Chapter 1
1 Adam, Seth, Enos,
2 Caïnan, Malaléel, Jared,
3 Enoch, Methusaleh, Lamech,
4 Noah, Shem, Ham and Japheth.
5 Sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Thubal, Mosoch and Thiras. —
6 Sons of Gomer: Ascenez, Riphath, and Thogorma.
7 Sons of Javan: Elisha, Tarshish, Cethim and Dodanim.
8 The sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim, Phut, and Canaan.
9 Sons of Cush: Sheba, Hevilah, Sabbathah, Regmah, and Sabbathasha. — Sons of Regmah: Sheba and Dadan. —
10 Chus fathered Nimrod; it was he who first became powerful on earth.
11 Mesraim fathered the Ludim, the Anamim, the Laabim, the Nephthuhim,
12 The Phethusim, the Casluhim (from whom the Philistines came), and the Caphthorim.
13 Canaan begat Sidon his firstborn, and Heth,
14 as well as the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Gergesites,
15 the Hivites, the Aracaes, the Sinaeans,
16 the Aradians, the Samariaeans and the Hamathians.
17 The sons of Shem: Elam, Assur, Arphaxad, Lud, Aram; Hus, Hul, Gether and Mosoch. —
18 Arphaxad begat Salé, and Salé begat Heber.
19 Two sons were born to Eber: the name of the one was Peleg, because in his days the earth was divided, and the name of his brother was Jehovah.
20 Jectan begat Elmodad, Saleph, Asarmoth, Jarah,
21 Adoram, Huzal, Declare,
22 Hebal, Abimael, Sheba,
23 Ophir, Hevilah and Jobab. All these were sons of Jectan.
24 Sem, Arphaxad, Salé,
25 Heber, Phaleg, Ragau,
26 Serug, Nachor, Thare,
27 Abram, who is Abraham.
28 Abraham's sons: Isaac and Ishmael.
29 Here is their posterity:
Nabaioth, the firstborn of Ishmael, Then Cedar, Adbeel, Mabsam,
30 Masma, Duma, Massa, Hadad, Thema,
31 Jetur, Naphish, and Zemah. These are the sons of Ishmael.
32 The sons of Keturah, Abraham's concubine: she bore Zamram, Jeczan, Madan, Midian, Jeshbok, and Shuh. — The sons of Jeczan: Sheba and Dadan. —
33 The sons of Midian: Ephah, Epher, Enoch, Abida, and Eldaah. — All these are sons of Keturah.
34 Abraham fathered Isaac. Isaac's sons: Esau and Jacob.
35 The sons of Esau: Eliphaz, Rauel, Jehus, Ihelom, and Korah.
36 Sons of Eliphaz: Teman, Omar, Sephi, Gathan, Cenez, Thamna, Amalek. —
37 Sons of Rahuel: Nahath, Zara, Samma and Meza.
38 The sons of Seir: Lotan, Zobal, Shebeon, Anah, Dishon, Esher, and Dishan.
39 Lotan's sons: Hori and Homam. Lotan's sister: Thamna.
40 Sons of Sobal: Alian, Manahath, Ebal, Sephi, and Onam. — Sons of Shebeon: Aiah and Anah. — Sons of Anah: Dison. —
41 The sons of Dison: Hamram, Eseban, Jethran, and Haran.
42 Sons of Eser: Balaan, Zavan and Jacan. — Sons of Disan: Hus and Aran.
43 These are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom before any king reigned over the children of Israel: Bela, son of Beor; the name of his city was Denaba.
44 Bela died, and Jobab son of Zereh of Bozrah reigned in his place.
45 Jobab died, and Husam of the land of the Temanites reigned in his place.
46 Husam died, and in his place reigned Hadad, son of Badad, who defeated Midian in the fields of Moab; the name of his city was Avith.
47 Hadad died, and in his place, Semla of Masreca reigned.
48 Shemlah died, and in his place Saul of Rohoboth on the River reigned.
49 Saul died, and Balanan son of Ahobor reigned in his place.
50 Balanan died, and Hadad reigned in his place; the name of his city was Phau, and the name of his wife was Meetabel, daughter of Matred, daughter of Mezaab.
51 Hadad died.
The leaders of Edom were: Chief Thamna, Chief Alva, Chief Jetheth,
52 Chief Oolibaba, Chief Ela, Chief Phinon,
53 Chief Cénez, Chief Théman, Chief Mabsar,
54 Chief Magdiel, Chief Hiram. These are the chiefs of Edom.
Chapter 2
1 These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun,
2 Dan, Joseph, Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad and Asher.
3 The sons of Judah: Her, Onan, and Shelah; these three were born to him by the daughter of Shuh the Canaanite. — Her, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the Lord, who put him to death.
4 Tamar, Judah's daughter-in-law, bore him Perez and Zerah. — All the sons of Judah were five in number.
5 Sons of Peres: Hesron and Hamul.
6 The sons of Zarah: Zamri, Ethan, Eman, Chalchal, and Dara: five in all.
7 The son of Charmi: Achar, who troubled Israel by transgressing concerning a thing devoted to destruction.
8 Sons of Ethan: Azariah.
9 Sons who were born in Hezron: Jerahmeel, Ram and Calubi.
10 Ram begat Aminadab; Aminadab begat Nahasson, prince of the children of Judah;
11 Nahasson begat Salma; Salma begat Boaz;
12 Boaz begat Obed; Obed begat Jesse;
13 Jesse fathered Eliab his firstborn, Abinadab the second, and Simmaah the third,
14 Nathanael, the fourth, Raddai, the fifth,
15 Asom, the sixth, and David, the seventh.
16 Their sisters were: Zerviah and Abigail. — Zerviah's sons: Abishai, Joab, and Asahel, three.
17 Abigail gave birth to Amasa, whose father was Jether the Ishmaelite.
18 Caleb, son of Hezron, had children by Azubah, his wife, and by Jerioth. These are the sons he had by Azubah: Jazer, Zobab, and Ardon.
19 Azuba died, and Caleb took Ephrathah as his wife, who bore him Hur.
20 Hur begat Uri, and Uri begat Bezalel.
21 Then Hezron married the daughter of Machir, father of Gilead: he was sixty years old when he married her; she bore Segub to him.
22 Segub fathered Jair, who had twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead.
23 The Geshurites and the Syrians took from them the towns of Jair, as well as Canath and its dependencies: sixty towns. All these were sons of Machir, father of Gilead.
24 After Hesron died at Caleb-Ephrata, Abijah, Hesron's wife, bore him Ashur, the father of Tekua.
25 The sons of Jerahmeel, the firstborn of Hezron, were: Ram, the firstborn, Bunah, Aran, Asom, and Ahijah.
26 Jerahmeel had another wife, named Atah, who was the mother of Onam.
27 The sons of Ram, the firstborn of Jerahmeel, were: Moash, Jamin, and Achar.
28 The sons of Onam were: Shemei and Jada. — The sons of Shemei: Nadab and Abisur.
29 The name of Abisur's wife was Abihail, and she bore him Ahobban and Molid.
30 The sons of Nadab: Saled and Apphaim. Saled died without sons.
31 The sons of Apphaim: Jeshi. The sons of Jeshi: Sheshan. The sons of Sheshan: Ohalai.
32 The sons of Jada, brother of Shemei: Jether and Jonathan. Jether died without sons.
33 The sons of Jonathan: Peleth and Ziza. — These are the sons of Jerahmeel.
34 Seshan had no sons, but he had daughters. He had an Egyptian slave named Jera;
35 He gave him his daughter as a wife, and she bore him Athena.
36 Ethei begat Nathan; Nathan begat Zabad;
37 Zabad begat Ophlal; Ophlal begat Obed;
38 Obed begat Jehu; Jehu begat Azarias;
39 Azarias begot Helles; Helles fathered Elasa;
40 Elasa begat Sisamoi; Sisamoï fathered Sellum;
41 Sellum begat Icamias, and Icamias begat Elisama.
42 The sons of Caleb, Jerahmeel's brother: Mesha, his firstborn, who was the father of Ziph, and the sons of Mareshah, the father of Hebron.
43 Sons of Hebron: Korah, Thaphua, Recem and Samma.
44 Samma begat Raham, the father of Jercaam; Récem fathered Sammaï. —
45 The son of Sammai: Maon; and Maon was the father of Beth-zur.
46 Ephah, Caleb's concubine, bore Haran, Moses, and Gezzet. Haran fathered Gezzet.
47 The sons of Jahaddai: Regom, Joathan, Gosan, Phalet, Epha and Saaph. —
48 Maahah, Caleb's concubine, bore Saber and Taranah.
49 She gave birth Again Saaph, father of Madmenah, Shuh, father of Machbenah and father of Gabaah. Caleb's daughter was Ahsah.
50 These were the sons of Caleb. Sons of Hur, the firstborn of Ephrathah: Zobal, father of Cariathariah;
51 Salma, father of Bethlehem Hariph, father of Bethgader.
52 The sons of Sobal, father of Cariathariah, were: Haroe, Hazi-Hammenuhoth.
53 The families of Cariatharia were: the Jethreans, the Aphuthites, the Shematheans, and the Maserites. From them came the Zareans and the Eshtaolites.
54 Sons of Salma: Bethlehem and the Netophathites, Ataroth-Beth-Joab, half of the Manachites, the Saraeans,
55 as well as the families of the Scribes residing in Jabès, know, The Tirites, the Shimatians, and the Sucathites. These are the Kinnees, descended from Hamath, the father of the house of Rechab.
Chapter 3
1 These are the sons of David who were born to him in Hebron: the firstborn, Amnon, by Achinoam of Jezreel; the second, Daniel, by Abigail of Carmel;
2 the third, Absalom, son of Maah, daughter of Tolmai, king of Geshur; the fourth, Adonijah, son of Haggith;
3 the fifth, Saphatias, of Abital; the sixth, Jethraham, of Egla, his wife.
4 These six were born to him in Hebron, where he reigned seven years and six months; then he reigned thirty-three years in Jerusalem.
5 And these were born to him in Jerusalem: Simmaah, Zobab, Nathan, Solomon, four, by Bethshua, daughter of Ammiel;
6 Jebaar, Elisama, Eliphaleth,
7 Nogé, Népheg, Japhia,
8 Elisama, Eliada, Eliphéleth, nine.
9 These are all the sons of David, not counting the sons of the concubines. Tamar was their sister.
10 Solomon's sons: Rehoboam; Abijah, his son; Asa, his son; Jehoshaphat, his son;
11 Joram, his son; Ahaziah, his son; Joash, his son;
12 Amaziah, his son; Azariah, his son; Jotham, his son;
13 Ahaz, his son; Hezekiah, his son; Manasseh, his son;
14 Amon, his son; Josiah, his son.
15 The sons of Josiah: the firstborn Johanan; the second, Joakim; the third, Zedekiah; the fourth, Shellum.
16 The sons of Jehoiakim: Jeconiah, his son; Zedekiah, his son.
17 The sons of Jeconiah: Asir, Shealtiel his son,
18 Melchiram, Phadaia, Senneser, Jecemias, Sama and Nadabias. —
19 Sons of Phadaias: Zerubbabel and Semei. — Sons of Zerubbabel: Mosollam, Hananiah and Salomith, their sister;
20 and Hasaban, Ohol, Barachias, Hasadiahs, Josabhesed, five. —
21 The sons of Hananiah: Phaltiah and Jezeiah, the sons of Raphaiah, the sons of Arnan, the sons of Obdiah, the sons of Shekeniah.
22 Son of Sechenias: Semeia. —Sons of Semeia: Hattus, Jegaal, Baria, Naaria, Saphat, six. —
23 The sons of Naariah: Elioenai, Hezekiah, and Ezricam: three.
24 Sons of Elioenai: Oduiah, Eliasub, Pheleiah, Accub, Johanan, Dalaiah and Anani: seven.
Chapter 4
1 Sons of Judah: Phares, Hezron, Charmi, Hur and Sobal. —
2 Raah, son of Zobal, fathered Jahath; Jahath fathered Ahamai and Lahad. These are the families of the Zareites.
3 Here the descendants of Etam's father: Jezreel, Jesema and Jedebos; the name of their sister was Asalelphuni.
4 Phanuel was the father of Gedor, and Ezer the father of Hosha. These were the sons of Hur, the firstborn of Ephrathah, the father of Bethlehem.
5 Assur, father of Tekueh, had two wives: Halaah and Naara.
6 Naarah bore him Oozam, Hepher, Temani, and Ahasthari: these were the sons of Naarah.
7 The sons of Halaa: Sereth, Isaar and Ethnan.
8 Cos fathered Anob and Zobobah, and the families of Aharehel, son of Arum.
9 Jabez was more honored than his brothers; his mother named him Jabez, saying, »It is because I L'’I gave birth in pain.«
10 Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, »If you would bless me and enlarge my territory, if your hand would be with me and keep me from harm, so that I would not be afflicted!…» And God granted him what he had asked for.
11 Kélub, brother of Sua, fathered Mahir, who was the father of Esthon.
12 Esthon fathered the house of Rapha, Phesse, and Tehinnah, the father of the city of Naas. These were the men of Resha.
13 Sons of Caenez: Othniel and Saraiah. — Sons of Othniel: Hathath and Maonathi ;
14 Maonathi begat Ophrah; Sarah begat Joab, the father of those who lived the Charaschim valley, because they were laborers.
15 The sons of Caleb, the son of Jephon: Hir, Elah, and Maham. — The sons of Elah: Cenez.
16 Sons of Jaleleel: Ziph, Zipha, Tiria and Ahrael.
17 Sons of Ezra: Jether, Mered, Epher and Jalon. Mered's wife, the Egyptian woman, Mariam, Sammai and Jesba were born, and Esthamo was father.
18 Sound other The woman, the Jewess, bore Jared, the father of Gedor; Heber, the father of Socho; and Icutiel, the father of Zanoe. These were the sons of Bethiah, Pharaoh's daughter, whom Mered had taken. for women.
19 The sons of Odaiah’s wife, Naham’s sister: the father of Ceilah the Garmian, and the father of’Esthamo, the Machathian.
20 Sons of Simon: Amnon, Rinna, Ben-Hanan and Thilon.
Sons of Jesi: Zoheth and Ben-Zoheth.
21 The sons of Sela, the sons of Judah: Her, the father of Leha, Laada, the father of Mareshah, and the families of the house where the fine linen is worked, of the house of Ashbeah,
22 and Jokim, and the men of Cozeba, and Joash, and Saraph, who ruled over Moab, and Jashub-lechem. These are ancient things.
23 These were the potters and the inhabitants of Netaim and Gedera; they lived there near the king, working for him.
24 Sons of Simeon: Namuel, Jamin, Jarib, Zerah, Saul.
25 Sellum, his son; Madsam, his son; Masma, his son.
26 The sons of Masmah: Hamuel, his son; Zechar, his son; Shemei, his son.
27 Shemei had sixteen sons and six daughters; his brothers did not have many sons, and all their families did not multiply as much as the sons of Judah.
28 They lived in Beersheba, Molada, and Hasar-Suhal,
29 in Bala, in Asom, in Tholad,
30 in Bathuel, in Horma, in Sicéleg,
31 to Beth-marshabot, to Hasar-Susim, to Beth-berai, and to Saarim: these were their cities until the reign of David,
32 and their villages. They still had: Etam, Aën, Remmon, Tochen and Asan, five cities,
33 and all their villages, which were around these cities, as far as Baal. These are their dwellings, and their genealogical records.
34 Mosobab, Jemlech, Josah the son of Amaziah,
35 Joel, Jehu, son of Josabiah, son of Saraiah, son of Asiel,
36 Elioenai, Jacobah, Isuhaiah, Asaiah, Adiel, Ismiel, Banaiah,
37 Ziza, son of Shephei, son of Allon, son of Idaiah, son of Shemri, son of Samaiah.
38 These men, designated by their names, were princes in their families. Their patriarchal houses having grown considerably,
39 They went towards the entrance of Gador, to the east of the valley, in order to seek pasture for their flocks.
40 They found rich and good pastures, and a spacious, quiet, and peaceful territory; those who had previously lived there came from of Cham.
41 These men, registered by their names, arrived in the time of Hezekiah, king of Judah; they destroyed their tents, as well as the Meonites who were there, and devoted them to anathema to this day, they settled in their place, for there was pasture there for their flocks.
42 Some of Simeon's sons also went to Mount Seir, number of five hundred men; Phaltias, Naarias, Raphaias and Oziel, son of Jesi, were at their head.
43 They defeated the remnant of the Amalekites who had escaped, and they settled there to this day.
Chapter 5
1 The son of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel. — For he was the firstborn; but, because he defiled his father's bed, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph, the son of Israel, not, however, so that Joseph was recorded in the genealogy as the firstborn.
2 For Judas was powerful among his brothers, and from him is derived a prince. But the birthright belongs to Joseph.
3 The sons of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel: Enoch, Phallu, Hezron, and Charmi.
4 The sons of Joel: Samia, his son; Gog, his son; Shemei, his son;
5 Micah, his son; Reiah, his son; Baal, his son;
6. Beera, his son, whom Thelgathphalnasar, king of Assyria, took captive: he was one of the princes of the Reubenites.
7 Brothers of Bééra, each according to his family, as they are recorded in the genealogies according to their generations: the chief, Jehiel; Zechariah;
8 Bala, son of Azaz, son of Shammah, son of Joel. Bala lived in Aroer, and as far as Nebo and Beel-Meon;
9 in the east, they lived as far as the entrance to the desert, which goes from the river Euphrates, for their flocks were numerous in the land of Gilead.
10 In the days of Saul, they did the war to the Hagareans, who fell into their hands, and they lived in their tents throughout the eastern side of Gilead.
11 The sons of Gad lived opposite them in the land of Bashan, as far as Selhah.
12 They were: the chief, Joel; the second, Shaphan, then Janai and Shaphat, in Bashan.
13 Their brothers, according to their patriarchal houses, were: Michael, Mosollam, Shebe, Jorai, Jachan, Zieh and Heber: seven.
14 They were the sons of Abihail, son of Huri, son of Jara, son of Gilead, son of Michael, son of Jezehi, son of Jeddo, son of Buz.
15 Achi, son of Abdiel, son of Guni, was head of their patriarchal houses.
16 They lived in Gilead, in Bashan, and in the cities of their dependencies, and in all the pastures of Sharon to their extremities.
17 All these sons of Gad were recorded in the genealogies of the time of Jotham, king of Judah, and of the time of Jeroboam, king of Israel.
18 The sons of Reuben, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh had valiant men, bearing shield and sword, shooting the bow, and trained in the war, numbering forty-four thousand seven hundred and sixty, fit to go to the army.
19 They did the war to the Agareans, to Jethur, to Naphis, and to Nodab.
20 They were helped against them, and the Hagareans and all who were with them were given into their hands. For they had cried out to God during the battle, and he had answered them, because they had trusted in him.
21 They carried off their livestock, fifty thousand camels, two hundred and fifty thousand sheep, two thousand donkeys, and one hundred thousand people,
22 because many had fallen dead, because the war was from God. And they settled in their place until the captivity.
23 The sons of the half-tribe of Manasseh lived in the land from Bashan to Baal-Hermon and to Sanir, and to the mountain of Hermon; they were numerous.
24 These are the heads of their families: Epher, Jesi, Eliel, Ezriel, Jeremiah, Odoiah and Jediel, mighty men of valor, men of renown, heads of their patriarchal houses.
25 But they were unfaithful to the God of their fathers, and they prostituted themselves by serving the gods of the peoples of the land whom God had destroyed before them.
26 The God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Phul, king of Assyria, and the spirit of Tegatphalanzar, king of Assyria; and Thelgathphalnasar He took captive the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, and brought them to Halah, Habor, Ara, and the river Gozan, where they remained to this day.
27 Sons of Levi: Gershom, Kohath and Merari.
28 The sons of Caath: Amram, Isaar and Oziel.
29 Sons of Amram: Aaron, Moses and Married. — Sons of Aaron: Nadab, Abiu, Eleazar and Ithamar. —
30 Eleazar fathered Phinehas; Phinehas fathered Abisue;
31 Abisué begat Bocci; Bocci fathered Ozi;
32 Uzi begat Zarayas; Zarayas begat Meraioth;
33 Meraioth begat Amarias; Amarias fathered Ahitob;
34 Ahitob begat Zadok; Zadok begat Achimaas;
35 Ahimaas begat Azarias; Azarias begat Johanan;
36 Johanan fathered Azariah: he was the one who exercised the priesthood in the house that Solomon built in Jerusalem;
37 Azarias begat Amarias; Amarias fathered Ahitob;
38 Ahitob begat Zadok; Sadoc begat Sellum;
39 Sellum begat Helcias; Helcias begat Azarias;
40 Azarias begat Saraiah; Saraïas fathered Josédec.
41 Josédec left for exile when Yahweh sent Nebuchadnezzar to take Judah and Jerusalem into captivity.
Chapter 6
1 The sons of Levi: Gershom, Kohath, and Merari.
2 These are the names of Gersom's sons: Lobni and Semei.
3 Sons of Kohath: Amram, Isaar, Hebron, and Uziel.
4 Sons of Merari: Moholi and Musi.
These are the families of Levi according to their fathers:
5 Of Gersom: Lobni, his son; Jahath, his son; Zamma, his son;
6 Joah, his son; Addo, his son; Zerah, his son; Jethrai, his son.
7 Sons of Kohath: Aminadab, his son; Korah, his son; Asir, his son;
8 Elkanah, his son; Abiasaph, his son; Asir, his son;
9 Thahath, his son; Uriel, his son; Ozias, his son; Saul, his son.
10 Sons of Elkanah: Amasai and Ahimoth;
11 Elkanah, his son; Sophi, his son; Nahath, his son;
12 Eliab, his son; Jeroham, his son; Elkanah, his son.
13 The sons of Samuel: Vasseni the firstborn, and Abijah.
14 The sons of Merari: Moholi; Lobni, his son; Shemei, his son; Oza, his son;
15 Sammaa, his son; Haggia, his son; Asaiah, his son.
16 These are the ones David appointed to lead the singing in the house of the Lord, from the time the ark had a resting place:
17 They served as singers before the tabernacle of the tent of meeting until Solomon had built the house of the Lord in Jerusalem, and they served them according to their regulations.
18 These are the ones who officiated with their sons: — From among the sons of the Kohathites: Heman the singer, son of Joel, son of Samuel,
19 sons of Elkanah, sons of Jeroham, sons of Eliel, sons of Tohu,
20 sons of Suph, son of Elkanah, son of Mahath, son of Amasai,
21 sons of Elkanah, sons of Joel, sons of Azariah, sons of Zephaniah,
22 sons of Tahath, son of Assir, son of Abiasaph, son of Korah,
23 sons of Isaar, son of Kohath, son of Levi, son of Israel.
24 — His brother Asaph, who stood at his right hand: Asaph, son of Barachiah, son of Samaah,
25 sons of Michael, son of Basaias, son of Melchiah,
26 sons of Athanai, sons of Zerah, sons of Adaiah,
27 sons of Ethan, son of Zammah, son of Shemei,
28 sons of Jeth, son of Gershom, son of Levi.
29 — The sons of Merari, their brothers, on the left: Ethan, son of Cusi, son of Abdi, son of Maloch,
30 sons of Hasabias, sons of Amaziah, sons of Helkiah,
31 sons of Amasai, sons of Boni, sons of Somer,
32 sons of Moholi, son of Musi, son of Merari, son of Levi.
33 Their brothers, the Levites, were in charge of all the service of the tabernacle of the house of Yahweh.
34 But Aaron and his sons were burning the victims on the altar of burnt offerings and incense on the altar of perfumes; they had to fill the whole ministry of the Holy of Holies, and to make atonement for Israel, according to all that Moses, the servant of God, had commanded.
35 These are the sons of Aaron: Eleazar his son; Phinehas his son; Abisha his son;
36 Bocci, his son; Ozi, his son; Zaraïas, his son;
37 Meraioth, his son; Amariah, his son; Ahitob, his son;
38 Sadoc, his son; Ahimasa, his son.
39 These are their dwellings, according to their enclosures, in their territories: — To the sons of Aaron, of the family of the Caathites, designated the first by fate,
40 They gave Hebron, in the land of Judah, and the pastures surrounding it;
41 But the territory of the city and its villages was given to Caleb, son of Jephone.
42 They gave SO to the sons of Aaron the city of refuge Hebron, Lobnah and its pastures,
43 Jether, Esthemo and his pastures, Helon and his pastures, Dabir and his pastures,
44 Asan and its pastures, Bethsemesh and its pastures;
45 of the tribe of Benjamin, Gabea and its pastures, Almath and its pastures, Anathoth and its pastures. Total of their cities: thirteen cities, according to their families.
46 — The other sons of Caath received by lot ten cities from the families of the tribe, from the half-tribe of Manasseh.
47 The sons of Gershom, according to their families, had thirteen cities of the tribe of Issachar, of the tribe of Asher, of the tribe of Naphtali, and of the tribe of Manasseh, in Bashan.
48 The sons of Merari, according to their families, received by lot twelve cities of the tribe of Reuben, of the tribe of Gad, and of the tribe of Zebulun.
49 The children of Israel gave the Levites the cities and their pastures.
50 They assigned by lot, from the tribe of the children of Judah, from the tribe of the children of Simeon, and from the tribe of the children of Benjamin, these cities which they designated by their names.
51 For the others The families of the sons of Caath, the cities that fell to them were of the tribe of Ephraim.
52 They were given: the city of refuge Shechem and its pastures in the hill country of Ephraim, Gazer and its pastures,
53 Jecmaam and its pastures, Bethoron and its pastures,
54 Helon and its pastures, Geth-Remmon and its pastures;
55 and of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Aner and his pastures, Balaam and his pastures: for the families of the other sons of Kohath.
56 We gave to the sons of Gersom: of the family of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Gaulon in Bashan and its pastures, Ashtaroth and its pastures;
57 of the tribe of Issachar, Kedesh and its pastures, Dabereth and its pastures,
58 Ramoth and its pastures, Anem and its pastures;
59 of the tribe of Asher, Masal and its pastures, Abdon and its pastures,
60 Hucac and its pastures, Rohob and its pastures;
61 and of the tribe of Naphtali, Cedes in Galilee and its pastures, Hamon and its pastures, and Cariathaim and its pastures.
62 We gave to the rest Levites, to the sons of Merari: of the tribe of Zebulun, Remmon and its pastures, Tabor and its pastures;
63 on the other side of the Jordan, vis à vis from Jericho, east of the Jordan: from the tribe of Reuben, Bozor, in the desert, and its pastures, Jassa and its pastures,
64 Cademoth and its pastures, Mephaat and its pastures;
65 and of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead and its pastures, Manaim, and its pastures,
66 Hesebon and its pastures, Jezer and its pastures.
Chapter 7
1 The sons of Issachar: Tola, Puah, Jasub, and Simeron: four.
2 Sons of Tola: Uzi, Raphaiah, Jeriel, Jemai, Jebsem, and Samuel, heads of their ancestral houses issues of Thola, valiant men, registered according to their generations, in the time of David, numbering twenty-two thousand six hundred.
3 Sons of Uzi: Jezreah. Sons of Jezreah: Michael, Obadiah, Johel and Jesiah: five chiefs in all.
4 They had with them, according to their generations, according to their patriarchal houses, armed troops for the war, thirty-six thousand men ; because they had many wives and sons.
5 Their brothers, from all the families of Issachar, valiant men, formed A number a total of eighty-seven thousand, registered in the genealogies.
6 The sons of Benjamin: Bela, Bechor, and Jadiel: three.
7 Sons of Bela: Eshbon, Uzi, Uziel, Jerome, and Urai: five heads of patriarchal houses, valiant men, recorded in the genealogies, number of twenty-two thousand four hundred.
8 The sons of Behor: Zamirah, Joash, Eliezer, Elioenai, Amri, Jerumoth, Abijah, Anathoth, and Almath: all these sons of Behor,
9 are listed in the genealogies, according to their generations., as heads of their patriarchal houses, valiant men, number of twenty thousand two hundred.
10 The sons of Jadihel: Balan. — The sons of Balan: Jehus, Benjamin, Ehud, Canaan, Zethan, Tarshish, and Abisahar:
11 All these sons of Jadihel, heads of their ancestral houses, valiant men, number of seventeen thousand two hundred, fit to go armed to the war.
12 Sepham and Hapham, sons of Hir: Hasim, son of Aher.
13 Sons of Naphtali: Jasiel, Guni, Jeser and Shellum, sons of Bala.
14. Ezriel, son of Manasseh, was born to his Syrian concubine Machir, the father of Gilead.
15 Machir took a wife from Haphim and Shaphan; his sister's name was Maasha. The name of the second son was Salphaad, and Salphaad had daughters.
16 Maah, the wife of Machir, gave birth to a son and named him Perez; his brother's name was Sarez, and his sons were Ulam and Rechen.
17 The sons of Ulam: Badan. — These are the sons of Gilead, son of Machir, son of Manasseh. —
18 His sister Hammoleket bore Ishod, Abiezer, and Moholah.
19 The sons of Shemidah were: Ahin, Shechem, Lehi and Aniam.
20 Sons of Ephraim: Suthalah; Bared, his son; Tahath, his son; Elada, his son; Tahath, his son;
21 Zabad, his son; Suthala, his son; Ezer and Elad, whom the men of Geth born in the land killed, because they had gone down to take their flocks.
22 Ephraim, their father, mourned for a long time, and his brothers came to comfort him.
23 And he went in to his wife, and she conceived and gave birth to a son; he named him Beriah, because there was trouble in his house.
24 His daughter was Sarah, who built Lower Bethoron and Upper Bethoron, and Ozen-Sarah.
25 Rapha, his son, and Reseph; Thale, his son; Taan, his son;
26 Laadan, his son; Ammiud, his son; Elisama, his son;
27 Nun, his son; Joshua, his son. —
28 Their possessions and dwellings were: Bethel and its dependent towns; on the east, Noran; on the west, Gezer and its dependent towns, Shechem and its dependent towns, as far as Aza and its dependent towns.
29 Bethsan and its dependencies, Thanah and its dependencies, Mageddo and its dependencies, and Dor and its dependencies were also in the hands of the sons of Manasseh. The sons of Joseph, the sons of Israel, lived in these towns.
30 The sons of Asher: Jemmah, Jeshua, Jessui, Bariah, and Sarah their sister.
31 Sons of Bariah: Heber and Melchiel, who was the father of Barsaith.
32 Heber fathered Jephthah, Somer, Hotham, and Suaah, their sister.
33 The sons of Jephthah: Phoseh, Shamaal, and Ashoth: these are the sons of Jephthah.
34 Sons of Somer: Ahi, Roaga, Haba and Aram. —
35 The sons of Helem, his brother: Supha, Jemna, Swell, and Amal.
36 Sons of Supha: Sue, Harnapher, Sual, Beri, Jamra,
37 Bosor, Hod, Samma, Salusa, Jethran and Bera. —
38 The sons of Jether: Jephon, Phaspha, and Ara.
39 Sons of Olla: Area, Haniel, and Resia.
40 All these were sons of Asher, heads of patriarchal houses, elite and valiant men, leaders of the princes, registered as twenty-six thousand men fit to go to war. the war.
Chapter 8
1 Benjamin fathered Bela, his firstborn, Asbel the second, Ahara the third,
2 Noah, the fourth, and Rapha, the fifth.
3 The sons of Bela were: Addar, Gera, Abiud,
4 Abisué, Naaman, Ahoé,
5 Gera, Sephuphan, and Huram.
6 These are the sons of Ahod: — they were heads of the families who lived in Gibeah, and they deported them to Manahath —:
7 Naaman, Ahijah and Gera; he was the one who deported them, and he fathered Uza and Ahiud.
8 Sahraim had children in the land of Moab, after he had sent away his wives Husim and Bara.
9 He had by Hodesh, his wife: Jobab, Shebiah, Moses, Molshom,
10 Jehus, Shechia and Marmah; these are his sons, heads of families.
11 He had by Husim: Abitob and Elphaal.
12 Sons of Elphaal: Heber, Misaam and Samad, who built Ono, Lod and the cities under its jurisdiction.
13 Baria and Sama, heads of the families who lived in Aealon, put the inhabitants of Geth to flight.
14 Ahio, Sesac, Jerimoth,
15 Zabadia, Arod, Héder,
16 Michael, Jesphah, and Joha were sons of Bariah.
17 Zabadia, Mosollam, Hezeci, Heber,
18 Jesamari, Jezliah, and Jobab were the sons of Elphaal.
19 Jacim, Zechri, Zabdi,
20 Elioénaï, Séléthaï, Eliel,
21 Adaiah, Baraiah, and Samarath were the sons of Shemei.
22 Jesphan, Héber, Eliel,
23 Abdon, Zechariah, Hanan,
24 Hanania, Elam, Anathothia,
25 Jephdaiah and Phanuel were sons of Shesach.
26 Samsari, Sohoria, Otholia,
27 Jersiah, Elijah, and Zechariah were Jeroham's sons.
28 These were heads of families, heads according to their generations; they lived in Jerusalem.
29 Gibeon’s father lived in Gibeon, and his wife’s name was Maah.
30 His firstborn son, Abdon, then Sur, Cis, Baal, Nadab,
31 Gedor, Ahio and Zacher.
32 Macelloth fathered Samaah. They also lived near their brothers in Jerusalem, with their brothers.
33 Ner begat Cis; Cis begat Saul; Saul fathered Jonathan, Melchisua, Abinadab and Esbaal. —
34 Sons of Jonathan: Meribbaal; Meribbaal begat Micha. —
35 The sons of Micha: Phiton, Melech, Tharaa and Ahaz.
36 Ahaz begat Joada; Joada begat Alamath, Azmoth and Zamri; Zamri begat Mosa.
37 Moses fathered Banaah; Rapha, his son; Elasa, his son; Asel, his son.
38 Asel had six sons, whose names were: Ezricam, Bocru, Ishmael, Zariah, Obdiah, and Hanan; all these were sons of Asel.
39 The sons of Esech, his brother: Ulam, his firstborn, Jehus the second, and Eliphalet the third.
40 The sons of Ulam were valiant men, shooters of the bow, and they had many sons and grandsons, one hundred and fifty.
All of these are sons of Benjamin.
Chapter 9
1 So All Israel was recorded in the genealogies, and behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel; and Judah was taken captive to Babylon because of its transgressions.
2 The first inhabitants, who remained in their possessions, in their cities, were the Israelites, the priests, the Levites, and the Nathanaeans.
3 In Jerusalem lived descendants of Judah, descendants of Benjamin, descendants of Ephraim, and descendants of Manasseh;
4 of the sons of Perez, sons of Judah: Othai, son of Ammiud, son of Amri, son of Omrai, son of Bonni; —
5 of the Silonites: Asaiah, the firstborn, and his sons; —
6 of the sons of Zerah: Jehuel; and their brothers: 690; —
7 Of the sons of Benjamin: Salo, son of Mosollam, son of Oduiah, son of Asana;
8 Jobaniah, son of Jeroham; Elah, son of Uzi, son of Mochori; Mosollam, son of Shaphatiah, son of Rauel, son of Jebaniah;
9 and their brothers, according to their generations: nine hundred and fifty-six. All these men were heads of families according to their patriarchal houses.
10 Priests: Jedaiah, Jehoiarib, Jashim,
11 Azariah, son of Helkiah, son of Mosollam, son of Zadok, son of Maraioth, son of Ahitob, prince of the house of God;
12 Adaiah, son of Jeroham, son of Phashr, son of Melkiah; Maasai, son of Adiel, son of Jezra, son of Mosollam, son of Mosollamith, son of Emmer;
13 and their brothers, heads of their patriarchal houses: one thousand seven hundred and sixty valiant men, for the work of service of the house of God.
14 Of the Levites: Shemeiah, son of Hassub, son of Ezricam, son of Hasebiah, of the sons of Merari;
15 Bacbachar, Heres, Galal, Mattaniah, son of Micah, son of Zechariah, son of Asaph;
16 Obdia, son of Shemeiah, son of Galal, son of Idithun; Barachiah, son of Asa, son of Elkanah, who lived in the villages of the Netophathites.
17 And the gatekeepers: Sellum, Accub, Telmon, Ahiman, and their brothers; Sellum was the chief,
18 and it is still at the king's gate, to the east. These are the gatekeepers for the camp of the children of Levi.
19 Shellum, son of Korah, son of Abiasaph, son of Korah, and his brothers of his father's house, the Korahites, were in charge of guarding the gates of the tabernacle; their fathers had guarded the entrance to the camp of Yahweh;
20 Phinehas, son of Eleazar, had formerly been their leader, and Yahweh was with him.
21 Zechariah, son of Mosollamia, was gatekeeper at the entrance to the tent of meeting.
22 All these men, chosen to be gatekeepers, numbered two hundred and twelve, recorded in the genealogies of their villages; David and Samuel the seer had appointed them to their functions.
23 They and their children were at the gates of the house of Yahweh, the house of the tabernacle, for the guards.
24 The gatekeepers stood at the four winds, to the east, to the west, to the north, and to the south.
25 Their brothers, who remained in their villages, they had to come to them from time to time, for a week.
26 For these four chief gatekeepers, who were Levites, were constantly in office, and they still had the supervision of the chambers and the treasures, in the house of God.
27 They were staying around the house of God, which they were guarding, and they had to provide for its opening every morning.
28 Some of the Levites They were in charge of the utensils used in the service, which they brought in and took out, counting them.
29 Others were in charge of the utensils, all the utensils of the sanctuary, and the fine flour, the wine, the oil, the incense, and the spices.
30 The sons of priests composed the aromatic perfumes.
31 One of the Levites, Mattathias, the firstborn son of the Sellum of Korahite, was in charge of the cakes baked on the pan.
32 And some of their brothers from among the sons of the Kaathites were charged with preparing the showbread for each Sabbath.
33 These are the singers, heads of Levite families, residing in the rooms, exempt other functions, because they were at their work day and night.
34 These were the heads of the Levite families, heads according to their generations; they lived in Jerusalem.
35 Jehiel, the father of Gibeon, lived in Gibeon, and the name of his wife was Maah.
36 Abdon, his firstborn son, Then Sur, Cis, Baal, Ner, Nadab,
37 Gedor, Ahio, Zechariah and Macelloth.
38 Macelloth fathered Samaan. They too lived near their brothers in Jerusalem, with their brothers.
39 Ner begat Cis; Cis begat Saul; Saul fathered Jonathan, Melchisua, Abinadab and Esbaal. —
40 Son of Jonathan: Meribbaal. Meribbaal begat Micha. —
41 The sons of Micha: Phithon, Melech, Tharaa.
42 Ahaz begat Jara; Jara begot Alamath, Azmoth and Zamri; Zamri begat Mosa.
43 Mosa fathered Banaa. Raphaea, his son; Elasa, his son; Asel, his son.
44 Asel had six sons, whose names are: Ezricam, Bocru, Ishmael, Zariah, Obdiah, and Hanan. These are the sons of Asel.
Chapter 10
1 When the Philistines gave battle to Israel, the men of Israel fled before the Philistines, and fell mortally wounded on the mountain of Gilboa.
2 The Philistines clung to pursue Saul and his sons, and the Philistines killed Jonathan, Abinadab and Melchisua, sons of Saul.
3 The fighting effort was directed against Saul; when the archers discovered him, he was greatly afraid of the archers.
4 Then Saul said to his armor-bearer, »Draw your sword and run me through with it, or these uncircumcised men will come and insult me.» The armor-bearer did not THE did not want TO DO, for he was seized with fear; then Saul took his sword and threw himself upon it.
5 When the armor-bearer saw that Saul was dead, he also rushed upon her sword, and died.
6 So Saul and his three sons perished, and all his house perished with them.
7 All the men of Israel who were in the plain, seeing that the children of Israel had fled, and Saul and his sons were dead, they abandoned their cities and took Also the flight; and the Philistines came and settled there.
8 The next day the Philistines came to plunder the dead, and they found Saul and his sons lying on Mount Gilboa.
9 Having stripped him, they carried off his head and his weapons; then they sent and proclaimed this good news throughout the land of the Philistines, before their idols and the people.
10 They took up arms of Saul in the house of their god, and they fastened his skull in the temple of Dagon.
11 When all Jabesh-gilead heard of everything the Philistines had done to Saul,
12 All the valiant men arose, took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons, and brought them to Jabesh. They buried their bones under the terebinth tree at Jabesh, and they fasted for seven days.
13 Saul died because of the transgression he had committed against Yahweh, because he had not observed the word of Yahweh, and because he had inquired and consulted those who summon the dead.
14 He did not consult Yahweh, and Yahweh put him to death, and transferred the kingship to David, son of Jesse.
Chapter 11
1 All Israel gathered around David at Hebron, saying, »Behold, we are your bones and your flesh.
2 Long ago, when Saul was king, it was You who led and brought back Israel. And Yahweh, your God, said to you: You shall shepherd my people Israel, and you shall be ruler over my people Israel.«
3 So All the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron, and David made a covenant with them before the Lord at Hebron; and they anointed David king over Israel, according to the word of the Lord. pronounced by Samuel.
4 David marched with all Israel against Jerusalem, which is Jebus; there were the Jebusites, inhabitants of the country.
5 The inhabitants of Jebus said to David, »You shall not enter here.» But David took possession of the stronghold of Zion: that is the city of David.
6 David said, »Whoever first defeats the Jebusites will be commander and prince.» Joab son of Zerviah went up first and became commander.
7 David settled in the stronghold; therefore it was called the City of David.
8 He built the city all around, from the Mello and its surroundings, and Joab repaired the rest of the city.
9 David grew greater and greater, and the Lord of hosts was with him.
10 These are the leaders of the heroes who were At service of David, and who, with all Israel, helped him during his reign, after contributing to make him king, according to the word of Yahweh concerning Israel.
11 Here is the number of heroes who were At service of David:
Jesbaam, son of Hashamoni, leader of the Thirty. He raised his spear against three hundred men, whom he killed at one time.
12 After him was Eleazar, son of Dodo the Ahohite; he was among the three mighty warriors.
13 He was with David at Phes-domim, and the Philistines had gathered there for battle. There were there a piece of land full of barley, and the people fled before the Philistines.
14 They stood in the middle of the field, defended it, and defeated the Philistines; and Yahweh brought about a great deliverance.
15 Three of the thirty captains went down to David on the rock at the cave of Odollam, while the Philistine camp was pitched in the valley of Rephaim.
16 David was then in the stronghold, and there was a Philistine outpost at Bethlehem.
17 David had a desire, and he said, “Who will get me water to drink from the cistern that is at the gate of Bethlehem ?«
18 Right away the three menpassing through the Philistine camp, they drew water from the cistern which is at the gate of BethlehemThey took it and brought it to David; but David refused to drink it, and instead offered it as a libation to the Lord.
19 saying, »God forbid that I should do this! Shall I drink the blood of these men with their lives? For It is "They risked their lives to bring it." And he refused to drink it. That's what those three brave men did.
20 Abisai, Joab's brother, was the leader of the Three; he raised his spear against three hundred men and THE He killed, and he gained renown among the three.
21 He was the most esteemed of the second triad, and he was their leader; but he did not equal the three first.
22 Benaiah, son of Jehoiada, son of a valiant man of great exploits, from Cabseel. He struck down the two ariels of Moab. He went down and struck down the lion in the middle of the cistern on a snowy day.
23 He struck down an Egyptian who was five cubits tall; and in the Egyptian's hand was a spear like a weaver's beam. He went down to him with a staff, and he snatched the spear from the Egyptian's hand and struck him with his own spear.
24 This is what Benaiah son of Jehoiada did, and he became renowned among the three mighty warriors.
25 Behold, he was more esteemed than the thirty, but he did not equal the three. David made him a member of his secret council.
26 valiant men of the army: Asahel, Joab's brother; Elhanan, son of Dodo, of Bethlehem ;
27 Sammoth of Arori; Hellès, from Phalon;
28 Hira, son of Achs, of Tekoa; Abiezer, of Anathoth;
29 Sobbochai the Husathite; Ilai the Ahohite;
30 Maharai, of Netophah; Heled, son of Baanah, of Netophah;
31 Ethai, son of Ribai, of Gibeah of the sons of Benjamin; Banaiah, of Pharaoh;
32 Hurai, of the valleys of Gaash; Abiel, of Araba; Azmaveth, of Bauram; Eliaba, from Salabon;
33 Bene-Assem, from Gezon; Jonathan, son of Sage, from Arar;
34 Ahiam, son of Sachar, from Arar;
35 Eliphal, son of Ur;
36 Hepher, from Meshera; Ahijah, from Pelon;
37 Hezro of Carmel; Naarai son of Asbai;
38 Joel, Nathan's brother; Mibahar, son of Agarai;
39 Select the Ammonite; Naharai of Beroth, armor-bearer to Joab son of Zeruiah;
40 Ira, of Jether; Gareb, of Jether;
41 Uriah the Hittite; Zabad son of Oholi;
42 Adina, son of Siza the Reubenite, leader of the Reubenites, and thirty with him;
43 Hanan the son of Maachah; Jehoshaphat, of Mathan;
44 Ozia, of Astaroth; Samma and Jehiel, sons of Hotham of Aroer;
45 Jedihel, son of Samri; Joha, his brother, the Tohaite;
46 Eliel of Mahum; Jeribai and Josaiah, sons of Elnaem; Jethmah the Moabite;
(47 Vulgate) Eliel, Obed and Jasiel, of Masobiah.
Chapter 12
1 These are the men who came to David at Shikeleg, while he still had to stay away from the presence of Saul son of Kish; they were among the mighty warriors who helped him during the war.
2 They were archers, trained in throw stones in the right hand and the left hand, and to to pull arrows with their bow; they were from among the brothers of Saul, of Benjamin.
3 At their head were Ahiezer, then Joash, both sons of Samaah, of Gibeah; Jaziel and Phallet, sons of Azmoth; Barachah; Jehu, of Anathoth;
4 Samaiah of Gibeon, mighty among the Thirty and leader of the Thirty; Jeremiah; Jeheziel; Johanan; Jezabad of Gedera;
5 Eluzai; Jerimuth; Baalia; Samaria; Saphatia, of Haruph;
6 Elkanah, Jesiah, Azareel, Joer, and Jeshbaam, sons of Korah;
7 Joelah and Zabadiah, sons of Jeroham, of Gedor.
8 Among the Gadites, valiant men passed by David in the strongholds in the desert: warriors trained in battle, skilled in handling shield and spear, having the appearance of lions, as agile as gazelles on the mountains.
9 Ezer was the chief; Obadiah, the second; Eliab, the third;
10 Masmana, the fourth; Jeremiah, the fifth;
11 Ethi, the sixth; Eliel, the seventh;
12 Johanan, the eighth; Elzébad, the ninth;
13 Jeremiah, the tenth; Machbanai, the eleventh.
14 These were sons of Gad, commanders of the army; one, the least, could prevail over a hundred, and the greatest over a thousand.
15 It was they who crossed the Jordan in the first month, when it overflows on all its banks, and who put to flight all the inhabitants of the valleys, to the east and to the west.
16 Some of the sons of Benjamin and Judah came to David in the strongholds.
17 David went out to meet them, addressed them, and said: »If you have come to me with peaceful intentions, to help me, my heart will turn to you, so that we may be united; but if it is to betray me treacherously to my enemies, when no violence does not attach into my hands, that the God of our fathers may see it and do justice!«
18 The Spirit came upon Amasai, leader of the Thirty, and he said »To you, David, and with you, son of Jesse! Peace, peace to you, and peace to him who helps you, for your God has helped you!» And David welcomed them and placed them among the leaders of the band.
19 Some of Manasseh's men joined David when he went with the Philistines to the war to Saul. But they did not help the Philistines ; for the Philistine princes deliberately sent back David saying, "At the peril of our lives, he would join his master Saul."»
20 As he returned to Zishaleg, some men from Manasseh joined him: Ednas, Jozabad, Jedihel, Michael, Jozabad, Eliu and Shelath, leaders of thousands of Manasseh.
21 They helped David against the raiding parties, for they were all valiant men, and they were leaders in the army.
22 And day by day men came to David's aid, until...’he would have a great army, like an army of God.
23 Here is the number of the commanders of the armed men for the war who came to David at Hebron, to transfer to him the kingship of Saul, according to the command of Yahweh.
24 The sons of Judah, bearing shield and spear, six thousand eight hundred, armed for the war. —
25 The sons of Simeon, valiant men to the war, seven thousand one hundred. —
26 Of the sons of Levi, four thousand six hundred;
27 and Joïada, chief of the family of Aaron, and with him three thousand seven hundred;
28 and Sadoc, a valiant young man, and his father's household, twenty-two chiefs.
29 Of the sons of Benjamin, brothers of Saul, three thousand; because Until then, most of them remained loyal to the house of Saul.
30 Twenty thousand eight hundred sons of Ephraim, valiant men of renown in their ancestral houses.
31 From the half-tribe of Manasseh, eighteen thousand, who were specifically chosen to go and establish David as king.
32 From the sons of Issachar, who understood the times and knew what Israel should do, two hundred leaders, and all their brothers under their command.
33 From Zebulun, fifty thousand men fit for military service, ready to the war and in perfect war gear, ready to take their positions in battle with resolute hearts.
34 From Naphtali, a thousand commanders, and with them thirty-seven thousand, bearing shields and spears.
35 Danites ready to the war, 28,600.
36 D'Aser, fit to go to the army and ready to the war, forty thousand. —
37 And on the other side of the Jordan, there were Reubenites, Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, fully equipped with weapons of war, one hundred and twenty thousand.
38 All these men of war, knowing how to arrange themselves in battle, came with a sincere heart to Hebron to establish David king over all Israel; and all the rest of Israel also had only one heart to establish David king.
39 They were there three days with David, eating and drinking, for their brothers had prepared for them provisions.
40 And even those who lived near them, as far as Issachar, Zebulun, and Naphtali, brought provisions on donkeys, camels, mules, and oxen, supplies of flour, masses of dried figs and raisins, wine, oil, oxen, and sheep in abundance; for there was Joy in Israel.
Chapter 13
1 David held council with the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, with all the princes.
2 And David said to all the congregation of Israel, »If you find it good and if it seems to be coming Let us send word of Yahweh, our God, as quickly as possible to the remnant of our brothers throughout all the lands of Israel, and also to the priests and Levites in the cities where their pastures are, so that they may join us,
3 and that we bring back to us the ark of our God, for we did not attend to it in the days of Saul.«
4 The whole assembly agreed to do so, as it seemed appropriate in the eyes of all the people.
5 David assembled SO all Israel, from the Sihor of Egypt to the entrance of Emath, to bring the ark of God from Cariathiarim.
6 And David, with all Israel, went up to Baalah, to Cariatharim, which is in Judah, to bring up from there the ark of God, of Yahweh who sits upon the Cherubim, upon which the Name is invoked.
7 They placed the ark of God on a new cart, and took him away From Abinadab's house: Oza and Ahio were driving the cart.
8 David and all Israel danced before God with all their strength, while singing, and by playing harps, lutes, tambourines, cymbals and trumpets.
9 When they arrived at the threshing floor of Chidon, Oza stretched out his hand to take hold of the ark, because the oxen had stumbled.
10 The anger of the Lord burned against Oza, and Yahweh He struck him down because he had stretched out his hand on the ark; and Oz died there before God.
11 David was angry because Yahweh had thus struck Oza; and that place has been called Pheretz-Oza to this day.
12 David was afraid of God that day, and he said, »How can I bring the ark of God to me?«
13 David did not bring the ark home to the city of David, but he had it taken to the house of Obededom the Gethite.
14 The ark of God remained three months with the family of Obededom, in his house; and Yahweh blessed the house of Obededom and all that belonged to him.
Chapter 14
1 Hiram, king of Tyre, sent messengers to David, with cedar wood, as well as stonemasons and carpenters, to build him a house.
2 And David recognized that Yahweh had established him as king over Israel, for his kingdom was highly exalted, because of his people Israel.
3 David took more wives in Jerusalem and had more sons and daughters.
4 These are the names of the children he had in Jerusalem: Samua, Sobad, Nathan, Solomon,
5 Jebahar, Elisua, Eliphalet,
6 Noga, Nepheg, Japhia,
7 Elisama, Baaiada and Eliphalet.
8 The Philistines heard that David had been anointed king over all Israel; SO All the Philistines went up to search for David. David heard of it, and he went out to meet them.
9 The Philistines, having come, rushed into the valley of Rephaim.
10 David inquired of God, saying, »Shall I go up against the Philistines? Will you deliver them into my hand?» And the Lord said to him, »Go up, and I will deliver them into your hand.«
11 They went up to Baal-Pharasim, and there David defeated them. And David said, »God has broken my enemies by my hand, as the waters break the dikes."That is why this place was given the name Baal-Pharasim.".
12 They left their gods there. And David said that they should be given over to the fire.
13 The Philistines rushed back into the valley.
14 David inquired of God again, and God said to him, »Do not go up after them; turn away from them, and you will come upon them from the direction of the balsam trees.
15 When you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the balsam trees, then you will go out to fight, for God will go out before you to defeat the army of the Philistines.«
16 David did as God commanded him, and they defeated the army of the Philistines from Gibeon to Gazer.
17 David’s fame spread throughout all the countries, and the Lord made him feared by all the nations.
Chapter 15
1 He built houses for himself in the city of David, and he prepared a place for the ark of God, and pitched a tent for it.
2 Then David said, »Only the Levites may carry the ark of God, for they are the ones whom the Lord has chosen to carry the ark of God and to minister to it forever.«
3 David assembled all Israel at Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of Yahweh in its place, which he had prepared for it.
4 David gathered Aaron's sons and the Levites:
5 of the sons of Caath, Uriel the chief and his brothers, one hundred and twenty;
6 of the sons of Merari, Asaiah the chief and his brothers, two hundred and twenty;
7 of Gersom's sons, Joel the chief and his brothers, one hundred and thirty;
8 of the sons of Elisaphan, Shemeiah the chief and his brothers, two hundred;
9 of the sons of Hebron, Eliel the chief and his brothers, eighty;
10 of the sons of Oziel, Aminadab the chief and his brothers, one hundred and twelve.
11 David summoned Zadok and Abiathar the priests, and Uriel, Asaiah, Joel, Shemeiah, Eliel, and Amminadab the Levites,
12 And he said to them, »You are the heads of the Levite families; consecrate yourselves, you and your brothers, and bring up the ark of the Lord, the God of Israel, to the place I have prepared for it.” a stay.
13 Because it was not you, the first time, the Lord our God struck us; for we did not seek him according to the law.«
14 The priests and Levites consecrated themselves to bring up the ark of Yahweh, the God of Israel.
15 And the sons of Levi, as Moses had commanded according to the word of Yahweh, carried the ark of God on their shoulders with the poles.
16 David told the leaders of the Levites to appoint their brothers the singers with musical instruments, lyres, harps and cymbals, to make a joyful and loud sound.
17 The Levites appointed Heman, son of Joel, and, among his brothers, Asaph, son of Barachiah; among the sons of Merari, their brothers, Ethan, son of Cusayah;
18 and with them their brothers of the second order, Zechariah, Ben, Jaziel, Semiramoth, Jahiel, Ani, Eliab, Banaiah, Maaziah, Mattathias, Eliphalu, Maceniah, Obededom and Jehiel, the gatekeepers.
19 The singers Heman, Asaph, and Ethan had bronze cymbals for THE to resound.
20 Zechariah, Oziel, Semiramoth, Jahiel, Ani, Eliab, Maasiah and Banai had lyres made of alamoth.
21 Mathathias, Eliphalu, Macénias, Obédédom, Jéhiel and Ozaziu had harps at the octave inferior, to preside singing.
22 Choneniah, the chief of the Levites for the transport, directed the transport, for he was knowledgeable in this matter.
23 Barachias and Elkanah were gatekeepers at the ark.
24 Shebeniah, Jehoshaphat, Nathanael, Amasai, Zechariah, Benaiah, and Eliezer, the priests, blew the trumpets before the ark of God. Obededom and Jehiah were gatekeepers beside the ark.
25 David, the elders of Israel, and the commanders of thousands set out to bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord from the house of Obeddom, in the midst of joy.
26 When God had assisted the Levites who carried the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, six bulls and six rams were sacrificed.
27 David was wearing a robe of fine linen, as were all the Levites who carried the ark, the singers, and Choneniah, who was in charge of transporting the ark., among the singers; and David had a linen ephod on him.
28 All Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of Yahweh with shouts of joy, with the sound of trumpets, bugles, and cymbals, and with the playing of lyres and harps.
29 When the ark of the covenant of Yahweh came to the city of David, Michal, daughter of Saul, looked out of the window and saw King David leaping and dancing, and she despised him in her heart.
Chapter 16
1 After the ark of God had been brought in and placed in the middle of the tent that David had pitched for it, burnt offerings and peace offerings were offered before God.
2 When David had finished offering the burnt offerings and the peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of Yahweh.
3 Then He distributed to all the Israelites, men and women, to each a loaf of bread, a portion of meat, and a cake of raisins.
4 He appointed Levites before the ark of Yahweh to minister, invoking, celebrating, and praising Yahweh, the God of Israel.
5 They were Asaph, the chief; Zechariah, the second; Then Jahiel, Sémiramoth, Jéhiel, Mattathias, Eliab, Banaïas, Obédédom and Jéhiel, with lyres and harps for instruments; and Asaph sounded the cymbals;
6 The priests Banaiah and Jaziel continually blew their trumpets before the ark of the covenant of God.
7 It was on this day that David first established that Yahweh should be praised through Asaph and his brothers:
8 Praise Yahweh, call upon his name,
Make his works known among the peoples.
9 Sing to him, sing psalms to him,
Tell us about all its wonders.
10 Glorify yourselves in his holy name;
May the hearts of those who seek Yahweh rejoice!
11 Seek Yahweh and his strength;
Keep looking for his face.
12 Remember the wonders he has done,
of his miracles and the judgments from his mouth,
13th race of Israel, his servant,
Children of Jacob, his chosen ones.
14 He, Yahweh, is our God;
his judgments practice throughout the world.
15 Remember his covenant forever.
— the word he spoke for a thousand generations.
16 From the alliance that he concluded with Abraham,
and of his oath to Isaac,
17 which he established as a law for Jacob,
for Israel in an eternal covenant,
18 saying, »To you I will give the land of Canaan,
like your share of the inheritance.«
19 While you were easy to count,
in small numbers and foreigners in the country,
20 that they wandered from one nation to another,
and from one kingdom to another people,
21 He allowed no one to oppress them,
and he punished kings because of them;
22 »Do not touch my anointed ones,
And do not harm my prophets!«
23 Sing to Yahweh, inhabitants of the whole earth;
proclaim his salvation day by day.
24 Proclaim his glory among the nations,
His wonders are among all peoples.
25 For Yahweh is great and most worthy of praise,
He is more formidable than all the gods;
26 for all the gods of the peoples are idols.
And Yahweh made the heavens;
27 Majesty and splendor are before his face;
the strength and joy are in his home.
28 Ascribe to Yahweh, families of the peoples,
Give to Yahweh glory and power.,
29 Ascribe to Yahweh glory for his name.
Bring offerings and come into his presence;
worship Yahweh in holy attire,
30 Tremble before him, inhabitants of the whole earth.
And the steadfast world will not be shaken.
31 Let the heavens rejoice
and let the earth rejoice!
Let it be said among the nations, "The Lord is king!"»
32 Let the sea resound with all that is in it!
Let the fields tremble with all that they contain!
33 Let the trees of the forest shout for joy,
before Yahweh, for he comes to judge the earth!
34 Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good,
for his mercy endures forever.
35 Say: »Save us, God of our salvation;
Gather us together and deliver us from among the nations.,
so that we may celebrate your holy name,
and that we may glory in your praise.«
36 Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel,
From eternity to eternity!
And all the people said, »Amen!» and, »Praise Yahweh!«
37 David left there, before the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, Asaph and his brothers to continually perform the service before the ark, according to the task of each day;
38 Likewise, Obededom with his brothers, number of sixty-eight, Obededom, son of Idithun, and Hosah, as gatekeepers;
39 Likewise, Zadok the priest and his fellow priests were before the dwelling place of the Lord at the high place that was at Gibeon,
40 so that they may offer burnt offerings to the Lord continually, morning and evening, on the altar of burnt offering, and to that they accomplish everything that is written in the law of Yahweh which he imposed on Israel.
41 With them were Heman and Idithun, and the rest of those who had been chosen And designated by name, to "praise Yahweh, for his mercy endures forever!"»
42 With them, knowledge, with Heman and Idithun were trumpeters and cymbals for those who were to sound them, and instruments for the songs of God. The sons of Idithun were in charge of the gate.
43 All the people went away, each to his own house; and David returned to bless his own house.
Chapter 17
1 When David was settled in his house, David said to Nathan the prophet, »Behold, I dwell in a house of cedar, and the ark of the covenant of Yahweh…” East Under the tent!«
2 Nathan answered David, »Do what is in your heart, for God is with you.«
3 That night, the word of God was addressed to Nathan in these terms:
4 » Go and tell David, my servant: This is what the Lord says: You are not the one to build me a house to live in.
5 For I have not dwelt in a house since the day I brought Israel up from Egypt to this day; but I have been from tent to tent and dwelling in default.
6 During all the time I traveled with all Israel, did I say a word to any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to shepherd my people, saying, “Why do you not build me a house of cedar?”
7 Now you shall say to my servant David, Thus says the Lord of hosts: I took you from the pasture, from tending the sheep, to be prince over my people Israel;
8 I have been with you wherever you go, I have destroyed all your enemies before you, and I have made you a name like the names of the great ones who are on the earth.
9 I have assigned a place to my people Israel, and I have planted them, and they dwell in their own home. They will no longer be disturbed, nor will the sons of iniquity oppress them anymore, as before.
10 And as on the day when I appointed judges over my people Israel, I humbled all your enemies. And I announce to you that the Lord will build you a house.
11 When your days are fulfilled and you go to be with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring to succeed you, one of your sons, and I will establish his kingdom.
12 He is the one who will build me a house, and I will establish his throne forever.
13 I will be a father to him, and he will be a son to me; and I will not withdraw my grace from him, as I withdrew it from him who... reign before you.
14 I will establish him forever in my house and in my kingdom, and his throne will be established forever.«
15 Nathan spoke to David according to all these words and all this vision.
16 And King David came and stood before Yahweh; and he said, »Who am I, Yahweh God, and what is my house that you have brought me thus far?
17 And this is still a small thing in your sight, O God! You have spoken of the house of your servant for the distant past, and you have regarded me as a man of high rank, O Yahweh God.
18 What more could David tell you about honor? granted To your servant? You know your servant.
19 Yahweh, it is for your servant’s sake and according to your own heart that you have done all these great things, to make known all these great things.
20 Yahweh, there is no one like you, and there is no God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
21 What other nation is there on earth like your people Israel, whom God came to redeem for to do his people, to make a name for yourselves by great deeds and wonders, driving out nations from before your people whom you redeemed from Egypt?
22 You have made your people Israel your people forever, and you, Yahweh, have become their God.
23 Now, Yahweh, let the word that you have spoken concerning your servant and concerning his house stand forever, and act according to your word!
24 May it endure, and may your name be glorified forever, and may it be said: The Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, is God to Israel! And may the house of David, your servant, be established before you!
25 For you yourself, O my God, have revealed to your servant that you would build him a house; therefore your servant has dared to pray before you.
26 Now, Yahweh, you are God, and you have spoken this pleasing word to your servant.
27 Now it has pleased you to bless the house of your servant, so that it may remain forever before you; for what you bless, O Lord, is blessed forever.«
Chapter 18
1 After this, David defeated the Philistines and subdued them, and he delivered Geth and its dependencies out of the hand of the Philistines.
2 He defeated the Moabites, and the Moabites became slaves to David, bringing him tribute.
3 David defeated Hadarezer king of Zobah near Hamath, as he was on his way to establish his dominion over the river Euphrates.
4 David took from him a thousand chariots, seven thousand horsemen and twenty thousand foot soldiers; David hamstrung all the chariot horses, and left only a hundred chariot teams.
5 When the Syrians of Damascus came to the aid of Haderazer, king of Zobah, David defeated twenty-two thousand Syrians.
6 David mit garrisons in the Syria from Damascus; the Syrians were slaves to David, bringing tribute. Yahweh gave David victory wherever he went.
7 David took the golden shields that were on the servants of Haderazer and brought them to Jerusalem.
8 David took Again a large quantity of bronze at Thebath and Chun, cities of Hadarezer; Solomon made from it the bronze sea, the bronze pillars and utensils.
9 When Thu, king of Hamath, heard that David had defeated all the forces of Haderazer, king of Zobah,
10 He sent Adoram, his son, to King David, to greet him and to congratulate him on attacking Hadarezer and defeating him; for Thou was constantly at war with Hadarezer. He sent also all kinds of vases of gold, silver and bronze.
11 King David dedicated them to Yahweh with the silver and gold that he had taken from all the nations, from Edom, from Moab, from the sons of Ammon, from the Philistines and from Amalek.
12 Abisai, son of Zeruiah, defeated the Edomites in the Valley of Salt, number of eighteen thousand.
13 He placed garrisons in Edom, and all Edom became subject to David. And the Lord gave David victory wherever he went.
14 David reigned over all Israel, and he did justice and righteousness for all his people.
15 Joab, son of Zervia, was in command of the army; Jehoshaphat, son of Ahilud, was recorder;
16 Zadok, son of Ahitob, and Ahimelech, son of Abiathar, were priests; Susa was secretary;
17 Benaiah, son of Jehoiada, was chief of the Cherethites and the Phelethites; and the sons of David were first at the king’s side.
Chapter 19
1 After this, Naas, king of the Ammonites, died, and his son reigned in his place.
2 David said, »I will show kindness to Hanon son of Naash, because his father has shown me kindness.» So David sent messengers to comfort him concerning his father. When David’s servants arrived in the land of the Ammonites to comfort Hanon,
3 The princes of the Ammonites said to Hanon, »Do you think that David is sending you comforters to honor your father? Have his servants not come to you to spy out and destroy, and to explore the land?«
4 Then Hanon seized David’s servants, shaved them, and cut off their garments halfway up to their hips, and sent them away.
5 They went and informed David of what had happened to his men, and he sent people to meet them, for these men were in great confusion, and the king sent word to them: »Stay in Jericho until your beards have grown back, and then you will return Next.«
6 The Ammonites saw that they had made themselves odious to David, and Hanon and the Ammonites sent a thousand talents of silver to hire chariots and horsemen from the Syrians of Mesopotamia and from the Syrians of Maah and Zobah.
7 They hired thirty-two thousand chariots, and the king of Maah with his people, who came and camped near Medaba. The Ammonites gathered from their cities and came to battle.
8 David heard about it and sent forth against them Joab and all the army, the valiant men.
9 The sons of Ammon went out and drew up their battle lines at the gate of the city; the kings who had come were apart in the countryside.
10 When Joab saw that there was a battle front in front of him and behind him, he chose a corps from among all the elite of Israel and arranged them opposite the Syrians,
11 And he placed the rest of the people under the command of his brother Abishai, arranging them opposite the Ammonites. He said:
12 »If the Syrians are stronger than me, you will come to my aid; and if the Ammonites are stronger than you, I will help you.”.
13 Be steadfast, and let us fight valiantly for our people and for the cities of our God, and may the Lord do what seems good in his eyes!«
14 So Joab and the people with him advanced against the Syrians to attack them, but they fled from him.
15 When the Ammonites saw that the Syrians had fled, they too fled from Abisai, brother of Joab, and returned to the city. And Joab returned to Jerusalem.
16 When the Syrians saw that they had been defeated before Israel, they sent messengers to summon the Syrians who were on the other side of the river; and Sophah, commander of Haderazer's army, walking in front of them.
17 David received the news and, having gathered all Israel, he crossed the Jordan, came to them, and prepared the attack against them; and David arranged his army in battle against the Syrians. They engaged him in combat,
18 But the Syrians fled before Israel, and David killed the Syrians horses seven thousand chariots and forty thousand foot soldiers; he also put to death Sophach, the commander of the army.
19 Hadarezer's vassals, seeing themselves defeated before Israel, did peace They were subjugated along with David. And the Syrians refused to help the Ammonites any longer.
Chapter 20
1 At the time of the new year, when kings go out to war, Joab led a large army and ravaged the land of the Ammonites and came to besiege Rabbah. But David remained in Jerusalem. Joab defeated Rabbah and destroyed it.
2 David removed the crown from their king's head, and he y found the weight of a talent of gold; and he there was on it was a precious stone, and it was putting on David's head. And he carried off a very large amount of plunder from the city.
3 As for the people who were there, he’in he brought out, and he THE They tore them apart with saws, iron picks, and axes; and David did the same to all the cities of the Ammonites. Then David returned to Jerusalem with all the people.
4 After this, a battle took place at Gazer with the Philistines. Then Saboshai the Husathite killed Shaphia, mon descendants of Rapha, and the Philistines were humiliated.
5 There was another battle with the Philistines; and Elhanan, son of Jair, killed Lahmi, brother of Goliath, of Geth; the shaft of his spear was like a weaver’s beam.
6 There was another battle at Geth. There was a man of great height who had six fingers to each hand and to each foot, twenty-four in all, and he too was descended from Rapha.
7 He insulted Israel, and Jonathan, son of Shema, David's brother, killed him.
8 These men were sons of Rapha in Geth; they perished by the hand of David and by the hand of his servants.
Chapter 21
1 Satan stood against Israel, and incited David to take a census of Israel.
2 And David said to Joab and the leaders of the people, »Go, count Israel from Beersheba to Dan, and bring me a report, so that I may know their number.«
3 Joab replied, »May the Lord add to his people a hundred times what they are! O king, my lord, are they not all slaves of my lord? Why then does my lord ask this? Why bring sin upon Israel?«
4 But the king's word prevailed against Joab. Joab departed and traveled throughout all Israel, and returned to Jerusalem.
5 And Joab gave to David the count of the people: there were in all Israel eleven hundred thousand men who drew the sword, and in Judah four hundred seventy thousand men who drew the sword.
6 He did not take a census of Levi and Benjamin among them, because the king's order was repugnant to Joab.
7 God saw this matter with displeasure, and he struck Israel.
8 And David said to God, »I have sinned greatly in doing this. Now please take away the iniquity of your servant, for I have acted very foolishly.«
9 Yahweh spoke to Gad, David's seer, saying:
10 »Go and speak to David, saying: ‘Thus says the Lord: I am setting before you three things ; Choose one, and I'll make it for you.«
11 Gad came to David and said to him, »This is what the Lord says: Choose,
12 or three years of famine, or three months during which You will be carried away before your adversaries and struck by the sword of your enemies, or three days during which The sword of the Lord and the plague will be in the land, and the angel of the Lord will bring destruction throughout all the territory of Israel. Now consider what answer I should give to the one who sent me.«
13 David said to Gad, »I am in great distress. Oh, that I might fall into the hands of the Lord, for his mercies are very great, and not into the hands of men!«
14 And Yahweh sent a plague upon Israel, and seventy thousand men fell in Israel.
15 And God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it; and while he was destroying it, the Lord saw and relented concerning this disaster, and said to the angel who was destroying, »Enough! Now withdraw your hand.» The angel of the Lord was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jesubean.
16 David looked up and saw the angel of the Lord standing between heaven and earth, with a drawn sword in his hand, stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, covered in sackcloth, fell facedown.
17 And David said to God, »Did I not say to take a census of the people? It is I who have sinned and done wrong; but these, these sheep, what have they done? O Lord my God, let your hand be upon me and upon my father’s house, but not upon your people to destroy them.«
18 The angel of Yahweh commanded Gad to tell David to go up and erect an altar to Yahweh on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
19 David went up, according to the word of Gad which he had spoken in the name of Yahweh.
20 Ornan, having turned around, saw the angel, and he hid himself, he and his four sons: Ornan was threshing wheat at that time.
21 When David arrived near Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David; coming out right away From the threshing floor, he bowed down before David with his face to the ground.
22 David said to Ornan, »Give me the site of the threshing floor, and I will build an altar to the Lord there; give it to me for its full value in silver, so that the plague may be averted from the people.«
23 Ornan said to David, »Take it, and let my lord the king do what seems good to him. Look, I am giving the oxen for the burnt offering, the sledges for the wood, and the wheat for the grain offering; I am giving all of it.«
24 But King David said to Ornan, »No! I want to buy it for its full value in silver, for I will not take what is yours for the Lord, nor will I offer a burnt offering that costs me nothing.«
25 David gave Ornan a weight of six hundred shekels of gold for the site.
26 And David built an altar there to the Lord, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. He cried out to the Lord, and the Lord answered him with fire who went down from heaven on the altar of burnt offering.
27 And Yahweh spoke to the angel, and the angel put his sword back into its sheath.
28 At that time, David, seeing that Yahweh had answered him at the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, offered sacrifices there.
29 The tabernacle of Yahweh, which Moses had built in the wilderness, and the altar of burnt offerings were at that time on the high place of Gibeon.
30 But David could not go ahead this altar to honor God, because he had been terrified by the sword of the angel of Yahweh.
Chapter 22
1 And David said, »This is the house of the Lord God, and this is the altar for the burnt offerings of Israel.«
2 David ordered that the foreigners who were in the land of Israel be gathered together, and he appointed stonemasons to cut dressed stones for the construction of the house of God.
3 David also prepared a great quantity of iron for the nails in the doorposts and for the clamps, and an incalculable quantity of bronze,
4 and countless cedar logs; for the Sidonians and Tyrians had brought David an abundance of cedar logs.
5 David said, »My son Solomon is young and weak, and the house that will be built for the Lord must be exceedingly magnificent, so that it may be renowned and glorious throughout all the lands; therefore I want to make preparations for it.» And David made many preparations before his death.
6 David summoned Solomon his son and commanded him to build a house to Yahweh, the God of Israel.
7 David said to Solomon, »My son, I had intended to build a house in the name of Yahweh, my God.
8 But the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, “You have shed much blood and have waged great wars; you shall not build a house for my name, because you have shed much blood on the earth before me.”.
9 Behold, a son shall be born unto you, who shall be a quiet man; I will give him rest from all his enemies around him; for Solomon shall be his name, and I will give in Israel peace and tranquility throughout his life.
10 He is the one who will build a house for my name; he will be my son, and I will be to him a father, and I will establish his royal throne over Israel forever.
11 Now, my son, may the Lord be with you, so that you may prosper and build the house of the Lord your God, according to what he has said about you.
12 Only may Yahweh grant you prudence and understanding, when he gives you authority over Israel, so that you may observe the law of Yahweh your God!
13 Then you will prosper if you carefully observe the statutes and ordinances that the Lord commanded Moses for Israel. Be strong and courageous; do not be afraid or discouraged.
14 Behold, by my efforts I have prepared for the house of the Lord one hundred thousand talents of gold, one million talents of silver; but as for bronze and iron, no one can THE Weigh it out, because there is plenty; I have also prepared wood and stones, and you will add more.
15 You have with you a multitude of workers, stonecutters, craftsmen in stone and wood, and skilled in every kind of work.
16 Gold, silver, bronze, and iron are without number. Arise! To work! And may the Lord be with you!«
17 David commanded all the leaders of Israel to come to the aid of Solomon, his son, saying :
18 »Is not the Lord your God with you? Has he not given you rest on every side? For he has delivered the inhabitants of the land into my hands, and the land is subdued before the Lord and his people.”.
19 Now therefore, set your heart and soul to seek the Lord your God; arise and build the sanctuary of the Lord God, so that you may bring the ark of the covenant of the Lord and the holy vessels of God into the house which shall be built in the name of the Lord.«
Chapter 23
1 David, old and full of years, made Solomon his son king over Israel.
2 He gathered together all the leaders of Israel, the priests and the Levites.
3 The Levites were counted, from the age of thirty years and above; their number, per head and per man, was thirty-eight thousand.
4 And David said: »Of these, let twenty-four thousand be appointed to the offices of the house of Yahweh, let six thousand be scribes and magistrates,
5 four thousand gatekeepers, and four thousand praising Yahweh with the instruments I made to praise him.«
6 David divided them into divisions, according to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
7 Of the Gersonites: Leedan and Semei.
8 Sons of Leedan: the chief Jahiel, Zetham and Joel: three.
9 The sons of Shemei: Shelomith, Hozziel, and Aran: three. These are the heads of families descended from Leedan.
10 The sons of Shemei: Leheth, Ziza, Jaus, and Bariah. These are the four sons of Shemei;
11 Leheth was the chief, and Ziza the second; Jaus and Bariah did not have many sons and they were numbered, according to their family, into one division.
12 Sons of Kohath: Amram, Isaar, Hebron, and Uziel: four.
13 The sons of Amram: Aaron and Moses. Aaron was set apart to be sanctified as most holy, he and his sons forever, to burn incense before Yahweh, to minister to him, and to bless in his name forever.
14 As for Moses, the man of God, his sons were counted in the tribe of Levi.
15 The sons of Moses: Gershom and Eliezer.
16 Sons of Gersom: Subuel, the chief.
17 Eliezer's sons were: Rehobiah, the chief; Eliezer had no other sons, but Rehobiah's sons were very numerous.
18 Sons of Isaar: Salomith, the chief.
19 The sons of Hebron: Jeriau, the chief; Amariah, the second; Jahaziel, the third; and Jecmaam, the fourth, —
20 Sons of Oziel: Micah, the chief; Jesiah, the second.
21 Sons of Merari: Moholi and Musi. — Sons of Moholi: Eleazar and Cis.
22 Eleazar died without having any sons, but only daughters; the sons of Cish, their brothers, took them for women. —
23 Sons of Musi: Molohi, Eder and Jerimoth: three.
24 These were the sons of Levi according to their families, the heads of families according to how they were numbered, by name counted by head; they did the work of the service of the house of Yahweh, from the age of twenty years and above.
25 For David said, »The Lord, the God of Israel, has given rest to his people, and they will dwell forever in Jerusalem;
26 And as for the Levites, they will no longer have to carry the Tabernacle and all the utensils for its service.«
27 It was according to David’s last orders that the census was taken of the sons of Levi from the age of twenty years and above.
28 For their function was to put at the disposal of Aaron's sons for the service of the house of Yahweh, concerning the courts and the chambers, the purification of all holy things, and the work of the service of the house of God;
29 concerning the breads of the Presence, the fine flour for the offerings, the unleavened cakes, what is cooked on the pan and what was mixed together, everything that needed to be weighed and measured.
30 They had to present themselves every morning and every evening, in order to celebrate and praise Yahweh,
31 and to offer all the burnt offerings to Yahweh on the Sabbaths, the New Moons, and the appointed feasts, according to the number prescribed by the law to offer in perpetuity before Yahweh.
32 They were to devote themselves to the care of the tent of meeting, to the care of the holy things, and to the care of Aaron's sons, their brothers, for the service of the house of Yahweh.
Chapter 24
1 As for the sons of Aaron, here is their classes:
Aaron's sons: Nadab, Abiu, Eleazar and Ithamar.
2 Nadab and Abiu died before their father, without having any sons, and Eleazar and Ithamar fulfilled the functions of the priesthood.
3 David, Zadok, of the descendants of Eleazar, and Ahimelech, of the descendants of Ithamar, distributed the son of Aaron by classes according to their service.
4 More leaders were found among the sons of Eleazar than among the sons of Ithamar, and they were divided among them Thus : for the sons of Eleazar, sixteen heads of families, and, for the sons of Ithamar, eight heads of families.
5 They were divided by lot, one after the other, for there were princes of the sanctuary and princes of God both among the sons of Eleazar and among the sons of Ithamar.
6 Shemeiah, son of Nathanael, the secretary, A Levites, he enrolled them before the king and the princes, in front Sadoc the big priest, and Ahimelech, son of Abiathar, and in front the heads of priestly and Levitical families, one family being drawn by chance for Eleazar, then a family for Ithamar.
7 The first lot fell to Jehoiarib, the second to Jedei,
8 the third to Harim, the fourth to Seorim,
9, the fifth to Melchia, the sixth to Maiman,
10, the seventh at Accos, the eighth at Abia,
11 the ninth to Jesus, the tenth to Shecheniah,
12 the eleventh to Eliasib, the twelfth to Jacim,
13 the thirteenth to Hoppha, the fourteenth to Ishbaab,
14, the fifteenth to Belga, the sixteenth to Emmer,
15 the seventeenth at Hezir, the eighteenth at Aphses,
16 the nineteenth in Pheteiah, the twentieth in Hezekiel,
17, the twenty-first in Jachin, the twenty-second in Gamul,
18 the twenty-third to Dalaiau, the twenty-fourth to Mazziaau.
19 These were their divisions according to their service, so that they might come to the house of the Lord, according to the decree they had received from Aaron their father, as THE Yahweh, the God of Israel, had commanded him.
20 Here the chiefs of the rest of the Levites: of the sons of Amram: Subael; of the sons of Subael: Jehediah;
21 of Rohobiah, of the sons of Rohobiah: the chief Jeziah.
22 Of the Isaarites: Salemoth; of the sons of Salemoth: Jahath.
23 Sons of Hebron Jeriau the first, Amarias the second, Jahaziel the third, Jecmaan the fourth.
24 Sons of Oziel: Micha; of the sons of Micha: Samir;
25. Micah's brother: Jesiah; Jesiah's son: Zechariah.
26 Sons of Merari: Moholi and Musi.
27 The sons of Merari, by Uzziah his son: Saam, Zechar, and Hebri.
28 Of Moholi: Eleazar, who had no sons;
29 of Cish, the sons of Cish; Jerahmeel.
30 Sons of Musi: Moholi, Eder and Jerimoth.
31 These were the sons of Levi, according to their families. They too, like their brothers, the sons of Aaron, cast lots before King David, in front Zadok and Achimelech, and in front the heads of priestly and Levitical families, the older ones being on the same footing as the younger ones.
Chapter 25
1 David and the commanders of the army set apart for service some of the sons of Asaph, Heman and Idithun who prophesied with the harp, lyre and cymbals.
Here is their number — of those who were engaged in service —:
2 Of the sons of Asaph: Zechariah, Joseph, Nathanaia, and Asarela, sons of Asaph, under the direction of Asaph, who prophesied according to the king's instructions.
3 Of Idithun, the sons of Idithun: Godolias, Sori, Jesaïas, Hasabias, Mathathias and Semei, Six, according to the orders of their father Idithun, who prophesied with the lyre to celebrate and praise Yahweh.
4 Of Heman, the sons of Heman: Bocciaü, Mathaniau, Oziel, Subuel, Jerimoth, Hananiah, Hanani, Eliatha, Geddelthi, Romemthiezer, Jeshbacassa, Mellothi, Othir and Mahazioth;
5 They were all sons of Heman, seers of the king in the words of God, to exalt its power: God had given Heman fourteen sons and three daughters.
6 All these Levites were under the command of their fathers for the singing of the house of Yahweh, having cymbals, lyres and harps for the service of the house of God, under the command of David, Asaph, Idithun and Heman.
7 Their number, including their brothers trained in singing Yahweh, all those who had skill, was two hundred and eighty-eight.
8 They cast lots for their roles, both small and great, teachers and disciples.
9 The first lot fell to Joseph for Asaph; the second to Gedaliah: him, his brothers, and his sons: twelve;
10 the third, to Zachur: him, his sons and brothers: twelve;
11 the fourth, at Isari: him, his sons and brothers: twelve;
12, the fifth one to Nathania: him, his sons and brothers: twelve;
13, the sixth one to Bocciaü: him, his sons and brothers: twelve;
14 the seventh in Israel: him, his sons and brothers: twelve;
15 the eighth to Jesaiah: him, his sons and brothers: twelve;
16, the ninth, to Mathanias: him, his sons and brothers: twelve;
17 the tenth to Semeias: him, his sons and brothers: twelve;
18, the eleventh to Azaréel: him, his sons and brothers: twelve;
19 the twelfth at Hasabias: him, his sons and brothers: twelve;
20, the thirteenth at Subuël: him, his sons and brothers: twelve;
21 the fourteenth to Mathathias: him, his sons and brothers: twelve;
22 the fifteenth to Jerimoth: him, his sons and brothers: twelve;
23, the sixteenth, to Hananias: him, his sons and brothers: twelve;
24 the seventeenth at Jesbacassa: him, his sons and brothers: twelve;
25, the eighteenth, in Hanani: him, his sons and brothers: twelve;
26 the nineteenth at Mellothi: him, his sons and brothers: twelve;
27, the twentieth to Eliatha: him, his sons and brothers: twelve;
28, the twenty-first, to Othir: him, his sons and brothers: twelve;
29 the twenty-second at Geddelthi: him, his sons and brothers: twelve;
30 the twenty-third to Mahazioth: him, his sons and brothers: twelve;
31 the twenty-fourth at Romemthiézer: him, his sons and brothers: twelve.
Chapter 26
1. Here are the doorman classes:
Of the Korahites: Meselemiah, son of Korah, one of the sons of Asaph.
2 Sons of Meselemiah: Zechariah, the firstborn; Jadihel the second, Zebadhiah the third, Jathanael the fourth,
3 Elam the fifth, Johanan the sixth, Elioenai the seventh.
4 The sons of Obededom: Shemeiah, the firstborn; Jozabad the second, Joah the third, Sachar the fourth, Nathanael the fifth,
5 Ammiel the sixth, Issachar the seventh, Phollathi the eighth; for God had blessed Obededom. —
6 To Shemeiah, his son, sons were born who were leaders in their father’s house, for they were valiant men.
7 Sons of Semeiah: Othni, Raphael, Obed, Elzabad and his brothers, valiant men, Eliu and Samachias.
8 All these were sons of Obededom; they, their sons, and their brothers, brave and strong men for service, were among the sixty-two, from from Obededom.
9 Meselemiah had sons and brothers, valiant men, number of eighteen.
10 Hosah, of the sons of Merari, had a son: Shemri, the chief: he was not the firstborn, but his father had appointed him chief;
11 Helcias the second, Tabelias the third, Zechariah the fourth. All the sons and brothers of Hosah were among the thirteen.
12 These classes of gatekeepers, the leaders of these men, had, besides their brothers, functions for the service of the house of Yahweh.
13 They cast lots for each gate, small and large, according to their families.
14 Fate for the side of The east fell to Selemiah. Lots were cast for Zechariah, his son, who was a wise counselor, and the side of the The northern territory fell to him.
15 The side of the noon fell to Obededom, and the storehouse to his sons.
16 To Sephim and Hosah fell THE side of to the west, near the Schalléketh gate, on the way up: one guard was facing the other.
17 There was to the east six Levites, to the north four per day, to the south four per day, and four to the shops, two by two;
18 on the outbuildings side, to the west, four towards the road, two at the outbuildings.
19 These are the classes of gatekeepers, from among the sons of the Korahites and the sons of Merari.
20 The Levites, their brothers, had the stewardship of the treasures of the house of God and of the treasures of the consecrated things.
21 Among the sons of Ledan, know the sons of the Gershonites from Ledan, heads of the families of Ledan the Gershonite, that was Jehiel;
22 The sons of Jehiel, Zathan and Joel, his brother, were in charge of the treasures of the house of Yahweh.
23 Among the Amramites, the Isaarites, the Hebronites, and the Uzihelites,
24 This was Subuel, son of Gershom, son of Moses, who was the chief steward of the treasury.
25 Among his brothers descended from Eliezer, whose son was Rahabiah, whose son was Jesse, whose son was Joram, whose son was Zechariah, whose son was Shelemith,
26 It was Selemith and his brothers who had the stewardship of all the treasures of the holy things that King David had consecrated, the heads of families, with the commanders of thousands and hundreds, and the commanders of the army:
27 they had dedicated them on the spoils taken from the war, for the upkeep of the house of Yahweh.
28 All that Samuel the seer, Saul son of Cish, Abner son of Ner, Joab son of Zervia, or anyone else had dedicated was in the hand of Shelemith and his brothers.
29 Among the Isaarites, Chonenias and his sons were employed for foreign affairs in Israel, as scribes and as magistrates.
30 Among the Hebronites, Hasabiah and his brothers, valiant men, number of one thousand seven hundred, had the supervision of Israel on the other side of the Jordan, to the west, for all the affairs of Yahweh and the service of the king.
31 For the Hebronites, Jeriah was the leader; — For the Hebronites, according to their genealogies, by families, a search was made in the fortieth year of David's reign, and valiant men were found among them at Jazer Gilead;
32 and his brothers, valiant men, were among the two thousand seven hundred heads of families. King David appointed them over the Reubenites, over the Gadites and over the half-tribe of Manasseh for all matters of God and matters of the king.
Chapter 27
1 The children of Israel according to their number, heads of families, commanders of thousands and hundreds, officers in the king's service for all matters concerning the divisions, those arriving and those departing, month by month, throughout all the months of the year, — each division being twenty-four thousand men,— were :
2. At the top of the first division, for the first month, was Jeshboam, son of Zabdiel, and there was in its division twenty-four thousand men.
3 He was from among the sons of Peres, and he commanded all the leaders of the troops of the first month.
4 At the head of the second month division was Dudia, the Ahohite; Macelloth, the prince, was a leader of its division; and there was in its division twenty-four thousand men. —
5 The head of the third division, for the third month, was Banaiah, son of Jehoiada the priest, chief; and there was in its division twenty-four thousand men.
6 This Banaias was the hero of the Thirty, at the head of the Thirty; Amizabad, his son, was a leader of its division.
7 The fourth, for the fourth month, was Asahel, Joab's brother, and after him, Zebadiah, his son; and there was in its division twenty-four thousand men. —
8 The fifth, for the fifth month, was the chief Samaoth the Izrahite; and there was in its division twenty-four thousand men. —
9 The sixth, for the sixth month, was Hira, son of Acces, of Thecua; and there was in its division twenty-four thousand men. —
10 The seventh, for the seventh month, was Helles the Phallonite, of the sons of Ephraim; and there was in its division twenty-four thousand men. —
11 The eighth, for the eighth month, was Soboshai the Husathite, of the family of the Zarahites; and there was in its division twenty-four thousand men. —
12 The ninth, for the ninth month, was Abiezer of Anathoth, of the sons of Benjamin; and there was in its division twenty-four thousand men. —
13 The tenth, for the tenth month, was Marai of Netophah, of the family of the Zaharites; and there was in its division twenty-four thousand men. —
14 The eleventh, for the eleventh month, was Banaiah of Pharathon, the sons of Ephraim; and there was in its division twenty-four thousand men. —
15 The twelfth, for the twelfth month, was Holdai of Netophah, of the family of Othoniel; and there was in its division twenty-four thousand men. —
16 And there was at the head of the tribes of Israel: of the Reubenites: Eliezer, son of Zechariah; of the Simeonites: Shaphatias, son of Maah;
17 of the Levites: Hasabiahs, son of Camuel; of the family Aaron's: Sadoc;
18 of Judah: Elijah, brother of David; of Issachar, Amri, son of Michael;
19 of Zebulun: Jeshmaiah, son of Obadiah; of Naphtali: Jerimoth, son of Ozriel;
20 of the sons of Ephraim: Hoshea, son of Uzaziu; of the half-tribe of Manasseh: Joel, son of Phaedaiah;
21 of the half-tribe of Manasseh, in Gilead: Jaddo, son of Zechariah; of Benjamin: Jasiel, son of Abner;
22 of Dan: Ezrihel, son of Jeroham. These are the princes of the tribes of Israel.
23 David did not take a census of those who were twenty years old and under, because Yahweh had said that he would multiply Israel like the stars of heaven.
24 Joab, son of Zerviah, had begun the census, but he did not L'’did not finish, the anger of Yahweh having come to Israel because of this, and the result was not recorded in the chronicles of King David.
25 Asmoth, son of Adiel, was in charge on the king's treasures; Jonathan, son of Uzziah, on the treasures in the fields, in the cities, in the villages, and in the towers;
26 Ezri, son of Shelub, over the field workers who cultivated the land;
27 Shemei of Ramah, on the vineyards; Zabdiah of Shapham, on the wine stores in the vineyards;
28 Balanan of Geder, concerning the olive trees and sycamore trees in the Sephelah; Joash, concerning the stores of oil;
29 Sethrai of Sharon, over the cattle that grazed in Sharon; Shaphat son of Adli, over the cattle in the valleys;
30 Ubil the Ishmaelite, on camels; Jadias the Meronathite, on donkeys;
31 Jaziz the Hagarenite was in charge of the sheep. All these were stewards of King David’s property.
32 Jonathan, David's uncle, was an advisor; he was a man of understanding and knowledge. Jahiel, son of Hashamoni, was with the king's sons.
33 Achitophel was an advisor to the king, and Chusai the Archean was a friend of the king;
34 after Ahithophel, Jehoiada son of Benaiah, and Abiathar. Joab was commander of the king's army.
Chapter 28
1 David gathered together in Jerusalem all the princes of Israel: the princes of the tribes, the commanders of the divisions that served the king, the commanders of thousands and the commanders of hundreds, the overseers of all the possessions and livestock of the king and his sons, as well as the overseers and the mighty men—all the mighty men.
2 King David stood up and said, »Listen to me, my brothers and my people. I had it 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 was making preparations for the construction.
3 But God said to me, “You shall not build a house for my name, because you are a man of war and have shed blood.”.
4 Yahweh, the God of Israel, has chosen me from all my father's house, to that I were king over Israel forever. For he has chosen Judah to be leader; and in the house of Judah, he chose my father's house, and among my father's sons, he was pleased with me to me to rule over all Israel.
5 And among all my sons, — for Yahweh has given me many sons, — he has chosen my son Solomon to sit on the throne of the kingship of Yahweh, over Israel.
6 He said to me, “It is Solomon, your son, who will build my house and my courts, for I have chosen him for my son, and I will be a father to him.”.
7 I will establish his kingdom forever, if he remains attached, as He is today, to the practice of my commandments and my ordinances.
8 Now, in the sight of all Israel, of the assembly of Yahweh, and before our God who hears us, keep and carefully observe all the commandments of Yahweh your God, so that you may possess this good land and pass it on as an inheritance to your children after you forever.
9 And you, Solomon, my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and a devoted soul, for the Lord searches all hearts and understands every plan of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.
10 Now see that Yahweh has chosen you to build a house that will be her Sanctuary. Be strong, and get to work.«
11 David gave to Solomon his son the design of the portico and the buildings, treasury rooms, upper rooms, inner rooms which were attached to it, as well as the mercy seat;
12 the plan of everything that he had in mind concerning the courts of the house of Yahweh and all the surrounding chambers, for the treasures of the house of God and the treasures of the sanctuary,
13 for the divisions of the priests and Levites, for all the work of the service of the house of Yahweh, and for all the utensils employees in the service of the house of Yahweh;
14 the model of the utensils of gold, with the weight of the gold, for all the utensils of each service; the model of all the silver utensils, with the weight, for all the utensils of each service;
15 the weight of the gold candlesticks and their gold lamps, according to the weight of each candlestick and its lamps, and the weight of silver candlesticks, according to the weight of each candlestick;
16 the weight of gold for the tables of the showbread, for each table, and the weight of the money for the silver tables;
17 the model forks, ewers and cups of pure gold; gold amphorae, with the weight of each amphora; silver amphorae, with the weight of each amphora;
18 of the altar of incense made of refined gold, according her weight; the tank model of God, golden Cherubim that extend their wings and cover the ark of the covenant of Yahweh.
19 » All of this, said David, all the works of This model, Yahweh me instructed by a written document, in his own hand, came to me.«
20 David said to Solomon his son, »Be strong and courageous! Get to work! Do not be afraid or discouraged, for the Lord God, my God, will be with you; he will not leave you nor forsake you, until all the work for the service of the house of Yahweh is finished.
21 And here with you the divisions of the priests and Levites for all the service of the house of God; with you, for every kind of work, are also all the men dedicated and skilled, for all works; Finally, the leaders and the people for the execution of All your orders.«
Chapter 29
1 King David said to the whole assembly, »My son Solomon, the only one whom God has chosen, is young and weak, and the work is considerable; for this palace is not for a man, but for Yahweh God.
2 I have put all my effort into preparing gold for the house of my God, objects gold, silver for objects of silver, of bronze for objects of bronze, of iron for objects iron, wood for objects of wood, onyx stones and stones to be set, ornamental stones of various colors, all kinds of precious stones and marble stones in abundance.
3 Moreover, in my affection for the house of God, for the gold and silver which are my own, I THE give to the house of my God, besides all that I have prepared for the house of the sanctuary:
4 three thousand talents of gold, gold from Ophir, and seven thousand talents of refined silver, to overlay the walls of the chambers,
5 gold for objects gold, silver for objects of money, and for all the work done by the workers' hands. Who today wants to spontaneously fill their hand of offerings for Yahweh?«
6 The heads of families, the princes of the tribes of Israel, the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, and the king's stewards, made voluntary offerings.
7 They gave for the work from the house of God five thousand talents of gold, ten thousand darics, ten thousand talents of silver, eighteen thousand talents of bronze and one hundred thousand talents of iron.
8 Those who owned stones precious they gave them, for the treasury of the house of Yahweh, into the hands of Jahiel the Gershonite.
9 The people rejoiced over their freewill offerings, for they were making these freewill offerings to Yahweh from a perfect heart; King David also rejoiced greatly.
10 David blessed Yahweh in the sight of all the assembly; and David said: »Blessed are you, Yahweh, God of our father Israel, from everlasting to everlasting!”
11 To you, Yahweh, belong the greatness, the power, the majesty, the splendor, and the glory, for all that is in heaven and on earth, belongs to you ; to you, Yahweh, belongs the kingdom; to you is to rise supremely above all.
12 of you drift wealth and glory; you rule over all; in your hand are strength and power, and to your hand it belongs to to give all things grandeur and solidity.
13 Now therefore, O our God, we praise you and celebrate your glorious name.
14 For who am I, and who are my people, that we should have the power and the strength to make such offerings willingly? Everything comes from you, and we give you what we received from your hand.
15 For we are strangers and colonists before you, as were all our fathers; our days on earth are like a shadow, and there is no hope.
16 Yahweh, our God, all these riches that we have prepared to build you a house for your holy name, It is of your hand that’they come, And It is to you that All belongs.
17 I know, O my God, that you search hearts and that you love uprightness; therefore I have willingly made all these offerings in the uprightness of my heart, and now I see with joy your people who are here making their offerings to you willingly.
18 Yahweh, God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, our fathers, preserve this forever arrangement like the shape of the feelings in the hearts of your people, and keep their hearts turned towards you.
19 And to my son Solomon give a perfect heart to observe your commandments, your precepts, and your laws, to put them all into practice, and to build the palace for which I have made preparations.«
20 David said to the whole assembly, »Therefore bless the Lord your God.» And the whole assembly blessed the Lord, the God of their fathers; they bowed down and worshiped before the Lord and before the king.
21 The next day they sacrificed animals to the Lord, and offered as a burnt offering to the Lord a thousand bulls, a thousand rams, and a thousand lambs, with their customary drink offerings, and’others sacrifices in great numbers for all Israel;
22 They ate and drank that day before the Lord with great joy. For the second time, they proclaimed Solomon, son of David, king, and anointed him as ruler before the Lord; and they anointed Sadoc like big priest.
23 Solomon sat on the throne of Yahweh as king, in place of David his father; he prospered, and all Israel obeyed him.
24 All the leaders and valiant men, even all the sons of King David, submitted to King Solomon.
25 Yahweh raised Solomon to the highest degree in the sight of all Israel, and he gave to his reign a glory which no king in Israel before him had ever had.
26 David, son of Jesse, reigned over all Israel.
27 The time that he reigned over Israel was forty years; he reigned seven years in Hebron, and he reigned thirty-three years in Jerusalem.
28 He died at a good old age, full of days, riches, and glory; and Solomon his son reigned in his place.
29 The acts of King David, first and last, are written in the chronicle of Samuel the seer, in the chronicle of Nathan the prophet, and in the chronicle of Gad the seer,
30 with all his reign and all his exploits and the vicissitudes that befell him, as well as Israel, and all the kingdoms of others country.
