1 Chronicles 19:5   (Read all of 1 Chronicles 19)

When someone came and told David about the men, he sent messengers to meet them, for they were greatly humiliated. The king said, "Stay at Jericho till your beards have grown, and then come back."

1 Chronicles 19:12   (Read all of 1 Chronicles 19)

Joab said, "If the Arameans are too strong for me, then you are to rescue me; but if the Ammonites are too strong for you, then I will rescue you.

1 Chronicles 21:8   (Read all of 1 Chronicles 21)

Then David said to God, "I have sinned greatly by doing this. Now, I beg you, take away the guilt of your servant. I have done a very foolish thing."

1 Chronicles 21:10   (Read all of 1 Chronicles 21)

"Go and tell David, 'This is what the Lord says: I am giving you three options. Choose one of them for me to carry out against you.' "

1 Chronicles 21:11   (Read all of 1 Chronicles 21)

So Gad went to David and said to him, "This is what the Lord says: 'Take your choice:

1 Chronicles 21:12   (Read all of 1 Chronicles 21)

three years of famine, three months of being swept away before your enemies, with their swords overtaking you, or three days of the sword of the Lord-days of plague in the land, with the angel of the Lord ravaging every part of Israel.' Now then, decide how I should answer the one who sent me."

1 Chronicles 21:15   (Read all of 1 Chronicles 21)

And God sent an angel to destroy Jerusalem. But as the angel was doing so, the Lord saw it and relented concerning the disaster and said to the angel who was destroying the people, "Enough! Withdraw your hand." The angel of the Lord was then standing at the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

1 Chronicles 21:17   (Read all of 1 Chronicles 21)

David said to God, "Was it not I who ordered the fighting men to be counted? I, the shepherd, have sinned and done wrong. These are but sheep. What have they done? Lord my God, let your hand fall on me and my family, but do not let this plague remain on your people."

1 Chronicles 21:22   (Read all of 1 Chronicles 21)

David said to him, "Let me have the site of your threshing floor so I can build an altar to the Lord, that the plague on the people may be stopped. Sell it to me at the full price."

1 Chronicles 21:24   (Read all of 1 Chronicles 21)

But King David replied to Araunah, "No, I insist on paying the full price. I will not take for the Lord what is yours, or sacrifice a burnt offering that costs me nothing."

1 Chronicles 22:5   (Read all of 1 Chronicles 22)

David said, "My son Solomon is young and inexperienced, and the house to be built for the Lord should be of great magnificence and fame and splendor in the sight of all the nations. Therefore I will make preparations for it." So David made extensive preparations before his death.

1 Chronicles 22:8   (Read all of 1 Chronicles 22)

But this word of the Lord came to me: 'You have shed much blood and have fought many wars. You are not to build a house for my Name, because you have shed much blood on the earth in my sight.

1 Chronicles 22:9   (Read all of 1 Chronicles 22)

But you will have a son who will be a man of peace and rest, and I will give him rest from all his enemies on every side. His name will be Solomon, and I will grant Israel peace and quiet during his reign.

1 Chronicles 22:11   (Read all of 1 Chronicles 22)

"Now, my son, the Lord be with you, and may you have success and build the house of the Lord your God, as he said you would.

1 Chronicles 22:12   (Read all of 1 Chronicles 22)

May the Lord give you discretion and understanding when he puts you in command over Israel, so that you may keep the law of the Lord your God.

1 Chronicles 22:13   (Read all of 1 Chronicles 22)

Then you will have success if you are careful to observe the decrees and laws that the Lord gave Moses for Israel. Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or discouraged.

1 Chronicles 22:14   (Read all of 1 Chronicles 22)

"I have taken great pains to provide for the temple of the Lord a hundred thousand talents of gold, a million talents of silver, quantities of bronze and iron too great to be weighed, and wood and stone. And you may add to them.

1 Chronicles 22:15   (Read all of 1 Chronicles 22)

You have many workers: stonecutters, masons and carpenters, as well as those skilled in every kind of work

1 Chronicles 22:16   (Read all of 1 Chronicles 22)

in gold and silver, bronze and iron-craftsmen beyond number. Now begin the work, and the Lord be with you."

1 Chronicles 22:18   (Read all of 1 Chronicles 22)

He said to them, "Is not the Lord your God with you? And has he not granted you rest on every side? For he has given the inhabitants of the land into my hands, and the land is subject to the Lord and to his people.

1 Chronicles 22:19   (Read all of 1 Chronicles 22)

Now devote your heart and soul to seeking the Lord your God. Begin to build the sanctuary of the Lord God, so that you may bring the ark of the covenant of the Lord and the sacred articles belonging to God into the temple that will be built for the Name of the Lord."

1 Chronicles 24:31   (Read all of 1 Chronicles 24)

They also cast lots, just as their relatives the descendants of Aaron did, in the presence of King David and of Zadok, Ahimelek, and the heads of families of the priests and of the Levites. The families of the oldest brother were treated the same as those of the youngest.

1 Chronicles 25:8   (Read all of 1 Chronicles 25)

Young and old alike, teacher as well as student, cast lots for their duties.

1 Chronicles 26:13   (Read all of 1 Chronicles 26)

Lots were cast for each gate, according to their families, young and old alike.