1 Chronicles 12:39 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And there they were with David three days, eating and drinking: for their brethren had prepared for them. ”

• 1 Chronicles 12:39 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  And there they were with David three days, eating and drinking: for their (n) brethren had prepared for them. (n) The rest of the Israelites.

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• 1 Chronicles 12:39 - 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 12:39 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  eating and drinking. . covenant generally followed by festivities ( Genesis 31:44 ; Genesis 31:46 ). Compare 1 Kings 1:9 .

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• 1 Chronicles 12:39 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And there they were with David three days, eating and drinking: for their brethren had prepared for them. They were with David three days - These were the deputies of the different people mentioned h...

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• 1 Chronicles 12:39 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And there they were with David three days, eating and drinking: for their brethren had prepared for them. There they were with David three days, eating and drinking. According to the statemen...

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• 1 Chronicles 12:39 - 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 12:39 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  (39-40) The coronation feast. Comp. 1 Kings 1:9 ; 1 Kings 1:19 ; 1 Kings 1:25 ; the usurpation of Adonijah. Their brethren. — Fellow tribesmen of Judah; especially those living at and around He...

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• 1 Chronicles 12:39 - 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 12:39 - 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 12:39 - 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 12:39 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And there they were with David three days, eating and drinking ,.... Keeping a festival, to testify their joy on this occasion: for their brethren had prepared for them ; not the inhabitants of He...

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• 1 Chronicles 12:39 - 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 12:39 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  No text from Poole on this verse.

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• 1 Chronicles 12:39 - 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 12:39 - 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 12:39 - The Biblical Illustrator

  All these men of war. The joyous entertainment . I. The cause of joy. 1. United under one king. 2. A king chosen of God. 3. Universal loyalty to the chosen king. II. The manifesta...

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• 1 Chronicles 12:39 - 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 12:39 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Companies that Came to David at Hebron

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• 1 Chronicles 12:39 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  2 Samuel 19:42 ; 2 Samuel 6:19 ; Genesis 26:30 ; Genesis 31:54

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