1 Chronicles 12:21 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And they helped David against the band of the rovers: for they were all mighty men of valour, and were captains in the host. ”

• 1 Chronicles 12:21 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  The band of the rovers - See the marginal reference.

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• 1 Chronicles 12:21 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  And they helped David against the (g) band [of the rovers]: for they [were] all mighty men of valour, and were captains in the host. (g) That is, of the Amalekites who had burned the city of Ziklag,...

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• 1 Chronicles 12:21 - 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...

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• 1 Chronicles 12:21 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  helped David . helped with David. the band: i.e. the Amalekites, who had burned Ziklag during his absence. See 1 Samuel 30:1-20 . It is assumed that we know of this.

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• 1 Chronicles 12:21 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And they helped David against the band of the rovers : for they were all mighty men of valour, and were captains in the host.

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• 1 Chronicles 12:21 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And they helped David against the band of the rovers: for they were all mighty men of valour, and were captains in the host. They helped David against the band - i:e., the Amalekites who had...

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• 1 Chronicles 12:21 - 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...

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• 1 Chronicles 12:21 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  (19-22) The seven Manassite chieftains who went over to David on the eve of Saul’s last battle.

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• 1 Chronicles 12:21 - 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 12:21 - 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...

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• 1 Chronicles 12:21 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  David seemed to have good ground for his enquiry of the Benjamites, for Saul was of that tribe. But the Lord was better to him than all his fears. Is there not a sweet spiritual lesson veiled under t...

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• 1 Chronicles 12:21 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And they helped David against the band of the rovers ,.... The Amalekites, who, while he was gone with the Philistines, had seized on Ziklag, and burnt it, and carried the women captive, with what s...

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• 1 Chronicles 12:21 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  They helped David against the band , &c. Against the Amalekites, who had taken and burned Ziklag, and whom David and his six hundred men were now pursuing. Or, as in the margin, with a band , o...

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• 1 Chronicles 12:21 - 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...

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• 1 Chronicles 12:21 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Against the band of the rovers, i.e. against the Amalekites who had taken and burned Ziklag, whom David and his six hundred men were now pursuing, whom these accompanied in that expedition. Or, wi...

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• 1 Chronicles 12:21 - 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...

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• 1 Chronicles 12:21 - 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...

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• 1 Chronicles 12:21 - 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...

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• 1 Chronicles 12:21 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Companies that came to David at Ziklag

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• 1 Chronicles 12:21 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Chronicles 11:10 ; 1 Chronicles 11:21 ; 1 Chronicles 11:22 ; 1 Chronicles 12:20 ; 1 Chronicles 5:24 ; 1 Samuel 30:1-17

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• 1 Chronicles 12:21 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Against — Against the Amalekites who had taken and burnt Ziklag, whom David and his six hundred men were now pursuing.

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