“ Mishmannah the fourth, Jeremiah the fifth, ”
David's Supporters. An enumeration of those who rallied round David during his outlaw life in Ziklag ( cf. 1 Samuel 27:5 f.), and a list of those who were instrumental in setting him upon the th...
Mishmannah the fourth, Jeremiah the fifth,
Ezer the first, Obadiah the second, Eliab the third, No JFB commentary on these verses.
Various Statistics This chapter is entirely supplementary to what is related in 2 S, and gives particulars respecting certain companies that joined David at various times, and the numbers that cam...
(8-18) A. list of Gadites, and an account of a band of Judæans and Benjammites who joined David in the stronghold ( 1 Chronicles 11:14 ) towards the desert of Judah.
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...
Here the story is continued; it thrills with the enthusiasm of the multitudes as they marched under the standard of the new king. Over the list of names flashes light from certain outstanding stateme...
The continued accumulation of David's forces, serves to remind us of the wonderful accession of converts to the Lord Jesus from every part. Oh! how truly lovely is it to behold souls flying to Christ...
1 Chronicles 12:9 .
David's Army. B. C. 1055. 1 Now these are they that came to David to Ziklag, while he...
No text from Poole on this verse.
CRITICAL NOTES.] This chapter entirely new matter—supplementary to Samuel—contains a list of those who joined David in time of Saul ( 1 Chronicles 12:1-22 ), and of those who came to make him king ov...
1 Chronicles 12:14 . Over a thousand. David at Ziklag had but six hundred men; the query is, whether these had already been captains over a thousand, or whether David after his coronation promoted...
And of the Gadites there separated themselves unto David. David and his volunteers David, compelled to flee from his own country, and to hide himself from the malice of Saul, was eminently a ty...
EXPOSITION This chapter is retrospective, and the contents of it are not found elsewhere. It is occupied, first ( 1 Chronicles 12:1-13 ), with the names and some accounts of those who had come t...
The Companies that came to David at Ziklag
1 Chronicles 12:13 ; 1 Chronicles 12:4