“ Of the children of Levi four thousand and six hundred. ”
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...
Of the children of Levi four thousand and six hundred.
The children of Judah that bare shield and spear were six thousand and eight hundred, ready armed to the war. 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...
Of the children of Levi - Literally, Of the sons of the Levite ; the article shows that the name is gentilic or tribal here, not personal. These martial Levites remind us of the priestly warriors o...
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...
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...
1 Chronicles 12:23 .
Of the children of Levi four thousand and six hundred. Ver. 26. Of the children of Levi. ] Who took up arms also in some cases, as here to settle David on the throne.
David's Army. B. C. 1048. 23 And these are the numbers of the bands that were read...
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...
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 Hebron
1 Chronicles 12:6 ; Genesis 29:34 ; Numbers 1:47