Interesting that 1 Chronicles 1 comes chronologically after 2 Samuel 4.  Why wouldn't 1 Kings come in here?
MSB says the first 9 chapters of 1 Chronicles are Genealogies, and he lists the sections.  Ezra is traditionally held to be the writer of both Chronicles.
2022 - Looking back, 2 Samuel ended with David building the altar on the threshing floor of Araunah to turn back the angel of death.  David dies early in 1 Kings.  2 Kings ends with Jehoiachin released from prison in Babylon, and treated respectfully, in the 37th year his exile.  He was the King that Nebuchadnezzar took away the first time Jerusalem was captured.  As I read it, Neb took it that time without a fight.  

Chapter 1
The main lines of the genealogy from Adam to Abraham.  
Nine generations only from Adam to Noah.  Noah is 9th.  Given the lifespan back then though, this is likely several thousand years.

Some interesting things here:
Noah's sons seem to be the point that geography traces back to.  
There is Japheth, who's sons are Magog and Gomer among others.  These are known place names in history in the area of western Russia.  Togarmah is also in there.  

The sons of Ham include Cush, Egypt, Put, and Canaan.  So Ham's descendants settled the Middle east and gave it their names.  (Wouldn't you expect a broad sampling of the DNA in these areas to all point back to a common point?  Except that DNA mostly traces back the maternal side, and these guys would have had wives from all over...)  One of the sons of Egypt, Casluhim, was the "father" of the Philistines.  As might be expected, Canaan fathered the Jebusites, Amorites, Girgashites, Hivites, Arkites, and Sinites, Arvadites, Zemarites and the Hamathites, many of whom were mentioned as Israel claimed their land.  The place names were people, who settled that area, and built kingdoms and peoples and nations.  

Sons of Shem include such names as Asshur, Lud, Aram, Uz (where Abraham was from - the far east  2024 - Or was that Ur...pretty sure it was Ur.).

Here's one that always intrigued me...
[1Ch 1:19 ESV] 19 To Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg (for in his days the earth was divided), and his brother's name was Joktan.
Divided how, exactly?  Was this the end of Gondwonaland?  Doubtful.  If so it would be recent enough to be well known.  Politically?  Linguistically? (Yes!  MSB says this was apparently about the scattering from the Tower of Babel.  Note that in vs. 10 we see that Cush fathered Nimrod, who was the one building that tower.  I wonder about what year this would have been?)

vs 1 -26 get us from Adam to Abraham, through the Noahic choke point.

2021 - vs 32 begins the list of the sons of Keturah, Abraham's concubine.  I don't think we see much about these sons elsewhere, but there were a lot of them, and they have place names like Midian.  Two of her sons are listed to the second generation. She had 6 sons, herself, but was never favored with marriage.  Her sons would have been among those given gifts and sent away.  Perhaps they resented this, because among them we find Midian - which was forever harassing Israel, Sheba and Dedan, which are listed elsewhere though I don't remember details except that the Queen of Sheba comes to visit Solomon.  One gets the idea that she was not too fond of Israel until that time.  Perhaps Sheba had a Queen instead of a King because they traced themselves back to Keturah rather than to Abraham, who had sent them away?
(2021 - Ismael, pronounced Yish-mah-el', means "God will hear".  Israel, pronounced Yish-raw'el, means "God prevails".  Just struck me as interesting today.)

Through vs 42 we get from Abram to Israel and Esau.  All of Esau's descendants are then named, but not Israel's.

Then we go into a presentation of the kings of Edom.  (I believe Esau went and settled in Edom after Jacob stole his birthright.  That is why the kings there would matter.)

Chapter 2
This chapter starts with the sons of Israel.
It specifically goes through the genealogy to David, son of Jesse.  But it just goes right on past that as if it was just another birth.  
There are little snippets by some of the names, as if everyone would understand what the snippet was about.  For instance in vs. 7, it says "...Achan, the troubler of Israel, who broke faith in the matter of the devoted thing;..." Achan is the one who secreted some loot from an early conquest in Canaan and brought God's wrath on all Israel.  He and all his family were put to death over it  So this is a "tie" to where we are chronologically in the genealogy.  (Who knows how much information is in here that would have to be sifted grain by grain to truly appreciate it all.  Does any other nation possess such a detailed genealogical history of it's people?  Does any other religion with a "creation story" trace the people created from that creation to the present day?  ONLY the Bible, I believe, even attempts such a thing.)  From this point on, many of the wives and mother's are mentioned, along with the specific sons that they had.  It continues this way to the end of Chapter 2.

2024 -  How how I missed this?  In addition to seven sons, ending with David, two of Jesse's daughters are also named.  One is Zeruiah.  David's sister.  Zeruiah has three sons, two of which are Joab and Asahel.  These two commanders are David's own nephews, AND they are brothers!  Joab kills his own brother in a deceitful way! Joab was not a good man...yet he conquers many kingdoms for Israel.  AND, David's other sister was named Abigail, the same as his first wife.  Abigail was the mother of Amasa, another big name in David's life, another nephew.  Jether, an Ishmaelite, was Amasa's father.
The lineage of both Shallum and his grandson Elishama are here also.  Same ones I wonder?

2021 - 24 After the death of Hezron, Caleb went in to Ephrathah, the wife of Hezron his father, and she bore him Ashhur, the father of Tekoa. [1Ch 2:24 ESV].  This is clearly against Mosaic Law.  Amos, the prophet, was from Tekoa.  Tekoa is mentioned many times in the Bible - 11 times in ESV.

So the reason this comes in here is just that it's a good place to put it.  It is a genealogy, not really tied to any historical narrative.  Perhaps it is here because of when it was supposedly written - 450 BC or less.  I Chron is all genealogy through Chapter 9.  Chapter 10 starts with the death of Saul and his sons.  So we need to get to there to be current with what is going on in 2 Samuel, as David becomes King of Israel.  Looking ahead at the coming reading, there are many Psalms mixed in, but we are reading through I Chron 10 before coming back to 2 Samuel.

Chapter 3
Genealogy of David's descendants.  Should be the Kingly line.  And a lot of it is, but some is additional information about sons besides the first ones.  David's second son, born to Abigail, Nabal's widow, was named Daniel.  I don't remember any additional information on this son.  There's quite a bit about the first son, Amnon, and the third, Absalom.  These, and three more - so six sons - were all born in Hebron while David ruled Judah and a little more from there.  
You get the names of "most" of the Kings of Judah in this section - vss 10-24, the end of the chapter.  They all came through Solomon, and Rehoboam.

Chapter 4
The sons of Judah and Simeon.  Southern Kingdom?  A story about some descendants of Simeon who settled in the valley of Gedor, taking it from some descendants of Ham during Hezekiah's reign.  Not sure why this is important.  

Chapter 5
Sons of Reuben, firstborn of Israel, but his birthright was given to Joseph.  Had forgotten that.  That explains so much!  A double portion to the firstborn!  Ephraim and Manassah.
2021 - This verse:  2 though Judah became strong among his brothers and a chief came from him, yet the birthright belonged to Joseph), [1Ch 5:2 ESV]  I always wondered about this.  How was it that it was Judah where the Lord made his place, and Judah survived the longest of all the tribes, when Joseph's sons got the double portion?  Seems like they both settled, at least in part, beyond the Jordan, and so got picked off.  But part of one of them was on the west side of Jordan, yet was not part of the southern kingdom.  Somehow, Judah ends up being the longest lived tribe.  

Sons of Gad.  They defeated the Hagrites.
Sons of Manassah.  They rebelled against God, and God had Assyrian kings take Manassah, Reuben, and Gad into captivity.  The cities where they were settled are listed. 

A single chapter for the day's reading seems pretty short, but there are 81 verses full of Hebrew names in this chapter.  It is a bit of a slog.

Chapter 6
Descendants of Levi, starting with Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.  The descendants through Kohath are listed first.  Aaron, Moses, and Miriam were the Great Grands of Levi, through Kohath and Amram.
2023 - The sentence above is only true if this is the same Amram that married Jochebed.  We know that it IS the same because of these verses from way back in Exodus:  18 The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel, the years of the life of Kohath being 133 years. ... 20 Amram took as his wife Jochebed his father's sister, and she bore him Aaron and Moses, the years of the life of Amram being 137 years. [Exo 6:18, 20 ESV].  So, Levi himself went to Egypt with Jacob when Joseph was second to Pharoah.  Israel was there for 450 years.  Moses was 80 when he was sent back to Egypt...I think.  So...Levi, Kohath, Amram, Moses.  Call that 3 generations since Levi was a grown man when he got there and Moses a grown man when they left.  That still makes it 150 years per generation.  What we don't know is how old each of these men were when they had the son that is included in the generation.  Looks like Amram was Kohath's first.  Moses was Amram's second.  I guess the point is that you really  have to stretch out these generations to get 450 out of just four total generations.  And this still counts the whole 450 years in Egypt as part of the captivity of Israel, even though they did not go down there as captives, but as honored guests.

2023 - Also, I believe we get the succession of High Priests of Israel here.  We go from Aaron to the first priest of Solomon's Temple in vss 3b-10.  These would have been priests while the Ark was still at Kirioth-Jearim, during the time of the judges and so on, right up through Saul and then David.  Then we get the High Priests from the Temple to the exile in 10-15.  There is enough information here to "fix" where we are in Israel's history if we have the name of a priest.  Usually, we also get the name of a King - two King's really - in other places.  So we can really narrow things down in places where a King is talking to a High Priest and both names are given.  

2023 - One last thing.  Both Elkanah and Samuel appear in the genealogies of this chapter.  They are descended from Levi, but Samuel was not a priest, he was judge.  The last judge of Israel. When he died, it was upon hearing the news that both his sons - Joel and Abijah - had died in battle.  These were very corrupt sons, abusing their positions as sons of Samuel.  It was because these two were so bad that Israel demanded a King, irritating both Samuel and God very much.  What we see is that Samuel was descended from Merari, son of Levi, while the High Priests were descended from Kohath, son of Levi.  So both judges and High Priests would have been present in the land from Aaron right up until Samuel died, after which there were only High Priests.  There does not seem to be anything "special" about the sons of Gershon, though he appears to be the first born.  Really, there was nothing that special about Merari either.  It just so happened that the last Judge of Israel descended from him, but there were judges at various times from many other tribes also.

Asaph is mentioned here.  He wrote many of the Psalms, and served in the temple.  He is mentioned many times in the OT.
There is also an explanation of the Levitical vs the Aaronic priesthoods.  Seems to me the Levites were called to service in the tabernacle while Aaron and his descendants were called to do the sacrifices in the temple.
The descendants from Aaron would seem to be the ones who would serve as high priests.  The lineage runs from Levi to the taking away of Judah and Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar.  This is Aaron's line, the high priestly line.  I believe the kingly line, through David, also runs up to Nebuchadnezzar.  This from 1 Chron 3:17:
17 and the sons of Jeconiah, the captive: Shealtiel his son, [1Ch 3:17 ESV]  I think Jeconiah was King when Jehozadak was High Priest.  If I'm reading this right:
15 and Jehozadak went into exile when the LORD sent Judah and Jerusalem into exile by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar. [1Ch 6:15 ESV]

Verse sixteen is a repeat of verse 1.  It takes us all the way back to Levi, and sort of "resets".  Instead of details of Kohath's descendants, it works it's way around to Gershom.  These go down all the way to Samuel, and his two sons Joel and Abijah.  Then the sons of Merari - Levi's third son - are given two verses.  

Beginning in 31, we get a list of all the Levitical descendants who were musicians in the Tent of Meeting and then in the Tabernacle.  If the Bible goes to this much trouble to point out the musicians, who would ever say that God does not want music in His house?

At the end of the list of musicians, these two verses:
48 And their brothers the Levites were appointed for all the service of the tabernacle of the house of God. 49 But Aaron and his sons made offerings on the altar of burnt offering and on the altar of incense for all the work of the Most Holy Place, and to make atonement for Israel, according to all that Moses the servant of God had commanded. [1Ch 6:48-49 ESV]
This is the difference between the Levitical and Aaronic priesthoods.  Aaron and his descendants did the sacrifices and made atonement.  The other descendants of Levi did all the rest that was required for maintaining the Tabernacle. Aaronic - sacrifice, Levitical - service. And that all goes back to the rebellion at Sinai when it was the Levites who carried out Moses sentence of death on some of the people for their rebellion.

Beginning in 54, we are told where each of these descendants settles in Canaan.  There are many possible studies here of place names.  So many of these city names look familiar.  I think it would be interesting to trace their mentions through the Bible, maybe find out what they were called in NT times, and see just how many show up for all the history of Israel.

Chapter 7
Descendants of Issachar, Benjamin, Naphtali, Ephraim, and Asher covered in this chapter.  Naphtali has very little space devoted to him, only a few sons named.  I guess I had not realized that Joshua, son of Nun, was descended from Joseph through Ephraim.
2022 - Note these verses:
4 And along with them, by their generations, according to their fathers' houses, were units of the army for war, 36,000, for they had many wives and sons. 5 Their kinsmen belonging to all the clans of Issachar were in all 87,000 mighty warriors, enrolled by genealogy. [1Ch 7:4-5 ESV].
Now can you imagine, in our day, what a whole city- even a whole county full of people that are related to each other, would have at stake in a battle with another country, if ALL the men in ALL the families in that county volunteered to go and fight?  How common would their values need to be, how much in agreement as to the need for battle and the justice of the cause for battle would they have to be?  What kind of a leader would it take for all these diverse families to send ALL their men to serve under that leader?  Is there any place on earth that can still send their best to fight and perhaps to die for a cause they all believe is right?  How much more powerful is such an army than anything any nation can put on the field today?  This kind of unity is the measure by which the true strength of a nation should be measured.  Look around at the US.  Hold this yardstick up and measure what this country was 100 years ago, 200 years ago, and compare that to how we measure up today.  100 years ago, if two Americans met on the street, what was the chance that they agreed on God and country and right and wrong compared to the chances that two strangers meeting on that same street today would agree on these fundamentals.  This is why we are seeing the signs of degeneration that we are seeing today.  Make not mistake.  The loss of unity is an unmistakable sign of degeneration.
FINALLY, a FB post for 7/14/22 Thursday.

2023 - I noted today, for the first time, that Saul, that is King Saul, is not even mentioned in the genealogy of the tribe of Benjamin.  He was such a disgrace that his name is just left out completely.

Chapter 8
The Genealogy of Saul.
A Benjamite.  
2022 - Saul's line did not die out after he died, even though a completely different royal line, the line of David, took over the throne from him.  We read about David looking after Mephibosheth, but the genealogy of Saul in this chapter doesn't even mention him.  It does mention many others.  That is...unless Merib-baal is another name for Mephibosheth.  There is a central column note on this verse in MSB -  "In 2Sa 4:4, Mephibosheth".  So...What does this mean?  Perhaps that a son of Jonathan somehow named after a false God changes his name to something else?  "Merib-baal" means "Baal is my advocate".  What a name for a son of Jonathan.  In 2Sam 4:4, Mephibosheth means "exterminating the idol".  Also, looking at the meaning of the name, it seems there are two Mephibosheth's in scripture.  The other one was also a grandson of Saul, but the son of Rizpah and one of Saul's concubines.  This one was one of the seven David surrendered to the Gibeonites to be hanged.  I don't remember reading or commenting on that.  I would think it would have confused me at the time...
2023 - The descendants of Benjamin are given.  Then, kind of as an afterthought in vs 33, it says "Ner was the father of Kish, Kish of Saul..."  So if you look back then to vs 30, a guy named Kish is mentioned as a son of Jeiel, though in 33, the Kish named was the son of Ner.  So what I think that means is that neither Saul's father or grandfather are considered to be "significant" in the descendants of Benjamin.  They are perhaps not the "main line".  The way they are inserted makes one wonder if they even could trace their lineage back to Benjamin, or it was just via family tradition and oral history that they knew they were Benjamites.  They were just one of the many many Benjamites who had not bothered to keep a record of where they came from.  And Saul, from this "nobody" line, became King of Israel.  

Chapter 9
Genealogy of the returned exiles.  From the Babylonian captivity.
Then Saul's genealogy is repeated. ??  It shows that his descendants continued for several generations, to the eighth generation as I read it in Chapter 8.  How did so many come about when Saul and his sons were killed in battle, and David searched far and wide for Mephibosheth, who was the only surviving son of Jonathan?  Mephibosheth is not even mentioned in this genealogy.  (2022 - He had a different name at first.  He is mentioned.)
2021 - And why would Saul's descendants be that important anyway?  The Kingdom was taken away from him and given to David.  Taken from Benjamin and given to Judah.  Besides not understanding how all his household was wiped out so why should there even be descendants, why are they important to us?  Were there unconditional promises to Saul that must be kept for his descendants?  I don't think so...So why are these important?

Chapter 10
6 Thus Saul died; he and his three sons and all his house died together. [1Ch 10:6 ESV]
The whole story of Saul's death is repeated here, and seems to be much like the narrative in 1 Samuel 31.  1 Samuel does not mention "all his house".  
His three sons AND all his house.  Were there eight generations alive all at the same time?  Hard to believe Saul lived that long.  I think he was only king for 40 years.  Need to come back and fill this in.  No help in MSB.
No...but by the time he died, Jonathan must have had at least one son, who was not found by David in his search. That's what it says right here.  Only the lineage of Jonathan is mentioned, and only one son of Jonathan is mentioned.  We know that Mephibosheth also survived, and that he later participated in trying to overthrow David.  But the way the Bible talks about it, it is not necessary for 8 generations to all have been alive.
Also, per the MSB note in 1Sa31, Saul actually had four sons.  The survivor - who was apparently not at the battle - is later called Ishbosheth, King of Israel, whom Abner backed instead of David for a time.  So why does it use the term "all his house died together"?  I really can't say.  Perhaps Ishbosheth lived elsewhere already because of father/son problems.  Maybe Saul had even kicked him out and disowned him.
2021 - "all his house" likely means those living with Saul, his sons, his advisors, his servants, and his closest friends.  Remember that in the Northern Kingdom, when there was a coup, the whole house of the former king was sometimes wiped out, and this included his closest friends/advisors/supporters.  That is likely what is meant here about the house of Saul.  So we don't know whatever happened to Eshbaal, but he was apparently not part of Saul's house, and none of his descendants are listed.
2021 - The key seems to be that Saul had 4 sons, not just the three who died with him in battle.  There is also one named Eshbaal.  Here is the verse about the ones who died:
2 And the Philistines overtook Saul and his sons, and the Philistines struck down Jonathan and Abinadab and Malchi-shua, the sons of Saul. [1Ch 10:2 ESV].  No mention of Eshbaal.  Are Eshbaal and Ishbosheth the same man?  I found this note here, https://www.abarim-publications.com/Meaning/Eshbaal.html:

"The name Eshbaal in the Bible"

Eshbaal is one of the sons of Saul (1 Chronicles 8:33), and probably the same as Ish-bosheth (איש־בשת), who succeeded Saul as king of Israel, but who was defeated by David  two years later. Eshbaal and Ish-bosheth are never openly equated, but  the two names never appear side by side (which would prove that there  are two different sons of Saul). Scholars assume that the relation  between the names Eshbaal and Ish-bosheth is like that between the names  Merib-baal and Mephibosheth — the two names of the certainly one son of Jonathan, son of Saul — namely that the baal-part of the original name, which refers to the ungod Baal, was exchanged for the word boshet, meaning shame."

Still 2021 - In chapter 8, the descendants of Saul go through Jonathan only.  There is no mention in 8 of either Eshbaal or Ishbosheth.  Same in Chapter 9.  Eshbaal's descendants, if he had any, are not mentioned.  Only the descendants of Jonathan.  David, whom God established a forever covenant with, established a forever covenant with Jonathan  So this may be the reason that Jonathan's genealogy is preserved.  David's promises must also be kept.  

13 So Saul died for his breach of faith. He broke faith with the LORD in that he did not keep the command of the LORD, and also consulted a medium, seeking guidance. 14 He did not seek guidance from the LORD. Therefore the LORD put him to death and turned the kingdom over to David the son of Jesse. [1Ch 10:13-14 ESV]

Full explanation of the reasons for Saul's death, and for the transition of the kingly line from the tribe of Benjamin to the tribe of Judah.  In Genesis 49, as Jacob blesses his sons, we find this:
10 The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, until tribute comes to him; and to him shall be the obedience of the peoples. [Gen 49:10 ESV]
So Saul's fall could have been predicted.

In that same chapter, we find this:
27 "Benjamin is a ravenous wolf, in the morning devouring the prey and at evening dividing the spoil." [Gen 49:27 ESV]

Benjamin was short term - just morning and evening.  But Judah was long term.

Chapter 11
The first 8 verses are parallel to 2 Sam 5.

2022 - This seems like an abbreviated version of David's coronation and first actions, yet there are things  here I don't remember from 2 Sam 5.  Particularly that David says whoever attacks the Jebusites first will be commander of the army, and that is how Joab becomes commander.  This is when Jerusalem was taken.  Remember that God had not yet chosen a place to put his name forever at this point.  The tabernacle was still in service, and even that was not in Jerusalem.  We don't know why David chose Jerusalem...except in hindsight.  It was a walled and fortified city, and David chose to go and take it and live there rather than continue to live in Hebron.  What were the differences?

Then Chronicles lists the chiefs, the mighty men, who served David.
There were "Three".  The first of "The Three", Jashobeam, killed 300 men single-handedly.
Second of the three was Eleazar.  He made a stand against the Philistines and turned the battle around.
I don't see the third named.

2022 - I am wondering if the third mighty man would have had to be Joab himself?  

Other mighty men, and their exploits, are then chronicled.
All thirty of the thirty chiefs are named, as are their "cities of origin".  Many came to serve David.

Chapter 12
Those who came to David at Ziklag, while he was hiding from Saul are named.  They were Benjamites, as Saul was, yet they came to David.  They could use bows and slings with either hand.
Those from the tribe of Gad are named.  There is this verse about them:
14 These Gadites were officers of the army; the least was a match for a hundred men and the greatest for a thousand. [1Ch 12:14 ESV]
These are some pretty stout guys...
Then there is a detailing of how many soldiers from each tribe showed up at Hebron to serve David.  There is this verse:
32 Of Issachar, men who had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do, 200 chiefs, and all their kinsmen under their command. [1Ch 12:32 ESV]

Chapter 13
Now that David is the King of all Israel, his first real act is to propose that Jews gone abroad be invited home, that the Levites be concentrated, and that worship in the Tabernacle be started up again, because:
3 Then let us bring again the ark of our God to us, for we did not seek it in the days of Saul." [1Ch 13:3 ESV]

David proposes, and pursues, bringing the Ark of the Covenant to Jerusalem from Kiriath-jearim.  (Another name for this city is Baalah.  It seems to have had many names over the years.)  Uzza killed.  David upset.  And this:
12 And David was afraid of God that day, and he said, "How can I bring the ark of God home to me?" [1Ch 13:12 ESV]
I didn't do a word study on "afraid", but I bet it would be interesting.  David likely is afraid that more will die if they get things wrong, and he is unsure of exactly what it is they are supposed to do.  Being ignorant of God's requirements can lead to fear.
The result of all this is that the Ark is "stored" for a time in the house of one Obed-edom, a Gittite who lived near the place where Uzza died.
2023 - Took a look at that word "fear".  It is pronounced "yaw-wray" in Hebrew.  It is plain old fear.  The fear that made Adam hide after eating of the forbidden tree.  The fear that made Lot move out of Zoar into a cave.  Every day fear that something bad is likely to be done to you by another.

2021 - David had called in all these people, from all over the kingdom, to bring the ark to Jerusalem.  They all believed it was God's will to bring it home.  Then Uzza is killed.  The celebration that was proclaimed far and wide, and is in fact in progress, comes crashing down, with David in charge.  Everyone goes home.  This would have been an embarrassment perhaps, and caused questions to be asked about David's leadership.  

Chapter 14
2021 - Continuing the thought from 13, Hiram's actions confirm to David that despite the problem moving the ark, he is nevertheless established as King of Israel.  So this would have reassured him.
Retelling of the King of Tyre building David a house and early battles with the Philistines.  This is a pretty short version of it, but the sons born to David in Jerusalem are named here.  Solomon among them.  So this is a later summary of what happened over many years.  We know that the whole David and Bathsheba incident must unfold before Solomon comes along.

2022 - The meanings of his son's names:
Shammua - renowned
Shobab - rebellious
Nathan - giver
Solomon - peace
Ibhar - Jehovah chooses
Elishua - "my God is wealth" or "God is salvation"
Elpelet, or Eliphalet - God is deliverance
Nogah - brightness
Nepheg - sprout, as in the verb, not the noun
Japhia - shining
Elishama - my God has heard
Beeliada - the lord knows
Elephelet - God is deliverance

The account of the defeat of the Philistines in the Valley of Rephaim is retold, in very similar words, to the previous account.  This account adds that the gods they abandoned when they ran were ordered burned by David.
2022 - The Valley of Rephaim is 4 or 5 miles NW of Jerusalem.  

The kingdom is blessed.

Chapter 15
The Ark to be transported again, this time by the Levites as it should have been the first time.  Knowledge of God's will takes away the fear, and the original intent can be carried on.  Maybe this explains David's fear after the death of Uzza.  God had told David he could bring the ark, but then Uzza is killed doing it.  So David puts the project on hold, inquires, prays, reads, and learns, that he made a mistake by not having the Levites move the Ark, as God had clearly instructed.  Once this is clear, the Ark can continue its journey.  
The chapter starts this way:
1 David built houses for himself in the city of David. And he prepared a place for the ark of God and pitched a tent for it. [1Ch 15:1 ESV]
Perhaps this was part of the problem the first time.  There was no place to put the Ark when it arrived the first time.  So this must be done before the ark is brought to Jerusalem.  

2023 - This verse:
11 Then David summoned the priests Zadok and Abiathar, and the Levites Uriel, Asaiah, Joel, Shemaiah, Eliel, and Amminadab, [1Ch 15:11 ESV].  Here is a place where the King of Israel can be tied to the succession of Aaronic priests, as shown in a previous chapter.  This is the first place where both King and High Priests have been named since then.  Zadok is in the genealogy in 1Chr 6:8.  So he was likely high priest and Abiathar was his second.

Michal despises David in her heart.  Here is the verse:
29 And as the ark of the covenant of the LORD came to the city of David, Michal the daughter of Saul looked out of the window and saw King David dancing and celebrating, and she despised him in her heart. [1Ch 15:29 ESV]
This is the woman Saul "forced" on David, long ago, after David killed Goliath. She loved him, even helping him to escape from her father.  She was given to another, and David got her back, and took her again as his wife.  Yet when he comes into Jerusalem with the ark, her love turns to hate.  It seems that as David came in before the Ark, he was wearing linen.  This was the "uniform" of priests,  Royalty wore robes - purple I suppose.  In Michal's eyes, David was clothed in the garb of a lower station than he should have been.  She believes he should have been dressed as a King, and perhaps she sees this as evidence that after all, he is just a shepherd, and not true royalty, and this does not sit well with her.  Note the verses just before which emphasize twice that David is dressed in linen, as the priests.

Chapter 16
The Ark placed in a tabernacle.  This does not read as if the Tent of Meeting from the Sinai was moved to Jerusalem and used to house the Ark.  It reads as if this was a new tent, erected by David for the purpose of housing the Ark.  
Priests offering sacrifices, singing, playing music.

2021 - This verse:
7 Then on that day David first appointed that thanksgiving be sung to the LORD by Asaph and his brothers. [1Ch 16:7 ESV]
So this was the very first time anyone sang a hymn.  This was the first inclusion of singing, and very likely of instrumental music, as part of the worship of Jehovah.  Instituted by David, and we are not told that God asked him to do it.  BUT, David was after God's own heart, and David liked the music.  Further, it is certainly acceptable to God, letting it begin like this on such an auspicious occasion.    

David gives a Psalm to Asaph.  Psalm 105 I think.
The  covenant which He made with Abraham, And His oath to Isaac, And confirmed it to Jacob for a statute, To Israel for an everlasting covenant,
I Chronicles 16:16‭-‬17 NKJV

Covenant, oath, statute, covenant again.  Are these poetic names showing continuity or is each a different thing?

After the Psalm, David reinstates priestly and Levitical duties as required in the law.  Israel worshiping as it was supposed to.

God made Israel a great nation, as part of the covenant with Abraham.  The New Covenant...is with individuals.  Can we really expect to pray the US into a blessed nation under the New Covenant?  We are citizens of heaven under this covenant, we are adopted sons under this covenant.  I don't think NT Christians are ever called a nation.  The church is the vehicle of the NT, not any nation, no physical nation at all...
But does the NT ever deal with nations at all???  Should we even vote?  Jesus never voted, never addressed politics, only sin and righteousness.  Jesus never defended himself, never talk about his inalienable rights.  Are we doing all of this wrong?

2021 - These verses:
39 And he left Zadok the priest and his brothers the priests before the tabernacle of the LORD in the high place that was at Gibeon 40 to offer burnt offerings to the LORD on the altar of burnt offering regularly morning and evening, to do all that is written in the Law of the LORD that he commanded Israel. [1Ch 16:39-40 ESV].  So David moved the ark to a tent in Jerusalem.  But he seems to have left everything else associated with that original tabernacle - altar, sea, tent and all - back in  in that high place at Gibeon, and they continued to offer sacrifices there even though the Ark - the seat of God - was not there anymore.  Apparently all those things get moved when Solomon builds the temple, and likely replaces many of those furnishings with better versions.  Versions too large, ornate, and heavy to have been carried through the desert.
A GOOD STUDY - Follow the Ark, from it's placement as they arrived in Canaan, to its capture and then later return by the Philistines, to various places including ultimately Gibeon where Saul lived, and now to Jerusalem.  It would be a good study to see where all the Ark went.

Chapter 17
This chapter is much the same as 2 Sam 7.  There is this verse, which sheds a different light on God's covenant:
10 from the time that I appointed judges over my people Israel. And I will subdue all your enemies. Moreover, I declare to you that the LORD will build you a house. [1Ch 17:10 ESV]
David wants to build God a house, and instead, God builds David a different kind of house.  A ruling house, a dynasty forever.  You cannot give God even a trifle of what He can give you.

Chapter 18
Almost a repeat of 2 Sam 8.  Very little difference, not really any add'l info.
In the 2 Sam version, we are told that David took a lot of bronze from some of the cities of Hadadezer.   Here we are told that Solomon later uses this very bronze to construct the bronze sea and the pillars and the vessels of bronze for the first Temple.  There was a LOT of bronze.

2023 - This verse:
16 and Zadok the son of Ahitub and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar were priests; and Shavsha was secretary; [1Ch 18:16 ESV].  So this makes sense now.  The Ark was in a tent in Jerusalem, but everything else from the Tabernacle remained at Gideon.  So a priest was needed at each place.  Zadok was the "high priest" in Gideon, and aparently Ahimelech was in Jerusalem.  That's how I read it.  The  part about Zadok is certain because of 1Chr 16:39.  In that same chapter, though, it is Asaph that is left to sing before the ark in Jerusalem.  1Chr 16:5 says Asaph was chief of those appointed by David as ministers before the Ark.  Moving back still further, we find this confirming verses in 1Chr 15:  11 Then David summoned the priests Zadok and Abiathar, and the Levites Uriel, Asaiah, Joel, Shemaiah, Eliel, and Amminadab, 12 and said to them, "You are the heads of the fathers' houses of the Levites. Consecrate yourselves, you and your brothers, so that you may bring up the ark of the LORD, the God of Israel, to the place that I have prepared for it. [1Ch 15:11-12 ESV].  So while Asaph was a big deal, his duties were confined to that one area.  Abiathar was high priest in Jerusalem.  As always, it all fits just fine, without contradiction.

Chapter 19
The same info as in 2Sam10.
2 Samuel has many parallel chapters with 1 Chronicles.  We will see where the "connection points" are between 1,2 Sam, 1,2 Kings, 1,2 Chronicles.  For some reason we get two versions of much of the history of this time.  Sometimes it takes both versions to understand.  Sometimes the numbers are different from one to the other, and sometimes the names are a little different, but it is very  obvious that the history is the same.
We learn here how much Ammon paid the Syrian mercenaries 

2022 - 1000 talents of silver, is 75,000 lbs of silver, 900,000 troy ounces of silver, and at $18/oz, that is $16.2 million dollars.  That surely was a lot of money to pay foreign mercenaries for protection - .  Ammon must have been quaking in fear to part with that kind of money!  As I read it, they obtained "tanks", that is chariots and horsemen to drive them, from Mesopotamia, Aram-maacah, and Zobah.  So this gave them a force, but not leadership.  So they hired the King of Maacah and his army, apparently to lead, and to supplement the foot soldiers with his own army.  Additionally, the Ammonites trotted out their own army, and this whole force assembled outside Medeba.  A map I found puts this east of the Dead Sea, quite a long way from downtown Jerusalem,  Even so, David hears of it he sends Joab and the army of Israel to meet them.  Offense is the best defense?  
Then there is a reference to the Syrians?  These must have been those who were NOT Ammonites, all lumped together.  It is confusing....I am not sure where everyone actually came from.


We learn that the city nearest this coming battle was Medeba.  It was at the gates of this city that the Ammonites formed up, and the mercenaries were...out in the plain somewhere.
The problem for Joab was that if he attacked the city where the Ammonites were, he could be attacked from the rear by the mercenaries.  And if he attacked the mercenaries, he could also be attacked from the city.  So Joab does a militarily erroneous thing.  He divides his forces and attacks in both directions.  
Joab and his men attack the Syrian mercenaries, and rout them.  As they flee, the Ammonites in the city see it and they retreat into the city.  They must have been formed up right outside the gates of Medeba.
The Syrians, seeing that they chose the wrong side, are apparently afraid that Israel will now attack them - having defeated a good portion of them already.  Israel is thought to be about to finish the job.  So they muster their national army.  David learns they are mustering, and "returns fire".  There is a battle and David and his men are victorious.  The commander of the Syrian army is killed/executed?  Killed in battle seems more likely from the wording in the two accounts.  Hadad-ezer is not killed.  His servants (vassal kingdoms paying tribute to him) switch to David, and become subject to him.  It does not say what becomes of Hadad-ezer at this time.

The MSB note on 19:18 says there is an apparent copyist error and another difference in wording between this chapter and the account in 2 Sam.  These are minor - the first having to do with the number killed, and the second to do with their roles - one says they were horsemen, the other that the dead were foot soldiers.  

2024 - What we have here, even according to MSB, is a contradiction within the Bible.  There ARE two differences in these two accounts of the same event.  
Looking at more details - 19 Chr says Ammon hired 32,000 chariots - so there would have been drivers and attendants and caretakers for the horses and so on...easily 50,000 men and possibly twice that, PLUS the King of Maacha "and his people".  Could have been a large contingent of foot soldiers here.
After the battle near Medeba, the mercenaries from Syria (the Arameans) prepare for battle east of the Jordan.  They are defeated, and 7000 charioteers and 40,000 foot soldiers die.  This would be IN ADDITION TO those killed at Medeba who fled from Joab.  This is the 1Chr account.
In 2Sam 10 it was 700 charioteers and 40,000 horsemen who die in this same battle.  This is how 700 is written in this passage:
שִׁבְעַת
And here is 7000 in 1Chr 19
שְׁבַע
Looks like one letter is added to the left to turn 7000 into 700.  So if the copier "forgot" that last letter, we would be off by a factor of 10.  So the most likely explanation is indeed a copying error.
As for the roles, things are more complicated.  It turns out that the word for charioteers appears in both passages, and it is the word AFTER that, which is shown without a direct translation, that shades the meaning.  In 2Sam 10 that second word is:
מֵאוֹת֙
...and in 1Chr 19 it looks like this:
אֲלָפִים֙
Not at all the same, and yet each passage says 40,000 of them were killed. So.  The only thing I can think of right now that would explain this is a difference in how the two writers "designated" the role of the 40,000.  This happens.  As in "lancers" and "light horse" in the British army, or fusiliers and so on and so forth.  Perhaps there were two different names, depending on which side you were on, for the same function.  I think this is a reasonably likely possibility.

2024 - Another note here.  We see Joab and his brother Abishai fighting on the same side.  I had thought Joab killed one of his brothers with a sneaky concealed sword attack, but that was not one of his brothers - Abishai and Asahel - and the one killed in a cowardly way was Abner.

Chapter 20
Joab takes Rabbah, David brings out the spoil.
2024 - This appears to have happened in the year following the whole Arameans and Ammonites campaign.  Joab defeated the mercenary Arameans first at Medeba and then east of the Jordan.  Meanwhile, the Ammonite initiators of all this had hidden inside Medeba.  Apparently the majority survived the battle.  So the next year, Joab goes out to make the Ammonites pay for all the trouble they've caused.

1 Chronicles completely ignores the story of David and Bathsheba.  It makes no reference to it at all.

2025 - There is also no reference to the revolt and conspiracy of Absalom and all that went with that.  

After Ammon falls, war breaks out with the Philistines.  Is this part of the curse on David that the sword would never depart?
There are three battles referenced.  Each time, the Philistines are led by one descended "from the giants".  I always thought these were those born of the union of angels with human women.  But it doesn't seem to really imply that here.  One of these giants was the brother of Goliath, and I don't think there's anything implying that Goliath was the son of an angel.  Apparently, somehow, somewhere along the way, there were some genetic giants, and they were able to pass on giantism to their descendants.

This is interesting, in that there were no giants on the ark.  These arose after the flood, perhaps resulting from genetic mutations after the atmosphere changed and damaging particles from the sun could reach earth.  No giant women are mentioned.  But it would seem that there had to be some.  Here is the last verse about them:
8 These were born to the giant in Gath, and they fell by the hand of David and by the hand of his servants. [1Ch 20:8 NKJV]
This looks like all of the giants were descended from one giant...no, Sippai, the first one named, was descended from "the giants", not "the giant".  So there were more than one or two.  

Chapter 21

2025 - There is a footnote in the MSB NASB95 that says 20 years passes between the last verse of Chapter 20 and the first of Chapter 21.  This gap is from 995-975 BC.  Absalom's revolt and a lot more occur in those years.  I expect that, since these followed David's sin with Bathsheba and the murder of her husband, that they were all very dark years, as David prayed for reconciliation with God.  Though God forgave David, the consequences of David's sin went on in time and severity.

Parallels 2 Sam 24.
This chapter says that Satan stood against Israel, and it was he who incited David to number Israel.  MSB says God used Satan to bring about these events.  Satan tempted David using his pride, yet David is the one who chose to sin.  What makes better sense to me is that perhaps God did not hinder Satan, nor cause Satan to be hindered, in Satan's temptation of David to number the people, because the people were in rebellion against God, and chastisement/correction was needed.  So God withdrew and gave Satan room.  Satan must have known how it would end, and cared only about causing as much havoc as he possibly could.  Even knowing it was God's intention he was serving.

vs. 6 says Joab didn't number Levi and Benjamin because he was against the numbering.  So here he leaves two tribes out, and the numbers are higher than in 2 Sam.  MSB, again, has some explanation.
[1Ch 21:16 ESV] 16 And David lifted his eyes and saw the angel of the LORD standing between earth and heaven, and in his hand a drawn sword stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell upon their faces.
So David sees the angel, with his sword still drawn, though God has ordered him to stop.

David prays this prayer, demonstrating the correct relationship between a nations leader and the nation's people:
17 And David said to God, "Was it not I who gave command to number the people? It is I who have sinned and done great evil. But these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand, O LORD my God, be against me and against my father's house. But do not let the plague be on your people." [1Ch 21:17 ESV]
A true leader wants the consequences to come on him and his house, not on those who had nothing to do with a bad decision he made.  Don't punish the country, punish me.

[1Ch 21:18 ESV] 18 Now the angel of the LORD had commanded Gad to say to David that David should go up and raise an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
Here, it is the angel giving orders to the seer.  MSB makes no mention of this.
In 1 Chron, Ornan (Araunah) sees the angel, and his sons must see the angel also, because they all go hide.  
David pays Ornan 600 shekels of gold.  2 Sam said 50 silver.  MSB says in 1 Chron, the price includes what was paid for the land, not just for the oxen and material to burn.  
Further, the land purchased is believed to be Mt. Moriah, and the threshing floor itself is believed to be the flat stone under the Dome of the Rock on today's temple mount.
When David offers the sacrifices, God sends fire from heaven to consume the offering, and then commands the angel to put away his sword.
This verse:
29 For the tabernacle of the LORD, which Moses had made in the wilderness, and the altar of burnt offering were at that time in the high place at Gibeon, [1Ch 21:29 ESV]
Would be interesting to go back and see when it was placed here.  Is Gibeon the same as Gibeah?  Has Saul brought it there?  The Ark is not mentioned, and I think it is in Jerusalem at this time, but the original tabernacle is at Gibeon.

Chapter 22
[1Ch 22:1 ESV] 1 Then David said, "Here shall be the house of the LORD God and here the altar of burnt offering for Israel."
So the first temple was built on the threshing floor of Ornan.
This verse is interesting also:
2 David commanded to gather together the resident aliens who were in the land of Israel, and he set stonecutters to prepare dressed stones for building the house of God. [1Ch 22:2 ESV]
Non-natural born citizens could be appropriated as labor.  I expect they were supported, fed, and clothed, rather than treated as outright slaves, but still.  And who do we have today claiming they are not citizens but mistreated aliens who deserve to be repaid for the injustices done to them.  Perhaps they would see things differently if they realized that what they are asking for is resident alien status in a country they were born in.  They are actually asking for, demanding, to be given LESS than they deserve.

Though David has been prohibited from building the Temple, he gathers huge quantities of materials to be used.
God has determined that Solomon will be a man of rest, and war will not trouble his kingdom.  Remember that David was cursed with violence all his days for his sin with Bathsheba and Uriah.  
David charges Solomon with building the Temple, and also the elders of Israel to help Solomon.

Chapter 23
The first thing we learn in this chapter is that at this latter part of his life, David has gone ahead and made Solomon King in his place.  David numbers the Levites, and sort or "re-tasks" them to attend and help the sons of Aaron.  This is because their original job of transporting, assembling and disassembling the tent of meeting will no longer be needed when the Temple is built.  
2023 - Note that 38,000 Levites were numbered, but David only put 24,000 in charge of the work of the temple.  So there is that number 24 again.  6000 were officers and judges, 4000 were gatekeepers, 4000 offered praise to the Lord with the instruments David had made.  Here is the passage:  3 The Levites, thirty years old and upward, were numbered, and the total was 38,000 men. 4 "Twenty-four thousand of these," David said, "shall have charge of the work in the house of the LORD, 6,000 shall be officers and judges, 5 4,000 gatekeepers, and 4,000 shall offer praises to the LORD with the instruments that I have made for praise." [1Ch 23:3-5 ESV].  We do not know exactly how many were "in charge" of the 24,000, but a pretty good round number comes to mind, same numbers as the number of elders around the throne of God of heaven.  Why wouldn't these things correspond?

2024 - 4000 offered praise with instruments.  If instruments were ok here, I just cannot accept that instruments are NOT ok today.  God never changes. 

Chapter 24
The priests organized into 24 divisions by lot.  This was because Eleazar had 16 sons and Ithamar had 8 sons.  These two were the only surviving sons of Aaron.  So the 24 divisions don't really seem to have any special calendar meaning or anything like that.  I think these were the ones who served in the temple for two weeks, and if they were lucky, might get to go into the Holy of Holies once in their lifetime, as the father of John the Baptist did that one time.
2023 - AND, I wonder if this is also the basis of the 24 elders around the throne of God!?!?!  This makes really good sense that they might be based on this original division of the priests according to the sons of Eleazar and Ithamar, sons of Aaron.  Oh my...how have I never read this anywhere???  Here is the passage:  4 Since more chief men were found among the sons of Eleazar than among the sons of Ithamar, they organized them under sixteen heads of fathers' houses of the sons of Eleazar, and eight of the sons of Ithamar. [1Ch 24:4 ESV].  This needs to be added to the Revelation notes ASAP!
2023 - The priests were the sons of Aaron.  These were concerned with the sacrifices, the rituals, and so on.  From these, one would be the High Priest.  The Levites - the 24,000 in Chapter 23 were to serve the sons of Aaron - the priests - by doing all the maintenance work on the Temple, and singing, and judging the people, and regulating the number allowed into the temple - I think...

Chapter 25
The musicians organized.  These also into 24 divisions by lot.  
2022 - This verse:
1 David and the chiefs of the service also set apart for the service the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Jeduthun, who prophesied with lyres, with harps, and with cymbals. The list of those who did the work and of their duties was: [1Ch 25:1 ESV].  I never noticed that the musicians prophesied with their instruments.  Wonder how we are to take that?  Looked it up in BLB.  I don't know the tenses, nor the conjugations, so I have to assume this was past tense.  In the KJV, however, the phrase is "who should prophesy".  BLB says this single word is a noun, masculine common plural absolute.  Prophesy is plural, so prophesies are in view.  Prophesies with musical instruments.  I guess the simplest explanation is that they set their prophecies to music.  Surely the prophecies were verbal, but pronounced with accompaniment.  Singing might be a better way of putting it...but there's a word for sing, and it is not used here.  So shouldn't we understand this as words spoken with music in the background?  MSB has a lot to say about this.  Prophecy is not necessarily revelatory, but can also be a proclamation of the truth, the right.  It can exhort righteousness in the hearers.  Music - the instruments - can be seen as a vehicle for that proclamation.  So yes, this is about hymns, with theology and doctrine ingrained, and in an easily recalled format.  Just like our hymns to day.  And these hymns, in David's time, were set to music.

2023 - Note this verse:  7 The number of them along with their brothers, who were trained in singing to the LORD, all who were skillful, was 288. [1Ch 25:7 ESV].  We will see in the next verses that there were in fact 24 groups of 12, or 288 charged with the duties of prophesying by lyre, harp, and cymbal.  The interesting part to me is that we again see the number 24 used in a significant way associated with worship.  Just as there were 24 priests, there are 24 choirs that sign praise to God.  I would, and I don't see how we should not, connect this 24 to the 24 elders around the throne of God in Revelation.

Chapter 26
Gatekeepers are assigned specific gates and places that they will watch, according to their families, then according to lot.  There was nothing left to chance, nothing left to "we'll just get whoever is available".  These things were very specific.  

2023 - And here it is yet again!!!  These verses:  17 On the east there were six each day, on the north four each day, on the south four each day, as well as two and two at the gatehouse. 18 And for the colonnade on the west there were four at the road and two at the colonnade. [1Ch 26:17-18 ESV].  If you add these up, there are a total of 24 shifts each day.  24, once again.

Same with the keepers of the treasury, which included all the spoil from battles that was dedicated by the commanders, and captains, and the King and so on.  Looking after these items was also a duty assigned to specific men in specific families.

Chapter 27
An army division came each month to Jerusalem to serve the King (or that's how I read it anyway.)  They rotated in and out.  There were 24,000 men in each division.  Then the leaders of each tribe are listed.

2023 - Once you know what to look for, it becomes pretty obvious.  Another verse:  1 This is the number of the people of Israel, the heads of fathers' houses, the commanders of thousands and hundreds, and their officers who served the king in all matters concerning the divisions that came and went, month after month throughout the year, each division numbering 24,000: [1Ch 27:1 ESV].  24 thousands in each of the 12 divisions that came and served on a monthly basis.  There would have been 24 commanders of 1000's in each group.  The elders of those groups if you will.  So in addition to the worship aspect of the priests and the prophets, you have a military aspect of the 24 also.

Chapter 28
David gathers all in charge of the Kings business, from the army, from those who tend livestock and vineyards, advisors and so on.  This verse:
2 Then King David rose to his feet and said: "Hear me, my brothers and my people. I had it in my heart to build a house of rest for the ark of the covenant of the LORD and for the footstool of our God, and I made preparations for building. [1Ch 28:2 ESV]
The highlighted phrase is also used of Ezekiel's Temple.  I thought it might have to do with that future temple being built by Antichrist and it would be a footstool in the sense of making His enemies his footstool.  But David's use of the same phrase here argues against that idea.  So it looks more and more like that future temple is something else.  At the very least, a study of "footstool" is in order.  Why would David use it here?  Because the footstool would be found at one's resting place?
David says God prohibited him from building the Temple, despite having made him King forever over Israel.  Now, God has chosen Solomon from among David's sons to be the next King.

David speaks directly to Solomon next.  He tells him to be strong and build the temple, and then David passes the plans for the temple over to Solomon.  It is very detailed, down to the weight of each vessel to be used during ceremonies in the temple.  David says God gave him these plans.

Chapter 29
David addresses the assembled again.
He tells of the gold and silver and such set aside for the Temple.  Then he makes a personal contribution - a very large one - to add to that set aside, and he asks those assembled to contribute also.  Many of them do, with whole hearts, and all rejoice.

David prays, blessing God for his greatness and power.  He acknowledges that all they have just donated to God was in fact already God's, because all that is was created by God.  He asks that Solomon would keep God's commandments, and that he would build the Temple as planned.

David tells them all to bless the Lord.  They do so joyfully.  The next day there are many sacrifices, and the people eat and drink before the Lord in a sort of a feast.

Then Solomon is anointed King the second time (I read earlier - but don't know if it was in Chronicles or 2 Samuel, that Solomon was made King while David was still living.  Maybe this is a formalization of what had been done previously.)  Solomon takes the throne.

28 Then he died at a good age, full of days, riches, and honor. And Solomon his son reigned in his place. [1Ch 29:28 ESV]
Even one so great as David ran out of time, and died.  David mentions many times that a man's life is but a shadow passing through the world.