## Radak on I Chronicles Chapter 17

###### Radak on I Chronicles 17:5:1
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**מאהל אל אהל וממשכן.** רוצ' לומ': וממשכן אל משכן, ולפי שאמ' "מאהל אל אהל" סמך על המבין. ופי' "מאהל אל אהל": מאהל מועד אשר במדבר לגלגל, ומגלגל לשלה, ומשלה לנוב, ומנוב לגבעון. ובכל אלה המקומות תחת היריעות היה המזבח והארון, ואף כל הימים שהיה הארון בקרית יערים המזבח היה בנב ובגבעון (להלן ב א,ג-ה):

**The Commentary of Radak to Chronicles: A Translation with Introduction and Supercommentary, by Yitzhak Berger, Brown University, 2007:**
**From Tent to Tent and from Tabernacle.** This means to say: “and from Tabernacle *to Tabernacle*”; but because it says “from Tent to Tent,” it relies on the reader’s understanding. The meaning of “from Tent to Tent” is: from the Tent of Meeting in the wilderness to Gilgal, from Gilgal to Shiloh, from Shiloh to Nob, and from Nob to Gibeon. In all those places, the altar and the Ark were under the cloths [of the Tabernacle]. And even when the Ark was in Kiryath-jearim, the altar was in Nob and Gibeon the entire time (2 Chr 1:3–5).


###### Radak on I Chronicles 17:6:1
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**את אחד שפטי ישראל.** ובמקומו בספר שמואל: "את אחד שבטי ישראל" (ש"ב ז,ז), כי השופט והראש נקרא שבט, כמו "לא יסור שבט מיהודה" (בר' מט,י), "שבט מישור שבט מלכותך" (תה' מה,ז):

**The Commentary of Radak to Chronicles: A Translation with Introduction and Supercommentary, by Yitzhak Berger, Brown University, 2007:**
**Any of the chieftains of Israel (*shofetei Yisra’el*).** In the parallel verse in the book of Samuel [it says] “any of the *shivtei Yisra’el*” (2 Sam 7:7), because the chief official is called a *shevet*, as in “The *shevet* shall not depart from Judah” (Gen 49:10), and “your royal *shevet* (=scepter) is a *shevet* of equity” (Ps 45:7).


###### Radak on I Chronicles 17:7:1
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**מן הנוה.** גדרות הצאן נקרא "נוה", כמו שאמ' "נות כרות רועים וגדרות צאן" (צפ' ב,ו):

**The Commentary of Radak to Chronicles: A Translation with Introduction and Supercommentary, by Yitzhak Berger, Brown University, 2007:**
**From the *naveh* (=abode).** Folds for flocks are called a *naveh*, as the text says, “*nevot* (=abodes consisting of) shepherds’ dugouts and folds for flocks” (Zeph 2:6).


###### Radak on I Chronicles 17:8:1
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**ועשיתי לך שם כשם הגדולים.** כמו שאמר "ויצא שם דוד בכל הארצות ויי' נתן...פחדו על כל הגוים" (לעיל יד,יז):

**The Commentary of Radak to Chronicles: A Translation with Introduction and Supercommentary, by Yitzhak Berger, Brown University, 2007:**
**I will give you renown like that of the greatest men on earth**—as it says, “David became famous throughout the lands, and the Lord put the fear of him in all the nations” (1 Chr 14:17).


###### Radak on I Chronicles 17:10:1
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**ולמימים וכו'.** בראשונה היו מבלים אותם, וכן מימים ש**צויתי** עליהם **שופטים** גם כן היו מענים אותם. אע"פ שהיו מושיעים אותם השופטים, לא היה להם מנוחה שלימה עד עתה:

**The Commentary of Radak to Chronicles: A Translation with Introduction and Supercommentary, by Yitzhak Berger, Brown University, 2007:**
**Ever since etc.** In the beginning [enemy nations] used to wear down [the Israelites]; and from the time I **appointed chieftains** over them, [enemy nations] would similarly cause them distress. Even though the chieftains would save them, they have not been fully at peace until now.


###### Radak on I Chronicles 17:16:1
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**עד הלם.** שהמלכתני, ואני קטן ונבזה:

**The Commentary of Radak to Chronicles: A Translation with Introduction and Supercommentary, by Yitzhak Berger, Brown University, 2007:**
**Thus far.** For You have made me king even though I am belittled and despised (Ps 119:141).


###### Radak on I Chronicles 17:17:1
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**ותקטן זאת בעיניך.** עד שדברת אל **בית עבדך למרחוק**, שהבטחת זרעי אחרי להמליכם עד עולם, כמו שאמ' "והעמדתיהו בביתי ובמלכותי עד העולם" (לעיל פס' יד):

**The Commentary of Radak to Chronicles: A Translation with Introduction and Supercommentary, by Yitzhak Berger, Brown University, 2007:**
**Yet even this has seemed too little for You—**to the point where You have spoken to **Your servant’s house concerning the future**. For You have promised to make my offspring kings after me forever, as it says, “I will install him in My house and in My Kingship forever” (v. 14).


###### Radak on I Chronicles 17:17:2
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**וראיתני כתור האדם המעלה.** כלומ': ראיתני במעלה גדולה בתכונת האדם הגדול, אע"פ שאני קטן ונבזה. ו"תר" הוא לשון תכונה; וכן "תורת האדם" שאמר בספר שמואל (ש"ב ז,יט). וקרוב לו "נאוו לחייך בתורים" (שה"ש א,י), שהם הפנינים המסודרים ומחוברים על סדר ותכונה:

**The Commentary of Radak to Chronicles: A Translation with Introduction and Supercommentary, by Yitzhak Berger, Brown University, 2007:**
**You regard me as having the *tor* of a person of distinction.** This means: You regard me as having the kind of great qualities that characterize a great person, even though I am belittled and despised. *Tor* has the sense of a set nature—as does “the *torah* of a person,” the formulation that appears in the book of Samuel (2 Sam 7:19). Similarly, “Your cheeks are comely with *torim*” (Song 1:10) refers to pearls that are neatly connected to one another according to a set arrangement.


###### Radak on I Chronicles 17:21:1
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**לגרש מפני עמך אשר פדית ממצרים גוים.** זה היה לך שם גדלות ונוראות, שפדיתם מבית עבדים ממצרים, וגרשת מפניהם גוים – והם שבע אומות. ובספר שמואל אומ' "אשר פדית ממצרים גוים ואלהיו" (ש"ב ז,כג), פי': מגוים ומאלהיו, או: והכית גוים ואלהיו:

**The Commentary of Radak to Chronicles: A Translation with Introduction and Supercommentary, by Yitzhak Berger, Brown University, 2007:**
**Driving out, from the presence of Your people whom You redeemed from Egypt, nations.** This won You renown as One who performs great and marvelous deeds; namely, Your redemption of them from servitude in Egypt and Your driving out nations—that is, the seven nations—from their presence. In the book of Samuel it says, “whom You redeemed from Egypt, nations and their gods” (2 Sam 7:23), which means either: *from* nations and *from* their gods, or: *and You defeated* nations and their gods.