1:1Adam, Shet, Enosh, 1:2Kenan, Mahalal'el, Yered, 1:3Chanokh, Metushelach, Lamekh, 1:4Noach, Shem, Cham, and Yefet. 1:5The sons of Yefet: Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Yavan, and Tuval, and Meshekh, and Tiras. 1:6The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, and Difat, and Togarmah. 1:7The sons of Yavan: Elishah, and Tarshisha, Kittim, and Rodanim. 1:8The sons of Cham: Kush, and Mitzrayim, Put, and Kana`an. 1:9The sons of Kush: Seva, and Chavilah, and Savtah, and Ra`mah, and Savtekha. The sons of Ra`mah: Sheva, and Dedan. 1:10Kush became the father of Nimrod; he began to be a mighty one in the earth. 1:11Mitzrayim became the father of Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehavim, and Naftuchim, 1:12and Patrusim, and Kasluchim (from whence came the Pelishtim), and Kaftorim. 1:13Kana`an became the father of Tzidon his firstborn, and Chet, 1:14and the Yevusi, and the Amori, and the Girgashi, 1:15and the Chivvi, and the `Arki, and the Sini, 1:16and the Arvadi, and the Tzemari, and the Chamati. 1:17The sons of Shem: `Elam, and Ashur, and Arpakhshad, and Lud, and Aram, and `Utz, and Chul, and Geter, and Meshekh. 1:18Arpakhshad became the father of Shelach, and Shelach became the father of `Ever. 1:19To `Ever were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg; for in his days the earth was divided; and his brother's name was Yoktan. 1:20Yoktan became the father of Almodad, and Shelef, and Chatzarmavat, and Yerach, 1:21and Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah, 1:22and `Eval, and Avima'el, and Sheva, 1:23and Ofir, and Chavilah, and Yovav. All these were the sons of Yoktan. 1:24Shem, Arpakhshad, Shelach, 1:25`Ever, Peleg, Re`u, 1:26Serug, Nachor, Terach, 1:27Avram (the same is Avraham). 1:28The sons of Avraham: Yitzchak, and Yishma'el. 1:29These are their generations: the firstborn of Yishma'el, Nevayot; then Kedar, and Adbe'el, and Mivsam, 1:30Mishma, and Dumah, Massa, Chadad, and Tema, 1:31Yetur, Nafish, and Kedemah. These are the sons of Yishma'el. 1:32The sons of Keturah, Avraham's concubine: she bore Zimran, and Yokshan, and Medan, and Midyan, and Yishbak, and Shuach. The sons of Yokshan: Sheva, and Dedan. 1:33The sons of Midyan: `Efah, and `Efer, and Chanokh, and Avida, and Elda`ah. All these were the sons of Keturah. 1:34Avraham became the father of Yitzchak. The sons of Yitzchak: Esav, and Yisra'el. 1:35The sons of Esav: Elifaz, Re`u'el, and Ye`ush, and Ya`lam, and Korach. 1:36The sons of Elifaz: Teman, and Omar, Tzefi, and Ga`tam, Kenaz, and Timna, and `Amalek. 1:37The sons of Re`u'el: Nachat, Zerach, Shammah, and Mizzah. 1:38The sons of Se`ir: Lotan, and Shoval, and Tziv`on, and `Anah, and Dishon, and Etzer, and Dishan. 1:39The sons of Lotan: Chori, and Homam; and Timna was Lotan's sister. 1:40The sons of Shoval: `Alyan, and Manachat, and `Eval, Shefi, and Onam. The sons of Tziv`on: Ayah, and `Anah. 1:41The sons of `Anah: Dishon. The sons of Dishon: Chamran, and Eshban, and Yitran, and Keran. 1:42The sons of Etzer: Bilhan, and Za`avan, Ya`akan. The sons of Dishan: `Utz, and Aran. 1:43Now these are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom, before there resigned any king over the children of Yisra'el: Bela the son of Be'or; and the name of his city was Dinhava. 1:44Bela died, and Yovav the son of Zerach of Botzrah reigned in his place. 1:45Yovav died, and Chusham of the land of the Temani reigned in his place. 1:46Chusham died, and Chadad the son of Bedad, who struck Midyan in the field of Mo'av, reigned in his place; and the name of his city was `Avit. 1:47Chadad died, and Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his place. 1:48Samlah died, and Sha'ul of Rechovot by the River reigned in his place. 1:49Sha'ul died, and Ba`al-Chanan the son of `Akhbor reigned in his place. 1:50Ba`al-Chanan died, and Chadad reigned in his place; and the name of his city was Pai: and his wife's name was Mehetav'el, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Me-Zahav. 1:51Chadad died. The chiefs of Edom were: chief Timna, chief `Alvah, chief Yetet, 1:52chief Oholivamah, chief Elah, chief Pinon, 1:53chief Kenaz, chief Teman, chief Mivtzar, 1:54chief Magdi'el, chief `Iram. These are the chiefs of Edom.
2:1These are the sons of Yisra'el: Re'uven, Shim`on, Levi, and Yehudah, Yissakhar, and Zevulun, 2:2Dan, Yosef, and Binyamin, Naftali, Gad, and Asher. 2:3The sons of Yehudah: `Er, and Onan, and Shelach; which three were born to him of Shu`a's daughter the Kana`anite. `Er, Yehudah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the LORD; and he killed him. 2:4Tamar his daughter-in-law bore him Peretz and Zerach. All the sons of Yehudah were five. 2:5The sons of Peretz: Chetzron, and Chamul. 2:6The sons of Zerach: Zimri, and Etan, and Heman, and Kalkol, and Dara; five of them in all. 2:7The sons of Karmi: `Akar, the troubler of Yisra'el, who committed a trespass in the devoted thing. 2:8The sons of Etan: `Azaryah. 2:9The sons also of Chetzron, who were born to him: Yerachme'el, and Ram, and Keluvai. 2:10Ram became the father of `Amminadav, and `Amminadav became the father of Nachshon, prince of the children of Yehudah; 2:11and Nachshon became the father of Salma, and Salma became the father of Bo`az, 2:12and Bo`az became the father of `Oved, and `Oved became the father of Yishai; 2:13and Yishai became the father of his firstborn Eli'av, and Avinadav the second, and Shim`a the third, 2:14Netan'el the fourth, Raddai the fifth, 2:15Otzem the sixth, David the seventh; 2:16and their sisters were Tzeru'yah and Avigayil. The sons of Tzeru'yah: Avishai, and Yo'av, and `Asa'el, three. 2:17Avigayil bore `Amasa; and the father of `Amasa was Yeter the Yishme`elite. 2:18Kalev the son of Chetzron became the father of children of `Azuvah his wife, and of Yeri`ot; and these were her sons: Yesher, and Shovav, and Ardon. 2:19`Azuvah died, and Kalev took to him Efrat, who bore him Chur. 2:20Chur became the father of Uri, and Uri became the father of Betzal'el. 2:21Afterward Chetzron went in to the daughter of Makhir the father of Gil`ad, whom he took as wife when he was sixty years old; and she bore him Seguv. 2:22Seguv became the father of Ya'ir, who had twenty-three cities in the land of Gil`ad. 2:23Geshur and Aram took the towns of Ya'ir from them, with Kenat, and the villages of it, even sixty cities. All these were the sons of Makhir the father of Gil`ad. 2:24After that Chetzron was dead in Kalev-Efratah, then Aviyah Chetzron's wife bore him Ashur the father of Tekoa. 2:25The sons of Yerachme'el the firstborn of Chetzron were Ram the firstborn, and Bunah, and Oren, and Otzem, Achiyah. 2:26Yerachme'el had another wife, whose name was `Atarah; she was the mother of Onam. 2:27The sons of Ram the firstborn of Yerachme'el were Ma`atz, and Yamin, and `Eker. 2:28The sons of Onam were Shammai, and Yada. The sons of Shammai: Nadav, and Avishur. 2:29The name of the wife of Avishur was Avichayil; and she bore him Achban, and Molid. 2:30The sons of Nadav: Seled, and Appayim; but Seled died without children. 2:31The sons of Appayim: Yish`i. The sons of Yish`i: Sheshan. The sons of Sheshan: Achlai. 2:32The sons of Yada the brother of Shammai: Yeter, and Yonatan; and Yeter died without children. 2:33The sons of Yonatan: Pelet, and Zaza. These were the sons of Yerachme'el. 2:34Now Sheshan had no sons, but daughters. Sheshan had a servant, a Mitzrian, whose name was Yarcha. 2:35Sheshan gave his daughter to Yarcha his servant as wife; and she bore him `Attai. 2:36`Attai became the father of Natan, and Natan became the father of Zavad, 2:37and Zavad became the father of Eflal, and Eflal became the father of `Oved, 2:38and `Oved became the father of Yehu, and Yehu became the father of `Azaryah, 2:39and `Azaryah became the father of Cheletz, and Cheletz became the father of El`asah, 2:40and El`asah became the father of Sismai, and Sismai became the father of Shallum, 2:41and Shallum became the father of Yekamyah, and Yekamyah became the father of Elishama. 2:42The sons of Kalev the brother of Yerachme'el were Mesha his firstborn, who was the father of Zif; and the sons of Mareshah the father of Chevron. 2:43The sons of Chevron: Korach, and Tappuach, and Rekem, and Shema. 2:44Shema became the father of Racham, the father of Yorke`am; and Rekem became the father of Shammai. 2:45The son of Shammai was Ma`on; and Ma`on was the father of Beit-Tzur. 2:46`Efah, Kalev's concubine, bore Charan, and Motzah, and Gazez; and Charan became the father of Gazez. 2:47The sons of Yohdai: Regem, and Yotam, and Geshan, and Pelet, and `Efah, and Sha`af. 2:48Ma`akhah, Kalev's concubine, bore Shever and Tirchanah. 2:49She bore also Sha`af the father of Madmannah, Sheva the father of Makhbena, and the father of Giv'ah; and the daughter of Kalev was `Akhsah. 2:50These were the sons of Kalev, the son of Chur, the firstborn of Efratah: Shoval the father of Kiryat-Ye`arim, 2:51Salma the father of Beit-Lechem, Charef the father of Beit-Gader. 2:52Shoval the father of Kiryat-Ye`arim had sons: Haro'e, half of the Menuchot. 2:53The families of Kiryat-Ye`arim: The Yitri, and the Puti, and the Shumati, and the Mishra`i; of them came the Tzor`ati and the Eshta'uli. 2:54The sons of Salma: Beit-Lechem, and the Netofati, Atrot-Beit-Yo'av, and half of the Manachati, the Tzor`i. 2:55The families of scribes who lived at Ya`betz: the Tir`atim, the Shim`atim, the Sukhatim. These are the Kinim who came of Chammat, the father of the house of Rechav.
3:1Now these were the sons of David, who were born to him in Chevron: the firstborn, Amnon, of Achino'am the Yizre`elite; the second, Daniyel, of Avigayil the Karmelite; 3:2the third, Avshalom the son of Ma`akhah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur; the fourth, Adoniyahu the son of Chaggit; 3:3the fifth, Shefatyah of Avital; the sixth, Yitre`am by `Eglah his wife: 3:4six were born to him in Chevron; and there he reigned seven years and six months. In Yerushalayim he reigned thirty-three years; 3:5and these were born to him in Yerushalayim: Shim`a, and Shovav, and Natan, and Shlomo, four, of Bat-Shua the daughter of `Ammi'el; 3:6and Yivchar, and Elishama, and Elifelet, 3:7and Nogah, and Nefeg, and Yafia, 3:8and Elishama, and Elyada, and Elifelet, nine. 3:9All these were the sons of David, besides the sons of the concubines; and Tamar was their sister. 3:10Shlomo's son was Rechav`am, Aviyah his son, Asa his son, Yehoshafat his son, 3:11Yoram his son, Achazyah his son, Yo'ash his son, 3:12Amatzyah his son, `Azaryah his son, Yotam his son, 3:13Achaz his son, Chizkiyahu his son, Menasheh his son, 3:14Amon his son, Yoshiyahu his son. 3:15The sons of Yoshiyahu: the firstborn Yochanan, the second Yehoiakim, the third Tzidkiyahu, the fourth Shallum. 3:16The sons of Yehoiakim: Yekhonyah his son, Tzidkiyahu his son. 3:17The sons of Yekhonyah, the captive: She'alti'el his son, 3:18and Malkiram, and Pedayahu, and Shenazzar, Yekamyah, Hoshama, and Nedavyah. 3:19The sons of Pedayahu: Zerubbavel, and Shim`i. The sons of Zerubbavel: Meshullam, and Chananyah; and Shelomit was their sister; 3:20and Chashuvah, and Ohel, and Berekhyah, and Chasadyah, Yushav-Chesed, five. 3:21The sons of Chananyah: Pelatyah, and Yesha`yah; the sons of Refayah, the sons of Arnan, the sons of `Ovadyah, the sons of Shekhanyahu. 3:22The sons of Shekhanyahu: Shemayah. The sons of Shemayah: Chattush, and Yig'al, and Bariach, and Ne`aryah, and Shafat, six. 3:23The sons of Ne`aryah: Elyo`enai, and Hizkiah, and `Azrikam, three. 3:24The sons of Elyo`enai: Hodavyah, and Elyashiv, and Pelayah, and `Akkuv, and Yochanan, and Delayah, and `Anani, seven.
4:1The sons of Yehudah: Peretz, Chetzron, and Karmi, and Chur, and Shoval. 4:2Re'ayah the son of Shoval became the father of Yachat; and Yachat became the father of Achumai and Lahad. These are the families of the Tzor`ati. 4:3These were the sons of the father of `Etam: Yizre`el, and Yishma, and Yidbash; and the name of their sister was Hatzelel-Poni; 4:4and Penu'el the father of Gedor, and Etzer the father of Chushah. These are the sons of Chur, the firstborn of Efratah, the father of Beit-Lechem. 4:5Ashur the father of Tekoa had two wives, Chel'ah and Na`arah. 4:6Na`arah bore him Achuzzam, and Chefer, and Timni, and Achashtari. These were the sons of Na`arah. 4:7The sons of Chel'ah were Tzeret, Tzochar, and Etnan. 4:8Kotz became the father of `Anuv, and Tzovevah, and the families of Acharchel the son of Harum. 4:9Ya`betz was more honorable than his brothers: and his mother named him Ya`betz, saying, Because I bore him with sorrow. 4:10Ya`betz called on the God of Yisra'el, saying, Oh that you would bless me indeed, and enlarge my border, and that your hand might be with me, and that you would keep me from evil, that it not be to my sorrow! God granted him that which he requested. 4:11Kelub the brother of Shuchah became the father of Mechir, who was the father of Eshton. 4:12Eshton became the father of Beit-Rafa, and Pase'ach, and Techinnah the father of Ir-Nachash. These are the men of Rekhah. 4:13The sons of Kenaz: `Otni'el, and Serayah. The sons of `Otni'el: Chatat. 4:14Me`onotai became the father of Ofrat: and Serayah became the father of Yo'av the father of Ge-Charashim; for they were craftsmen. 4:15The sons of Kalev the son of Yefunneh: Iru, Elah, and Na`am; and the sons of Elah; and Kenaz. 4:16The sons of Yehallel'el: Zif, and Zifah, Tiryah, and Asar'el. 4:17The sons of Ezrah: Yeter, and Mered, and `Efer, and Yalon; and she bore Miryam, and Shammai, and Yishbach the father of Eshtemoa. 4:18His wife Yehudiyah bore Yered the father of Gedor, and Chever the father of Sokho, and Yekuti'el the father of Zanoach. These are the sons of Bityah the daughter of Pharaoh, whom Mered took. 4:19The sons of the wife of Hodiyah, the sister of Nacham, were the father of Ke`ilah the Garmite, and Eshtemoa the Ma`akhatite. 4:20The sons of Shimon: Amnon, and Rinnah, Ben-Chanan, and Tilon. The sons of Yish`i: Zochet, and Ben-Zochet. 4:21The sons of Shelah, the son of Yehudah: `Er the father of Lekha, and La`adah the father of Mareshah, and the families of the house of those who worked fine linen, of the house of Ashbea; 4:22and Yokim, and the men of Kozeva, and Yo'ash, and Saraf, who had dominion in Mo'av, and Yashuvi-Lechem. The records are ancient. 4:23These were the potters, and the inhabitants of Netaim and Gederah: there they lived with the king for his work. 4:24The sons of Shim`on: Nemu'el, and Yamin, Yariv, Zerach, Sha'ul; 4:25Shallum his son, Mivsam his son, Mishma his son. 4:26The sons of Mishma: Hammuel his son, Zakkur his son, Shim`i his son. 4:27Shim`i had sixteen sons and six daughters; but his brothers didn't have many children, neither did all their family multiply like the children of Yehudah. 4:28They lived at Be'er-Sheva, and Moladah, and Chatzar-Shu`al, 4:29and at Bilhah, and at `Etzem, and at Tolad, 4:30and at Betu'el, and at Chormah, and at Tziklag, 4:31and at Beit-Markavot, and Chatzar-Susim, and at Beit-Bir'i, and at Sha`arayim. These were their cities to the reign of David. 4:32Their villages were `Etam, and `Ayin, Rimmon, and Tokhen, and `Ashan, five cities; 4:33and all their villages that were round about the same cities, to Ba`al. These were their habitations, and they have their genealogy. 4:34Meshovav, and Yamlekh, and Yoshah the son of Amatzyah, 4:35and Yo'el, and Yehu the son of Yoshivyah, the son of Serayah, the son of `Asi'el, 4:36and Elyo`enai, and Ya`akovah, and Yeshochayah, and `Asayah, and `Adi'el, and Yesimi'el, and Benayah, 4:37and Ziza the son of Shif`i, the son of Allon, the son of Yedayah, the son of Shimri, the son of Shemayah--4:38these mentioned by name were princes in their families: and their fathers' houses increased greatly. 4:39They went to the entrance of Gedor, even to the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks. 4:40They found fat pasture and good, and the land was wide, and quiet, and peaceable; for those who lived there before were of Cham. 4:41These written by name came in the days of Chizkiyahu king of Yehudah, and struck their tents, and the Me`unim who were found there, and destroyed them utterly to this day, and lived in their place; because there was pasture there for their flocks. 4:42Some of them, even of the sons of Shim`on, five hundred men, went to Mount Se`ir, having for their captains Pelatyah, and Ne`aryah, and Refayah, and `Uzzi'el, the sons of Yish`i. 4:43They struck the remnant of the `Amaleki who escaped, and have lived there to this day.
5:1The sons of Re'uven the firstborn of Yisra'el (for he was the firstborn; but, because he defiled his father's couch, his birthright was given to the sons of Yosef the son of Yisra'el; and the genealogy is not to be reckoned after the birthright. 5:2For Yehudah prevailed above his brothers, and of him came the prince; but the birthright was Yosef's:) 5:3the sons of Re'uven the firstborn of Yisra'el: Chanokh, and Pallu, Chetzron, and Karmi. 5:4The sons of Yo'el: Shemayah his son, Gog his son, Shim`i his son, 5:5Mikhah his son, Re'ayah his son, Ba`al his son, 5:6Be'erah his son, whom Tilgat-Pilne'eser king of Ashur carried away captive: he was prince of the Re'uveni. 5:7His brothers by their families, when the genealogy of their generations was reckoned: the chief, Ye`i'el, and Zekharyah, 5:8and Bela the son of Azaz, the son of Shema, the son of Yo'el, who lived in `Aro`er, even to Nevo and Ba`al-Me`on: 5:9and eastward he lived even to the entrance of the wilderness from the river Perat, because their cattle were multiplied in the land of Gil`ad. 5:10In the days of Sha'ul, they made war with the Hagrim, who fell by their hand; and they lived in their tents throughout all the land east of Gil`ad. 5:11The sons of Gad lived over against them, in the land of Bashan to Salkhah: 5:12Yo'el the chief, and Shafam the second, and Ya`nai, and Shafat in Bashan. 5:13Their brothers of their fathers' houses: Mikha'el, and Meshullam, and Sheva, and Yorai, and Ya`kan, and Zia, and `Ever, seven. 5:14These were the sons of Avichayil, the son of Churi, the son of Yao`ach, the son of Gil`ad, the son of Mikha'el, the son of Yeshishai, the son of Yachdo, the son of Buz; 5:15Achi the son of `Avdi'el, the son of Guni, chief of their fathers' houses. 5:16They lived in Gil`ad in Bashan, and in its towns, and in all the suburbs of Sharon, as far as their borders. 5:17All these were reckoned by genealogies in the days of Yotam king of Yehudah, and in the days of Yarov`am king of Yisra'el. 5:18The sons of Re'uven, and the Gadi, and the half-tribe of Menasheh, of valiant men, men able to bear buckler and sword, and to shoot with bow, and skillful in war, were forty-four thousand seven hundred and sixty, that were able to go forth to war. 5:19They made war with the Hagrim, with Yetur, and Nafish, and Nodav. 5:20They were helped against them, and the Hagrim were delivered into their hand, and all who were with them; for they cried to God in the battle, and he was entreated of them, because they put their trust in him. 5:21They took away their cattle; of their camels fifty thousand, and of sheep two hundred fifty thousand, and of donkeys two thousand, and of men one hundred thousand. 5:22For there fell many slain, because the war was of God. They lived in their place until the captivity. 5:23The children of the half-tribe of Menasheh lived in the land: they increased from Bashan to Ba`al-Chermon and Senir and Mount Chermon. 5:24These were the heads of their fathers' houses: even `Efer, and Yish`i, and Eli'el, and `Azri'el, and Yirmeyahu, and Hodavyah, and Yachdi'el, mighty men of valor, famous men, heads of their fathers' houses. 5:25They trespassed against the God of their fathers, and played the prostitute after the gods of the peoples of the land, whom God destroyed before them. 5:26The God of Yisra'el stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Ashur, and the spirit of Tilgat-Pilne'eser king of Ashur, and he carried them away, even the Re'uveni, and the Gadi, and the half-tribe of Menasheh, and brought them to Chalach, and Chavor, and Hara, and to the river of Gozan, to this day.
6:1The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kehat, and Merari. 6:2The sons of Kehat: `Amram, Yitzhar, and Chevron, and `Uzzi'el. 6:3The children of `Amram: Aharon, and Moshe, and Miryam. The sons of Aharon: Nadav, and Avihu, El`azar, and Itamar. 6:4El`azar became the father of Pinechas, Pinechas became the father of Avishua, 6:5and Avishua became the father of Bukki, and Bukki became the father of `Uzzi, 6:6and `Uzzi became the father of Zerachyah, and Zerachyah became the father of Merayot, 6:7Merayot became the father of Amaryah, and Amaryah became the father of Achituv, 6:8and Achituv became the father of Tzadok, and Tzadok became the father of Achima`atz, 6:9and Achima`atz became the father of `Azaryah, and `Azaryah became the father of Yochanan, 6:10and Yochanan became the father of `Azaryah, (he it is who executed the kohen's office in the house that Shlomo built in Yerushalayim), 6:11and `Azaryah became the father of Amaryah, and Amaryah became the father of Achituv, 6:12and Achituv became the father of Tzadok, and Tzadok became the father of Shallum, 6:13and Shallum became the father of Chilkiyah, and Chilkiyah became the father of `Azaryah, 6:14and `Azaryah became the father of Serayah, and Serayah became the father of Yehotzadak; 6:15Yehotzadak went into captivity, when the LORD carried away Yehudah and Yerushalayim by the hand of Nevukhadnetzar. 6:16The sons of Levi: Gershom, Kehat, and Merari. 6:17These are the names of the sons of Gershom: Livni and Shim`i. 6:18The sons of Kehat were `Amram, and Yitzhar, and Chevron, and `Uzzi'el. 6:19The sons of Merari: Machli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levi'im according to their fathers' houses. 6:20Of Gershom: Livni his son, Yachat his son, Zimmah his son, 6:21Yo'ach his son, `Iddo his son, Zerach his son, Ye'aterai his son. 6:22The sons of Kehat: `Amminadav his son, Korach his son, Assir his son, 6:23Elkana his son, and Avi'asaf his son, and Assir his son, 6:24Tachat his son, Uri'el his son, `Uzziyah his son, and Sha'ul his son. 6:25The sons of Elkana: `Amasai, and Achimot. 6:26As for Elkana, the sons of Elkana: Tzafai his son, and Nachat his son, 6:27Eli'av his son, Yerocham his son, Elkana his son. 6:28The sons of Shemu'el: the firstborn Yo'el, and the second Aviyah. 6:29The sons of Merari: Machli, Livni his son, Shim`i his son, Uzzah his son, 6:30Shim`a his son, Chaggiyah his son, `Asayah his son. 6:31These are they whom David set over the service of song in the house of the LORD, after that the ark had rest. 6:32They ministered with song before the tent of the tent of meeting, until Shlomo had built the house of the LORD in Yerushalayim: and they waited on their office according to their order. 6:33These are those who waited, and their sons. Of the sons of the Kehati: Heman the singer, the son of Yo'el, the son of Shemu'el, 6:34the son of Elkana, the son of Yerocham, the son of Eli'el, the son of To'ach, 6:35the son of Tzuf, the son of Elkana, the son of Machat, the son of `Amasai, 6:36the son of Elkana, the son of Yo'el, the son of `Azaryah, the son of Tzefanyah, 6:37the son of Tachat, the son of Assir, the son of Avi'asaf, the son of Korach, 6:38the son of Yitzhar, the son of Kehat, the son of Levi, the son of Yisra'el. 6:39His brother Asaf, who stood on his right hand, even Asaf the son of Berekhyah, the son of Shim`a, 6:40the son of Mikha'el, the son of Ba`aseyah, the son of Malkiyah, 6:41the son of Etni, the son of Zerach, the son of `Adayah, 6:42the son of Etan, the son of Zimmah, the son of Shim`i, 6:43the son of Yachat, the son of Gershom, the son of Levi. 6:44On the left hand their brothers the sons of Merari: Etan the son of Kishi, the son of `Avdi, the son of Mallukh, 6:45the son of Chashavyah, the son of Amatzyah, the son of Chilkiyah, 6:46the son of Amtzi, the son of Bani, the son of Shemer, 6:47the son of Machli, the son of Mushi, the son of Merari, the son of Levi. 6:48Their brothers the Levi'im were appointed for all the service of the tent of the house of God. 6:49But Aharon and his sons offered on the altar of burnt offering, and on the altar of incense, for all the work of the most holy place, and to make atonement for Yisra'el, according to all that Moshe the servant of God had commanded. 6:50These are the sons of Aharon: El`azar his son, Pinechas his son, Avishua his son, 6:51Bukki his son, `Uzzi his son, Zerachyah his son, 6:52Merayot his son, Amaryah his son, Achituv his son, 6:53Tzadok his son, Achima`atz his son. 6:54Now these are their dwelling-places according to their encampments in their borders: to the sons of Aharon, of the families of the Kehati (for theirs was the first lot), 6:55to them they gave Chevron in the land of Yehudah, and the suburbs of it round about it; 6:56but the fields of the city, and the villages of it, they gave to Kalev the son of Yefunneh. 6:57To the sons of Aharon they gave the cities of refuge, Chevron; Livna also with its suburbs, and Yattir, and Eshtemoa with its suburbs, 6:58and Chilen with its suburbs, Devir with its suburbs, 6:59and `Ashan with its suburbs, and Beth-shemesh with its suburbs; 6:60and out of the tribe of Binyamin, Geva with its suburbs, and `Allemet with its suburbs, and `Anatot with its suburbs. All their cities throughout their families were thirteen cities. 6:61To the rest of the sons of Kehat were given by lot, out of the family of the tribe, out of the half-tribe, the half of Menasheh, ten cities. 6:62To the sons of Gershom, according to their families, out of the tribe of Yissakhar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe of Naftali, and out of the tribe of Menasheh in Bashan, thirteen cities. 6:63To the sons of Merari were given by lot, according to their families, out of the tribe of Re'uven, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zevulun, twelve cities. 6:64The children of Yisra'el gave to the Levi'im the cities with their suburbs. 6:65They gave by lot out of the tribe of the children of Yehudah, and out of the tribe of the children of Shim`on, and out of the tribe of the children of Binyamin, these cities which are mentioned by name. 6:66Some of the families of the sons of Kehat had cities of their borders out of the tribe of Efrayim. 6:67They gave to them the cities of refuge, Shekhem in the hill-country of Efrayim with its suburbs; Gezer also with its suburbs, 6:68and Yokme`am with its suburbs, and Beit-Choron with its suburbs, 6:69and Ayalon with its suburbs, and Gath-rimmon with its suburbs; 6:70and out of the half-tribe of Menasheh, `Aner with its suburbs, and Bil`am with its suburbs, for the rest of the family of the sons of Kehat. 6:71To the sons of Gershom were given, out of the family of the half-tribe of Menasheh, Galon in Bashan with its suburbs, and `Ashtarot with its suburbs; 6:72and out of the tribe of Yissakhar, Kedesh with its suburbs, Daverat with its suburbs, 6:73and Ramot with its suburbs, and `Anam with its suburbs; 6:74and out of the tribe of Asher, Mashal with its suburbs, and `Avdon with its suburbs, 6:75and Chukok with its suburbs, and Rechov with its suburbs; 6:76and out of the tribe of Naftali, Kedesh in the Galil with its suburbs, and Chammon with its suburbs, and Kiryatayim with its suburbs. 6:77To the rest of the Levi'im, the sons of Merari, were given, out of the tribe of Zevulun, Rimmono with its suburbs, Tavor with its suburbs; 6:78and beyond the Yarden at Yericho, on the east side of the Yarden, were given them, out of the tribe of Re'uven, Betzer in the wilderness with its suburbs, and Yahtzah with its suburbs, 6:79and Kedemot with its suburbs, and Mefa`at with its suburbs; 6:80and out of the tribe of Gad, Ramot in Gil`ad with its suburbs, and Machanayim with its suburbs, 6:81and Cheshbon with its suburbs, and Ya`zer with its suburbs.
7:1Of the sons of Yissakhar: Tola, and Pu`ah, Yashuv, and Shimron, four. 7:2The sons of Tola: `Uzzi, and Refayah, and Yeri'el, and Yachmai, and Yivsam, and Shemu'el, heads of their fathers' houses, to wit, of Tola; mighty men of valor in their generations: their number in the days of David was twenty-two thousand six hundred. 7:3The sons of `Uzzi: Yizrachyah. The sons of Yizrachyah: Mikha'el, and `Ovadyah, and Yo'el, Yishiyah, five; all of them chief men. 7:4With them, by their generations, after their fathers' houses, were bands of the host for war, thirty-six thousand; for they had many wives and sons. 7:5Their brothers among all the families of Yissakhar, mighty men of valor, reckoned in all by genealogy, were eighty-seven thousand. 7:6The sons of Binyamin: Bela, and Bekher, and Yedi`a'el, three. 7:7The sons of Bela: Etzbon, and `Uzzi, and `Uzzi'el, and Yerimot, and Iri, five; heads of fathers' houses, mighty men of valor; and they were reckoned by genealogy twenty-two thousand thirty-four. 7:8The sons of Bekher: Zemirah, and Yo'ash, and Eli`ezer, and Elyo`enai, and `Omri, and Yeremot, and Aviyah, and `Anatot, and `Alemet. All these were the sons of Bekher. 7:9They were reckoned by genealogy, after their generations, heads of their fathers' houses, mighty men of valor, twenty thousand two hundred. 7:10The sons of Yedi`a'el: Bilhan. The sons of Bilhan: Ye`ush, and Binyamin, and Ehud, and Kena`anah, and Zetan, and Tarshish, and Achishachar. 7:11All these were sons of Yedi`a'el, according to the heads of their fathers' houses, mighty men of valor, seventeen thousand and two hundred, who were able to go forth in the host for war. 7:12Shuppim also, and Chuppim, the sons of Ir, Chushim, the sons of Acher. 7:13The sons of Naftali: Yachtziel, and Guni, and Yetzer, and Shallum, the sons of Bilhah. 7:14The sons of Menasheh: Asri'el, whom his concubine the Arammian bore: she bore Makhir the father of Gil`ad: 7:15and Makhir took a wife of Chuppim and Shuppim, whose sister's name was Ma`akhah; and the name of the second was Tzelohchad: and Tzelohchad had daughters. 7:16Ma`akhah the wife of Makhir bore a son, and she named him Peresh; and the name of his brother was Sheresh; and his sons were Ulam and Rakem. 7:17The sons of Ulam: Bedan. These were the sons of Gil`ad the son of Makhir, the son of Menasheh. 7:18His sister Hammolekhet bore Ishhod, and Avi-Ezer, and Machlah. 7:19The sons of Shemida were Achyan, and Shekhem, and Likchi, and Ani`am. 7:20The sons of Efrayim: Shutelach, and Bered his son, and Tachat his son, and El'adah his son, and Tachat his son, 7:21and Zavad his son, and Shutelach his son, and Etzer, and El'ad, whom the men of Gat who were born in the land killed, because they came down to take away their cattle. 7:22Efrayim their father mourned many days, and his brothers came to comfort him. 7:23He went in to his wife, and she conceived, and bore a son, and he named him Beri`ah, because it went evil with his house. 7:24His daughter was She'erah, who built Beit-Choron the lower and the upper, and Uzzen-She'erah. 7:25Refach was his son, and Reshef, and Telach his son, and Tachan his son, 7:26La`dan his son, `Ammihud his son, Elishama his son, 7:27Nun his son, Yehoshua his son. 7:28Their possessions and habitations were Beit-El and the towns of it, and eastward Naaran, and westward Gezer, with the towns of it; Shekhem also and the towns of it, to Azzah and the towns of it; 7:29and by the borders of the children of Menasheh, Beth-shean and its towns, Ta`nakh and its towns, Megiddo and its towns, Dor and its towns. In these lived the children of Yosef the son of Yisra'el. 7:30The sons of Asher: Yimna, and Yishvah, and Yishvi, and Beri`ah, and Serach their sister. 7:31The sons of Beri`ah: Chever, and Malki'el, who was the father of Birzaith. 7:32Chever became the father of Yaflet, and Shomer, and Chotam, and Shu`a their sister. 7:33The sons of Yaflet: Pasach, and Bimhal, and `Asvat. These are the children of Yaflet. 7:34The sons of Shemer: Achi, and Rohgah, Chubbah, and Aram. 7:35The sons of Chelem his brother: Tzofach, and Yimna, and Shelesh, and Amal. 7:36The sons of Tzofach: Su'ach, and Charnefer, and Shual, and Ber, and Yimrah, 7:37Betzer, and Hod, and Shamma, and Shilshah, and Yitran, and Beera. 7:38The sons of Yeter: Yefunneh, and Pispa, and Ara. 7:39The sons of Ulla: Arach, and Channi'el, and Ritzyah. 7:40All these were the children of Asher, heads of the fathers' houses, choice and mighty men of valor, chief of the princes. The number of them reckoned by genealogy for service in war was twenty-six thousand men.
8:1Binyamin became the father of Bela his firstborn, Ashbel the second, and Achrach the third, 8:2Nochah the fourth, and Rapha the fifth. 8:3Bela had sons: Addar, and Gera, and Avihud, 8:4and Avishua, and Na`aman, and Achoach, 8:5and Gera, and Shefufan, and Churam. 8:6These are the sons of Echud: these are the heads of fathers' houses of the inhabitants of Geva, and they carried them captive to Manachat: 8:7and Na`aman, and Achiyah, and Gera, he carried them captive: and he became the father of Uzza and Achichud. 8:8Shacharayim became the father of children in the field of Mo'av, after he had sent them away; Chushim and Ba`ara were his wives. 8:9He became the father of Chodesh his wife, Yovav, and Tzivyah, and Mesha, and Malkam, 8:10and Ye`utz, and Sokhyah, and Mirmah. These were his sons, heads of fathers' houses. 8:11Of Chushim he became the father of Avituv and Elpa`al. 8:12The sons of Elpa`al: `Ever, and Mish`am, and Shemed, who built Ono and Lod, with the towns of it; 8:13and Beri`ah, and Shema, who were heads of fathers' houses of the inhabitants of Ayalon, who put to flight the inhabitants of Gat; 8:14and Achyo, Shashak, and Yeremot, 8:15and Zevadyah, and `Arad, and `Eder, 8:16and Mikha'el, and Yishpah, and Yocha, the sons of Beri`ah, 8:17and Zevadyah, and Meshullam, and Chizki, and Chever, 8:18and Ishmerai, and Yizli'ah, and Yovav, the sons of Elpa`al, 8:19and Yakim, and Zikhri, and Zavdi, 8:20and Eli`esenai, and Tzilletai, and Eli'el, 8:21and `Adayah, and Berayah, and Shimrat, the sons of Shim`i, 8:22and Yishpan, and `Ever, and Eli'el, 8:23and `Avdon, and Zikhri, and Chanan, 8:24and Chananyah, and `Elam, and `Antotiyah, 8:25and Yifdeyah, and Penu'el, the sons of Shashak, 8:26and Shamsherai, and Shecharyah, and `Atalyah, 8:27and Ya`areshyah, and Eliyah, and Zikhri, the sons of Yerocham. 8:28These were heads of fathers' houses throughout their generations, chief men: these lived in Yerushalayim. 8:29In Giv`on there lived the father of Giv`on, Ye`i'el, whose wife's name was Ma`akhah; 8:30and his firstborn son `Avdon, and Tzur, and Kish, and Ba`al, and Nadav, 8:31and Gedor, and Achyo, and Zekher. 8:32Miklot became the father of Shim`a. They also lived with their brothers in Yerushalayim, over against their brothers. 8:33Ner became the father of Kish; and Kish became the father of Sha'ul; and Sha'ul became the father of Yonatan, and Malki-Shua, and Avinadav, and Eshba`al. 8:34The son of Yonatan was Meriv-Ba`al; and Meriv-Ba`al became the father of Mikhah. 8:35The sons of Mikhah: Piton, and Melekh, and Ta'rea, and Achaz. 8:36Achaz became the father of Yeho`addah; and Yeho`addah became the father of `Alemet, and `Azmavet, and Zimri; and Zimri became the father of Motzah. 8:37Motzah became the father of Bin`a; Rafah was his son, El`asah his son, Atzel his son. 8:38Atzel had six sons, whose names are these: `Azrikam, Bokhru, and Yishma'el, and She`aryah, and `Ovadyah, and Chanan. All these were the sons of Atzel. 8:39The sons of Eshek his brother: Ulam his firstborn, Ye`ush the second, and Elifelet the third. 8:40The sons of Ulam were mighty men of valor, archers, and had many sons, and sons' sons, one hundred fifty. All these were of the sons of Binyamin.
9:1So all Yisra'el were reckoned by genealogies; and, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Yisra'el: and Yehudah was carried away captive to Bavel for their disobedience. 9:2Now the first inhabitants who lived in their possessions in their cities were Yisra'el, the kohanim, the Levi'im, and the temple servants. 9:3In Yerushalayim lived of the children of Yehudah, and of the children of Binyamin, and of the children of Efrayim and Menasheh: 9:4`Utai the son of `Ammihud, the son of `Omri, the son of Imri, the son of Bani, of the children of Peretz the son of Yehudah. 9:5Of the Shiloni: `Asayah the firstborn, and his sons. 9:6Of the sons of Zerach: Ye`u'el, and their brothers, six hundred ninety. 9:7Of the sons of Binyamin: Sallu the son of Meshullam, the son of Hodavyah, the son of Senu'ah, 9:8and Yivneyah the son of Yerocham, and Elah the son of `Uzzi, the son of Mikhri, and Meshullam the son of Shefatyah, the son of Re`u'el, the son of Yivniyah; 9:9and their brothers, according to their generations, nine hundred fifty-six. All these men were heads of fathers' houses by their fathers' houses. 9:10Of the kohanim: Yedayah, and Yehoiariv, Yakhin, 9:11and `Azaryah the son of Chilkiyah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Tzadok, the son of Merayot, the son of Achituv, the ruler of the house of God; 9:12and `Adayah the son of Yerocham, the son of Pashchur, the son of Malkiyah, and Ma`asai the son of `Adi'el, the son of Yachzerah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Meshillemit, the son of Immer; 9:13and their brothers, heads of their fathers' houses, one thousand seven hundred sixty; very able men for the work of the service of the house of God. 9:14Of the Levi'im: Shemayah the son of Chashuv, the son of `Azrikam, the son of Chashavyah, of the sons of Merari; 9:15and Bakbakkar, Cheresh, and Galal, and Mattanyah the son of Mikha, the son of Zikhri, the son of Asaf, 9:16and `Ovadyah the son of Shemayah, the son of Galal, the son of Yedutun, and Berekhyah the son of Asa, the son of Elkana, who lived in the villages of the Netofati. 9:17The porters: Shallum, and `Akkuv, and Talmon, and Achiman, and their brothers (Shallum was the chief), 9:18who hitherto waited in the king's gate eastward: they were the porters for the camp of the children of Levi. 9:19Shallum the son of Kore, the son of Avi'asaf, the son of Korach, and his brothers, of his father's house, the Korchi, were over the work of the service, keepers of the thresholds of the tent: and their fathers had been over the camp of the LORD, keepers of the entry. 9:20Pinechas the son of El`azar was ruler over them in time past, and the LORD was with him. 9:21Zekharyah the son of Meshelemyah was porter of the door of the tent of meeting. 9:22All these who were chosen to be porters in the thresholds were two hundred and twelve. These were reckoned by genealogy in their villages, whom David and Shemu'el the seer did ordain in their office of trust. 9:23So they and their children had the oversight of the gates of the house of the LORD, even the house of the tent, by wards. 9:24On the four sides were the porters, toward the east, west, north, and south. 9:25Their brothers, in their villages, were to come in every seven days from time to time to be with them: 9:26for the four chief porters, who were Levi'im, were in an office of trust, and were over the chambers and over the treasuries in the house of God. 9:27They lodged round about the house of God, because the charge of it was on them; and to them pertained the opening of it morning by morning. 9:28Certain of them had charge of the vessels of service; for by count were these brought in and by count were these taken out. 9:29Some of them also were appointed over the furniture, and over all the vessels of the sanctuary, and over the fine flour, and the wine, and the oil, and the frankincense, and the spices. 9:30Some of the sons of the kohanim prepared the confection of the spices. 9:31Matityah, one of the Levi'im, who was the firstborn of Shallum the Korchite, had the office of trust over the things that were baked in pans. 9:32Some of their brothers, of the sons of the Kehati, were over the show bread, to prepare it every Shabbat. 9:33These are the singers, heads of fathers' houses of the Levi'im, who lived in the chambers and were free from other service; for they were employed in their work day and night. 9:34These were heads of fathers' houses of the Levi'im, throughout their generations, chief men: these lived at Yerushalayim. 9:35In Giv`on there lived the father of Giv`on, Ye`i'el, whose wife's name was Ma`akhah: 9:36and his firstborn son `Avdon, and Tzur, and Kish, and Ba`al, and Ner, and Nadav, 9:37and Gedor, and Achyo, and Zekharyah, and Miklot. 9:38Miklot became the father of Shim'am. They also lived with their brothers in Yerushalayim, over against their brothers. 9:39Ner became the father of Kish; and Kish became the father of Sha'ul; and Sha'ul became the father of Yonatan, and Malki-Shua, and Avinadav, and Eshba`al. 9:40The son of Yonatan was Meriv-Ba`al; and Meriv-Ba`al became the father of Mikhah. 9:41The sons of Mikhah: Piton, and Melekh, and Tachre`a, and Achaz. 9:42Achaz became the father of Ya`rah; and Ya`rah became the father of `Alemet, and `Azmavet, and Zimri; and Zimri became the father of Motzah; 9:43and Motzah became the father of Bin`a; and Refayah his son, El`asah his son, Atzel his son. 9:44Atzel had six sons, whose names are these: `Azrikam, Bokhru, and Yishma'el, and She`aryah, and `Ovadyah, and Chanan: these were the sons of Atzel.
10:1Now the Pelishtim fought against Yisra'el: and the men of Yisra'el fled from before the Pelishtim, and fell down slain on Mount Gilboa. 10:2The Pelishtim followed hard after Sha'ul and after his sons; and the Pelishtim killed Yonatan, and Avinadav, and Malki-Shua, the sons of Sha'ul. 10:3The battle went sore against Sha'ul, and the archers overtook him; and he was distressed by reason of the archers. 10:4Then said Sha'ul to his armor-bearer, Draw your sword, and thrust me through therewith, lest these uncircumcised come and abuse me. But his armor-bearer would not; for he was sore afraid. Therefore Sha'ul took his sword, and fell on it. 10:5When his armor-bearer saw that Sha'ul was dead, he likewise fell on his sword, and died. 10:6So Sha'ul died, and his three sons; and all his house died together. 10:7When all the men of Yisra'el who were in the valley saw that they fled, and that Sha'ul and his sons were dead, they forsook their cities, and fled; and the Pelishtim came and lived in them. 10:8It happened on the next day, when the Pelishtim came to strip the slain, that they found Sha'ul and his sons fallen on Mount Gilboa. 10:9They stripped him, and took his head, and his armor, and sent into the land of the Pelishtim round about, to carry the news to their idols, and to the people. 10:10They put his armor in the house of their gods, and fastened his head in the house of Dagon. 10:11When all Yavesh-Gil`ad heard all that the Pelishtim had done to Sha'ul, 10:12all the valiant men arose, and took away the body of Sha'ul, and the bodies of his sons, and brought them to Yavesh, and buried their bones under the oak in Yavesh, and fasted seven days. 10:13So Sha'ul died for his trespass which he committed against the LORD, because of the word of the LORD, which he didn't keep; and also because he asked counsel of one who had a familiar spirit, to inquire thereby, 10:14and didn't inquire of the LORD: therefore he killed him, and turned the kingdom to David the son of Yishai.
11:1Then all Yisra'el gathered themselves to David to Chevron, saying, Behold, we are your bone and your flesh. 11:2In times past, even when Sha'ul was king, it was you who led out and brought in Yisra'el: and the LORD your God said to you, You shall be shepherd of my people Yisra'el, and you shall be prince over my people Yisra'el. 11:3So all the elders of Yisra'el came to the king to Chevron; and David made a covenant with them in Chevron before the LORD; and they anointed David king over Yisra'el, according to the word of the LORD by Shemu'el. 11:4David and all Yisra'el went to Yerushalayim (the same is Yevus); and the Yevusi, the inhabitants of the land, were there. 11:5The inhabitants of Yevus said to David, You shall not come in here. Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Tziyon; the same is the city of David. 11:6David said, Whoever strikes the Yevusi first shall be chief and captain. Yo'av the son of Tzeru'yah went up first, and was made chief. 11:7David lived in the stronghold; therefore they called it the city of David. 11:8He built the city round about, from Millo even round about; and Yo'av repaired the rest of the city. 11:9David grew greater and greater; for the LORD of Hosts was with him. 11:10Now these are the chief of the mighty men whom David had, who shown themselves strong with him in his kingdom, together with all Yisra'el, to make him king, according to the word of the LORD concerning Yisra'el. 11:11This is the number of the mighty men whom David had: Yashov`am, the son of a Chakhmoni, the chief of the thirty; he lifted up his spear against three hundred and killed them at one time. 11:12After him was El`azar the son of Dodo, the Achochi, who was one of the three mighty men. 11:13He was with David at Pas-Dammim, and there the Pelishtim were gathered together to battle, where was a plot of ground full of barley; and the people fled from before the Pelishtim. 11:14They stood in the midst of the plot, and defended it, and killed the Pelishtim; and the LORD saved them by a great victory. 11:15Three of the thirty chief men went down to the rock to David, into the cave of `Adullam; and the host of the Pelishtim were encamped in the valley of Refa'im. 11:16David was then in the stronghold, and the garrison of the Pelishtim was then in Beit-Lechem. 11:17David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me water to drink of the well of Beit-Lechem, which is by the gate! 11:18The three broke through the host of the Pelishtim, and drew water out of the well of Beit-Lechem, that was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David: but David would not drink of it, but poured it out to the LORD, 11:19and said, My God forbid it me, that I should do this: shall I drink the blood of these men who have put their lives in jeopardy? for with the jeopardy of their lives they brought it. Therefore he would not drink it. These things did the three mighty men. 11:20Avishai, the brother of Yo'av, he was chief of the three; for he lifted up his spear against three hundred and killed them, and had a name among the three. 11:21Of the three, he was more honorable than the two, and was made their captain: however he didn't attain to the first three. 11:22Benayah the son of Yehoyada, the son of a valiant man of Kavtz'el, who had done mighty deeds, he killed the two sons of Ari'el of Mo'av: he went down also and killed a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow. 11:23He killed a Mitzrian, a man of great stature, five cubits high; and in the Egyptian's hand was a spear like a weaver's beam; and he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and killed him with his own spear. 11:24These things did Benayah the son of Yehoyada, and had a name among the three mighty men. 11:25Behold, he was more honorable than the thirty, but he didn't attain to the first three: and David set him over his guard. 11:26Also the mighty men of the armies: `Asa'el the brother of Yo'av, Elchanan the son of Dodo of Beit-Lechem, 11:27Shammot the Harorite, Cheletz the Pelonite, 11:28`Ira the son of `Ikkesh the Tekoite, Avi-Ezer the `Antotite, 11:29Sibbekhai the Chushatite, Ilai the Achochi, 11:30Maharai the Netofatite, Cheled the son of Ba`anah the Netofatite, 11:31Itai the son of Rivai of Gevah of the children of Binyamin, Benayah the Pir`atonite, 11:32Churai of the brooks of Ga`ash, Aviel the `Arvati, 11:33`Azmavet the Baharumite, Elyachba the Sha`alvonite, 11:34the sons of Hashem the Gizonite, Yonatan the son of Shagee the Harari, 11:35Achi'am the son of Sacar the Harari, Eliphal the son of Ur, 11:36Chefer the Mekheratite, Achiyah the Pelonite, 11:37Chetzro the Karmelite, Na`arai the son of Ezbai, 11:38Yo'el the brother of Natan, Mivchar the son of Hagri, 11:39Tzelek the `Ammonite, Naharai the Berothite, the armor bearer of Yo'av the son of Tzeru'yah, 11:40`Ira the Yitri, Garev the Yitri, 11:41Uriyah the Chittite, Zavad the son of Achlai, 11:42`Adina the son of Shiza the Reubenite, a chief of the Re'uveni, and thirty with him, 11:43Chanan the son of Ma`akhah, and Yoshafat the Mitni, 11:44Uzzia the `Ashterati, Shama and Ye`i'el the sons of Chotam the `Aro`eri, 11:45Yedi`a'el the son of Shimri, and Yocha his brother, the Titzi, 11:46Eli'el the Machavim, and Yerivai, and Yoshavyah, the sons of Elnaam, and Yitmah the Mo'avite, 11:47Eli'el, and `Oved, and Ya`asi'el the Mezobaite.
12:1Now these are those who came to David to Tziklag, while he yet kept himself close because of Sha'ul the son of Kish; and they were among the mighty men, his helpers in war. 12:2They were armed with bows, and could use both the right hand and the left in slinging stones and in shooting arrows from the bow: they were of Sha'ul's brothers of Binyamin. 12:3The chief was Achi`ezer; then Yo'ash, the sons of Shema`ah the Giv`atite, and Yezi'el, and Pelet, the sons of `Azmavet, and Berakha, and Yehu the `Antotite, 12:4and Yishma`yahu the Giv`oni, a mighty man among the thirty, and over the thirty, and Yirmeyahu, and Yachazi'el, and Yochanan, and Yozavad the Gederatite, 12:5Eluzai, and Yerimot, and Bealiah, and Shemaryahu, and Shefatyah the Charufite, 12:6Elkana, and Yishiyah, and `Azar'el, and Yoezer, and Yashov`am, the Korchi, 12:7and Yo`elah, and Zevadyah, the sons of Yerocham of Gedor. 12:8Of the Gadi there separated themselves to David to the stronghold in the wilderness, mighty men of valor, men trained for war, that could handle shield and spear; whose faces were like the faces of lions, and they were as swift as the roes on the mountains; 12:9Etzer the chief, `Ovadyah the second, Eli'av the third, 12:10Mishmannah the fourth, Yirmeyahu the fifth, 12:11`Attai the sixth, Eli'el the seventh, 12:12Yochanan the eighth, Elzavad the ninth, 12:13Yirmeyahu the tenth, Makhbannai the eleventh. 12:14These of the sons of Gad were captains of the host: he who was least was equal to one hundred, and the greatest to one thousand. 12:15These are those who went over the Yarden in the first month, when it had overflowed all its banks; and they put to flight all them of the valleys, both toward the east, and toward the west. 12:16There came of the children of Binyamin and Yehudah to the stronghold to David. 12:17David went out to meet them, and answered them, If you be come peaceably to me to help me, my heart shall be knit to you; but if you be come to betray me to my adversaries, seeing there is no wrong in my hands, the God of our fathers look thereon, and rebuke it. 12:18Then the Spirit came on `Amasai, who was chief of the thirty, and he said, "We are yours, David, and on your side, you son of Yishai: shalom, shalom be to you, and shalom be to your helpers; for your God helps you." Then David received them, and made them captains of the band. 12:19Of Menasheh also there fell away some to David, when he came with the Pelishtim against Sha'ul to battle: but they didn't help them; for the lords of the Pelishtim sent him away after consultation, saying, He will fall away to his master Sha'ul to the jeopardy of our heads. 12:20As he went to Tziklag, there fell to him of Menasheh, `Adnach, and Yozavad, and Yedi`a'el, and Mikha'el, and Yozavad, and Elihu, and Tzilletai, captains of thousands who were of Menasheh. 12:21They helped David against the band of rovers: for they were all mighty men of valor, and were captains in the host. 12:22For from day to day men came to David to help him, until there was a great host, like the host of God. 12:23These are the numbers of the heads of those who were armed for war, who came to David to Chevron, to turn the kingdom of Sha'ul to him, according to the word of the LORD. 12:24The children of Yehudah who bore shield and spear were six thousand and eight hundred, armed for war. 12:25Of the children of Shim`on, mighty men of valor for the war, seven thousand and one hundred. 12:26Of the children of Levi four thousand and six hundred. 12:27Yehoyada was the leader of the house of Aharon; and with him were three thousand and seven hundred, 12:28and Tzadok, a young man mighty of valor, and of his father's house twenty-two captains. 12:29Of the children of Binyamin, the brothers of Sha'ul, three thousand: for hitherto the greatest part of them had kept their allegiance to the house of Sha'ul. 12:30Of the children of Efrayim twenty thousand eight hundred, mighty men of valor, famous men in their fathers' houses. 12:31Of the half-tribe of Menasheh eighteen thousand, who were mentioned by name, to come and make David king. 12:32Of the children of Yissakhar, men who had understanding of the times, to know what Yisra'el ought to do, the heads of them were two hundred; and all their brothers were at their mitzvah. 12:33Of Zevulun, such as were able to go out in the host, who could set the battle in array, with all manner of instruments of war, fifty thousand, and who could order the battle array, and were not of double heart. 12:34Of Naftali one thousand captains, and with them with shield and spear thirty-seven thousand. 12:35Of the Dani who could set the battle in array, twenty-eight thousand six hundred. 12:36Of Asher, such as were able to go out in the host, who could set the battle in array, forty thousand. 12:37On the other side of the Yarden, of the Re'uveni, and the Gadi, and of the half-tribe of Menasheh, with all manner of instruments of war for the battle, one hundred twenty thousand. 12:38All these being men of war, who could order the battle array, came with a perfect heart to Chevron, to make David king over all Yisra'el: and all the rest also of Yisra'el were of one heart to make David king. 12:39They were there with David three days, eating and drinking; for their brothers had made preparation for them. 12:40Moreover those who were near to them, even as far as Yissakhar and Zevulun and Naftali, brought bread on donkeys, and on camels, and on mules, and on oxen, food of meal, cakes of figs, and clusters of raisins, and wine, and oil, and oxen, and sheep in abundance: for there was joy in Yisra'el.
13:1David consulted with the captains of thousands and of hundreds, even with every leader. 13:2David said to all the assembly of Yisra'el, If it seem good to you, and if it be of the LORD our God, let us send abroad everywhere to our brothers who are left in all Eretz-Yisra'el, with whom the kohanim and Levi'im are in their cities that have suburbs, that they may gather themselves to us; 13:3and let us bring again the ark of our God to us: for we didn't seek it in the days of Sha'ul. 13:4All the assembly said that they would do so; for the thing was right in the eyes of all the people. 13:5So David assembled all Yisra'el together, from the Shichor the brook of Egypt even to the entrance of Chamat, to bring the ark of God from Kiryat-Ye`arim. 13:6David went up, and all Yisra'el, to Ba`alah, that is, to Kiryat-Ye`arim, which belonged to Yehudah, to bring up from there the ark of God the LORD that sits above the Keruvim, that is called by the Name. 13:7They carried the ark of God on a new cart, and brought it out of the house of Avinadav: and Uzza and Achyo drove the cart. 13:8David and all Yisra'el played before God with all their might, even with songs, and with harps, and with psalteries, and with timbrels, and with cymbals, and with trumpets. 13:9When they came to the threshing floor of Chidon, Uzza put forth his hand to hold the ark; for the oxen stumbled. 13:10The anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzza, and he struck him, because he put forth his hand to the ark; and there he died before God. 13:11David was displeased, because the LORD had broken forth on Uzza; and he called that place Peretz-Uzzah, to this day. 13:12David was afraid of God that day, saying, How shall I bring the ark of God home to me? 13:13So David didn't move the ark to him into the city of David, but carried it aside into the house of Obed-edom the Gittite. 13:14The ark of God remained with the family of Obed-edom in his house three months: and the LORD blessed the house of Obed-edom, and all that he had.
14:1Chiram king of Tzor sent messengers to David, and cedar trees, and masons, and carpenters, to build him a house. 14:2David perceived that the LORD had established him king over Yisra'el; for his kingdom was exalted on high, for his people Yisra'el's sake. 14:3David took more wives at Yerushalayim; and David became the father of more sons and daughters. 14:4These are the names of the children whom he had in Yerushalayim: Shammua, and Shovav, Natan, and Shlomo, 14:5and Yivchar, and Elishua, and Elpelet, 14:6and Nogah, and Nefeg, and Yafia, 14:7and Elishama, and Be`elyada, and Elifelet. 14:8When the Pelishtim heard that David was anointed king over all Yisra'el, all the Pelishtim went up to seek David: and David heard of it, and went out against them. 14:9Now the Pelishtim had come and made a raid in the valley of Refa'im. 14:10David inquired of God, saying, Shall I go up against the Pelishtim? and will you deliver them into my hand? the LORD said to him, Go up; for I will deliver them into your hand. 14:11So they came up to Ba`al-Peratzim, and David struck them there; and David said, God has broken my enemies by my hand, like the breach of waters. Therefore they called the name of that place Ba`al-Peratzim. 14:12They left their gods there; and David gave mitzvah, and they were burned with fire. 14:13The Pelishtim yet again made a raid in the valley. 14:14David inquired again of God; and God said to him, You shall not go up after them: turn away from them, and come on them over against the mulberry trees. 14:15It shall be, when you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the mulberry trees, that then you shall go out to battle; for God is gone out before you to strike the host of the Pelishtim. 14:16David did as God commanded him: and they struck the host of the Pelishtim from Giv`on even to Gezer. 14:17The fame of David went out into all lands; and the LORD brought the fear of him on all nations.
15:1David made him houses in the city of David; and he prepared a place for the ark of God, and pitched for it a tent. 15:2Then David said, None ought to carry the ark of God but the Levi'im: for them has the LORD chosen to carry the ark of God, and to minister to him forever. 15:3David assembled all Yisra'el at Yerushalayim, to bring up the ark of the LORD to its place, which he had prepared for it. 15:4David gathered together the sons of Aharon, and the Levi'im: 15:5of the sons of Kehat, Uri'el the chief, and his brothers one hundred twenty; 15:6of the sons of Merari, `Asayah the chief, and his brothers two hundred twenty; 15:7of the sons of Gershom, Yo'el the chief, and his brothers one hundred thirty; 15:8of the sons of Elitzafan, Shemayah the chief, and his brothers two hundred; 15:9of the sons of Chevron, Eli'el the chief, and his brothers eighty; 15:10of the sons of `Uzzi'el, `Amminadav the chief, and his brothers one hundred twelve. 15:11David called for Tzadok and Avyatar the kohanim, and for the Levi'im, for Uri'el, `Asayah, and Yo'el, Shemayah, and Eli'el, and `Amminadav, 15:12and said to them, You are the heads of the fathers' houses of the Levi'im: sanctify yourselves, both you and your brothers, that you may bring up the ark of the LORD, the God of Yisra'el, to the place that I have prepared for it. 15:13For because you didn't carry it at the first, the LORD our God made a breach on us, because we didn't seek him according to the ordinance. 15:14So the kohanim and the Levi'im sanctified themselves to bring up the ark of the LORD, the God of Yisra'el. 15:15The children of the Levi'im bore the ark of God on their shoulders with the poles thereon, as Moshe commanded according to the word of the LORD. 15:16David spoke to the chief of the Levi'im to appoint their brothers the singers, with instruments of music, psalteries and harps and cymbals, sounding aloud and lifting up the voice with joy. 15:17So the Levi'im appointed Heman the son of Yo'el; and of his brothers, Asaf the son of Berekhyah; and of the sons of Merari their brothers, Etan the son of Kushayahu; 15:18and with them their brothers of the second degree, Zekharyah, Ben, and Jaaziel, and Shemiramot, and Yechi'el, and Unni, Eli'av, and Benayah, and Ma`aseyah, and Matityah, and Eliflehu, and Mikneyahu, and Obed-edom, and Ye`i'el, the doorkeepers. 15:19So the singers, Heman, Asaf, and Etan, were appointed with cymbals of brass to sound aloud; 15:20and Zekharyah, and Aziel, and Shemiramot, and Yechi'el, and Unni, and Eli'av, and Ma`aseyah, and Benayah, with psalteries set to `Alamot; 15:21and Matityah, and Eliflehu, and Mikneyahu, and Obed-edom, and Ye`i'el, and `Azazyahu, with harps tuned to the sheminit, to lead. 15:22Kananyah, chief of the Levi'im, was over the song: he instructed about the song, because he was skillful. 15:23Berekhyah and Elkana were doorkeepers for the ark. 15:24Shevanyah, and Yoshafat, and Netan'el, and `Amasai, and Zekharyah, and Benayah, and Eli`ezer, the kohanim, did blow the trumpets before the ark of God: and Obed-edom and Yechiyah were doorkeepers for the ark. 15:25So David, and the elders of Yisra'el, and the captains over thousands, went to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the house of Obed-edom with joy. 15:26It happened, when God helped the Levi'im who bore the ark of the covenant of the LORD, that they sacrificed seven bulls and seven rams. 15:27David was clothed with a robe of fine linen, and all the Levi'im who bore the ark, and the singers, and Kananyah the master of the song with the singers: and David had on him an efod of linen. 15:28Thus all Yisra'el brought up the ark of the covenant of the LORD with shouting, and with sound of the cornet, and with trumpets, and with cymbals, sounding aloud with psalteries and harps. 15:29It happened, as the ark of the covenant of the LORD came to the city of David, that Mikhal the daughter of Sha'ul looked out at the window, and saw king David dancing and playing; and she despised him in her heart.
16:1They brought in the ark of God, and set it in the midst of the tent that David had pitched for it: and they offered burnt offerings and peace-offerings before God. 16:2When David had made an end of offering the burnt offering and the peace-offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the LORD. 16:3He dealt to everyone of Yisra'el, both man and woman, to every one a loaf of bread, and a portion of flesh, and a cake of raisins. 16:4He appointed certain of the Levi'im to minister before the ark of the LORD, and to celebrate and to thank and praise the LORD, the God of Yisra'el: 16:5Asaf the chief, and second to him Zekharyah, Ye`i'el, and Shemiramot, and Yechi'el, and Matityah, and Eli'av, and Benayah, and Obed-edom, and Ye`i'el, with psalteries and with harps; and Asaf with cymbals, sounding aloud; 16:6and Benayah and Yachazi'el the kohanim with trumpets continually, before the ark of the covenant of God.
16:7Then on that day David first ordained to give thanks to the LORD, by the hand of Asaf and his brothers.
16:8Oh give thanks to the LORD, call on his name;
Make known his doings among the peoples.
16:9Sing to him, sing praises to him;
Talk you of all his marvelous works.
16:10Glory you in his holy name;
Let the heart of them rejoice who seek the LORD.
16:11Seek you the LORD and his strength;
Seek his face forever more.
16:12Remember his marvelous works that he has done,
His wonders, and the judgments of his mouth,
16:13You seed of Yisra'el his servant,
You children of Ya`akov, his chosen ones.
16:14He is the LORD our God;
His judgments are in all the earth.
16:15Remember his covenant forever,
The word which he commanded to a thousand generations,
16:16The covenant which he made with Avraham,
His oath to Yitzchak,
16:17Confirmed the same to Ya`akov for a statute,
To Yisra'el for an everlasting covenant,
16:18Saying, To you will I give the land of Kana`an,
The lot of your inheritance;
16:19When you were but a few men in number,
Yes, very few, and foreigners in it;
16:20They went about from nation to nation,
From one kingdom to another people.
16:21He allowed no man to do them wrong;
Yes, he reproved kings for their sakes,
16:22Saying, Don't touch my anointed ones,
Do my prophets no harm.
16:23Sing to the LORD, all the earth;
Show forth his salvation from day to day.
16:24Declare his glory among the nations,
His marvelous works among all the peoples.
16:25For great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised:
He also is to be feared above all gods.
16:26For all the gods of the peoples are idols:
But the LORD made the heavens.
16:27Honor and majesty are before him:
Strength and gladness are in his place.
16:28Ascribe to the LORD, you relatives of the peoples,
Ascribe to the LORD glory and strength;
16:29Ascribe to the LORD the glory due to his name:
Bring an offering, and come before him:
Worship the LORD in holy array.
16:30Tremble before him, all the earth:
The world also is established that it can't be moved.
16:31Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice;
Let them say among the nations, the LORD reigns.
16:32Let the sea roar, and the fullness of it;
Let the field exult, and all that is therein;
16:33Then shall the trees of the wood sing for joy before the LORD;
For he comes to judge the earth.
16:34Oh give thanks to the LORD; for he is good;
For his loving kindness endures forever.
16:35Say you, Save us, God of our salvation,
Gather us together and deliver us from the nations,
To give thanks to your holy name,
To triumph in your praise.
16:36Blessed be the LORD, the God of Yisra'el,
From everlasting even to everlasting.
All the people said, Amein, and praised the LORD.
16:37So he left there, before the ark of the covenant of the LORD, Asaf and his brothers, to minister before the ark continually, as every day's work required; 16:38and Obed-edom with their brothers, sixty-eight; Obed-edom also the son of Yedutun and Chosah to be doorkeepers; 16:39and Tzadok the kohen, and his brothers the kohanim, before the tent of the LORD in the high place that was at Giv`on, 16:40to offer burnt offerings to the LORD on the altar of burnt offering continually morning and evening, even according to all that is written in the Torah of the LORD, which he commanded to Yisra'el; 16:41and with them Heman and Yedutun, and the rest who were chosen, who were mentioned by name, to give thanks to the LORD, because his loving kindness endures forever; 16:42and with them Heman and Yedutun with trumpets and cymbals for those that should sound aloud, and with instruments for the songs of God; and the sons of Yedutun to be at the gate. 16:43All the people departed every man to his house: and David returned to bless his house.
17:1It happened, when David lived in his house, that David said to Natan the prophet, Behold, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of the covenant of the LORD dwells under curtains. 17:2Natan said to David, Do all that is in your heart; for God is with you. 17:3It happened the same night, that the word of God came to Natan, saying, 17:4Go and tell David my servant, Thus says the LORD, You shall not build me a house to dwell in: 17:5for I have not lived in a house since the day that I brought up Yisra'el, to this day, but have gone from tent to tent, and from one tent to another. 17:6In all places in which I have walked with all Yisra'el, spoke I a word with any of the judges of Yisra'el, whom I commanded to be shepherd of my people, saying, Why have you not built me a house of cedar? 17:7Now therefore thus shall you tell my servant David, Thus says the LORD of Hosts, I took you from the sheep pen, from following the sheep, that you should be prince over my people Yisra'el: 17:8and I have been with you wherever you have gone, and have cut off all your enemies from before you; and I will make you a name, like the name of the great ones who are in the earth. 17:9I will appoint a place for my people Yisra'el, and will plant them, that they may dwell in their own place, and be moved no more; neither shall the children of wickedness waste them any more, as at the first, 17:10and as from the day that I commanded judges to be over my people Yisra'el; and I will subdue all your enemies. Moreover I tell you that the LORD will build you a house. 17:11It shall happen, when your days are fulfilled that you must go to be with your fathers, that I will set up your seed after you, who shall be of your sons; and I will establish his kingdom. 17:12He shall build me a house, and I will establish his throne forever. 17:13I will be his father, and he shall be my son: and I will not take my loving kindness away from him, as I took it from him that was before you; 17:14but I will settle him in my house and in my kingdom forever; and his throne shall be established forever. 17:15According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so did Natan speak to David. 17:16Then David the king went in, and sat before the LORD; and he said, Who am I, LORD God, and what is my house, that you have brought me thus far? 17:17This was a small thing in your eyes, God; but you have spoken of your servant's house for a great while to come, and have regarded me according to the estate of a man of high degree, LORD God. 17:18What can David say yet more to you concerning the honor which is done to your servant? for you know your servant. 17:19LORD, for your servant's sake, and according to your own heart, have you worked all this greatness, to make known all these great things. 17:20LORD, there is none like you, neither is there any God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears. 17:21What one nation in the earth is like your people Yisra'el, whom God went to redeem to himself for a people, to make you a name by great and awesome things, in driving out nations from before your people, whom you redeem out of Egypt? 17:22For your people Yisra'el did you make your own people forever; and you, LORD, became their God. 17:23Now, LORD, let the word that you have spoken concerning your servant, and concerning his house, be established forever, and do as you have spoken. 17:24Let your name be established and magnified forever, saying, the LORD of Hosts is the God of Yisra'el, even a God to Yisra'el: and the house of David your servant is established before you. 17:25For you, my God, have revealed to your servant that you will build him a house: therefore has your servant found in his heart to pray before you. 17:26Now, LORD, you are God, and have promised this good thing to your servant: 17:27and now it has pleased you to bless the house of your servant, that it may continue forever before you: for you, LORD, have blessed, and it is blessed forever.
18:1After this it happened, that David struck the Pelishtim, and subdued them, and took Gat and its towns out of the hand of the Pelishtim. 18:2He struck Mo'av; and the Mo`avim became servants to David, and brought tribute. 18:3David struck Hadad`ezer king of Tzovah to Chamat, as he went to establish his dominion by the river Perat. 18:4David took from him one thousand chariots, and seven thousand horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen; and David hamstrung all the chariot horses, but reserved of them for one hundred chariots. 18:5When the Aram of Dammesek came to help Hadad`ezer king of Tzovah, David struck of the Aram twenty-two thousand men. 18:6Then David put garrisons in Aram of Dammesek; and the Aram became servants to David, and brought tribute. The LORD gave victory to David wherever he went. 18:7David took the shields of gold that were on the servants of Hadad`ezer, and brought them to Yerushalayim. 18:8From Tivchat and from Cun, cities of Hadad`ezer, David took very much brass, with which Shlomo made the brazen sea, and the pillars, and the vessels of brass. 18:9When To`u king of Chamat heard that David had struck all the host of Hadad`ezer king of Tzovah, 18:10he sent Hadoram his son to king David, to Greet him, and to bless him, because he had fought against Hadad`ezer and struck him; (for Hadad`ezer had wars with To`u;) and he had with him all manner of vessels of gold and silver and brass. 18:11These also did king David dedicate to the LORD, with the silver and the gold that he carried away from all the nations; from Edom, and from Mo'av, and from the children of `Ammon, and from the Pelishtim, and from `Amalek. 18:12Moreover Avishai the son of Tzeru'yah struck of the Edom in the Valley of Salt eighteen thousand. 18:13He put garrisons in Edom; and all the Edom became servants to David. The LORD gave victory to David wherever he went. 18:14David reigned over all Yisra'el; and he executed justice and righteousness to all his people. 18:15Yo'av the son of Tzeru'yah was over the host; and Yehoshafat the son of Achilud was recorder; 18:16and Tzadok the son of Achituv, and Avimelekh the son of Avyatar, were kohanim; and Shavsha was Torah-teacher; 18:17and Benayah the son of Yehoyada was over the Kereti and the Peleti; and the sons of David were chief about the king.
19:1It happened after this, that Nachash the king of the children of `Ammon died, and his son reigned in his place. 19:2David said, I will show kindness to Chanun the son of Nachash, because his father shown kindness to me. So David sent messengers to comfort him concerning his father. David's servants came into the land of the children of `Ammon to Chanun, to comfort him. 19:3But the princes of the children of `Ammon said to Chanun, Think you that David does honor your father, in that he has sent comforters to you? Aren't his servants come to you to search, and to overthrow, and to spy out the land? 19:4So Chanun took David's servants, and shaved them, and cut off their garments in the middle, even to their buttocks, and sent them away. 19:5Then there went certain persons, and told David how the men were served. He sent to meet them; for the men were greatly ashamed. The king said, Stay at Yericho until your beards be grown, and then return. 19:6When the children of `Ammon saw that they had made themselves odious to David, Chanun and the children of `Ammon sent one thousand talents of silver to hire them chariots and horsemen out of Aram-Naharayim, and out of Arammaacah, and out of Tzovah. 19:7So they hired them thirty-two thousand chariots, and the king of Ma`akhah and his people, who came and encamped before Medeva. The children of `Ammon gathered themselves together from their cities, and came to battle. 19:8When David heard of it, he sent Yo'av, and all the host of the mighty men. 19:9The children of `Ammon came out, and put the battle in array at the gate of the city: and the kings who had come were by themselves in the field. 19:10Now when Yo'av saw that the battle was set against him before and behind, he chose of all the choice men of Yisra'el, and put them in array against the Aram. 19:11The rest of the people he committed into the hand of Avishai his brother; and they put themselves in array against the children of `Ammon. 19:12He said, If the Aram be too strong for me, then you shall help me; but if the children of `Ammon be too strong for you, then I will help you. 19:13Be of good courage, and let us play the man for our people, and for the cities of our God: and the LORD do that which seems him good. 19:14So Yo'av and the people who were with him drew near before the Aram to the battle; and they fled before him. 19:15When the children of `Ammon saw that the Aram were fled, they likewise fled before Avishai his brother, and entered into the city. Then Yo'av came to Yerushalayim. 19:16When the Aram saw that they were put to the worse before Yisra'el, they sent messengers, and drew forth the Aram who were beyond the River, with Shophach the captain of the host of Hadad`ezer at their head. 19:17It was told David; and he gathered all Yisra'el together, and passed over the Yarden, and came on them, and set the battle in array against them. So when David had put the battle in array against the Aram, they fought with him. 19:18The Aram fled before Yisra'el; and David killed of the Aram the men of seven thousand chariots, and forty thousand footmen, and killed Shophach the captain of the host. 19:19When the servants of Hadad`ezer saw that they were put to the worse before Yisra'el, they made shalom with David, and served him: neither would the Aram help the children of `Ammon any more.
20:1It happened, at the time of the return of the year, at the time when kings go out to battle, that Yo'av led forth the army, and wasted the country of the children of `Ammon, and came and besieged Rabbah. But David stayed at Yerushalayim. Yo'av struck Rabbah, and overthrew it. 20:2David took the crown of their king from off his head, and found it to weigh a talent of gold, and there were precious stones in it; and it was set on David's head: and he brought forth the spoil of the city, exceeding much. 20:3He brought forth the people who were therein, and cut them with saws, and with harrows of iron, and with axes. Thus did David to all the cities of the children of `Ammon. David and all the people returned to Yerushalayim. 20:4It happened after this, that there arose war at Gezer with the Pelishtim: then Sibbekhai the Chushatite killed Sippai, of the sons of the Rafa; and they were subdued. 20:5There was again war with the Pelishtim; and Elchanan the son of Ya'ir killed Lachmi the brother of Golyat the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver's beam. 20:6There was again war at Gat, where was a man of great stature, whose fingers and toes were twenty-four, six on each hand, and six on each foot; and he also was born to the Rafa. 20:7When he defied Yisra'el, Yonatan the son of Shim`a David's brother killed him. 20:8These were born to the Rafa in Gat; and they fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.
21:1Hasatan stood up against Yisra'el, and moved David to number Yisra'el. 21:2David said to Yo'av and to the princes of the people, Go, number Yisra'el from Be'er-Sheva even to Dan; and bring me word, that I may know the sum of them. 21:3Yo'av said, the LORD make his people a hundred times as many as they are: but, my lord the king, aren't they all my lord's servants? why does my lord require this thing? why will he be a cause of guilt to Yisra'el? 21:4Nevertheless the king's word prevailed against Yo'av. Therefore Yo'av departed, and went throughout all Yisra'el, and came to Yerushalayim. 21:5Yo'av gave up the sum of the numbering of the people to David. All those of Yisra'el were one million one hundred thousand men who drew sword: and in Yehudah were four hundred seventy thousand men who drew sword. 21:6But he didn't count Levi and Binyamin among them; for the king's word was abominable to Yo'av. 21:7God was displeased with this thing; therefore he struck Yisra'el. 21:8David said to God, I have sinned greatly, in that I have done this thing: but now, put away, I beg you, the iniquity of your servant; for I have done very foolishly. 21:9The LORD spoke to Gad, David's seer, saying, 21:10Go and speak to David, saying, Thus says the LORD, I offer you three things: choose you one of them, that I may do it to you. 21:11So Gad came to David, and said to him, Thus says the LORD, Take which you will: 21:12either three years of famine; or three months to be consumed before your foes, while the sword of your enemies overtakes you; or else three days the sword of the LORD, even pestilence in the land, and the angel of the LORD destroying throughout all the borders of Yisra'el. Now therefore consider what answer I shall return to him who sent me. 21:13David said to Gad, I am in a great strait: let me fall, I pray, into the hand of the LORD; for very great are his mercies: and let me not fall into the hand of man. 21:14So the LORD sent a pestilence on Yisra'el; and there fell of Yisra'el seventy thousand men. 21:15God sent an angel to Yerushalayim to destroy it: and as he was about to destroy, the LORD saw, and he repented him of the evil, and said to the destroying angel, It is enough; now stay your hand. The angel of the LORD was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Yevusi. 21:16David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of the LORD standing between earth and the sky, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Yerushalayim. Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell on their faces. 21:17David said to God, Isn't it I who commanded the people to be numbered? It is even I who have sinned and done very wickedly; but these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand, O LORD my God, be against me, and against my father's house; but not against your people, that they should be plagued. 21:18Then the angel of the LORD commanded Gad to tell David, that David should go up, and raise an altar to the LORD in the threshing floor of Ornan the Yevusi. 21:19David went up at the saying of Gad, which he spoke in the name of the LORD. 21:20Ornan turned back, and saw the angel; and his four sons who were with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat. 21:21As David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David, and went out of the threshing floor, and bowed himself to David with his face to the ground. 21:22Then David said to Ornan, Give me the place of this threshing floor, that I may build thereon an altar to the LORD: for the full price shall you give it me, that the plague may be stayed from the people. 21:23Ornan said to David, Take it to you, and let my lord the king do that which is good in his eyes: behold, I give you the oxen for burnt offerings, and the threshing instruments for wood, and the wheat for the meal-offering; I give it all. 21:24King David said to Ornan, No; but I will most assuredly buy it for the full price: for I will not take that which is your for the LORD, nor offer a burnt-offering without cost. 21:25So David gave to Ornan for the place six hundred shekels of gold by weight. 21:26David built there an altar to the LORD, and offered burnt offerings and peace-offerings, and called on the LORD; and he answered him from the sky by fire on the altar of burnt offering. 21:27The LORD commanded the angel; and he put up his sword again into the sheath of it. 21:28At that time, when David saw that the LORD had answered him in the threshing floor of Ornan the Yevusi, then he sacrificed there. 21:29For the tent of the LORD, which Moshe made in the wilderness, and the altar of burnt offering, were at that time in the high place at Giv`on. 21:30But David couldn't go before it to inquire of God; for he was afraid because of the sword of the angel of the LORD.
22:1Then David said, This is the house of the LORD God, and this is the altar of burnt-offering for Yisra'el. 22:2David commanded to gather together the foreigners who were in Eretz-Yisra'el; and he set masons to hew worked stones to build the house of God. 22:3David prepared iron in abundance for the nails for the doors of the gates, and for the couplings; and brass in abundance without weight; 22:4and cedar trees without number: for the Tzidonim and they of Tzor brought cedar trees in abundance to David. 22:5David said, Shlomo my son is young and tender, and the house that is to be built for the LORD must be exceedingly magnificent, of fame and of glory throughout all countries: I will therefore make preparation for it. So David prepared abundantly before his death. 22:6Then he called for Shlomo his son, and charged him to build a house for the LORD, the God of Yisra'el. 22:7David said to Shlomo his son, As for me, it was in my heart to build a house to the name of the LORD my God. 22:8But the word of the LORD came to me, saying, You have shed blood abundantly, and have made great wars: you shall not build a house to my name, because you have shed much blood on the earth in my sight. 22:9Behold, a son shall be born to you, who shall be a man of rest; and I will give him rest from all his enemies round about; for his name shall be Shlomo, and I will give shalom and quietness to Yisra'el in his days: 22:10he shall build a house for my name; and he shall be my son, and I will be his father; and I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Yisra'el for ever. 22:11Now, my son, the LORD be with you; and prosper you, and build the house of the LORD your God, as he has spoken concerning you. 22:12May the LORD give you discretion and understanding, and put you in charge of Yisra'el; that so you may keep the law of the LORD your God. 22:13Then shall you prosper, if you observe to do the statutes and the ordinances which the LORD gave Moshe concerning Yisra'el. Be strong, and of good courage. Don't be afraid, neither be dismayed. 22:14Now, behold, in my affliction I have prepared for the house of the LORD one hundred thousand talents of gold, and one thousand thousand talents of silver, and of brass and iron without weight; for it is in abundance: timber also and stone have I prepared; and you may add to them. 22:15There are also workmen with you in abundance, cutters and workers of stone and timber, and all kinds of men who are skillful in every kind of work: 22:16of the gold, the silver, and the brass, and the iron, there is no number. Arise and be doing, and the LORD be with you. 22:17David also commanded all the princes of Yisra'el to help Shlomo his son, saying, 22:18Isn't the LORD your God with you? Hasn't he given you rest on every side? for he has delivered the inhabitants of the land into my hand; and the land is subdued before the LORD, and before his people. 22:19Now set your heart and your soul to seek after the LORD your God; arise therefore, and build the sanctuary of the LORD God, to bring the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and the holy vessels of God, into the house that is to be built to the name of the LORD.
23:1Now David was old and full of days; and he made Shlomo his son king over Yisra'el. 23:2He gathered together all the princes of Yisra'el, with the kohanim and the Levi'im. 23:3The Levi'im were numbered from thirty years old and upward: and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty-eight thousand. 23:4Of these, twenty-four thousand were to oversee the work of the house of the LORD; and six thousand were officers and judges; 23:5and four thousand were doorkeepers; and four thousand praised the LORD with the instruments which I made, said David, for giving praise. 23:6David divided them into divisions according to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kehat, and Merari. 23:7Of the Gershoni: La`dan and Shim`i. 23:8The sons of La`dan: Yechi'el the chief, and Zetham, and Yo'el, three. 23:9The sons of Shim`i: Shelomit, and Chazi'el, and Charan, three. These were the heads of the fathers' houses of La`dan. 23:10The sons of Shim`i: Yachat, Zina, and Ye`ush, and Beri`ah. These four were the sons of Shim`i. 23:11Yachat was the chief, and Zizah the second: but Ye`ush and Beri`ah didn't have many sons; therefore they became a fathers' house in one reckoning. 23:12The sons of Kehat: `Amram, Yitzhar, Chevron, and `Uzzi'el, four. 23:13The sons of `Amram: Aharon and Moshe; and Aharon was separated, that he should sanctify the most holy things, he and his sons, forever, to burn incense before the LORD, to minister to him, and to bless in his name, forever. 23:14But as for Moshe the man of God, his sons were named among the tribe of Levi. 23:15The sons of Moshe: Gershom and Eli`ezer. 23:16The sons of Gershom: Shevu'el the chief. 23:17The sons of Eli`ezer were: Rechavyah the chief; and Eli`ezer had no other sons; but the sons of Rechavyah were very many. 23:18The sons of Yitzhar: Shelomit the chief. 23:19The sons of Chevron: Yeriyahu the chief, Amaryah the second, Yachazi'el the third, and Yekam`am the fourth. 23:20The sons of `Uzzi'el: Mikhah the chief, and Yishiyah the second. 23:21The sons of Merari: Machli and Mushi. The sons of Machli: El`azar and Kish. 23:22El`azar died, and had no sons, but daughters only: and their brothers the sons of Kish took them to wife. 23:23The sons of Mushi: Machli, and `Eder, and Yeremot, three. 23:24These were the sons of Levi after their fathers' houses, even the heads of the fathers' houses of those of those who were counted, in the number of names by their polls, who did the work for the service of the house of the LORD, from twenty years old and upward. 23:25For David said, the LORD, the God of Yisra'el, has given rest to his people; and he dwells in Yerushalayim forever: 23:26and also the Levi'im shall no more have need to carry the tent and all the vessels of it for the service of it. 23:27For by the last words of David the sons of Levi were numbered, from twenty years old and upward. 23:28For their office was to wait on the sons of Aharon for the service of the house of the LORD, in the courts, and in the chambers, and in the purifying of all holy things, even the work of the service of the house of God; 23:29for the show bread also, and for the fine flour for a meal-offering, whether of unleavened wafers, or of that which is baked in the pan, or of that which is soaked, and for all manner of measure and size; 23:30and to stand every morning to thank and praise the LORD, and likewise in the evening; 23:31and to offer all burnt offerings to the LORD, on the Shabbatot, on the new moons, and on the set feasts, in number according to the ordinance concerning them, continually before the LORD; 23:32and that they should keep the charge of the tent of meeting, and the charge of the holy place, and the charge of the sons of Aharon their brothers, for the service of the house of the LORD.
24:1Thes were the divisions of the sons of Aharon. The sons of Aharon: Nadav and Avihu, El`azar and Itamar. 24:2But Nadav and Avihu died before their father, and had no children: therefore El`azar and Itamar executed the kohen's office. 24:3David with Tzadok of the sons of El`azar, and Achimelekh of the sons of Itamar, divided them according to their ordering in their service. 24:4There were more chief men found of the sons of El`azar than of the sons of Itamar; and thus were they divided: of the sons of El`azar there were sixteen, heads of fathers' houses; and of the sons of Itamar, according to their fathers' houses, eight. 24:5Thus were they divided impartially by drawing lots; for there were princes of the sanctuary, and princes of God, both of the sons of El`azar, and of the sons of Itamar. 24:6Shemayah the son of Netan'el the Torah-teacher, who was of the Levi'im, wrote them in the presence of the king, and the princes, and Tzadok the kohen, and Achimelekh the son of Avyatar, and the heads of the fathers' houses of the kohanim and of the Levi'im; one fathers' house being taken for El`azar, and one taken for Itamar. 24:7Now the first lot came forth to Yehoiariv, the second to Yedayah, 24:8the third to Charim, the fourth to Seorim, 24:9the fifth to Malkiyah, the sixth to Miyamin, 24:10the seventh to Hakkotz, the eighth to Aviyah, 24:11the ninth to Yeshua, the tenth to Shekhanyahu, 24:12the eleventh to Elyashiv, the twelfth to Yakim, 24:13the thirteenth to Chuppah, the fourteenth to Jeshebeab, 24:14the fifteenth to Bilgah, the sixteenth to Immer, 24:15the seventeenth to Chetzir, the eighteenth to Happizzez, 24:16the nineteenth to Petachyah, the twentieth to Jehezkel, 24:17the twenty-first to Yakhin, the twenty-second to Gamul, 24:18the twenty-third to Delayah, the twenty-fourth to Ma`azyah. 24:19This was the ordering of them in their service, to come into the house of the LORD according to the ordinance given to them by Aharon their father, as the LORD, the God of Yisra'el, had commanded him. 24:20Of the rest of the sons of Levi: of the sons of `Amram, Shuva'el; of the sons of Shuva'el, Yechdeyahu. 24:21Of Rechavyah: of the sons of Rechavyah, Yishiyah the chief. 24:22Of the Izharites, Shelomit; of the sons of Shelomit, Yachat. 24:23The sons of Chevron: Yeriyahu the chief, Amaryah the second, Yachazi'el the third, Yekam`am the fourth. 24:24The sons of `Uzzi'el, Mikhah; of the sons of Mikhah, Shamir. 24:25The brother of Mikhah, Yishiyah; of the sons of Yishiyah, Zekharyah. 24:26The sons of Merari: Machli and Mushi; the sons of Ya`aziyahu: Beno. 24:27The sons of Merari: of Ya`aziyahu, Beno, and Shoham, and Zakkur, and Ibri. 24:28Of Machli: El`azar, who had no sons. 24:29Of Kish; the sons of Kish: Yerachme'el. 24:30The sons of Mushi: Machli, and `Eder, and Yerimot. These were the sons of the Levi'im after their fathers' houses. 24:31These likewise cast lots even as their brothers the sons of Aharon in the presence of David the king, and Tzadok, and Achimelekh, and the heads of the fathers' houses of the kohanim and of the Levi'im; the fathers' houses of the chief even as those of his younger brother.
25:1Moreover, David and the captains of the host set apart for the service certain of the sons of Asaf, and of Heman, and of Yedutun, who should prophesy with harps, with psalteries, and with cymbals: and the number of those who did the work according to their service was: 25:2of the sons of Asaf: Zakkur, and Yosef, and Netanyah, and Asar'elah, the sons of Asaf, under the hand of Asaf, who prophesied after the order of the king. 25:3Of Yedutun; the sons of Yedutun: Gedalyahu, and Tzeri, and Yesha`yah, Chashavyah, and Matityah, six, under the hands of their father Yedutun with the harp, who prophesied in giving thanks and praising the LORD. 25:4Of Heman; the sons of Heman: Bukkyahu, Mattanyah, `Uzzi'el, Shevu'el, and Yerimot, Chananyah, Chanani, Eliathah, Giddalti, and Romamti-ezer, Yoshbekashah, Mallothi, Hothir, Machzi'ot. 25:5All these were the sons of Heman the king's seer in the words of God, to lift up the horn. God gave to Heman fourteen sons and three daughters. 25:6All these were under the hands of their father for song in the house of the LORD, with cymbals, psalteries, and harps, for the service of the house of God; Asaf, Yedutun, and Heman being under the order of the king. 25:7The number of them, with their brothers who were instructed in singing to the LORD, even all who were skillful, was two hundred eighty-eight. 25:8They cast lots for their offices, all alike, as well the small as the great, the teacher as the scholar. 25:9Now the first lot came forth for Asaf to Yosef: the second to Gedalyahu; he and his brothers and sons were twelve: 25:10the third to Zakkur, his sons and his brothers, twelve: 25:11the fourth to Itzri, his sons and his brothers, twelve: 25:12the fifth to Netanyah, his sons and his brothers, twelve: 25:13the sixth to Bukkyahu, his sons and his brothers, twelve: 25:14the seventh to Yesar'elah, his sons and his brothers, twelve: 25:15the eighth to Yesha`yah, his sons and his brothers, twelve: 25:16the ninth to Mattanyah, his sons and his brothers, twelve: 25:17the tenth to Shim`i, his sons and his brothers, twelve: 25:18the eleventh to `Azar'el, his sons and his brothers, twelve: 25:19the twelfth to Chashavyah, his sons and his brothers, twelve: 25:20for the thirteenth, Shuva'el, his sons and his brothers, twelve: 25:21for the fourteenth, Matityah, his sons and his brothers, twelve: 25:22for the fifteenth to Yeremot, his sons and his brothers, twelve: 25:23for the sixteenth to Chananyah, his sons and his brothers, twelve: 25:24for the seventeenth to Yoshbekashah, his sons and his brothers, twelve: 25:25for the eighteenth to Chanani, his sons and his brothers, twelve: 25:26for the nineteenth to Mallothi, his sons and his brothers, twelve: 25:27for the twentieth to Eliathah, his sons and his brothers, twelve: 25:28for the one and twentieth to Hothir, his sons and his brothers, twelve: 25:29for the two and twentieth to Giddalti, his sons and his brothers, twelve: 25:30for the three and twentieth to Machzi'ot, his sons and his brothers, twelve: 25:31for the four and twentieth to Romamtiezer, his sons and his brothers, twelve.
26:1For the divisions of the doorkeepers: of the Korchi, Meshelemyah the son of Kore, of the sons of Asaf. 26:2Meshelemyah had sons: Zekharyah the firstborn, Yedi`a'el the second, Zevadyah the third, Yatni'el the fourth, 26:3`Elam the fifth, Yehochanan the sixth, Elyeho`enai the seventh. 26:4Obed-edom had sons: Shemayah the firstborn, Yehozavad the second, Yo'ach the third, and Sacar the fourth, and Netan'el the fifth, 26:5`Ammi'el the sixth, Yissakhar the seventh, Peullethai the eighth; for God blessed him. 26:6Also to Shemayah his son were sons born, who ruled over the house of their father; for they were mighty men of valor. 26:7The sons of Shemayah: Othni, and Rephael, and `Oved, Elzavad, whose brothers were valiant men, Elihu, and Semachyahu. 26:8All these were of the sons of Obed-edom: they and their sons and their brothers, able men in strength for the service; sixty-two of Obed-edom. 26:9Meshelemyah had sons and brothers, valiant men, eighteen. 26:10Also Chosah, of the children of Merari, had sons: Shimri the chief, (for though he was not the firstborn, yet his father made him chief), 26:11Chilkiyah the second, Tevalyahu the third, Zekharyah the fourth: all the sons and brothers of Chosah were thirteen. 26:12Of these were the divisions of the doorkeepers, even of the chief men, having offices like their brothers, to minister in the house of the LORD. 26:13They cast lots, the small as well as the great, according to their fathers' houses, for every gate. 26:14The lot eastward fell to Shelemyahu. Then for Zekharyah his son, a wise counselor, they cast lots; and his lot came out northward. 26:15To Obed-edom southward; and to his sons the store-house. 26:16To Shuppim and Chosah westward, by the gate of Shallecheth, at the causeway that goes up, watch against watch. 26:17Eastward were six Levi'im, northward four a day, southward four a day, and for the store-house two and two. 26:18For Parbar westward, four at the causeway, and two at Parbar. 26:19These were the divisions of the doorkeepers; of the sons of the Korchi, and of the sons of Merari. 26:20Of the Levi'im, Achiyah was over the treasures of the house of God, and over the treasures of the dedicated things. 26:21The sons of La`dan, the sons of the Gershoni belonging to La`dan, the heads of the fathers' houses belonging to La`dan the Gershonite: Yechie'li. 26:22The sons of Yechie'li: Zetham, and Yo'el his brother, over the treasures of the house of the LORD. 26:23Of the `Amrami, of the Izharites, of the Chevroni, of the `Uzzi'eli: 26:24and Shevu'el the son of Gershom, the son of Moshe, was ruler over the treasures. 26:25His brothers: of Eli`ezer came Rechavyah his son, and Yesha`yah his son, and Yoram his son, and Zikhri his son, and Shelomit his son. 26:26This Shelomit and his brothers were over all the treasures of the dedicated things, which David the king, and the heads of the fathers' houses, the captains over thousands and hundreds, and the captains of the host, had dedicated. 26:27Out of the spoil won in battles did they dedicate to repair the house of the LORD. 26:28All that Shemu'el the seer, and Sha'ul the son of Kish, and Aviner the son of Ner, and Yo'av the son of Tzeru'yah, had dedicated, whoever had dedicated anything, it was under the hand of Shelomit, and of his brothers. 26:29Of the Izharites, Kananyah and his sons were for the outward business over Yisra'el, for officers and judges. 26:30Of the Chevroni, Chashavyah and his brothers, men of valor, one thousand seven hundred, had the oversight of Yisra'el beyond the Yarden westward, for all the business of the LORD, and for the service of the king. 26:31Of the Chevroni was Yeriyah the chief, even of the Chevroni, according to their generations by fathers' houses. In the fortieth year of the reign of David they were sought for, and there were found among them mighty men of valor at Ya`zer of Gil`ad. 26:32His brothers, men of valor, were two thousand seven hundred, heads of fathers' houses, whom king David made overseers over the Re'uveni, and the Gadi, and the half-tribe of the Menashi, for every matter pertaining to God, and for the affairs of the king.
27:1Now the children of Yisra'el after their number, the heads of fathers' houses and the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and their officers who served the king, in any matter of the divisions which came in and went out month by month throughout all the months of the year--of every division were twenty-four thousand. 27:2Over the first division for the first month was Yashov`am the son of Zavdi'el: and in his division were twenty-four thousand. 27:3He was of the children of Peretz, the chief of all the captains of the host for the first month. 27:4Over the division of the second month was Dodo the Achochi, and his division; and Miklot the ruler: and in his division were twenty-four thousand. 27:5The third captain of the host for the third month was Benayah, the son of Yehoyada the kohen, chief: and in his division were twenty-four thousand. 27:6This is that Benayah, who was the mighty man of the thirty, and over the thirty: and of his division was `Ammizavad his son. 27:7The fourth captain for the fourth month was `Asa'el the brother of Yo'av, and Zevadyah his son after him: and in his division were twenty-four thousand. 27:8The fifth captain for this fifth month was Shamhuth the Izrahite: and in his division were twenty-four thousand. 27:9The sixth captain for the sixth month was `Ira the son of `Ikkesh the Tekoite: and in his division were twenty-four thousand. 27:10The seventh captain for the seventh month was Cheletz the Pelonite, of the children of Efrayim: and in his division were twenty-four thousand. 27:11The eighth captain for the eighth month was Sibbekhai the Chushatite, of the Zarchi: and in his division were twenty-four thousand. 27:12The ninth captain for the ninth month was Avi-Ezer the `Antotite, of the Binyamini: and in his division were twenty-four thousand. 27:13The tenth captain for the tenth month was Maharai the Netofatite, of the Zarchi: and in his division were Twenty-four thousand. 27:14The eleventh captain for the eleventh month was Benayah the Pir`atonite, of the children of Efrayim: and in his division were twenty-four thousand. 27:15The twelfth captain for the twelfth month was Cheldai the Netofatite, of `Otni'el: and in his division were twenty-four thousand. 27:16Furthermore over the tribes of Yisra'el: of the Re'uveni was Eli`ezer the son of Zikhri the ruler: of the Shim`oni, Shefatyah the son of Ma`akhah: 27:17of Levi, Chashavyah the son of Kemu'el: of Aharon, Tzadok: 27:18of Yehudah, Elihu, one of the brothers of David: of Yissakhar, `Omri the son of Mikha'el: 27:19of Zevulun, Yishma`yahu the son of `Ovadyah: of Naftali, Yeremot the son of `Azri'el: 27:20of the children of Efrayim, Hoshea the son of `Azazyahu: of the half-tribe of Menasheh, Yo'el the son of Pedayahu: 27:21of the half-tribe of Menasheh in Gil`ad, `Iddo the son of Zekharyah: of Binyamin, Ya`asi'el the son of Aviner: 27:22of Dan, `Azar'el the son of Yerocham. These were the captains of the tribes of Yisra'el. 27:23But David didn't take the number of them from twenty years old and under, because the LORD had said he would increase Yisra'el like the stars of the sky. 27:24Yo'av the son of Tzeru'yah began to number, but didn't finish; and there came wrath for this on Yisra'el; neither was the number put into the account in the chronicles of king David. 27:25Over the king's treasures was `Azmavet the son of `Adi'el: and over the treasures in the fields, in the cities, and in the villages, and in the towers, was Yonatan the son of `Uzziyah: 27:26Over those who did the work of the field for tillage of the ground was `Ezri the son of Kelub: 27:27and over the vineyards was Shim`i the Ramatite: and over the increase of the vineyards for the wine-cellars was Zavdi the Shifmite: 27:28and over the olive trees and the sycamore trees that were in the lowland was Ba`al-Chanan the Gederite: and over the cellars of oil was Yo'ash: 27:29and over the herds that fed in Sharon was Shirtai the Sharonite: and over the herds that were in the valleys was Shafat the son of `Adlai: 27:30and over the camels was Ovil the Yishme`elite: and over the donkeys was Yechdeyahu the Meronotite: and over the flocks was Yaziz the Hagrite. 27:31All these were the rulers of the substance which was king David's. 27:32Also Yonatan, David's uncle, was a counselor, a man of understanding, and a Torah-teacher: and Yechi'el the son of Chakhmoni was with the king's sons: 27:33Achitofel was the king's counselor: and Chushai the Arki was the king's friend: 27:34and after Achitofel was Yehoyada the son of Benayah, and Avyatar: and the captain of the king's host was Yo'av.
28:1David assembled all the princes of Yisra'el, the princes of the tribes, and the captains of the companies who served the king by division, and the captains of thousands, and the captains of hundreds, and the rulers over all the substance and possessions of the king and of his sons, with the officers, and the mighty men, even all the mighty men of valor, to Yerushalayim. 28:2Then David the king stood up on his feet, and said, Hear me, my brothers, and my people: as for me, it was in my heart to build a house of rest for the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and for the footstool of our God; and I had made ready for the building. 28:3But God said to me, You shall not build a house for my name, because you are a man of war, and have shed blood. 28:4However the LORD, the God of Yisra'el, chose me out of all the house of my father to be king over Yisra'el forever: for he has chosen Yehudah to be prince; and in the house of Yehudah, the house of my father; and among the sons of my father he took pleasure in me to make me king over all Yisra'el; 28:5Of all my sons (for the LORD has given me many sons), he has chosen Shlomo my son to sit on the throne of the kingdom of the LORD over Yisra'el. 28:6He said to me, Shlomo your son, he shall build my house and my courts; for I have chosen him to be my son, and I will be his father. 28:7I will establish his kingdom forever, if he be constant to do my mitzvot and my ordinances, as at this day. 28:8Now therefore, in the sight of all Yisra'el, the assembly of the LORD, and in the audience of our God, observe and seek out all the mitzvot of the LORD your God; that you may possess this good land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children after you forever. 28:9You, Shlomo my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for the LORD searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts: if you seek him, he will be found of you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever. 28:10Take heed now; for the LORD has chosen you to build a house for the sanctuary: be strong, and do it. 28:11Then David gave to Shlomo his son the pattern of the porch of the temple, and of the houses of it, and of the treasuries of it, and of the upper rooms of it, and of the inner chambers of it, and of the place of the mercy seat; 28:12and the pattern of all that he had by the Spirit, for the courts of the house of the LORD, and for all the surrounding rooms, for the treasuries of the house of God, and for the treasuries of the dedicated things; 28:13also for the divisions of the kohanim and the Levi'im, and for all the work of the service of the house of the LORD, and for all the vessels of service in the house of the LORD; 28:14of gold by weight for the vessels of gold, for all vessels of every kind of service; of silver for all the vessels of silver by weight, for all vessels of every kind of service; 28:15by weight also for the menorot of gold, and for the lamps of it, of gold, by weight for every menorah and for the lamps of it; and for the menorot of silver, silver by weight for every menorah and for the lamps of it, according to the use of every menorah; 28:16and the gold by weight for the tables of show bread, for every table; and silver for the tables of silver; 28:17and the flesh-hooks, and the basins, and the cups, of pure gold; and for the golden bowls by weight for every bowl; and for the silver bowls by weight for every bowl; 28:18and for the altar of incense refined gold by weight; and gold for the pattern of the chariot, even the Keruvim, that spread out their wings, and covered the ark of the covenant of the LORD. 28:19All this, said David, have I been made to understand in writing from the hand of the LORD, even all the works of this pattern. 28:20David said to Shlomo his son, Be strong and of good courage, and do it: don't be afraid, nor be dismayed; for the LORD God, even my God, is with you; he will not fail you, nor forsake you, until all the work for the service of the house of the LORD is finished. 28:21Behold, there are the divisions of the kohanim and the Levi'im, for all the service of the house of God: and there shall be with you in all manner of work every willing man who has skill, for any manner of service: also the captains and all the people will be entirely at your command.
29:1David the king said to all the assembly, Shlomo my son, whom alone God has chosen, is yet young and tender, and the work is great; for the palace is not for man, but for the LORD God. 29:2Now I have prepared with all my might for the house of my God the gold for the things of gold, and the silver for the things of silver, and the brass for the things of brass, the iron for the things of iron, and wood for the things of wood; shoham stones, and stones to be set, stones for inlaid work, and of various colors, and all manner of precious stones, and marble stones in abundance. 29:3In addition, because I have set my affection on the house of my God, seeing that I have a treasure of my own of gold and silver, I give it to the house of my God, over and above all that I have prepared for the holy house, 29:4even three thousand talents of gold, of the gold of Ofir, and seven thousand talents of refined silver, with which to overlay the walls of the houses; 29:5of gold for the things of gold, and of silver for the things of silver, and for all manner of work to be made by the hands of artificers. Who then offers willingly to consecrate himself this day to the LORD? 29:6Then the princes of the fathers' houses, and the princes of the tribes of Yisra'el, and the captains of thousands and of hundreds, with the rulers over the king's work, offered willingly; 29:7and they gave for the service of the house of God of gold five thousand talents and ten thousand darics, and of silver ten thousand talents, and of brass eighteen thousand talents, and of iron a hundred thousand talents. 29:8They with whom precious stones were found gave them to the treasure of the house of the LORD, under the hand of Yechi'el the Gershonite. 29:9Then the people rejoiced, because they offered willingly, because with a perfect heart they offered willingly to the LORD: and David the king also rejoiced with great joy. 29:10Therefore David blessed the LORD before all the assembly; and David said, You are blessed, LORD, the God of Yisra'el our father, forever and ever. 29:11Yours, LORD, is the greatness, the power, the glory, the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, LORD, and you are exalted as head above all. 29:12Both riches and honor come of you, and you rule over all; and in your hand is power and might; and it is in your hand to make great, and to give strength to all. 29:13Now therefore, our God, we thank you, and praise your glorious name. 29:14But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly as this? For all things come of you, and of your own have we given you. 29:15For we are strangers before you, and foreigners, as all our fathers were: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no abiding. 29:16LORD our God, all this store that we have prepared to build you a house for your holy name comes of your hand, and is all your own. 29:17I know also, my God, that you try the heart, and have pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things: and now have I seen with joy your people, that are present here, offer willingly to you. 29:18LORD, the God of Avraham, of Yitzchak, and of Yisra'el, our fathers, keep this forever in the imagination of the thoughts of the heart of your people, and prepare their heart to you; 29:19and give to Shlomo my son a perfect heart, to keep your mitzvot, your testimonies, and your statutes, and to do all these things, and to build the palace, for which I have made provision. 29:20David said to all the assembly, Now bless the LORD your God. All the assembly blessed the LORD, the God of their fathers, and bowed down their heads, and worshiped the LORD, and the king. 29:21They sacrificed sacrifices to the LORD, and offered burnt offerings to the LORD, on the next day after that day, even one thousand bulls, one thousand rams, and one thousand lambs, with their drink-offerings, and sacrifices in abundance for all Yisra'el, 29:22and ate and drink before the LORD on that day with great gladness. They made Shlomo the son of David king the second time, and anointed him to the LORD to be prince, and Tzadok to be kohen. 29:23Then Shlomo sat on the throne of the LORD as king instead of David his father, and prospered; and all Yisra'el obeyed him. 29:24All the princes, the mighty men, and also all of the sons of king David submitted themselves to Shlomo the king. 29:25The LORD magnified Shlomo exceedingly in the sight of all Yisra'el, and bestowed on him such royal majesty as had not been on any king before him in Yisra'el. 29:26Now David the son of Yishai reigned over all Yisra'el. 29:27The time that he reigned over Yisra'el was forty years; he reigned seven years in Chevron, and thirty-three years reigned he in Yerushalayim. 29:28He died in a good old age, full of days, riches, and honor: and Shlomo his son reigned in his place. 29:29Now the acts of David the king, first and last, behold, they are written in the history of Shemu'el the seer, and in the history of Natan the prophet, and in the history of Gad the seer, 29:30with all his reign and his might, and the times that went over him, and over Yisra'el, and over all the kingdoms of the countries.
Notes:
[1] back to 6:10 priest
[2] back to 9:2 priests
[3] back to 9:10 priests
[4] back to 9:30 priests
[5] back to 12:32 commandment
[6] back to 13:2 priests
[7] back to 14:12 commandment
[8] back to 15:11 priests
[9] back to 15:14 priests
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