1 Chronicleschapter 20
8 verses · Ezra, by tradition · 450 to 400 BC · History
Original Language
1 Chronicles 20— Hebrew word study · with the Hebrew tradition
In Jewish life
Jewish practice and Jewish teaching both have something to say about 1 Chronicles 20. Three things follow: where it is read, what is done because of it, and how the rabbis have taught it. The purpose is to inform a Christian reader what Jews believe and how Judaism was and is practised.
Where the rabbis cite this chapter
6 rows sit beside their verses in the text, on 6 verses of this chapter. No row that speaks to the chapter as a whole is recorded. Every quote links to its full source.
Texts and citation data: Sefaria (sefaria.org); excerpts follow each version’s license, and every passage opens at its source.
How to read a word below: the Hebrewword, then how it sounds, then what it means, then its number in Strong’s concordance, a widely used lookup this site follows (H for Hebrew and Aramaic, G for Greek). Square brackets hold a word the English supplies that the Hebrew does not, angle brackets mark the Hebrew’s own grammatical elements that English renders as separate words, and the mark ס or פ is where the Hebrew manuscripts end a paragraph.
The crown of Rabbah set on David's head1
1 Chronicles 20:1· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on I Chronicles 20:1
Now it came to pass at the time of the return of the year when there are grasses in the field to feed the horses.
Read it in full at Sefaria · The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg
1 Chronicles 20:2· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Radak on I Chronicles 20:2
[The crown] was placed on David’s head. [Interpreters] ask (e.g., Pseudo-Rashi): How could he have withstood it, when it weighed a talent of gold?
Read it in full at Sefaria · The Commentary of Radak to Chronicles: A Translation with Introduction and Supercommentary, by Yitzhak Berger, Brown University, 2007
1 Chronicles 20:3· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Radak on I Chronicles 20:3
Vayyasar with a saw. [David] crushed [the people of Rabbah] with a saw.
Read it in full at Sefaria · The Commentary of Radak to Chronicles: A Translation with Introduction and Supercommentary, by Yitzhak Berger, Brown University, 2007
The giants of Gath fall one after another4
1 Chronicles 20:4· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on I Chronicles 20:4
Now it came to pass after this that a war arose in Gezer That which is missing here is written in Samuel (II:15): “And the Philistines waged war again with Israel, and David went down with his servants and they fought against the Philistines.
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1 Chronicles 20:5· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on I Chronicles 20:5
And Elhanan the son of Jair smote He was one of David’s mighty men.
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1 Chronicles 20:6· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on I Chronicles 20:6
and there was a man of great stature. This is similar to (Num.:32): “big in stature,” and since he was so tall that he had to be measured, he calls him a man of measure.
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1 Chronicles 20:7· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
1 Chronicles 20:8· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible