1 Chronicles 12:14 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ These were of the sons of Gad, captains of the host: onec of the least was over an hundred, and the greatest over a thousand. ”

1 Chronicles 12:14 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The marginal rendering is preferable. (Compare Leviticus 26:8 ).
1 Chronicles 12:14 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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...
1 Chronicles 12:14 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

These were of the sons of Gad, captains of the host: one of the least was over an hundred, and the greatest over a thousand.
1 Chronicles 12:14 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

These were of the sons of Gad, captains of the host: one of the least was over an hundred, and the greatest over a thousand. One of the least was over an hundred ... David, while at Ziklag, h...
1 Chronicles 12:14 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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...
1 Chronicles 12:14 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

(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.
1 Chronicles 12:14 - 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...
1 Chronicles 12:14 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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...
1 Chronicles 12:14 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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 12:14 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

These were of the sons of Gad, captains of the host ,.... Of the militia in their own country, and of the men they brought with them; or they were such afterwards in David's army: one of the least...
1 Chronicles 12:14 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

These [were] of the sons of Gad, captains of the host: one of the least [was] over an hundred, and the greatest over a thousand. Ver. 14. One of the least was over a hundred. ] Or, One that was le...
1 Chronicles 12:14 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

David's Army. B. C. 1055. 1 Now these are they that came to David to Ziklag, while he...
1 Chronicles 12:14 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Not that they brought now so many men with them; but either, 1. They had hitherto been captains or colonels under Saul, or in the established militia or bands of their tribe. Or, 2. They were so...
1 Chronicles 12:14 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
1 Chronicles 12:14 - The Biblical Illustrator

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...
1 Chronicles 12:14 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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...
1 Chronicles 12:14 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Companies that came to David at Ziklag
1 Chronicles 12:14 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Deuteronomy 32:30 ; Leviticus 26:8

1 Chronicles 12:14 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

1 Chronicles 12:14 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

1 Chronicles 12:14 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

1 Chronicles 12:14 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

1 Chronicles 12:14 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1 Chronicles 12:14 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

1 Chronicles 12:14 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

1 Chronicles 12:14 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

1 Chronicles 12:14 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

1 Chronicles 12:14 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

1 Chronicles 12:14 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

1 Chronicles 12:14 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

1 Chronicles 12:14 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

1 Chronicles 12:14 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

1 Chronicles 12:14 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 Chronicles 12:14 - The Biblical Illustrator

1 Chronicles 12:14 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

1 Chronicles 12:14 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

1 Chronicles 12:14 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge