First Paralipomenon continues with material omitted from the four Kings books of the bible:
The story and words of David and Hanon, the son of Nass, and the Ammonites rang a bell with me. Pretty much verbatim from Second Kings No reference included. Wondering if plagiarism was a sin in biblical times. No worries, plenty of new material in First Paralipomenon to ponder, meditate, and incorporate into my life.
Day 105: OT Second Kings C6-12; War and David; Sin & God’s First Parable
David’s kindness was misinterpreted through fear by the princes of the children of Ammon. The Syrians were hired to fight David and lost big-time and learned a lesson to never help the children of Ammon anymore. This all started by a misinterpretation of David’s kindness:
I will show kindness to Hanon the son of Nass, as his father showed kindness to me.
The princes of the children of Ammon: and hath not David rather sent his servants to thee to search, and spy into the city, and overthrow it?
Hanon took the servants of David, and shaved off the one half of their beards, and cut away half of their garments even to the buttocks, and sent them away.
And the children of Ammon seeing that they had done injury to David, sent and hired the Syrians… then the Syrians seeing that they had fallen before Israel, gathered themselves together… And when this was told David, he gathered all of Israel together, and passed over the Jordan… and David slew of the Syrians the men of seven hundred chariots, and forty thousand horsemen… and they made peace with Israel: and served them, and all the Syrians were afraid to help the children of Ammon any more.
Whereas Second Kings continues with David committing adultery with Bethsabee, First Paralipomenon omits this part for now. So Paralipomenon means those sacred words omitted in the four Kings sections of the bible as well as presenting some duplicate text yet itself omitting some key passages as well?
Yet David would commit another sin and have to make a choice on how his sin would impact the people of Israel. In so doing David pleaded with the Lord to punish he and not the people of Israel. More on this in these selected words of the bible:
And Satan rose up against Israel: and moved David to number Israel.
Joab: The Lord make his people a hundred times more than they are: but, my lord the king, are they not thy servants? Why doth my lord seek this thing, which may be imputed as a sin to Israel?
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. Bit Levi and Benjamin he (Joab) did not number for Joab unwillingly executed the king’s orders.
And God was displeased with this thing that was commanded: and he struck Israel. And David said to God: I have sinned exceedingly in doing this: I beseech thee to take away the iniquity of thy servant, for I have done foolishly.
Thus saith the Lord: I give thee the choice of three things: choose one which thou wilt, and I will do it to thee… three years’ famine: or three months to flee from thy enemies, and not be able to escape their sword: or three days to have the sword of the Lord, and pestilence in the land…
David to God: 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.
So the Lord sent a pestilence upon Israel. And there fell of Israel seventy thousand men.
David 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 the 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.
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.
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 holocaust.
Surprisingly David was ineligible to build the House of the Lord due to all the blood-shedding as a warrior following God’s direction:
David to his son Solomon: My son, it was my desire to have built a house to the name of the Lord my God. But the word of the Lord came to me, saying: Thou hast shed much blood, and fought many battles, so thou canst not build a house to my name, after shedding so much blood before me. The son, that shall be born to thee… shall be called Peaceable: and I will give peace and quietness to Israel all his days. 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.
David to the Princes: 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.
And David being old and full of days, made Solomon his son king over Israel.
Comforting to know that there was sort of a succession and transfer of power versus what seemed like countless centuries of the kings being killed in battle or otherwise while still being king.
In the first 24 chapters of First Paralipomenon it was more or less King David of Israel. With only four more chapters to go in First Paralipomenon and a Second Paralipomenon coming too, I am excited to gather more perspective of the biblical and spiritual times of the Old Testament.
Day 141: Reading The Bible with a TROML Perspective; More and Less on King David of Israel.
Read and inspired by the Old Testament, The First Book of Paralipomenon, Chapters 18-24
Bible Notes:
This and the following book are called Paralipomenon, which means things omitted, because they are a supplement of things omitted from the Books of Kings. They also repeat much from previous books. I Paralipomenon is a history from Adam, the first man, down to the death of David.
1 Paralipomenon Chapter 18: Victory over the Philistines and Moabites; Defeat of Adarezer and the Syrians; King Thou sues for peace; David consecrates the booty to God; David’s chief officers.
And it came to pass that David defeated the Philistines, and humbled them… and he defeated Moab, and the Moabites were made David’s servants, and brought him gifts.
At that time David defeated also Adarezer king of Soba of the land of Homath, when he went to extend his dominion as far as the river Euphrates.
And the Syrians of Damascus came also to help Adarezer ling of Soba: and David slew of them likewise two and twenty thousand men. And he put a garrison in Damascus, that Syria also should serve him, and bring gifts.
And all the vessels of gold, and silver, and brass king David consecrated to the Lord…
So David reigned over all Israel, and executed judgment and justice among all his people.
1 Paralipomenon Chapter 19: Hanon mistreats David’s ambassadors; David and the Ammonites prepare for war; Joab defeats the Ammonites and Syrians; David defeats the Syrians.
The story and words of David and Hanon, the son of Nass, and the Ammonites rang a bell with me. Pretty much verbatim from Second Kings No worries, plenty of new material in First Paralipomenon to ponder, meditate, and incorporate into my life.
Day 105: OT Second Kings C6-12; War and David; Sin & God’s First Parable
David’s kindness was misinterpreted through fear by the princes of the children of Ammon. The Syrians were hired to fight David and lost big-time and learned a lesson to never help the children of Ammon anymore. This all started by a misinterpretation of David’s kindness:
I will show kindness to Hanon the son of Nass, as his father showed kindness to me.
The princes of the children of Ammon: and hath not David rather sent his servants to thee to search, and spy into the city, and overthrow it?
Hanon took the servants of David, and shaved off the one half of their beards, and cut away half of their garments even to the buttocks, and sent them away.
And the children of Ammon seeing that they had done injury to David, sent and hired the Syrians… then the Syrians seeing that they had fallen before Israel, gathered themselves together… And when this was told David, he gathered all of Israel together, and passed over the Jordan… and David slew of the Syrians the men of seven hundred chariots, and forty thousand horsemen… and they made peace with Israel: and served them, and all the Syrians were afraid to help the children of Ammon any more.
1 Paralipomenon Chapter 20: Joab destroys Rabba; David ravages the Ammonite cities; Death of three Philistine giants.
And it came to pass at the return of the year, at the time when kings go forth to war… evidently there was an annual season for war back in biblical times versus our somewhat cyclic modern day approach to war…
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.
Diadem—a crown; a cloth headband, sometimes adorned with jewels, formerly worn by monarchs in Asia Minor and other parts of the East.
1 Paralipomenon Chapter 21: David orders a census; David repents for ordering the census; David chooses pestilence for punishment; Seventy thousand die in the pestilence; David builds an altar; God accepts David’s offerings.
And Satan rose up against Israel: and moved David to number Israel.
Joab: The Lord make his people a hundred times more than they are: but, my lord the king, are they not thy servants? Why doth my lord seek this thing, which may be imputed as a sin to Israel?
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. Bit Levi and Benjamin he (Joab) did not number for Joab unwillingly executed the king’s orders.
And God was displeased with this thing that was commanded: and he struck Israel. And David said to God: I have sinned exceedingly in doing this: I beseech thee to take away the iniquity of thy servant, for I have done foolishly.
Thus saith the Lord: I give thee the choice of three things: choose one which thou wilt, and I will do it to thee… three years’ famine: or three months to flee from thy enemies, and not be able to escape their sword: or three days to have the sword of the Lord, and pestilence in the land…
David to God: 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.
So the Lord sent a pestilence upon Israel. And there fell of Israel seventy thousand men.
David 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 the 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.
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.
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 holocaust.
And David… was seized with an exceedingly great fear, seeing the sword of the angel of the Lord.
1 Paralipomenon Chapter 22: David gathers materials for the Temple; David instructs Solomon; David orders the princes to help Solomon.
David to his son Solomon: My son, it was my desire to have built a house to the name of the Lord my God. But the word of the Lord came to me, saying: Thou hast shed much blood, and fought many battles, so thou canst not build a house to my name, after shedding so much blood before me. The son, that shall be born to thee… shall be called Peaceable: and I will give peace and quietness to Israel all his days. 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.
David to the Princes: 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 appoints Solomon king; Offices of the Levites; Family of Gerson; Family of Caath; Family of Meeerari; Duties of the Levites.
And David being old and full of days, made Solomon his son king over Israel.
And the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years, and upwards: and there were found of them thirty-eight thousand men. Of these twenty-four thousand were chosen, and distributed unto the ministry of the house of the Lord…
And Lebeth 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.
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.
The sons, also of Moses, the man of God, were numbered in the tribe of Levi.
For David said: The Lord, the God of Israel, hath given rest to his people, and a habitation in Jerusalem for ever. And it shall not be the office of the Levites to carry any more the tabernacle, and all the vessels for the service thereof… the sons of Levi are to be numbered from twenty years old and upward. And they are to be under the hand of the sons of Aaron for the service of the house of the Lord.
1 Paralipomenon Chapter 24: Division of the priests; Levites divided by lot.
Now these were the divisions of the sons of Aaron… according to their courses and ministry… for there were princes of the sanctuary, and princes of God…
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.
Now of the rest of the sons of Levi…
And they also cast lots over against their brethren, the sons of Aaron, before King David… and the princes of the priestly and Levitical families, both the elder and the younger. The lot divided all equally.
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