First Chronicles chapter 19 is similar to 2Samuel chapter 10. This chapter tells of another military victory of David and his warriors against the Ammonites.
Chapter 20:1 is similar to 2Samuel 11:1, in which Joab led David's army against the Ammonites in a town called Rabbah, while David remained in Jerusalem. The Bible doesn't tell us, but at some point, David must have gone to Rabbah, because he took the crown from their king's head and placed it upon his own. It weighed one talent, which is 75 pounds, and had jewels on it. Then David and his army returned to Jerusalem. In 2Samuel 11:2 (April 4) the history of Bathsheba, Solomon's mother is next, however, in today's reading there is no mention of her. Starting with verse 4 of chapter 20 which describes the war with the Philistines, the text is similar to 2Samuel 21:18-22. This is the part where the brother of Goliath is killed. Also, Daivd and his fighting men kill the descendants of the Rephaim.
Chapter 21 chronicles David's sin of taking a census which is also told in 2Samuel chapter 24 (April 8&9). I'm not really sure why this angered God so much, but it did and David was given a choice of 3 punishments to choose from. He chose to be punished by God rather than by men. An angel came and killed 70,000 men, which made God sad, so he commanded the angel to stop! He stopped right at the threshing floor of a man named Araunah the Jebusite. When they saw the angel with his sword they fell on their faces. David paid Araunah for his threshing floor and built an altar and made sacrifices and burnt offerings there. He didn't go to the tabernacle because he was afraid of the sword of the angel of the Lord.
In chapter 22, David said the house of the Lord was to be built at the threshing place. Since he knew that he wasn't going to be the one to build the temple, but Solomon was, he collected materials for it from many places. 1Kings 7:51 (April 12)mentioned things which David had dedicated for the temple which Solomon moved into it, but didn't really say much about that, so this passage fills in some of those detalis.
When David was old, he made his son Solomon king over Israel. He appointed craftsmen to build the temple, gatekeepers, and musicians for the temple. He gathered all the men together by tribe and family and gave them duties to perform.
Tomorrow read 1Chronicles 23:12-26:19
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