1 Chronicles 12:27 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And Jehoiada was the leader of the Aaronites, and with him were three thousand and seven hundred; ”

• 1 Chronicles 12:27 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  And Jehoiada [was] the leader of the (i) Aaronites, and with him [were] three thousand and seven hundred; (i) Of the Levites who came by the descent of Aaron.

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• 1 Chronicles 12:27 - 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 12:27 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  Jehoiada. Not the high priest; for Abiathar held that office ( 1 Samuel 23:9 ; 1 Samuel 30:7 ).

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• 1 Chronicles 12:27 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And Jehoiada was the leader of the Aaronites, and with him were three thousand and seven hundred; Jehoiada was the leader of the Aaronites - Abiathar was then high priest, and Jehoiada captain ov...

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• 1 Chronicles 12:27 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And Jehoiada was the leader of the Aaronites, and with him were three thousand and seven hundred; Jehoiada ... the leader of the Aaronites - not the high priest, because that was Abiathar ( 1...

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• 1 Chronicles 12:27 - 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 12:27 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  And Jehoiada... — Literally, And Jehoiada the prince ( hannagîd , 1 Chronicles 9:11 ; 1 Chronicles 9:20 ) belonging to Aaron . Aaronis used as the name of the leading clan of Levi. Jehoiada is...

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• 1 Chronicles 12:27 - 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 12:27 - 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 12:27 - 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 12:27 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  1 Chronicles 12:23 .

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• 1 Chronicles 12:27 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Jehoiada was the leader of the Aaronites Not the high- priest, for that was Abiathar, ( 1 Samuel 23:6 ,) but one of some eminent place under him. And Zadok Thought to be the same who was made hig...

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• 1 Chronicles 12:27 - 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 12:27 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  The leader of the Aaronites; not the high priest, for that was Abiathar, 1 Samuel 23:6 ; but one of eminent place under him, and who had a great power and interest among his brethren.

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• 1 Chronicles 12:27 - 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 12:27 - 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 12:27 - 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 12:27 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Companies that Came to David at Hebron

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• 1 Chronicles 12:27 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Chronicles 27:17 ; 1 Chronicles 6:49-57 ; 1 Chronicles 9:20 ; 2 Kings 11:4 ; 2 Kings 11:9 ; 2 Kings 25:18

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• 1 Chronicles 12:27 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Jehoida — Not the high — priest, for that was Abiathar, 1 Samuel 23:6 , but one of eminent place under him.

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