundred mighty men arranged for battle. 25 From the sons of Simeon, seven thousand one hundred mighty men of strength for battle. 26 From the sons of Levi, four thousand six hundred. 27 Jehoiada was the leader for Aaron, and three thousand seven hundred were with him. 28 Zadok, a young man mighty in strength, and there were twenty-two commanders of his father’s household. 29 The sons of Benjamin, the brothers of Saul, three thousand; even though most of them watched constantly the guard of the house of Saul. 30 From the sons of Ephraim, twenty thousand eight hundred mighty men in strength, famous according to the houses of their families. 31 From the half-tribe of Manasseh, eighteen thousand, and those who were named by name in order for David to rule. 32 From the sons of Issachar, who knew understanding regarding the times, knowing what Israel was to do, two hundred, and all their brothers with them. 33 From Zebulun, those who went forth for arrangement for battle with all their weapons for war, fifty thousand, to give help to David, not with empty hands. 34 From Naphtali, one thousand commanders, and with them, with shields and spears, thirtyseven thousand. 35 From the Danites, arrayed for war, twentyeight thousand eight hundred. 36 From Asher, those who went forth to give help for war, forty thousand. 37 From beyond the Jordan, from Reuben and Gad and from the half-tribe of Manasseh, with all their weapons for war, one hundred and twenty thousand. 38 All these men were warriors, side by side arranged for battle, with a peaceful spirit, and they went into Hebron to make David king over all Israel, and the remainder of Israel was of one mind to make David king. 39 They were there three days, eating and drinking, because their brothers had prepared a meal. 40 The ones who lived near them, up to Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali, brought food for them, wheat flour, cakes of preserved fruit, dried grapes, wine and olive oil, calves and sheep, upon camels and asses and mules and calves, for a multitude, for a celebration in Israel.
13David planned with the commanders of a thousand and the leaders of a hundred, with every leader. 2 David said to the whole assembly of Israel, “If it is good for you and it is prospered by the Lord our God, let us send off to your brothers who remain in the whole land of Israel, and with them the priests, the Levites in the cities of their possession, and may they be gathered to us. 3 Let us carry over the ark of our God to us, for they have not sought it from the days of Saul.” 4 Then all the assembly said to do thus, for the message was right in the eyes of all the people. 5 So David assembled all Israel, from the boundaries of Egypt even up to the entrance at Hamath, to carry in the ark of God from the city of Kiriathjearim. 6 And David led it up, and all Israel went up into the city of David, which belongs to Judah, to bring up from there the ark of God, the Lord, who is seated over the cherubim, where his name is called upon. 7 So they put the ark of God upon a new wagon from the house of Amminadab, and Uzzah and his brothers led the wagon. 8 David and all Israel were playing before God with all their strength and with psalmists and with stringed instruments and with harps and with kettledrums and with cymbals and with war-trumpets. 9 They came up to the threshing floor, and Uzzah reached out his hand to steady the ark, and the calf nudged it. 10 But the Lord was angry against Uzzah, and he struck him there on account of his hand reaching to the ark, and he died there before God. 11 David was disheartened because the Lord cut the gash in Uzzah, and he called that place the Gash of Uzzah until this day. 12 David was frightened of God on that day, saying, “How shall I carry the ark of God to myself?” 13 So David did not return the ark to himself at the city of David, but turned it away into the house of Obed-edom the Gittite. 14 The ark of God sat in the house of Obed-edom for three months. And God blessed Obed-edom and everything that was his.
14Hiram, king of Tyre, sent a messenger to David along with cedar timbers and builders and craftsmen of wood to build a house for him. 2 David knew that the Lord had prepared him over Israel, because his dominion was increased in stature on account of his people, Israel. 3 David took still more wives in Jerusalem, and still more sons and daughters were born to David. 4 These are their names, the ones who were born to him in Jerusalem: Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon, 5 and Ibhar and Elishua and Elpelet 6 and Nogah and Nepheg and Japhia 7 and Elishama and Beeliada and Eliphelet. 8 The foreigners heard that David was anointed king over all Israel, and all the foreigners went up to seek David. David heard, and he went out to meet with them. 9 The foreigners came and met together in the valley of the giants. 10 And David asked through God, saying, “Should I go up against the foreigners, and will you give them into my hands?” The Lord said to him, “Go up, and I will give them into your hands.” 11 David went up to Baal-perazim and struck them there. And David said, “He cut through my enemies by my hand like a gash of water.” On account of this he called the name of that place the Gash of Perazim. 12 They left behind their gods, and David said, “Burn with fire!” 13 The foreigners added yet more, and they met together again in the valley of the giants. 14 David asked again by God, and God said to him, “Do not go after them. Turn away from them, and you will meet them near the pear trees. 15 It shall be that when you hear the sound of their commotion at the farthest point of the pear trees, then you shall come out to battle, for God goes out before you to strike the encampment of the foreigners.” 16 He did just as God commanded him, and he struck the encampment of the foreigners from Gibeon up to Gezer. 17 The name of David became known in the whole land, and the Lord gave the fear of him on all the nations.
15He made houses for himself in the city of David, and he prepared the place for the ark of God and made a tent for it. 2 Then David said, “No one other than the Levites is to bear the ark of God, because the Lord chose them also to minister to him until eternity.” 3 David assembled the whole of Israel to Jerusalem to bring the ark of the Lord to the place that he had prepared for it. 4 David gathered the sons of Aaron, the Levites. 5 Of the sons of Kohath: Uriel the commander and his one hundred and ten brothers. 6 Of the sons of Merari: Asaiah the commander and his two hundred and fifty brothers. 7 Of the sons of Gershom: Joel the commander and his one hundred and fifty brothers. 8 Of the sons of Elizaphan: Shemaiah the commander and his two hundred brothers. 9 Of the sons of Hebron: Eliel the commander and their eighty brothers. 10 Of the sons of Uzziel: Amminadab the commander and his one hundred and twelve brothers. 11 David called the priests Zadok and Abiathar and the Levites Uriel, Asaiah, Joel, Shemaiah, Eliel, and Amminadab, 12 and he said to them, “You are commanders of families of the Levites. Purify yourselves, you and your brothers, and bring the ark of the God of Israel where I have prepared it. 13 For since you were not ready earlier, our God cut us in two, because we did not seek God with judgment.” 14 The priests and the Levites purified themselves in order to bring the ark of God to Israel. 15 The sons of the Levites took the ark of God by bearing poles upon them, as Moses had commanded by the word of God, according to the writing. 16 David said to the commanders of the Levites, “Put in position their brothers, the psalmists, with instruments, nablais,a kinyrais,b and cymbals, to make music into the heights with the sound of celebration.” 17 The Levites appointed Heman son of Joel; from his brothers, Asaph son of Berechiah; and from the sons of Merari, his brothers, Ethan son of Kushaiah. 18 And with them were their brothers, the second, Zechariah and Jaaziel and Shemiramoth and Jehiel and Unni and Eliab and Benaiah and Maaseiah and Mattithiah and Eliphelehu and Mikneiah and Obed-edom and Jeiel and Uzziah, the porters. 19 The psalmists were Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, making music with copper cymbals to be heard. 20 Zechariah, Aziel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Masseiah, Benaiah with nablais upon the Alaimoth,c 21 and Mattithiah and Eliphelehu, Mikneiah and Obed-edom and Jehiel and Uzziah with kinyrais of Amasenithd to be mighty. 22 Chenaniah, ruler of the Levites, was ruler of the songs because he was skillful. 23 Berechiah and Elkanah were gatekeepers of the ark. 24 Shebaniah and Joshaphat and Nethanel and Amasai and Zechariah and Benaiah and Eliezer, the priests, sounded the trumpets before the ark of God. And Obed-edom and Jehiah were gatekeepers of the ark of God. 25 It was David and the elders of Israel and the commanders of thousands who went up to bring the ark of the covenant from the house of Obed-edom with rejoicing. 26 It happened, when God strengthened the Levites carrying the ark of the covenant of the Lord, that they each sacrificed seven calves and seven rams. 27 And David was clothed with a fine linen robe, and all the Levites who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and the singers, and Chenaniah, the ruler of the songs of the singers; and a fine linen robe was on David. 28 All Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the Lord with the giving of the signal and with the sound of Sopher and with trumpets and with cymbals, playing loudly with nablais and with kinyrias. 29 The ark of the covenant of the Lord came to pass, and it came to the city of David. And Michal, the daughter of Saul, looked out through the window and saw King David dancing and playing, and she scorned him in her heart.
16They brought in the ark of God and took it in the midst of the tabernacle that David had fixed for it, and they presented whole burnt offerings and deliverance offerings before God. 2 David completed offering whole burnt offerings and deliverance offerings, and he blessed the people in the name of the Lord. 3 He distributed to every man of Israel, from man even to woman, to each man one baker’s loaf and a sweet cake. 4 From the Levites he appointed ministers according to the face of the ark of the covenant of the Lord, calling aloud and to confess and to praise the Lord, the God of Israel. 5 Asaph was the leader, and second to him was Zechariah, Jeiel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Mattithiah, Eliab, and Benaiah and Obed-edom; and Jeiel was singing with instruments, with nablais, with kinyrais, and Asaph with cymbals. 6 Benaiah and Jehaziel, the priests, were with the trumpets through everything before the ark of the covenant of God. 7 In that day, then, David appointed at the beginning to praise the Lord, by the hand of Asaph and his brothers. A song: 8 Acknowledge the Lord, call upon him with his name; make known his practices among the people. 9 Sing to him and laud him; set out in detail all his wonders, which the Lord has done. 10 Praise by his holy name; the heart that seeks his approval shall be delighted. 11 Seek and be strong; seek his face through everything. 12 Remember his wonders that he has done, marvels and the judgments of his mouth. 13 Seed of Israel, his servants, sons of Jacob, his selected ones. 14 The Lord, our God; his judgments are in all the earth. 15 We shall remember his covenant for eternity, his word, which he commanded for a thousand generations, 16 which he arranged with Abraham, and his oath with Isaac. 17 He established it with Jacob as an ordinance, an eternal covenant with Israel, 18 saying, “I will give to you the land of Canaan as the portion of your inheritance.” 19 When they were few in number, as those who were scorned, and they dwelled in it, 20 and they went from nation to nation and from dominion to another people, 21 he did not allow any man to hold power over them, and he humiliated kings for them. 22 “Do not touch my anointed ones. Do not act wickedly with my prophet.” 23 Sing to the Lord, all the earth; announce his deliverance from day to day.a 25 For great is the Lord and very praiseworthy; he is fearsome over all the gods. 26 For all the gods of the nations are idols, but our God made the heavens. 27 Honor and praise are at his face; strength and boasting are in his place. 28 Give to the Lord, O father of the nations, give to the Lord honor and strength. 29 Take gifts and bring them at his face, and venerate the Lord in his holy courts. 30 Let all the earth tremble from his face; let the earth keep straight and not be shaken. 31 Let heaven be delighted and the earth rejoice, and let them say among the nations, “The Lord reigns.” 32 The sea with its fullness will rumble, the wood of the field and everything that is in it. 33 Then the trees of the wood shall be delighted from the Lord’s face, because he comes to judge the earth. 34 Acknowledge the Lord, because he is good, for his mercy is for eternity. 35 And say, “He saved us, the God of our deliverance, and rescue us from the nations, to praise your holy name and glory in your praises. 36 Blessed is the Lord, the God of Israel from eternity.” And all the people will say, “Amen!” And they praised the Lord. 37 They left Asaph and his brothers there in the presence of the ark of the covenant of the Lord in order to minister before the ark through all the day to day services. 38 Obed-edom and his sixty-eight brothers, and Obed-edom, the son of Jeduthun, and Hosah were gatekeepers. 39 Zadok the priest and his brothers were the priests before the tabernacle of the Lord in Bama, which is in Gibeon, 40 to offer whole burnt offerings to the Lord on the altar of the whole burn offerings through all the mornings and the evenings, and according to everything that is written in the law of the Lord, as much as he commanded for the sons of Israel by the hand of Moses, the servant of God. 41 With him were Heman and Jeduthun and the rest picked out by name to praise the Lord, because his mercy is for eternity. [2] 42 With them were trumpets and cymbals to play aloud, and instruments for the songs of God; the sons of Jeduthun were at the gate. 43 All the people went, each to his house, and David turned to bless his house.
17And it happened, as David dwelled in his house, David also said to Nathan the prophet, “Behold, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of the covenant of the Lord is under a leather covering.” 2 Nathan said to David, “Do everything that is in your soul, because God is with you.” 3 It happened in that night, a message of the Lord also came to Nathan: 4 “Go, and say to my servant, David, ‘Thus said the Lord: “You shall not build a house for me to dwell in it. 5 For I have not dwelled in a house from the day that I led Israel up to this day, but I have been in a tent and in a veil 6 in all the places where I have gone through with all Israel; when speaking, have I spoken to a tribe of Israel to shepherd my people, saying, ‘Why have you not built me a house of cedar?’ ” ’ 7 Now, you shall say like this to my servant David, ‘Thus says the Lord Almighty: “I took you from the fold behind the flock to be a leader over my people Israel. 8 I was with you in all the places where you went, and I utterly destroyed all your enemies from your face, and I made a name for you according to the name of the famous ones who are upon the earth. 9 I shall establish a place for my people Israel, and I shall plant it, and it shall encamp according to itself, and it shall not be anxious again, and injustice shall not impose to humble it as at the beginning. 10 And from the days that I appointed judges over my people Israel, I also humbled all your enemies. And I shall make you increase, and the Lord shall build a house for you. 11 And it shall be, when your days are filled and you fall asleep with your ancestors, and your seed shall rise after you, which shall be from your belly, and I shall prepare his dominion. 12 He shall build for me a house, and I shall restore his throne until eternity. 13 I shall be a father to him, and he shall be a son to me, and I shall not remove my mercy from him as I removed it from the ones who were before you. 14 I shall confirm him in my house and in his dominion until eternity, and his throne shall be set aright until eternity.” ’ ” 15 According to all these words and according to all this vision, so Nathan spoke to David. 16 Then King David went and sat before the Lord and said, “Who am I, O Lord God, and what is my house, that you have loved me until eternity? 17 These things were thought less of before you, O God, but you have spoken over the house of your servant from afar, and you have observed me as the appearance of a human and raised me up, O Lord God. 18 What may David add again to you to glorify you? You know your servant. 19 According to your heart, you have made all this greatness. 20 O Lord, there is none like you, and there is none besides you, according to everything that we have heard with our ears. 21 There is still no nation upon the earth like your people Israel, as God led him to redeem a people for himself, to establish for him a great and distinguished name to throw out from the face of your people, whom you redeemed from the nation of Egypt. 22 You assigned your people Israel as a people for yourself until eternity, and you, Lord, were for them as God. 23 Now, O Lord, let your word that you have spoken to your servant and over his house be confirmed until eternity, 24 while they are saying, ‘O Lord, Lord Almighty, God of Israel, and the house of David,’ your servant be restored before you. 25 For you have opened the ear of your servant in order to build for him a house. On account of this, your servant has found time to pray according to your face. 26 Now, O Lord, you yourself are God, and you have spoken these good things about your servant. 27 Now, you have begun to bless the house of your servant to be for eternity before you, because you have blessed it. And may you bless it for eternity.”
18It happened after these things that David struck the foreigners and ran them off. He took Gath and its villages from the hand of the foreigners. 2 He struck Moab, and Moab were servants for David, bringing gifts. 3 David struck Hadadezer, king of Zobah Hamath, when he went to set his hand over the river Euphrates. 4 David seized from them a thousand chariots and seven thousand horses and twenty thousand men. And David released all the chariot horses but left from them one hundred chariots. 5 Arameans came from Damascus to give help to Hadadezer, king of Zobah, and he struck twenty-two thousand men from among the Arameans. 6 David established a guard in Aram near Damascus, and they were as servants for David, bringing gifts, and the Lord protected David in all the places where he went. 7 David took the golden collars that were on the servants of Hadadezer and took them to Jerusalem. 8 From the Matabechasa and from the choice wars of Hadadezer, David took very much bronze; from it, Solomon made the bronze sea and the pillars and the bronze vessels. 9 And Tou, king of Hamath, heard that David struck all the army of Hadadezer, king of Zobah. 10 So he sent his son, Hadoram, to King David in order to ask him the things for peace and to bless him concerning how he made war against Hadadezer and struck him. For Tou was a man of war to Hadadezer, and he sent all the silver and gold vessels. 11 David dedicated these things to the Lord with the silver and the gold that he took from all the nations: from Edom and Moab and from the sons of Ammon and from the foreigners and from Amalek. 12 Abishai the son of Zeruiah struck Edom in the valley of salt, eighteen thousand men. 13 He established a garrison in the valley, and all the Edomites were servants of David, and the Lord protected him in all the places where he went. 14 David reigned over all Israel, and he was making judgment and righteousness for all his people. 15 Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the army, and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was historian. 16 Zadok the son of Ahitub and Abimelech the son of Abiathar were priests, and Shavsha was scribe. 17 Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the priests, and the Pelethites and the sons of David were the chief deputies of the king.
19Now it happened after these things, the king of the sons of Ammon died, and Hanan, his son, reigned instead of him. 2 David said, “I will deal mercifully with Hanan the son of Nahash, as his father dealt mercifully with me.” David sent messengers to comfort him concerning his father. And the servants of David went into the land of the sons of Ammon in order to comfort him. 3 The rulers of Ammon said to Hanan, “Is he not honoring your father before you? He sent comforters to you. Did not his servants come to you so that they can search the city to spy out the land?” 4 So Hanan took David’s servants and shaved them and took away half of their cloaks, up to the waist, and sent them away. 5 They went to report to David concerning the men, and he sent to meet them, because they were very dishonored. The king said, “Stay in Jericho until the growing of your beards and then return.” 6 The sons of Ammon saw that the people of David were dishonored, and Hanan and the sons of Ammon sent a thousand talents of silver to hire for themselves chariots and horsemen from Syria of Aram-naharaim and from Arammaacah and from Zoba. 7 They hired for themselves chariots and horsemen, thirty-two thousand chariots, and the king of Maacah and his people, and they went and encamped before Medeba. The sons of Ammon gathered from their cities and went to make war. 8 David heard and sent Joab and all the army of the mighty men. 9 The sons of the Ammonites came out and arranged in order for war beyond the gates of the city, and the kings who came out encamped by themselves on the plain. 10 Joab saw that they were facing them to make war against him according to his face and behind. So, he chose from every young man from Israel, and they arranged for battle before the Syrians. 11 He gave the remainder of the people into the hand of Abishai, his brother, and they arranged for battle opposite the sons of Ammon. 12 He said, “If the Syrians shall prevail over me, then you shall be deliverance for me; and if the sons of Ammon shall prevail over you, then I shall deliver you. 13 And the Lord will do that which is good.” 14 Joab and the people who were with him arranged for battle before the Syrians to fight, and they fled from him. 15 The sons of Ammon saw that the Syrians had fled, so they also fled from the face of Joab and from the face of his brother, and they went to the city. And Joab went to Jerusalem. 16 The Syrians saw that Israel had routed him, so they sent messengers, and they brought the Syrians from the border of the river, and Shophach, the chief commander of the force of Hadadezer, was before them. 17 It was reported to David, and he gathered all Israel and crossed the Jordan and came against them and arranged for battle against them. The Syrians arranged for battle opposite David and made war against him. 18 The Syrians fled from David’s face, and David killed from the Syrians seven thousand chariots and forty thousand on foot, and he killed Shophach, the chief commander of the force. 19 The servants of Hadadezer saw that they erred from the face Israel, and they settled with David and became slaves to him. And the Syrians did not want to help Ammon any more.
20Now it happened in the next year, at the going out of kings, that Joab led the whole host of the army, and they destroyed the territory of the sons of Ammon. And he went and besieged Rabbah, but David dwelled in Jerusalem. And he struck Rabbah and utterly destroyed it. 2 David took the crown of Milcom, their king, from his head, and its weight was found to be a talent of gold, and in it was a precious stone. It was on David’s head, and he removed very many spoils of war of the city. 3 He led out the people who were in it and sawed them through with saws and with carpenters’ axes made of iron. And thus, David did to the servants, the sons of Ammon, and David and all his people returned to Jerusalem. 4 Now it happened, after these things, that there was war again in Gezer with the foreigners. Then Sibbecai the Hushathite, struck Sippai, from the sons of the giants, and humbled him. 5 There was again war with the foreigners, and Elhanan the son of Jaur struck Lahmi, brother of Goliath the Gittite, and the wood of his spear was like the crossbeam of a weaver. 6 There was a further war in Gath, and there was a huge man, and his toes and fingers were six and six, twentyfour; and this man was descended from the giants. 7 And he reproached Israel, and Jonathan the son of Shimea, the son of the brother of David, struck him. 8 This Rapha was born in Gath. All four were giants, and they fell by the hand of David and by the hand of his servants.
21Now, the slanderer stood in Israel and urged David to count Israel. 2 King David said to Joab and to the rulers of the forces, “Go now, count Israel from Beer-sheba even up to Dan, and bring it to me, so I will know their number.” 3 Joab said, “May the Lord add to his people a hundred times as much as they are, and may the eyes of my Lord, the king, see all the servants of my Lord, for why does my master seek this?” so that it would not become a sin to Israel. 4 And he came to Jerusalem. 5 Joab gave the number of the inspection of the people to David, and all Israel was one million and one hundred thousand men who could draw a sword. 6 He did not count Levi and Benjamin in their midst, because the word of the king overpowered Joab. 7 And there was evil before God concerning this affair, and he struck Israel. 8 David said to God, “I have sinned very much because I did this thing. So now please take away the wickedness of your servant, because I have acted very foolishly.” 9 The Lord spoke to Gad, the seer, 10 “Go, and speak to David, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord: “I raise three things to you. Choose for yourself one from them, and I will do it to you.” ’ ” 11 Then Gad went to David and said to him, “Thus says the Lord: ‘Choose for yourself: 12 three years of hunger, or three months for you to flee from the face of your enemies, and that the sword of your enemies shall try to destroy you, or for three days for the sword of the Lord and death in the land and the angel of the Lord destroying utterly throughout all the inheritance of Israel.’ Now, see what word I should answer to the one who sent me.” 13 David said to Gad, “Even the three are very difficult for me. Indeed, I will fall into the hands of the Lord, because his compassion is very great, and I shall not fall into human hands.” 14 Then the Lord brought death in Israel, and seventy thousand men fell from Israel. 15 God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it. And as he was destroying, the Lord saw and changed his purpose concerning the wickedness. He said to the angel who was destroying, “Let it be enough for you. Ease your hand.” The angel of the Lord stood by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. 16 David lifted up his eyes and saw the angel of the Lord standing between the earth and sky, and his sword drawn in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell upon their faces. 17 And David said to God, “Did I not say to count the people? I myself am the sinner, a villain doing villainy. But what did these sheep do? O Lord God, may your hand be against me and against the house of my father, and not against your people for destruction, O Lord.” 18 The angel of the Lord said to Gad to say to David that he should go up to erect an altar to the Lord at the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. 19 David went up according to the word of Gad, which he spoke in the name of the Lord. 20 Ornan turned and saw the king and his four sons with him, Methachabin. And Ornan was threshing wheat. 21 David went to Ornan, and Ornan came forth from the threshing floor and bowed down to David with his face upon the earth. 22 Then David said to Ornan, “Give me your place for threshing, and I shall build an altar upon it to the Lord. Give it to me for the money of its worth, and the plague shall cease from the people.” 23 Ornan said to David, “Take it for yourself, and let my master, the king, do that which is good before him. See, I have given the calves for sacrifices of burnt offerings, and the plow for wood, and grain for a sacrifice. I have given everything.” 24 Then King David said to Ornan, “Not so, because as a buyer I buy with the money of its worth, because I will surely not take that which is yours for the Lord, to offer a sacrifice of a burnt offering as a gift for the Lord.” 25 Then David gave to Ornan six hundred shekels of gold in weight for his place. 26 So David built there an altar for the Lord, and he offered whole burnt offerings and deliverance offerings, and he shouted to the Lord, and he heard him with fire from the sky upon the altar of sacrifice of a burnt offering, and it devoured the sacrifice of burnt offering. 27 The Lord spoke to the angel, and he put down the sword into the sheath. 28 At that time, when David saw that he had heard him in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, he sacrificed there. 29 The tent of the Lord, which Moses had made in the desert, and the altar for the whole burnt offerings in that time were in Bama in Gibeon. 30 And David could not come before it to seek God, because he did not hurry from the face of the sword of the angel of the Lord.
22David said, “This is the house of the Lord God, and this is the altar for the sacrifice of burnt offerings for Israel.” 2 Then David said to gather all the sojourners in the land of Israel, and he appointed stonecutters to quarry polished stones to build a house for God. 3 David prepared much iron for the nails of the rooms and the gates and the hinges, and there was bronze in great amounts; it was not weighed. 4 There was no number to the cedar wood, because the Sidonians and the Tyrians carried cedar wood in great amounts to David. 5 David said, “Solomon, my son, is a young tender boy, and the house to build to the Lord is for higher majesty, for a name and for glory in all the land. I shall prepare it.” And David prepared great amounts before his death. 6 He called Solomon, his son, and commanded him to build the house to the Lord, God of Israel. 7 David said to Solomon, “My child, it was upon my spirit to build a house for the name of the Lord God. 8 But the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ‘You have spread a multitude of blood and have made great wars. You shall not build a house to my name because you have spread much blood upon the earth before me. 9 Behold, a son is born to you. He shall be a man of rest, and I will give him rest from all the surrounding enemies, because his name is Solomon. I will give peace and quiet to Israel in his days. 10 He shall build a house for my name, and he shall be a son to me, and I, a father to him. I shall set aright the throne of his dominion in Israel until eternity.’ 11 Now, son, the Lord shall be with you and shall prosper you, and you shall build a house for the Lord, your God, as he has spoken concerning you. 12 But may the Lord give you wisdom and understanding and empower you over Israel both to guard and to do the law of the Lord, your God. 13 Then he shall prosper you, if you watch to do the ordinances and the judgments that the Lord commanded Moses about Israel. Be courageous and be strong! Do not be afraid nor be scared. 14 Behold, I, according to my inadequacy, have prepared for the house for the Lord one hundred thousand talents of gold and one million talents of silver and bronze and iron, of which there is no weight because it has become an abundance. And I have prepared timber and stones, now add to these. 15 With you are added a great number doing labor: artisans and architects of stones and craftsmen of wood, and all skilled in every craft. 16 With gold, silver, bronze, and iron, there is no number. Rise and act! The Lord be with you.” 17 Then David commanded the servants leading Israel to assist his son, Solomon, saying, 18 “Is not the Lord with you? He has given you rest from all around, because he gave into your hands the inhabitants of the land, and the land has submitted before the Lord and before his people. 19 Now, give your hearts and your lives to seek the Lord, your God, and get up and build a sanctuary to your God, to carry the ark of the covenant of the Lord and the sacred vessels of God into the house that is being built to the name of the Lord.”
23Now David was old and full of days, and his son, Solomon, reigned instead of him over Israel. 2 He gathered all the rulers of Israel and the priests and the Levites. 3 The Levites from thirty-years-old of age and above were counted, and their number according to their headcount for men was thirty-eight thousand. 4 From these were twenty-four thousand taskmasters over the work of the house, and six thousand scribes and judges, 5 and four thousand to praise the Lord with instruments, which they made to praise the Lord. 6 David divided them into divisions for the daily service of the temple by the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, Merari, 7 and Parosom, Ladan, and Shimei. 8 The sons to Ladan: the ruler Jehiel and Zetham and Joel, these three. 9 The sons to Shimei: Shelomoth and Haziel and Haran; these three were rulers of the families of Ladan. 10 To the sons of Shimei: Jahath and Ziza and Jeush and Beriah; these four were the sons of Shimei. 11 Jahath was the ruler, and Ziza the second. And Jeush and Beriah did not multiply sons and became as a house of their father for one inspection. 12 The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, Uzziel, these four. 13 The sons of Amram: Aaron and Moses. And Aaron was separated to dedicate the holy of holies, he and his sons until eternity, to burn incense before the Lord, to minister and to pray upon his name until eternity. 14 Moses was a man of God; his sons were called into the tribe of Levi. 15 The sons of Moses were Gershom and Eliezer. 16 The son of Gershom: Shebuel the ruler. 17 Eliezer had sons: Rehabiah the ruler, but there were no other sons. The sons of Rehabiah grew tall. 18 The sons of Izhar: Shelomith the ruler. 19 The sons of Hebron: Jeriah the ruler, Amariah, the second, Uzziel, the third, Jekameam, the fourth. 20 The sons of Uzziel: Micah the ruler, and Isshiah, the second. 21 The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. The sons of Mahli: Eleazar and Kish. 22 Eleazar died, but he had no sons, rather daughters, and the sons of Kish, their brothers,a took them. 23 The sons of Mushi: Mahli and Eder and Jeremoth, these three. 24 These are the sons of Levi according to the houses of their families, the rulers of their families according to their inspection, according to the number of their names, according to their headcount, doing the labor of ministry for the house of the Lord, from twenty years and above. 25 Because David had said, “The Lord, God of Israel, has given rest to his people and has encamped in Jerusalem until eternity.” 26 The Levites did not carry the tent and all its implements for its ministry, 27 for by the last words of David were the number of the sons of Levi from twenty years and above. 28 For he established them by the hands of Aaron to minster in the house of the Lord over the courts and over the priest’s chambers and over the purification of all the sacred things and over the tasks of the ministry of God, 29 for the bread of presentation and for the fine flour of the sacrifices and for the unleavened cakes and for the frying pan and for the mixed flour and for every measure, 30 and to stand in the mornings to praise, to confess to the Lord, and in the same way in the evenings, 31 and over all the offerings of whole burnt offerings to the Lord for the Sabbaths and the new moon and the feasts according to the number, according to the judgment upon them through everything to the Lord. 32 They shall keep the watch of the tent of witness and the watch of the sons of Aaron, their brothers, to minister in the house of the Lord.
24Now the sons of Aaron in the division: Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar. 2 Nadab and Abihu died before their father, but they had no sons. Eleazar and Ithamar, the sons of Aaron, were priests. 3 David and Zadok, from the sons of Eleazar, and Ahimelech, from the sons of Ithamar, divided them according to their inspection, according to their ministry, according to the houses of their families. 4 The sons of Eleazar were found to be greater in number as rulers of the powers than the sons of Ithamar, and he divided them: to the sons of Eleazar, sixteen rulers for the paternal houses; to the sons of Aaron, of Ithamar, according to the paternal houses. 5 He divided them according to lots, this one to this one, because they were rulers of the sacred things and rulers of the Lord among the sons of Eleazar and among the sons of Ithamar. 6 Shemaiah son of Nethanel, the scribe, from the tribe of Levi, wrote them before the king and the rulers. There was Zadok the priest and Ahimelech son of Abiathar, and the rulers of the families of the priests, and the Levites of the paternal house, one eacha to Eleazar and one each to Ithamar. 7 The first lot went out to Jehoiarib, the second to Jedaiah, 8 the third to Harim, the fourth to Seorim, 9 the fifth to Malchijah, the sixth to Mijamin, 10 the seventh to Hakkoz, the eighth to Abijah, 11 the ninth to Jeshua, the tenth to Shecaniah, 12 the eleventh to Eliashib, the twelfth to Jakim, 13 the thirteenth to Huppah, the fourteenth to Jeshebeab, 14 the fifteenth to Immer, the sixteenth to Hezir, 15 the seventeenth to Happizzez, the eighteenth to Pethahiah, 16 to Ezekiel, the nineteenth, to Jakin, the twentieth, 17 to Gamul, the twenty-first, to Delaiah, the twenty-second, 18 to Maaziah, the twenty-third. 19 This is their inspection according to their ministry, to enter into the house of the Lord according to their judgment through the hand of Aaron, their father, as the Lord, the God of Israel, had commanded. 20 To the remaining sons of Levi: to the sons of Amram, Shubael; Jehdeiah; 21 to Rehabiah, the ruler, 22 and to Izharites, Shelomoth; to the sons of Shelomoth, Jahath. 23 The sons of Jeriah: Amariah, the second, Jahaziel, the third, Jekameam, the fourth. 24 The sons of Uzziel: Micah. The sons of Micah: Shamur. 25 Brother of Micah: Isshiah; the son of Isshiah, Zechariah. 26 The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi; the sons of Jaaziah, 27 the sons of Merari: to Jaaziah, his sons Shoham and Zaccur and Ibri. 28 To Mahli, Eleazar and Ithamar; and Eleazar died, but he had no sons. 29 To Kish, the sons of Kish, Jerahmeel. 30 The sons of Mushi: Mahli and Eder and Jerimoth. These are the sons of the Levites according to their paternal houses. 31 They also took lots just as their brothers, the sons of Aaron, before the king and Zadok and Ahimelech and the ruler of the families of the priests and of the Levites. They were patriarchs of Araab, just like his younger brothers.
25Now David the king and the rulers of the powers appointed for the work the sons of Asaph and of Heman and of Jeduthun, who were prophesying with kinyrais and with nablais and with cymbals. And their number was according to the heads of those working in their service: 2 the sons of Asaph: Zaccur, Joseph, and Nethaniah and Asarelah; the sons of Asaph who were next to the king. 3 To Jeduthun, the sons of Jeduthun: Gedaliah and Zeri and Jeshaiah and Shimei and Hashabiah and Mattithiah, these six, with their father, Jeduthun, striking up with the kinyra with thanksgiving and praise to the Lord. 4 Heman, the sons of Heman: Bukkiah and Mattaniah and Uzziel and Shebuel and Jerimoth and Hananiah and Hanani and Eliathah and Giddalti and Romamti-ezer, the sons of Od, and Joshbekashah and Mallothi and Hothir and Mahazioth. 5 All these were the sons to Heman, the one who prophesied with music to the king with the words of God to exalt his horn. And God gave to Heman fourteen sons and three daughters. 6 All these were with their father, singing in the house of God, with cymbals, nablais, and kinyrais, next to the king, and Asaph, and Jeduthun, and Heman. 7 And their number with their brothers, who were taught to sing to the Lord, all who had understanding, was two hundred and eightyeight. 8 And they also cast lots for their daily duties, according to the small and the great, for both experts and those who were still learning. 9 And the first lot for his sons and for his brothers came out for Asaph, to Joseph; the second for Gedaliah, Heneia, his brothers and his sons, twelve; 10 the third for Zaccur, his son and his brothers, twelve; 11 the fourth for Izri, his sons and his brothers, twelve; 12 the fifth for Nethaniah, his sons and his brothers, twelve; 13 the sixth for Bukkiah, his sons and his brothers, twelve; 14 the seventh to Jesarelah, his sons and his brothers, twelve; 15 the eighth to Jeshaiah, 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 Azarel, 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 Jerimoth, 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 Eliathah, 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 twentyfourth for Romamti-ezer, his sons and his brothers, twelve.
26For the divisions of the gates: the sons of the Korahites, Moeshelemiah the son of Kore, from the sons of Asaph. 2 Now Moeshelemiah had sons: Zechariah the firstborn, Jediael, Zebadiah, Jathniel, 3 Elam, Jehohannan, Eliehoenai, the seventh. 4 To Obed-edom were sons: Shemaiah the firstborn, Jehozabad, Joah, Sachar, Nethanel, 5 Ammiel, Issachar, Peullethai, because God blessed him. 6 To his son Shemaiah were born sons of the firstborn, Rosai for his paternal house, because they were mighty. 7 The sons of Shemaiah: Othni and Rephael and Obed and Elzabad and Achioud, mighty sons, Elihu and Semachiah and Isbakom. 8 All were from the sons of Obed-edom, they and their brothers and their sons, who were working mightily at the labors, the whole being sixty-two to Obed-edom. 9 To Meshelemiah were sons and brothers, eighteen mighty men. 10 To Hosah, of the sons of Merari, were sons who guarded the territory, because he was not the firstborn, but his father made him ruler of the second division. 11 Tabaliah, the third; Zechariah, all these were sons and brothers to Hosah, thirteen in all. 12 These were the divisions of the towns to the rulers of the mighty men, the priests, just as their brothers, to minister in the house of the Lord. 13 Then they cast lots, from the least to the greatest, according to their paternal houses, gateways and gateways. 14 The lot of those to the east fell to Shelemiah and Zechariah; the sons of Joash cast lots to Melchia, and the lot came out for the north. 15 To Obed-edom the lot was south, opposite the house of esephin.a 16 For the second, to Hosah, was the lot toward the west, after the gate of the priest’s chamber of the ascent, the guard opposite the watch. 17 To the east, six for the day; the north, four for the day; the south, four for the day; and two for the esephin. 18 As to the relief, and to Hosah to the west after the gate of the temple chamber, three; there was a guard opposite the guard of the ascent toward the east, six; in a day to the north, four; and to the south, four; and at the esephim, two for relieving; and toward the west, four; and for the skilled, two relief. 19 These were the divisions of the gatekeepers for the sons of Korah and those of Merari. 20 Now the Levites, their brothers, were over the treasuries of the house of the Lord and over the treasuries of the dedicated things. 21 These were the sons of Ladan the Gershonite: to Ladan, and Iaieel, the son of Jehu, the sons of Jehiel, rulers of the families, to Ladan, to the Gershonite, Jehiel. 22 The sons of Jehiel, the brothers Zetham and Joel, were over the treasuries of the house of the Lord. 23 To Amram and Izhar, Hebron and Uzziel. 24 Shebuel the son of Gershom, the son of Moses, over the treasuries. 25 To his brother, Eliezer, were Rehabiah, a son, and Jeshaiah and Joram and Zichri and Shelomoth. 26 Shelomoth himself and his brothers were over all the treasuries of the sacred things, which King David and the rulers of the families, the commanders of thousands, and leaders of a hundred, and the leaders of the forces, dedicated. 27 He took these things from the cities and from the spoils and dedicated from them so as to not fall behind the building of the sanctuary of God. 28 Over all the sacred things of the God of Samuel, the prophet, and of Saul the son of Kish and Abner the son of Ner and Joab the son of Zeruiah, all things that he had dedicated by the hand of Shelomoth and his brothers. 29 For Izharites, Chenaniah, and his sons did the work outside on behalf of Israel to be scribes and to judge. 30 As for the Hebronites, Hashabiah, and his brothers, one thousand seven hundred mighty men over the oversight of Israel on the other side of the Jordan toward the west, for all the ministry of the Lord and the work of the king. 31 As for the Hebronites, Jeriah was the ruler, commander of the Hebronites, according to their genealogies, according to their paternal lineage, in the fortieth year of his reign. They looked, and a mighty man was found among them in Jazer the Gileadite. 32 And his brothers, the mighty sons, two thousand seven hundred rulers of paternal households. And King David appointed them over the Reubenites and Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh concerning all the ordinances of the Lord and words of the king.
27Now, the sons of Israel according to their number, rulers of families, commanders of a thousand, and leaders of a hundred, and secretaries, the ones ministering to the people, and for every word of the king according to divisions, every word of the one entering and exiting, month by month for every month of the year: one division was twenty-four thousand. 2 Jashobeam the son of Zabdiel was over the first division of the first month, and in his division were twentyfour thousand. 3 He was from the sons of Perez, a ruler of all the rulers of the forces of the first month. 4 And over the division for the second month was Dodai the Ahohite, and rulers of the forces were over his division, which numbered twenty-four thousand. 5 The third in the third month was Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the priest, the ruler, and in his division were twenty-four thousand. 6 Benaiah himself was stronger than the thirty and was over the thirty, and his son, Ammizabad, was over his division. 7 The fourth in the fourth month was Asahel, the brother of Joab, and Zebadiah, his son, and his brothers, and in his division were twenty-four thousand. 8 The fifth in the fifth month was the leader Shamhuth, the Izrahite, and in his division were twenty-four thousand. 9 The sixth in the sixth month was Ira the son of Ikkesh, the Tekoite, and in his division were twenty-four thousand. 10 The seventh in the seventh month was Helez, who was from Pallu, from the sons of Ephraim, and in his division were twenty-four thousand. 11 The eighth in the eighth month was Sibbecai the Hushathite, for the Zerahites, and in his division were twenty-four thousand. 12 The ninth in the ninth month was Abiezer from Anathoth from the land of Benjamin, and in his division were twenty-four thousand. 13 The tenth in the tenth month was Maharai, the one from Netophah, for the Zerahites, and in his division were twentyfour thousand. 14 The eleventh in the eleventh month was Benaiah, who was from Pirathon, of the sons of Ephraim, and in his division were twenty-four thousand. 15 The twelfth in the twelfth month was Heldai, the one from Netophah, for Othniel, and in his division were twenty-four thousand. 16 Now over the tribes of Israel: of Reuben, the leader was Eliezer the son of Zichri; to Simeon, Shephatiah the son of Maacah; 17 to Levi, Hashabiah the son of Kemuel; to Aaron, Zadok; 18 to Judah, Elihu of David’s brothers; to Issachar, Omri the son of Michael; 19 to Zebulun, Ishmaiah the son of Obadiah; to Naphtali, Jerimoth the son of Azriel; 20 to Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Azaziah; to the half-tribe of Manasseh, Joel the son of Pedaiah; 21 to the half-tribe of Manasseh, of those in the land of Gilead, Iddo the son of Zechariah; for the sons of Benjamin, Jaasiel the son of Abner; 22 to Dan, Azarel the son of Joram. These were the patriarchs of the tribes of Israel. 23 Now, David did not take their number from twenty years and below because the Lord said Israel would multiply like the stars of the sky. 24 And Joab the son of Zeruiah began to number the people, but he did not complete it, and wrath occurred in those days on Israel, and the number was not put in the document of the words of the days of King David. 25 Now over the treasuries of the king was Azmaveth the son of Adiel, and over the treasuries in the field and in the villages and in the settlements and in the towers was Jonathan the son of Uzziah. 26 But over the farmers of the land who were laboring was Ezri the son of Chelub. 27 Now, over the rural properties was Shimei, the one from Rama, and over the treasuries that were in the rural properties for wine was Zabdi the son of Shiphmite. 28 Now, over the olive-yards and over the mulberry trees that were in the valley was Baal-hanan the Gederite, and over the storehouse of olive oil was Joash. 29 And over the cattle that were grazing that were in Sharon was Shitrai the Sharonite, and over the cattle that were in the glens was Shaphat the son of Adlai. 30 But over the camels was Obil the Ishmaelite, and over the asses was Jehdeiah, who was from Meronoth. 31 And over the sheep was Jaziz the Hagrite. All these were protectors of the resources of King David. 32 And Jehonathan, the uncle of David, was an adviser, a wise man; and Jehiel, the son of Hachmoni, with the sons of the king. 33 Ahithophel was an adviser of the king, and Hushai was the most important friend of the king. 34 And after these, Ahithophel was next to Jehoiada the son of Benaiah, and Abiathar. And Joab was the commander-in-chief of the king.
28Now David held an assembly of all the rulers of Israel, rulers of the judges and the rulers of the priests, who were around the body of the king, and rulers of the thousands and of the hundreds, and the treasurers and the ones over his resources, and the masters, and the warriors in Jerusalem. 2 David stood in the midst of the assembly and said, “Hear me, my brothers and people, it was upon my heart to build a house of rest for the ark of the covenant of the Lord and a station for the feet of our Lord, so I prepared the provisions for the resting-place. 3 But God said, ‘You shall not build a house for me, to call my name upon it, because you were a man of war, and you have spilled blood.’ 4 Then the Lord, the God of Israel, chose me from the whole house of my father to be king over Israel for eternity. In Judah he selected the kingly dwelling, and he selected me from among the house of Judah, the house of my father. He wanted that I become king over all Israel. 5 Now, from all my sons, because the Lord gave me many sons, he has chosen my son Solomon, that he would sit on the throne of the Lord’s dominion over Israel. 6 And God said to me, ‘It is your son Solomon who shall inherit my house and my court, because I have chosen him to be my son, and I will be a father to him. 7 I will prosper his dominion until eternity, if he is strong to keep my commands and my judgments as this day.’ 8 And now, at the face of the whole assembly of the Lord, you must seek the commands of the Lord, our God, in order that you may inherit the good land for our sons unto eternity. 9 And now, Solomon, know the God of your ancestors, and be a servant with a perfect heart and a willing spirit, because the Lord examines every heart and knows every thought. If you seek him, he will find you, but if you leave him, he will leave you in the end. 10 See, accordingly, the Lord has chosen you to build a house for him for a sanctuary. Be strong and act!” 11 Then David gave his son Solomon the pattern for the temple and of its houses and of its zakchoa and of the attics and of the inner storehouses and of the house of atonement, 12 the pattern that he had in his spirit of the courts of the house of the Lord, and of all the priest’s chambers around that are for the storehouses of the Lord, and the storehouses of the sacred things, 13 and of the lodgings for the divisions of the priests and Levites for every work of ministry for the house of the Lord, and for the storehouses of the vessels for the services. 14 And he gave him the balance of their weight, both gold and silver. 15 He gave him the weight of the lampstands and the lamps. 16 He gave him in like manner the balance of the public tables, of each table of gold, and in like manner of the silver 17 and of the meat hooks and bowls and the saucers of gold and the balance of the gold and the silver vessels, of each weight. 18 Now, he showed him the weight of the altar of incense of refined gold and the pattern of the chariots of cherubim of opened wings and covering over the ark of the covenant of the Lord. 19 David gave everything in writing by the hand of the Lord to Solomon, according to his superior knowledge, for the production of the pattern. 20 David said to Solomon, his son, “Be strong and manly, and act; do not fear nor be afraid, because the Lord, my God, will be with you. He will not leave you, and he shall not abandon you until you accomplish every work of ministry for the house of the Lord. Behold the model of the temple and his house and his treasury and the upper chambers and the inner storerooms and the house of atonement and the model of the house of the Lord. 21 And behold, the divisions of the priests and the Levites for every ministry for the house of the Lord, and with you in every hard work is also every willing person, with cleverness according to every trade, and the rulers and all the people for all your commands.”
29Now King David said to the whole assembly, “Solomon, my son, one whom the Lord has selected in him, is young and tender, and the work is great, because it is not for a human but rather for the Lord God. 2 According to all my strength I have prepared for the house of my God gold, silver, copper, iron, wood, stones, soom,b and in plenty—also very expensive and many-colored stones, and every valued stone and much parian.c 3 While I was well pleased in the house of my God, I had gold and silver that I had preserved, and behold, I gave it to the house of my God for its splendor, beyond which I prepared for the house of the sacred things. 4 There were three thousand talents of gold that were from Ophir and seven thousand talents of refined silver to plaster the walls of the temple with them 5 by the hand of the craftsmen. Now, who is the eager person to fill up his hands today for the Lord?” 6 The rulers of the families and the rulers of the children of Israel, and the commanders of a thousand and the leaders of a hundred, and the protectors of the works and the builders of the king were ready. 7 And they gave for the work for the house of the Lord five thousand gold talents, and ten thousand gold pieces, and ten thousand talents of silver, and eighteen thousand talents of copper coins, and one thousand one hundred talents of iron. 8 Now, by those for whom stone was found among them, they gave it for the storehouses for the house of the Lord by the hand of Jehiel the Gershonite. 9 Then the people were delighted by the eagerness, because with a full heart they were eager before the Lord, and King David was greatly delighted. 10 King David praised the Lord before the assembly, saying, “Blessed are you, O Lord, the God of Israel, our father from eternity unto eternity. 11 To you, O Lord, is the majesty and the power and the boasting and the victory and the strength, because you are master of everything that is in heaven and upon the earth. Every king and nation will be shaken from your face. 12 The wealth and honor are from you. You rule over all, O Lord, the ruler of every empire, and in your hand is strength and sovereignty, and it is in your hand, Almighty One, to exalt and empower everything. 13 Now, O Lord, we confess to you and we praise the name of your reason to boast. 14 Who am I, and who are your people, that we have been able to be ready for you according to these things? Because everything is yours, and we give to you that which is yours, 15 because we are sojourners before you and settle below like all our ancestors. Our days are as shadows upon the earth, and there is no enduring. 16 O Lord, our God, as for all this number that I have prepared to build a house to your sacred name, it is from your hand, and everything is yours. 17 I knew, O Lord, that you are the one who examines hearts, and you love righteousness with simplicity of heart. I have been willing in all these things, and now I have seen your people found here having willingness for you with joy. 18 O Lord, the God of our fathers, Abraham and Isaac and Israel, guard these things in the intentions of the hearts of your people for eternity, and make their hearts straight toward you. 19 Give my son Solomon a good heart to do your commands and your testimonies and your ordinances and to lead to completion the preparation of your house.” 20 Then David said to all the assembly, “Bless the Lord, our God,” and the whole assembly praised the Lord, the God of their ancestors, and they bent the knees and bowed to the Lord and to the king. 21 David sacrificed sacrifices to the Lord and brought whole burnt offerings to God on the morrow of the first day, a thousand calves, a thousand rams, a thousand sheep, and their drink offerings, and sacrifices in great numbers for all Israel. 22 So they ate and drank before the Lord in that day with delight. And they made Solomon, the son of David, king, and they anointed him to the Lord as king and Zadok as priest. 23 Solomon sat upon the throne of his father, David, and was favored, and all Israel listened to him. 24 The rulers and the masters and the sons of King David, his father, were underneath him. 25 The Lord exalted Solomon over and above and before all Israel and gave him glory as a king that had not been upon any king before him. The Death of David 26 David the son of Jesse reigned over Israel 27 forty years —seven years in Hebron and thirty-three years in Jerusalem. 28 He died at a noble old age, full of days, with riches and honor, and his son, Solomon, reigned after him. 29 Now the remaining accounts about King David, the former and the latter, are written in the accounts of Samuel the seer and in the accounts of Nathan the prophet and in the accounts of Gad the seer, 30 about all his dominion and his sovereignty that happened to him and to Israel and to every dominion of the earth. Solomon the son of David was strong in his kingdom, and the Lord, his God, was with him and increased him into majesty.