1 Chronicles 12:23 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And these are the numbers of the bandsg that were ready armed to the war, and came to David to Hebron, to turn the kingdom of Saul to him, according to the word of the LORD. ”

• 1 Chronicles 12:23 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Rather, “These are the numbers of the men, ready equipped for the host, that came to David, etc.” In the list which follows such points as (1) The large mumber sent by the trans-Jordanic tribes...

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• 1 Chronicles 12:23 - 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 12:23 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  word . mouth. Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Cause), App-6, for what was spoken by it. the LORD. Hebrew. Jehovah. App-4.

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• 1 Chronicles 12:23 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And these are the numbers of the bands that were ready armed to the war, and came to David to Hebron, to turn the kingdom of Saul to him, according to the word of the LORD. And came to David to...

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• 1 Chronicles 12:23 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And these are the numbers of the bands that were ready armed to the war, and came to David to Hebron, to turn the kingdom of Saul to him, according to the word of the LORD. These are the numb...

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• 1 Chronicles 12:23 - 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 12:23 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  II. THE NUMBER OF THE WARRIORS WHO MADE DAVID KING IN HEBRON AFTER SAUL’S DEATH ( 1 Chronicles 12:23-40 ). (23) And these are the numbers of the bands that were ready armed to the war. — Literal...

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• 1 Chronicles 12:23 - 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 12:23 - 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 12:23 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  David's army, in the numbers, may serve to remind us of that holy army of the Lord Jesus which John saw, which over and above the hundred and forty and four thousand of the sealed of Israel, had a mu...

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• 1 Chronicles 12:23 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Ver. 23-37. And these are the numbers of the bands that were ready armed to the war ,.... That were trained up to it, and accounted for it: and came to David to Hebron ; after the death of Ishbosh...

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• 1 Chronicles 12:23 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And these [are] the numbers of the bands [that were] ready armed to the war, [and] came to David to Hebron, to turn the kingdom of Saul to him, according to the word of the LORD. Ver. 23. And ca...

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• 1 Chronicles 12:23 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  According to the word of the Lord Whereby he had settled the crown on David after Saul's death. Six thousand , &c. Who came hither in the name of their brethren: for that whole tribe adhered t...

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• 1 Chronicles 12:23 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  David's Army. B. C. 1048.       23 And these are the numbers of the bands that were read...

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• 1 Chronicles 12:23 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Whereby he had settled the crown upon David after Saul's death.

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• 1 Chronicles 12:23 - 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 12:23 - 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 12:23 - 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 12:23 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  And these are the numbers of the bands, the sums or masses of the warriors armed for military service, that were ready armed to the war, and came to David to Hebron, after the seven and a half year...

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• 1 Chronicles 12:23 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Chronicles 10:14 ; 1 Chronicles 11:10 ; 1 Chronicles 11:1-3 ; 1 Samuel 16:1 ; 1 Samuel 16:12 ; 1 Samuel 16:13 ; 1 Samuel 16:3 ; 2 Samuel 2:3 ; 2 Samuel 2:4 ; 2 Samuel 3:18 ; 2 Samuel 5:1...

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