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1 Paralipomenon Chapter 18
David's victories. His chief officers.
18:1. And it came to pass after this, that David defeated the
Philistines, and humbled them, and took away Geth, and her daughters out
of the hands of the Philistines,
18:2. And he defeated Moab, and the Moabites were made David's servants,
and brought him gifts.
18:3. At that time David defeated also Adarezer king of Soba of the land
of Hemath, when he went to extend his dominions as far as the river
Euphrates.
18:4. And David took from him a thousand chariots, and seven thousand
horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen, and he houghed all the chariot
horses, only a hundred chariots, which he reserved for himself.
18:5. And the Syrians of Damascus came also to help Adarezer king of
Soba: and David slew of them likewise two and twenty thousand men.
18:6. And he put a garrison in Damascus, that Syria also should serve
him, and bring gifts. And the Lord assisted him in all things to which
he went.
18:7. And David took the golden quivers which the servants of Adarezer
had, and he brought them to Jerusalem.
18:8. Likewise out of Thebath and Chun, cities of Adarezer, he brought
very much brass, of which Solomon made the brazen sea, and the pillars,
and the vessels of brass.
18:9. Now when Thou king of Hemath heard that David had defeated all the
army of Adarezer king of Soba,
18:10. He sent Adoram his son to king David to desire peace of him, and
to congratulate him that he had defeated and overthrown Adarezer: for
Thou was an enemy to Adarezer.
18:11. And all the vessels of gold, and silver and brass king David
consecrated to the Lord, with the silver and gold which he had taken
from all the nations, as well from Edom, and from Moab, and from the
sons of Ammon, as from the Philistines, and from Amalec.
18:12. And Abisai the son of Sarvia slew of the Edomites in the vale of
the saltpits, eighteen thousand:
18:13. And he put a garrison in Edom, that Edom should serve David: and
the Lord preserved David in all things to which he went.
18:14. So David reigned over all Israel, and executed judgment and
justice among all his people.
18:15. And Joab the son of Sarvia was over the army, and Josaphat the
son of Ahilud recorder.
18:16. And Sadoc the son of Achitob, and Achimelech the son of Abiathar,
were the priests: and Susa, scribe.
18:17. And Banaias the son of Joiada was over the bands of the Cerethi,
and the Phelethi: and the sons of David were chief about the king.
1 Paralipomenon Chapter 19
The Ammonites abuse David's ambassadors: both they and their
confederates are overthrown.
19:1. Now it came to pass that Naas the king of the children of Ammon
died, and his son reigned in his stead.
19:2. And David said: I will shew kindness to Hanon the son of Naas: for
his father did a favour tome. And David sent messengers to comfort him
upon the death of his father. But when they were come into the land of
the children of Ammon, to comfort Hanon,
19:3. The princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanon: Thou thinkest
perhaps that David to do honour to thy father hath sent comforters to
thee: and thou dost not take notice, that his servants are come to thee
to consider, and search, and spy out thy land.
19:4. Wherefore Hanon shaved the heads and beards of the servants of
David, and cut away their garments from the buttocks to the feet, and
sent them away.
19:5. And when they were gone, they sent word to David, who sent to meet
them (for they had suffered a great affront) and ordered them to stay at
Jericho till their beards grew and then to return.
19:6. And when the children of Ammon saw that they had done an injury to
David, Hanon and the rest of the people sent a thousand talents of
silver, to hire them chariots and horsemen out of Mesopotamia and out of
Syria Maacha, and out of Soba.
19:7. And they hired two and thirty thousand chariots, and the king of
Maacha, with his people. And they came and camped over against Medaba.
And the children of Ammon gathered themselves together out of their
cities, and came to battle.
19:8. And when David heard of it, he sent Joab, and all the army of
valiant men:
19:9. And the children of Ammon came out and put their army in array
before the gate of the city: and the kings, that were come to their aid,
stood apart in the field.
19:10. Wherefore Joab understanding that the battle was set against him
before and behind, chose out the bravest men of all Israel, and marched
against the Syrians,
19:11. And the rest of the people he delivered into the hand of Abisai
his brother, and they went against the children of Ammon.
19:12. And he said: If the Syrians be too strong for me, then thou shalt
help me: but if the children of Ammon be too strong for thee, I will
help thee.
19:13. Be of good courage and let us behave ourselves manfully for our
people, and for the cities of our God: and the Lord will do that which
is good in his sight.
19:14. So Joab and the people that were with him, went against the
Syrians to the battle: and he put them to flight.
19:15. And the children of Ammon seeing that the Syrians were fled, they
likewise fled from Abisai his brother, and went into the city: and Joab
also returned to Jerusalem.
19:16. But the Syrians seeing that they had fallen before Israel, sent
messengers, and brought to them the Syrians that were beyond the river:
and Sophach, general of the army of Adarezer, was their leader.
19:17. And it was told David, and he gathered together all Israel, and
passed the Jordan, and came upon them, and put his army in array against
them, and they fought with him.
19:18. But the Syrian fled before Israel: and David slew of the Syrians
seven thousand chariots, and forty thousand footmen, and Sophach the
general of the army.
Seven thousand chariots... That is, of men who fought in chariots.
19:19. And when the servants of Adarezer saw themselves overcome by
Israel, they went over to David, and served him: and Syria would not
help the children of Ammon any more.
1 Paralipomenon Chapter 20
Rabba is taken. Other victories over the Philistines.
20:1. And it came to pass after the course of a year, at the time that
kings go out to battle, Joab gathered together an army and the strength
of the troops, and wasted the land of the children of Ammon: and went
and besieged Rabba. But David stayed at Jerusalem, when Joab smote
Rabba, and destroyed it.
20:2. And David took the crown of Melchom from his head, and found in it
a talent weight of gold, and most precious stones, and he made himself a
diadem of it: he took also the spoils of the city which were very great.
20:3. And the people that were therein he brought out: and made harrows,
and sleds, and chariots of iron to go over them, so that they were cut
and bruised to pieces: in this manner David dealt with all the cities of
the children of Ammon: and he returned with all his people to Jerusalem.
20:4. After this there arose a war at Gazer against the Philistines: in
which Sabachai the Husathite slew Saphai of the race of Raphaim, and
humbled them.
20:5. Another battle also was fought against the Philistines, in which
Adeodatus the son of Saltus a Bethlehemite slew the brother of Goliath
the Gethite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver's beam.
20:6. There was another battle also in Geth, in which there was a man of
great stature, whose fingers and toes were four and twenty, six on each
hand and foot: who also was born of the stock of Rapha.
20:7. He reviled Israel: but Jonathan the son of Samaa the brother of
David slew him. These were the sons of Rapha in Geth, who fell by the
hand of David and his servants.
1 Paralipomenon Chapter 21
David's sin in numbering the people is punished by a pestilence: which
ceaseth upon his offering sacrifice in the thrashingfloor of Ornan.
21:1. And Satan rose up against Israel: and moved David to number
Israel.
21:2. And David said to Joab, and to the rulers of the people: Go, and
number Israel from Bersabee even to Dan, and bring me the number of them
that I may know it.
21:3. And Joab answered: The Lord make his people a hundred times more
than they are: but, my lord the king, are they not all thy servants: why
doth my lord seek this thing, which may be imputed as a sin to Israel?
21:4. But the king's word rather prevailed: and Joab departed, and went
through all Israel: and returned to Jerusalem.
21:5. And he gave David the number of them, whom he had surveyed: and
all the number of Israel was found to be eleven hundred thousand men
that drew the sword: and of Juda four hundred and seventy thousand
fighting men.
The number, etc... The difference of the numbers here and 2 Kings 24. is
to be accounted for, by supposing the greater number to be that which
was really found, and the lesser to be that which Joab gave in.
21:6. But Levi and Benjamin he did not number: for Joab unwillingly
executed the king's orders.
21:7. And God was displeased with this thing that was commanded: and he
struck Israel.
21:8. And David said to God: I have sinned exceedingly in doing this: I
beseech thee take away the iniquity of thy servant, for I have done
foolishly.
21:9. And the Lord spoke to Gad the seer of David, saying:
21:10. Go, and speak to David, and tell him: Thus saith the Lord: I give
thee the choice of three things: choose one which thou wilt, and I will
do it to thee.
21:11. And when Gad was come to David, he said to him: Thus saith the
Lord: choose which thou wilt:
21:12. Either three years famine: or three months to flee from thy
enemies, and not to be able to escape their sword: or three days to have
the sword of the Lord, and pestilence in the land, and the angel of the
Lord destroying in all the coasts of Israel: now therefore see what I
shall answer him who sent me.
Three years famine... Which joined with the three foregoing years of
famine mentioned, 2 Kings 21. and the seventh year of the land's
resting, would make up the seven years proposed by the prophet, 2 Kings
24.13.
21:13. And David said to Gad: I am on every side in a great strait: but
it is better for me to fall into the hands of the Lord, for his mercies
are many, than into the hands of men.
21:14. So the Lord sent a pestilence upon Israel. And there fell of
Israel seventy thousand men.
21:15. And he sent an angel to Jerusalem, to strike it: and as he was
striking it, the Lord beheld, and took pity for the greatness of the
evil: and said to the angel that destroyed: It is enough, now stop thy
hand. And the angel of the Lord stood by the thrashingfloor of Ornan the
Jebusite.
Ornan... Otherwise Areuna.
21:16. And David lifting up his eyes, saw the angel of the Lord standing
between heaven and earth, with a drawn sword in his hand, turned against
Jerusalem: and both he and the ancients clothed in haircloth, fell down
flat on the ground.
21:17. And David said to God: Am not I he that commanded the people to
be numbered? It is I that have sinned: it is I that have done the evil:
but as for this flock, what hath it deserved? O Lord my God, let thy
hand be turned, I beseech thee, upon me, and upon my father's house: and
let not thy people be destroyed.
21:18. And the angel of the Lord commanded Gad to tell David, to go up,
and build an altar to the Lord God in the thrashingfloor of Ornan the
Jebusite.
21:19. And David went up, according to the word of Gad, which he spoke
to him in the name of the Lord.
21:20. Now when Ornan looked up, and saw the angel, he and his four sons
hid themselves: for at that time he was thrashing wheat in the floor.
21:21. And as David was coming to Ornan, Ornan saw him, and went out of
the thrashingfloor to meet him, and bowed down to him with his face to
the ground.
21:22. And David said to him: Give me this place of thy thrashingfloor,
that I may build therein an altar to the Lord: but thou shalt take of me
as much money as it is worth, that the plague may cease from the people.
21:23. And Ornan said to David: Take it, and let my lord the king do all
that pleaseth him: and moreover the oxen also I give for a holocaust,
and the drays for wood, and the wheat for the sacrifice: I will give it
all willingly.
21:24. And king David said to him: It shall not be so, but I will give
thee money as much as it is worth: for I must not take it from thee, and
so offer to the Lord holocausts free cost.
21:25. So David gave to Ornan for the place, six hundred sicles of gold
of just weight.
Six hundred sicles, etc... This was the price of the whole place, on
which the temple was afterwards built; but the price of the oxen was
fifty sicles of silver. 2 Kings 24.24.
21:26. And he built there an altar to the Lord: and he offered
holocausts, and peace offerings, and he called upon the Lord, and he
heard him by sending fire from heaven upon the altar of the holocaust.
21:27. And the Lord commanded the angel: and he put up his sword again
into the sheath.
21:28. And David seeing that the Lord had heard him in the
thrashingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite, forthwith offered victims there.
21:29. But the tabernacle of the Lord, which Moses made in the desert,
and the altar of holocausts, was at that time in the high place of
Gabaon.
21:30. And David could not go to the altar there to pray to God: for he
was seized with an exceeding great fear, seeing the sword of the angel
of the Lord.
1 Paralipomenon Chapter 22
David having prepared all necessaries, chargeth Solomon to build the
temple and the princes to assist him.
22:1. Then David said: This is the house of God, And this is the altar
for the holocaust of Israel.
22:2. And he commanded to gather together all the proselytes of the land
of Israel, and out of them he appointed stonecutters to hew stones and
polish them, to build the house of God.
22:3. And David prepared in abundance iron for the nails of the gates,
and for the closures and joinings: and of brass an immense weight.
22:4. And the cedar trees were without number, which the Sidonians, and
Tyrians brought to David.
22:5. And David said: Solomon my son is very young and tender, and the
house which I would have to be built to the Lord, must be such as to be
renowned in all countries: therefore I will prepare him necessaries. And
therefore before his death he prepared all the charges.
22:6. And he called for Solomon his son: and commanded him to build a
house to the Lord the God of Israel.
22:7. And David said to Solomon: My son, it was my desire to have built
a house to the name of the Lord my God.
22:8. But the word of the Lord came to me, saying: Thou hast shed much
blood, and fought many battles, so thou cannot not build house to my
name, after shedding so much blood before me:
22:9. The son, that shall be born to thee, shall be a most quiet man:
for I will make him rest from all his enemies round about: and therefore
he shall be called Peaceable: and I will give peace and quietness to
Israel all his days.
22:10. He shall build a house to my name, and he shall be a son to me,
and I will be a father to him: and I will establish the throne of his
kingdom over Israel for ever.
22:11. Now then, my son, the Lord be with thee, and do thou prosper, and
build the house to the Lord thy God, as he hath spoken of thee.
22:12. The Lord also give thee wisdom and understanding, that thou
mayest be able to rule Israel, and to keep the law of the Lord thy God.
22:13. For then thou shalt be able to prosper, if thou keep the
commandments, and judgments, which the Lord commanded Moses to teach
Israel: take courage and act manfully, fear not, nor be dismayed.
22:14. Behold I in my poverty have prepared the charges of the house of
the Lord, of gold a hundred thousand talents, and of silver a million of
talents: but of brass, and of iron there is no weight, for the abundance
surpasseth all account: timber also and stones I have prepared for all
the charges.
22:15. Thou hast also workmen in abundance, hewers of stones, and
masons, and carpenters, and of all trades the most skilful in their
work,
22:16. In gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in iron, whereof there
is no number. Arise then, and be doing, and the Lord will be with thee.
22:17. David also charged all the princes of Israel, to help Solomon his
son,
22:18. Saying: You see, that the Lord your God is with you, and hath
given you rest round about, and hath delivered all your enemies into
your hands, and the land is subdued before the Lord, and before his
people.
22:19. Give therefore your hearts and your souls, to seek the Lord your
God and arise, and build a sanctuary to the Lord God, that the ark of
the covenant of the Lord, and the vessels consecrated to the Lord, may
be brought into the house, which is built to the name of the Lord.
1 Paralipomenon Chapter 23
David appointeth Solomon king. The distribution of the Levites and their
offices.
23:1. David being old and full of days, made Solomon his son king over
Israel.
23:2. And he gathered together all the princes of Israel, and the
priests and Levites.
23:3. And the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years, and
upwards: and there were found of them thirty-eight thousand men.
23:4. Of these twenty-four thousand were chosen, and distributed unto
the ministry of the house of the Lord: and six thousand were the
overseers and judges.
23:5. Moreover four thousand were porters: and as many singers singing
to the Lord with the instruments, which he had made to sing with.
23:6. And David distributed them into courses by the families of the
sons of Levi, to wit, of Gerson, and of Caath, and of Merari.
23:7. The sons of Gerson were Leedan and Semei.
23:8. The sons of Leedan: the chief Jahiel, and Zethan, and Joel, three.
23:9. The sons of Semei: Salomith, and Hosiel, and Aran, three: these
were the heads of the families of Leedan.
23:10. And the sons of Semei were Leheth, and Ziza, and Jaus, and Baria:
these were the sons of Semei, four.
23:11. And Leheth was the first, Ziza the second: but Jaus and Baria had
not many children, and therefore they were counted in one family, and in
one house.
23:12. The sons of Caath were Amram, and Isaar, Hebron, and Oziel, four.
23:13. The sons of Amram, Aaron, and Moses. And Aaron was separated to
minister in the holy of holies, he and his sons for ever, and to burn
incense before the Lord, according to his ceremonies, and to bless his
name for ever.
23:14. The sons also of Moses, the man of God, were numbered in the
tribe of Levi.
23:15. The sons of Moses were Gersom and Eliezer:
23:16. The sons of Gersom: Subuel the first.
23:17. And the sons of Eliezer were: Rohobia the first: and Eliezer had
no more sons. But the sons of Rohobia were multiplied exceedingly.
23:18. The sons of Isaar: Salomith the first.
23:19. The sons of Hebron: Jeriau the first, Amarias the second,
Jahaziel the third, Jecmaam the fourth.
23:20. The sons of Oziel: Micha the first, Jesia the second.
23:21. The sons of Merari: Moholi, and Musi. The sons of Moholi: Eleazar
and Cis.
23:22. And Eleazar died, and had no sons but daughters: and the sons of
Cis their brethren took them.
23:23. The sons of Musi: Moholi, and Eder, and Jerimoth, three.
23:24. These are the sons of Levi in their kindreds and families,
princes by their courses, and the number of every head that did the
works of the ministry of the house of the Lord from twenty years old and
upward.
23:25. For David said: The Lord the God of Israel hath given rest to his
people, and a habitation in Jerusalem for ever.
23:26. And it shall not be the office of the Levites to carry any more
the tabernacle, and all the vessels for the service thereof.
23:27. So according to the last precepts of David, the sons of Levi are
to be numbered from twenty years old and upward.
23:28. And they are to be under the hand of the sons of Aaron for the
service of the house of the Lord, in the porches, and in the chambers,
and in the place of purification, and in the sanctuary, and in all the
works of the ministry of the temple of the Lord.
23:29. And the priests have the charge of the loaves of proposition, and
of the sacrifice of fine flour, and of the unleavened cakes, and of the
fryingpan, and of the roasting, and of every weight and measure.
23:30. And the Levites are to stand in the morning to give thanks, and
to sing praises to the Lord: and in like manner in the evening,
23:31. As well in the oblation of the holocausts of the Lord, as in the
sabbaths and in the new moons, and the rest of the solemnities,
according to the number and ceremonies prescribed for every thing,
continually before the Lord.
23:32. And let them keep the observances of the tabernacle of the
covenant, and the ceremonies of the sanctuary, and the charge of the
sons of Aaron their brethren, that they may minister in the house of the
Lord.
1 Paralipomenon Chapter 24
The divisions of the priests into four and twenty courses, to serve in
the temple: the chiefs of the Levites.
24:1. Now these were the divisions of the sons of Aaron: The sons of
Aaron: Nadab, and Abiu, and Eleazar, and Ithamar.
24:2. But Nadab and Abiu died before their father, and had no children:
so Eleazar, and Ithamar did the office of the priesthood.
24:3. And David distributed them, that is, Sadoc of the sons of Eleazar,
and Ahimelech of the sons of Ithamar, according to their courses and
ministry.
24:4. And there were found many more of the sons of Eleazar among the
principal men, than of the sons of Ithamar. And he divided them so, that
there were of the sons of Eleazar, sixteen chief men by their families:
and of the sons of Ithamar eight by their families and houses.
24:5. And he divided both the families one with the other by lot: for
there were princes of the sanctuary, and princes of God, both of the
sons of Eleazar, and of the sons of Ithamar.
24:6. And Semeias the son of Nathanael the scribe a Levite, wrote them
down before the king and the princes, and Sadoc the priest, and
Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, and the princes also of the priestly and
Levitical families: one house, which was over the rest, of Eleazar: and
another house, which had the rest under it, of Ithamar.
24:7. Now the first lot came forth to Joiarib, the second to Jedei,
24:8. The third to Harim, the fourth to Seorim,
24:9. The fifth to Melchia, the sixth to Maiman,
24:10. The seventh to Accos, the eighth to Abia,
24:11. The ninth to Jesua, the tenth to Sechenia,
24:12. The eleventh to Eliasib, the twelfth to Jacim,
24:13. The thirteenth to Hoppha, the fourteenth to Isbaab,
24:14. The fifteenth to Belga, the sixteenth to Emmer,
24:15. The seventeenth to Hezir, the eighteenth to Aphses,
24:16. The nineteenth to Pheteia, the twentieth to Hezechiel,
24:17. The one and twentieth to Jachin, the two and twentieth to Gamul,
24:18. The three and twentieth to Dalaiau, the four and twentieth to
Maaziau.
24:19. These are their courses according to their ministries, to come
into the house of the Lord, and according to their manner under the hand
of Aaron their father: as the Lord the God of Israel had commanded.
24:20. Now of the rest of the sons of Levi, there was of the sons of
Amram, Subael: and of the sons of Subael, Jehedeia.
24:21. Also of the sons of Rohobia the chief Jesias.
24:22. And the son of Isaar Salemoth, and the son of Salemoth Jahath:
24:23. And his son Jeriau the first, Amarias the second, Jahaziel the
third, Jecmaan the fourth.
24:24. The son of Oziel, Micha: the son of Micha, Samir.
24:25. The brother of Micha, Jesia: and the son of Jesia, Zacharias.
24:26. The sons of Merari: Moholi and Musi: the son of Oziau: Benno.
24:27. The son also of Merari Oziau, and Soam, and Zacchur, and Hebri.
24:28. And the son of Moholi: Eleazar, who had no sons.
24:29. And the son of Cis, Jeramael.
24:30. The sons of Musi: Moholi, Eder, and Jerimoth. These are the sons
of Levi according to the houses of their families.
24:31. And they also cast lots over against their brethren the sons of
Aaron before David the king, and Sadoc, and Ahimelech, and the princes
of the priestly and Levitical families, both the elder and the younger.
The lot divided all equally.
1 Paralipomenon Chapter 25
The number and divisions of the musicians.
25:1. Moreover David and the chief officers of the army separated for
the ministry the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Idithun: to
prophesy with harps, and with psalteries, and with cymbals according to
their number serving in their appointed office.
25:2. Of the sons of Asaph: Zacchur, and Joseph, and Nathania, and
Asarela, sons of Asaph: under the hand of Asaph prophesying near the
king.
25:3. And of Idithun: the sons of Idithun, Godolias, Sori, Jeseias, and
Hasabias, and Mathathias, under the hand of their father Idithun, who
prophesied with a harp to give thanks and to praise the Lord.
25:4. Of Heman also: the sons of Heman, Bocciau, Mathaniau, Oziel,
Subuel, and Jerimoth, Hananias, Hanani, Eliatha, Geddelthi, and
Romemthiezer, and Jesbacassa, Mellothi, Othir, Mahazioth:
