“ And of Asher, such as went forth to battle, expertl in war, forty thousand. ”
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...
And of Asher, such as went forth to battle, expert in war, forty thousand.
And of the Danites expert in war twenty and eight thousand and six hundred. 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...
Expert in war. — Literally, to order or marshal battle ( ad aciem struendam ). The same phrase occurred in 1 Chronicles 12:33 ; 1 Chronicles 12:35 . The margin ( 1 Chronicles 12:33 ), “rangers...
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 .
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 12:33 ; Joel 2:7