1 Chronicles 11:1 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Then all Israel gathered themselves to David unto Hebron, saying, Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh. ”

• 1 Chronicles 11:1 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  This chapter runs parallel with 2 Samuel 5 as far as 1 Chronicles 11:9 , after which it is to be compared with 2 Samuel 23:8-39 as far as 1 Chronicles 11:40 , the remainder 1 Chronicles 11:4...

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• 1 Chronicles 11:1 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  Then all Israel (a) gathered themselves to David unto Hebron, saying, Behold, we [are] thy bone and thy flesh. (a) This was after the death of Ishbosheth Saul's son, when David had reigned over Juda...

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• 1 Chronicles 11:1 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  David Made King in Hebron; Jerusalem Taken; David's Mighty Men (see notes on 2 Samuel 5:1-3 ; 2 Samuel 5:6-10 ; 2 Samuel 23:8-39 ). 1 Chronicles 11:42-47 . An addition by the Chronicler from...

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• 1 Chronicles 11:1 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  Then all Israel. Compare 2 Samuel 5:2 . Omitting all events in Hebron ( 2 Samuel 2:1-4 ). See App-56. In this chapter we have 1-3 David's Coronation; 4-9, David's Capital; 10-47, David's Captains....

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• 1 Chronicles 11:1 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Then all Israel gathered themselves to David unto Hebron, saying, Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh. Then all Israel gathered themselves to David - See 2 Samuel 5:1-10 (note), for the history...

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• 1 Chronicles 11:1 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Then all Israel gathered themselves to David unto Hebron, saying, Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh. Then all Israel gathered themselves to David unto Hebron. This event happened on the d...

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• 1 Chronicles 11:1 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  David's Coronation at Hebron and his Capture of Zion The writer, though mentioning David's crowning at Hebron, omits all description of his 7 years' reign there, and in this chapter unites with so...

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• 1 Chronicles 11:1 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  (1–9) Parallel to 2 Samuel 5:1-10 . (1) Then all Israel gathered themselves. — Literally, and. “Then” is too definite a mark of time. The chronicler passes over the subsequent history of the ho...

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• 1 Chronicles 11:1 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  DAVID 1. HIS TRIBE AND DYNASTY KING and kingdom were so bound up in ancient life that an ideal for the one implied an ideal for the other: all distinction and glory possessed by either was shared...

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• 1 Chronicles 11:1 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  We now enter on the second section of this Book. In this section there are four movements: the story of David's crowning, the events connected with the Ark of God, the account of David's reign, and,...

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• 1 Chronicles 11:1 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  CONTENTS As the preceding Chapter related to us the account of the death of Saul, this takes up the immediate part which follows in that history, in the elevation of David to the throne. The Chapter...

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• 1 Chronicles 11:1 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Then all Israel gathered themselves to David unto Hebron, saying, Behold, we [are] thy bone and thy flesh. Ver. 1. Then all Israel. ] See on 2 Samuel 5:1,5 . We are thy bone and thy flesh. ]...

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• 1 Chronicles 11:1 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  All Israel gathered themselves to David That is, all the tribes of Israel , as it is expressed 2 Samuel 5:1 , by their elders (1Ch 11:3) and officers, and a great multitude of their soldiers and...

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• 1 Chronicles 11:1 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  David's Accession to the Throne. B. C. 1055.       1 Then all Israel gathered themselves to Da...

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• 1 Chronicles 11:1 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  1 CHRONICLES CHAPTER 11 David made king at Hebron; by Joab's valour winneth the castle of Zion from the Jebusites; repaireth the city of Jerusalem, 1 Chronicles 11:1-9 . A catalogue of his might...

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• 1 Chronicles 11:1 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL NOTES.] The writer here passes by the 7½ years of David’s reign over Judah, at which he had glanced in his introductory section (chap. 1 Chronicles 3:4 ), and hastens to the glorious period...

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• 1 Chronicles 11:1 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  1 Chronicles 11:11 . Jashobeam, called Tachmoni, 2 Samuel 23:8 , a wise man and valiant. He had earned the laurel to sit as the chairman of David's generals. Three hundred men he killed, and five...

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• 1 Chronicles 11:1 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION 1 Chronicles 11:1 Upon the death of Saul, Abner, for a while espousing the cause of Ishbo-sheth, the only surviving son of Saul, "made him king over" a large proportion of the pe...

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• 1 Chronicles 11:1 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Then all Israel gathered themselves to David unto Hebron, representatives of the northern and eastern tribes, as well as of Judah, where he had already reigned over seven years, saying, Behold, we a...

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• 1 Chronicles 11:1 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Chronicles 12:23-40 ; 1 Kings 2:11 ; 2 Samuel 15:10 ; 2 Samuel 19:12 ; 2 Samuel 19:13 ; 2 Samuel 2:1 ; 2 Samuel 5:1-16 ; Deuteronomy 17:15 ; Ephesians 5:30 ; Genesis 29:14 ; Judges 9:2 ;...

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