All the people said, Amen, and praised Yahweh.
16:37So he left there, before the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, Asaph 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 Jeduthun and Hosah to be doorkeepers;16:39and Zadok the priest, and his brothers the priests, before the tent of Yahweh in the high place that was at Gibeon,16:40to offer burnt offerings to Yahweh on the altar of burnt offering continually morning and evening, even according to all that is written in the law of Yahweh, which he commanded to Israel;16:41and with them Heman and Jeduthun, and the rest who were chosen, who were mentioned by name, to give thanks to Yahweh, because his loving kindness endures forever;16:42and with them Heman and Jeduthunwithtrumpets and cymbals for those that should sound aloud, andwithinstruments for the songs of God; and the sons of Jeduthun 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 Nathan the prophet, Behold, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of the covenant of Yahwehdwellsunder curtains.17:2Nathan 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 Nathan, saying,17:4Go and tell David my servant, Thus says Yahweh, 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 Israel, to this day, but have gone from tent to tent, and fromonetentto another.17:6In all places in which I have walked with all Israel, spoke I a word with any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to be shepherd of my people, saying, Why have you not built me a house of cedar?17:7Now therefore thus you shall tell my servant David, Thus says Yahweh of Armies, I took you from the sheep pen, from following the sheep, that you should be prince over my people Israel: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 Israel, 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,17:10andasfrom the day that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel; and I will subdue all your enemies. Moreover I tell you that Yahweh 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 Nathan speak to David.17:16Then David the king went in, and sat before Yahweh; and he said, Who am I, Yahweh 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, Yahweh God.17:18What can Davidsayyet more to you concerning the honor which is done to your servant? for you know your servant.17:19Yahweh, for your servant's sake, and according to your own heart, have you worked all this greatness, to make known allthesegreat things.17:20Yahweh, 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 Israel, 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 Israel did you make your own people forever; and you, Yahweh, became their God.17:23Now, Yahweh, 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, Yahweh of Armies is the God of Israel, even a God to Israel: 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 foundin his heartto pray before you.17:26Now, Yahweh, 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, Yahweh, have blessed, and it is blessed forever.
18:1After this it happened, that David struck the Philistines, and subdued them, and took Gath and its towns out of the hand of the Philistines.18:2He struck Moab; and the Moabites became servants to David, and brought tribute.18:3David struck Hadadezer king of Zobah to Hamath, as he went to establish his dominion by the river Euphrates.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 Syrians of Damascus came to help Hadadezer king of Zobah, David struck of the Syrians twenty-two thousand men.18:6Then David putgarrisonsin Syria of Damascus; and the Syrians became servants to David, and brought tribute. Yahweh gave victory to David wherever he went.18:7David took the shields of gold that were on the servants of Hadadezer, and brought them to Jerusalem.18:8From Tibhath and from Cun, cities of Hadadezer, David took very much brass, with which Solomon made the bronze sea, and the pillars, and the vessels of brass.18:9When Tou king of Hamath heard that David had struck all the army of Hadadezer king of Zobah,18:10he sent Hadoram his son to king David, to Greet him, and to bless him, because he had fought against Hadadezer and struck him; (for Hadadezer had wars with Tou;) andhe had with himall manner of vessels of gold and silver and brass.18:11These also did king David dedicate to Yahweh, with the silver and the gold that he carried away from all the nations; from Edom, and from Moab, and from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines, and from Amalek.18:12Moreover Abishai the son of Zeruiah struck of the Edomites in the Valley of Salt eighteen thousand.18:13He put garrisons in Edom; and all the Edomites became servants to David. Yahweh gave victory to David wherever he went.18:14David reigned over all Israel; and he executed justice and righteousness to all his people.18:15Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the army; and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder;18:16and Zadok the son of Ahitub, and Abimelech the son of Abiathar, were priests; and Shavsha was scribe;18:17and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and the sons of David were chief about the king.
19:1It happened after this, that Nahash the king of the children of Ammon died, and his son reigned in his place.19:2David said, I will show kindness to Hanun the son of Nahash, because his father showed kindness to me. So David sent messengers to comfort him concerning his father. David's servants came into the land of the children of Ammon to Hanun, to comfort him.19:3But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun, Think you that David does honor your father, in that he has sent comforters to you? Aren't his servants come to you to search, and to overthrow, and to spy out the land?19:4So Hanun 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 Jericho until your beards are grown, and then return.19:6When the children of Ammon saw that they had made themselves odious to David, Hanun and the children of Ammon sent one thousand talents of silver to hire them chariots and horsemen out of Mesopotamia, and out of Arammaacah, and out of Zobah.19:7So they hired them thirty-two thousand chariots, and the king of Maacah and his people, who came and encamped before Medeba. The children of Ammon gathered themselves together from their cities, and came to battle.19:8When David heard of it, he sent Joab, and all the army 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 Joab saw that the battle was set against him before and behind, he chose of all the choice men of Israel, and put them in array against the Syrians.19:11The rest of the people he committed into the hand of Abishai his brother; and they put themselves in array against the children of Ammon.19:12He said, If the Syrians are too strong for me, then you shall help me; but if the children of Ammon are too strong for you, then I will help you.19:13Be of good courage, and let us be strong for our people, and for the cities of our God: and Yahweh do that which seems him good.19:14So Joab and the people who were with him drew near before the Syrians to the battle; and they fled before him.19:15When the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians had fled, they likewise fled before Abishai his brother, and entered into the city. Then Joab came to Jerusalem.19:16When the Syrians saw that they were defeated by Israel, they sent messengers, and drew forth the Syrians who were beyond the River, with Shophach the captain of the army of Hadadezer at their head.19:17It was told David; and he gathered all Israel together, and passed over the Jordan, and came on them, and set the battle in array against them. So when David had put the battle in array against the Syrians, they fought with him.19:18The Syrians fled before Israel; and David killed of the Syriansthe men ofseven thousand chariots, and forty thousand footmen, and killed Shophach the captain of the army.19:19When the servants of Hadadezer saw that they were defeated by Israel, they made peace with David, and served him: neither would the Syrians 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 outto battle, that Joab led forth the army, and wasted the country of the children of Ammon, and came and besieged Rabbah. But David stayed at Jerusalem. Joab struck Rabbah, and overthrew it.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 cutthemwith saws, and with iron picks, and with axes. David did so to all the cities of the children of Ammon. David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.20:4It happened after this, that there arose war at Gezer with the Philistines: then Sibbecai the Hushathite killed Sippai, of the sons of the giant; and they were subdued.20:5There was again war with the Philistines; and Elhanan the son of Jair killed Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver's beam.20:6There was again war at Gath, where there was a man of great stature, whose fingers and toes were twenty-four, sixon each hand, and sixon each foot; and he also was born to the giant.20:7When he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea David's brother killed him.20:8These were born to the giant in Gath; and they fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.
21:1Satan stood up against Israel, and moved David to number Israel.21:2David said to Joab and to the princes of the people, Go, number Israel from Beersheba even to Dan; and bring me word, that I may know the sum of them.21:3Joab said, Yahweh make his people a hundred times as many as they are: but, my lord the king, aren't they all my lord's servants? Why does my lord require this thing? Why will he be a cause of guilt to Israel?21:4Nevertheless the king's word prevailed against Joab. Therefore Joab departed, and went throughout all Israel, and came to Jerusalem.21:5Joab gave up the sum of the numbering of the people to David. All those of Israel were one million one hundred thousand men who drew sword: and in Judah were four hundred seventy thousand men who drew sword.21:6But he didn't count Levi and Benjamin among them; for the king's word was abominable to Joab.21:7God was displeased with this thing; therefore he struck Israel.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.21:9Yahweh spoke to Gad, David's seer, saying,21:10Go and speak to David, saying, Thus says Yahweh, I offer you three things: choose one of them, that I may do it to you.21:11So Gad came to David, and said to him, Thus says Yahweh, Take your choice: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 Yahweh, even pestilence in the land, and the angel of Yahweh destroying throughout all the borders of Israel. Now therefore consider what answer I shall return to him who sent me.21:13David said to Gad, I am in distress. Let me fall, I pray, into the hand of Yahweh; for very great are his mercies: and let me not fall into the hand of man.21:14So Yahweh sent a pestilence on Israel; and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men.21:15God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was about to destroy, Yahweh saw, and he relented of the disaster, and said to the destroying angel, It is enough; now stay your hand. The angel of Yahweh was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.21:16David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of Yahweh standing between earth and the sky, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell on their faces.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 Yahweh 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 Yahweh commanded Gad to tell David, that David should go up, and raise an altar to Yahweh in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.21:19David went up at the saying of Gad, which he spoke in the name of Yahweh.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 Yahweh: for the full price you shall give it to me, that the plague may be stopped from afflicting the people.21:23Ornan said to David, Take it to yourself, and let my lord the king do that which is good in his eyes: behold, I giveyouthe 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 certainly buy it for the full price: for I will not take that which is yours for Yahweh, nor offer a burnt offering without cost.21:25So David gave to Ornan for the place six hundred shekels of gold by weight.21:26David built there an altar to Yahweh, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and called on Yahweh; and he answered him from the sky by fire on the altar of burnt offering.21:27Yahweh commanded the angel; and he put up his sword again into its sheath.21:28At that time, when David saw that Yahweh had answered him in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he sacrificed there.21:29For the tent of Yahweh, which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of burnt offering, were at that time in the high place at Gibeon.21:30But David couldn't go before it to inquire of God; for he was afraid because of the sword of the angel of Yahweh.
22:1Then David said, This is the house of Yahweh God, and this is the altar of burnt offering for Israel.22:2David commanded to gather together the foreigners who were in the land of Israel; and he set masons to cut 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 Sidonians and they of Tyre brought cedar trees in abundance to David.22:5David said, Solomon my son is young and tender, and the house that is to be built for Yahweh must be exceedingly magnificent, of fame and of glory throughout all countries: I will therefore make preparation for it. So David prepared abundantly before his death.22:6Then he called for Solomon his son, and commanded him to build a house for Yahweh, the God of Israel.22:7David said to Solomon his son, As for me, it was in my heart to build a house to the name of Yahweh my God.22:8But the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, You have shed blood abundantly, and have made great wars: you shall not build a house to my name, because you have shed much blood on the earth in my sight.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 all around; for his name shall be Solomon, and I will give peace and quietness to Israel 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 Israel for ever.22:11Now, my son, Yahweh be with you; and prosper you, and build the house of Yahweh your God, as he has spoken concerning you.22:12May Yahweh give you discretion and understanding, and put you in charge of Israel; that so you may keep the law of Yahweh your God.22:13Then you shall prosper, if you observe to do the statutes and the ordinances which Yahweh gave Moses concerning Israel. Be strong, and of good courage. Don't be afraid, neither be dismayed.22:14Now, behold, in my affliction I have prepared for the house of Yahweh one hundred thousand talents of gold, and one million 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 Yahweh be with you.22:17David also commanded all the princes of Israel to help Solomon his son,saying,22:18Isn't Yahweh your God with you? Hasn't he given you rest on every side? for he has delivered the inhabitants of the land into my hand; and the land is subdued before Yahweh, and before his people.22:19Now set your heart and your soul to seek after Yahweh your God; arise therefore, and build the sanctuary of Yahweh God, to bring the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, and the holy vessels of God, into the house that is to be built to the name of Yahweh.
23:1Now David was old and full of days; and he made Solomon his son king over Israel.23:2He gathered together all the princes of Israel, with the priests and the Levites.23:3The Levites 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 Yahweh; and six thousand were officers and judges;23:5and four thousand were doorkeepers; and four thousand praised Yahweh with the instruments which I made,said David, for giving praise.23:6David divided them into divisions according to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.23:7Of the Gershonites: Ladan and Shimei.23:8The sons of Ladan: Jehiel the chief, and Zetham, and Joel, three.23:9The sons of Shimei: Shelomoth, and Haziel, and Haran, three. These were the heads of the fathers'housesof Ladan.23:10The sons of Shimei: Jahath, Zina, and Jeush, and Beriah. These four were the sons of Shimei.23:11Jahath was the chief, and Zizah the second: but Jeush and Beriah didn't have many sons; therefore they became a fathers' house in one reckoning.23:12The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel, four.23:13The sons of Amram: Aaron and Moses; and Aaron was separated, that he should sanctify the most holy things, he and his sons, forever, to burn incense before Yahweh, to minister to him, and to bless in his name, forever.23:14But as for Moses the man of God, his sons were named among the tribe of Levi.23:15The sons of Moses: Gershom and Eliezer.23:16The sons of Gershom: Shebuel the chief.23:17The sons of Eliezer were: Rehabiah the chief; and Eliezer had no other sons; but the sons of Rehabiah were very many.23:18The sons of Izhar: Shelomith the chief.23:19The sons of Hebron: Jeriah the chief, Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, and Jekameam the fourth.23:20The sons of Uzziel: Micah the chief, and Isshiah the second.23:21The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. The sons of Mahli: Eleazar and Kish.23:22Eleazar died, and had no sons, but daughters only: and their brothers the sons of Kish took themto wife.23:23The sons of Mushi: Mahli, and Eder, and Jeremoth, three.23:24These were the sons of Levi after their fathers' houses, even the heads of the fathers' houses of those who were counted individually, in the number of names by their polls, who did the work for the service of the house of Yahweh, from twenty years old and upward.23:25For David said, Yahweh, the God of Israel, has given rest to his people; and he dwells in Jerusalem forever:23:26and also the Levites shall no more have need to carry the tent and all its vessels for its service.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 Aaron for the service of the house of Yahweh, in the courts, and in the chambers, and in the purifying of all holy things, even the work of the service of the house of God;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 Yahweh, and likewise in the evening;23:31and to offer all burnt offerings to Yahweh, on the Sabbaths, on the new moons, and on the set feasts, in number according to the ordinance concerning them, continually before Yahweh;23:32and that they should keep the duty of the Tent of Meeting, and the duty of the holy place, and the duty of the sons of Aaron their brothers, for the service of the house of Yahweh.
24:1These were the divisions of the sons of Aaron. The sons of Aaron: Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.24:2But Nadab and Abihu died before their father, and had no children: therefore Eleazar and Ithamar executed the priest's office.24:3David with Zadok of the sons of Eleazar, and Ahimelech of the sons of Ithamar, divided them according to their ordering in their service.24:4There were more chief men found of the sons of Eleazar than of the sons of Ithamar; andthuswere they divided: of the sons of Eleazar there were sixteen, heads of fathers' houses; and of the sons of Ithamar, according to their fathers' houses, eight.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 Eleazar, and of the sons of Ithamar.24:6Shemaiah the son of Nethanel the scribe, who was of the Levites, wrote them in the presence of the king, and the princes, and Zadok the priest, and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, and the heads of the fathers'housesof the priests and of the Levites; one fathers' house being taken for Eleazar, and one taken for Ithamar.24:7Now the first lot came forth to Jehoiarib, the second to Jedaiah,24:8the third to Harim, the fourth to Seorim,24:9the fifth to Malchijah, the sixth to Mijamin,24:10the seventh to Hakkoz, the eighth to Abijah,24:11the ninth to Jeshua, the tenth to Shecaniah,24:12the eleventh to Eliashib, the twelfth to Jakim,24:13the thirteenth to Huppah, the fourteenth to Jeshebeab,24:14the fifteenth to Bilgah, the sixteenth to Immer,24:15the seventeenth to Hezir, the eighteenth to Happizzez,24:16the nineteenth to Pethahiah, the twentieth to Jehezkel,24:17the twenty-first to Jachin, the twenty-second to Gamul,24:18the twenty-third to Delaiah, the twenty-fourth to Maaziah.24:19This was the ordering of them in their service, to come into the house of Yahweh according to the ordinancegivento them by Aaron their father, as Yahweh, the God of Israel, had commanded him.24:20Of the rest of the sons of Levi: of the sons of Amram, Shubael; of the sons of Shubael, Jehdeiah.24:21Of Rehabiah: of the sons of Rehabiah, Isshiah the chief.24:22Of the Izharites, Shelomoth; of the sons of Shelomoth, Jahath.24:23The sonsof Hebron: Jeriahthe chief, Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, Jekameam the fourth.24:24The sons of Uzziel, Micah; of the sons of Micah, Shamir.24:25The brother of Micah, Isshiah; of the sons of Isshiah, Zechariah.24:26The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi; the sons of Jaaziah: Beno.24:27The sons of Merari: of Jaaziah, Beno, and Shoham, and Zaccur, and Ibri.24:28Of Mahli: Eleazar, who had no sons.24:29Of Kish; the sons of Kish: Jerahmeel.24:30The sons of Mushi: Mahli, and Eder, and Jerimoth. These were the sons of the Levites after their fathers' houses.24:31These likewise cast lots even as their brothers the sons of Aaron in the presence of David the king, and Zadok, and Ahimelech, and the heads of the fathers'housesof the priests and of the Levites; the fathers'housesof the chief even as those of his younger brother.
25:1Moreover, David and the captains of the army set apart for the service certain of the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Jeduthun, who should prophesy with harps, with stringed instruments, and with cymbals: and the number of those who did the work according to their service was:25:2of the sons of Asaph: Zaccur, and Joseph, and Nethaniah, and Asharelah, the sons of Asaph, under the hand of Asaph, who prophesied after the order of the king.25:3Of Jeduthun; the sons of Jeduthun: Gedaliah, and Zeri, and Jeshaiah, Hashabiah, and Mattithiah, six, under the hands of their father Jeduthun with the harp, who prophesied in giving thanks and praising Yahweh.25:4Of Heman; the sons of Heman: Bukkiah, Mattaniah, Uzziel, Shebuel, and Jerimoth, Hananiah, Hanani, Eliathah, Giddalti, and Romamti-Ezer, Joshbekashah, Mallothi, Hothir, Mahazioth.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 Yahweh, with cymbals, stringed instruments, and harps, for the service of the house of God; Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman being under the order of the king.25:7The number of them, with their brothers who were instructed in singing to Yahweh, 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 Asaph to Joseph: the second to Gedaliah; he and his brothers and sons were twelve:25:10the third to Zaccur, his sons and his brothers, twelve:25:11the fourth to Izri, his sons and his brothers, twelve:25:12the fifth to Nethaniah, his sons and his brothers, twelve:25:13the sixth to Bukkiah, his sons and his brothers, twelve:25:14the seventh to Jesharelah, his sons and his brothers, twelve:25:15the eighth to Jeshaiah, his sons and his brothers, twelve:25:16the ninth to Mattaniah, his sons and his brothers, twelve:25:17the tenth to Shimei, his sons and his brothers, twelve:25:18the eleventh to Azarel, his sons and his brothers, twelve:25:19the twelfth to Hashabiah, his sons and his brothers, twelve:25:20for the thirteenth, Shubael, his sons and his brothers, twelve:25:21for the fourteenth, Mattithiah, his sons and his brothers, twelve:25:22for the fifteenth to Jeremoth, his sons and his brothers, twelve:25:23for the sixteenth to Hananiah, his sons and his brothers, twelve:25:24for the seventeenth to Joshbekashah, his sons and his brothers, twelve:25:25for the eighteenth to Hanani, 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 Mahazioth, 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 Korahites, Meshelemiah the son of Kore, of the sons of Asaph.26:2Meshelemiah had sons: Zechariah the firstborn, Jediael the second, Zebadiah the third, Jathniel the fourth,26:3Elam the fifth, Jehohanan the sixth, Eliehoenai the seventh.26:4Obed-Edom had sons: Shemaiah the firstborn, Jehozabad the second, Joah the third, and Sacar the fourth, and Nethanel the fifth,26:5Ammiel the sixth, Issachar the seventh, Peullethai the eighth; for God blessed him.26:6Also to Shemaiah his son were sons born, who ruled over the house of their father; for they were mighty men of valor.26:7The sons of Shemaiah: Othni, and Rephael, and Obed, Elzabad, whose brothers were valiant men, Elihu, and Semachiah.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.26:9Meshelemiah had sons and brothers, valiant men, eighteen.26:10Also Hosah, of the children of Merari, had sons: Shimri the chief, (for though he was not the firstborn, yet his father made him chief),26:11Hilkiah the second, Tebaliah the third, Zechariah the fourth: all the sons and brothers of Hosah 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 Yahweh.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 Shelemiah. Then for Zechariah his son, a wise counselor, they cast lots; and his lot came out northward.26:15To Obed-Edom southward; and to his sons the storehouse.26:16To Shuppim and Hosah westward, by the gate of Shallecheth, at the causeway that goes up, watch against watch.26:17Eastward were six Levites, northward four a day, southward four a day, and for the storehouse 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 Korahites, and of the sons of Merari.26:20Of the Levites, Ahijah was over the treasures of the house of God, and over the treasures of the dedicated things.26:21The sons of Ladan, the sons of the Gershonites belonging to Ladan, the heads of the fathers'housesbelonging to Ladan the Gershonite: Jehieli.26:22The sons of Jehieli: Zetham, and Joel his brother, over the treasures of the house of Yahweh.26:23Of the Amramites, of the Izharites, of the Hebronites, of the Uzzielites:26:24and Shebuel the son of Gershom, the son of Moses, was ruler over the treasures.26:25His brothers: of EliezercameRehabiah his son, and Jeshaiah his son, and Joram his son, and Zichri his son, and Shelomoth his son.26:26This Shelomoth 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 army, had dedicated.26:27Out of the spoil won in battles did they dedicate to repair the house of Yahweh.26:28All that Samuel the seer, and Saul the son of Kish, and Abner the son of Ner, and Joab the son of Zeruiah, had dedicated, whoever had dedicated anything, it was under the hand of Shelomoth, and of his brothers.26:29Of the Izharites, Chenaniah and his sons were for the outward business over Israel, for officers and judges.26:30Of the Hebronites, Hashabiah and his brothers, men of valor, one thousand seven hundred, had the oversight of Israel beyond the Jordan westward, for all the business of Yahweh, and for the service of the king.26:31Of the Hebronites was Jerijah the chief, even of the Hebronites, 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 Jazer of Gilead.26:32His brothers, men of valor, were two thousand seven hundred, heads of fathers'houses, whom king David made overseers over the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half-tribe of the Manassites, for every matter pertaining to God, and for the affairs of the king.
27:1Now the children of Israel after their number, the heads of fathers'housesand 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 Jashobeam the son of Zabdiel: and in his division were twenty-four thousand.27:3He wasof the children of Perez, the chief of all the captains of the army for the first month.27:4Over the division of the second month was Dodai the Ahohite, and his division; and Mikloth the ruler: and in his division were twenty-four thousand.27:5The third captain of the army for the third month was Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada the priest, chief: and in his division were twenty-four thousand.27:6This is that Benaiah, who was the mighty man of the thirty, and over the thirty: andofhis division was Ammizabad his son.27:7The fourthcaptainfor the fourth month was Asahel the brother of Joab, and Zebadiah 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 sixthcaptainfor the sixth month was Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite: and in his division were twenty-four thousand.27:10The seventhcaptainfor the seventh month was Helez the Pelonite, of the children of Ephraim: and in his division were twenty-four thousand.27:11The eighthcaptainfor the eighth month was Sibbecai the Hushathite, of the Zerahites: and in his division were twenty-four thousand.27:12The ninthcaptainfor the ninth month was Abiezer the Anathothite, of the Benjamites: and in his division were twenty-four thousand.27:13The tenthcaptainfor the tenth month was Maharai the Netophathite, of the Zerahites: and in his division were Twenty-four thousand.27:14The eleventhcaptainfor the eleventh month was Benaiah the Pirathonite, of the children of Ephraim: and in his division were twenty-four thousand.27:15The twelfthcaptainfor the twelfth month was Heldai the Netophathite, of Othniel: and in his division were twenty-four thousand.27:16Furthermore over the tribes of Israel: of the Reubenites was Eliezer the son of Zichri the ruler: of the Simeonites, Shephatiah the son of Maacah:27:17of Levi, Hashabiah the son of Kemuel: of Aaron, Zadok:27:18of Judah, Elihu, one of the brothers of David: of Issachar, Omri the son of Michael:27:19of Zebulun, Ishmaiah the son of Obadiah: of Naphtali, Jeremoth the son of Azriel:27:20of the children of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Azaziah: of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Joel the son of Pedaiah:27:21of the half-tribe of Manasseh in Gilead, Iddo the son of Zechariah: of Benjamin, Jaasiel the son of Abner:27:22of Dan, Azarel the son of Jeroham. These were the captains of the tribes of Israel.27:23But David didn't take the number of them from twenty years old and under, because Yahweh had said he would increase Israel like the stars of the sky.27:24Joab the son of Zeruiah began to number, but didn't finish; and there came wrath for this on Israel; neither was the number put into the account in the chronicles of king David.27:25Over the king's treasures was Azmaveth the son of Adiel: and over the treasures in the fields, in the cities, and in the villages, and in the towers, was Jonathan the son of Uzziah:27:26Over those who did the work of the field for tillage of the ground was Ezri the son of Chelub:27:27and over the vineyards was Shimei the Ramathite: and over the increase of the vineyards for the winecellars was Zabdi the Shiphmite:27:28and over the olive trees and the sycamore trees that were in the lowland was Baal Hanan the Gederite: and over the cellars of oil was Joash:27:29and over the herds that fed in Sharon was Shitrai the Sharonite: and over the herds that were in the valleys was Shaphat the son of Adlai:27:30and over the camels was Obil the Ishmaelite: and over the donkeys was Jehdeiah the Meronothite: and over the flocks was Jaziz the Hagrite.27:31All these were the rulers of the substance which was king David's.27:32Also Jonathan, David's uncle, was a counselor, a man of understanding, and a scribe: and Jehiel the son of Hachmoni was with the king's sons:27:33Ahithophel was the king's counselor: and Hushai the Archite was the king's friend:27:34and after Ahithophel was Jehoiada the son of Benaiah, and Abiathar: and the captain of the king's army was Joab.
28:1David assembled all the princes of Israel, 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 Jerusalem.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 Yahweh, 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 Yahweh, the God of Israel, chose me out of all the house of my father to be king over Israel forever: for he has chosen Judah to be prince; and in the house of Judah, the house of my father; and among the sons of my father he took pleasure in me to make me king over all Israel;28:5Of all my sons (for Yahweh has given me many sons), he has chosen Solomon my son to sit on the throne of the kingdom of Yahweh over Israel.28:6He said to me, Solomon 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 commandments and my ordinances, as at this day.28:8Now therefore, in the sight of all Israel, the assembly of Yahweh, and in the audience of our God, observe and seek out all the commandments of Yahweh your God; that you may possess this good land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children after you forever.28:9You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh 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 Yahweh has chosen you to build a house for the sanctuary: be strong, and do it.28:11Then David gave to Solomon his son the pattern of the porchof the temple, and of its houses, and of its treasuries, 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 Yahweh, 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 priests and the Levites, and for all the work of the service of the house of Yahweh, and for all the vessels of service in the house of Yahweh;28:14of gold by weight for thevessels ofgold, for all vessels of every kind of service;of silverfor all the vessels of silver by weight, for all vessels of every kind of service;28:15by weight also for the lampstands of gold, and for its lamps, of gold, by weight for every lampstand and for its lamps; and for the lampstands of silver,silverby weight foreverylampstand and for its lamps, according to the use of every lampstand;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 forks, 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,eventhe cherubim, that spread outtheir wings, and covered the ark of the covenant of Yahweh.28:19All this,said David, have I been made to understand in writing from the hand of Yahweh, even all the works of this pattern.28:20David said to Solomon his son, Be strong and of good courage, and do it: don't be afraid, nor be dismayed; for Yahweh 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 Yahweh is finished.28:21Behold, there are the divisions of the priests and the Levites, 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, Solomon 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 Yahweh God.29:2Now I have prepared with all my might for the house of my God the gold for thethings ofgold, and the silver for thethings ofsilver, and the brass for thethings ofbrass, the iron for thethings ofiron, and wood for thethings ofwood; onyx stones, andstonesto 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 Ophir, and seven thousand talents of refined silver, with which to overlay the walls of the houses;29:5of gold for thethings ofgold, and of silver for thethings ofsilver, and for all manner of workto be madeby the hands of artificers. Who then offers willingly to consecrate himself this day to Yahweh?29:6Then the princes of the fathers'houses, and the princes of the tribes of Israel, 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 whompreciousstones were found gave them to the treasure of the house of Yahweh, under the hand of Jehiel the Gershonite.29:9Then the people rejoiced, because they offered willingly, because with a perfect heart they offered willingly to Yahweh: and David the king also rejoiced with great joy.29:10Therefore David blessed Yahweh before all the assembly; and David said, You are blessed, Yahweh, the God of Israel our father, forever and ever.29:11Yours, Yahweh, 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, Yahweh, 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.29:16Yahweh 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.29:18Yahweh, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, 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 Solomon my son a perfect heart, to keep your commandments, 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 Yahweh your God. All the assembly blessed Yahweh, the God of their fathers, and bowed down their heads and prostrated themselves before Yahweh and the king.29:21They sacrificed sacrifices to Yahweh, and offered burnt offerings to Yahweh, 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 Israel,29:22and ate and drink before Yahweh on that day with great gladness. They made Solomon the son of David king the second time, and anointed him to Yahweh to be prince, and Zadok to be priest.29:23Then Solomon sat on the throne of Yahweh as king instead of David his father, and prospered; and all Israel obeyed him.29:24All the princes, the mighty men, and also all of the sons of king David submitted themselves to Solomon the king.29:25Yahweh magnified Solomon exceedingly in the sight of all Israel, and bestowed on him such royal majesty as had not been on any king before him in Israel.29:26Now David the son of Jesse reigned over all Israel.29:27The time that he reigned over Israel was forty years; he reigned seven years in Hebron, and thirty-threeyearsreigned he in Jerusalem.29:28He died in a good old age, full of days, riches, and honor: and Solomon 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 Samuel the seer, and in the history of Nathan 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 Israel, and over all the kingdoms of the countries.