“ Of the Levites, Hashabiah the son of Kemuel: of the Aaronites, Zadok: ”
Gad and Asher are omitted from this list of the tribes. Similarly, Dan and Zebulon are omitted from the genealogical survey of the tribes 1 Chr. 4–8. We can only suppose that the lists, as they cam...
Organisation of David's Army: Enumeration of his Officials ( cf. 1 Chronicles 11:10 ff.) 1 Chronicles 27:1 . According to this verse the army comprised 288,000 soldiers; this is an exaggerat...
Of the Levites, Hashabiah the son of Kemuel: of the Aaronites, Zadok:
Of the Aaronites, Zadok— The Aaronites were the priests, and not a distinct tribe; but being a different order from the rest of the tribe of Levi, they had a peculiar chief to preside over them. Se...
Of the Levites, Hashabiah the son of Kemuel: of the Aaronites, Zadok: No JFB commentary on this verse.
Particulars respecting various Military Officers This c., as distinguished from the four preceding Chapter s which describe David's ecclesiastical officials, relates to his secular officers.
Of the Levites, Hashabiah. — Levi has two princes, one for the tribe and one for the great Aaronite branch. The literal rendering would be: To Levi, Hashabiah ... to Aaron, Zadok. Zadok was the...
This chapter gives us an idea of the internal order of the kingdom under the government of David. The courses mentioned in the opening part of the chapter are not mentioned elsewhere in the Old Testa...
All the heads of the tribes have honorable testimony given of them by way of perpetuating the memory of Israel.
1 Chronicles 27:16 .
The Military Force. B. C. 1015. 16 Furthermore over the tribes of Israel: the ruler of...
No text from Poole on this verse.
CRITICAL NOTES.] We have captains of monthly divisions of the army ( 1 Chronicles 27:1-15 ), princes of tribes ( 1 Chronicles 27:16-24 ), stewards of treasures and possessions of the king ( 1 Chronic...
1 Chronicles 27:23 . The Lord had said he would increase Israel like to the stars of heaven. Genesis 15:5 . If all had been numbered, David would have had about a million and a half of men, from...
Now the children of Israel. Wisdom, kindness, and folly In reading this chapter we are struck with three features of David’s rule. 1. The presence of royal wisdom in-- 1. Securing the saf...
EXPOSITION This chapter, continuing the general subject of David's arrangements of all the leading departments, sacred and civil, of the kingdom, which he was so soon to yield into the hands of...
The Captains and Princes of Israel
1 Chronicles 12:27 ; 1 Chronicles 12:28 ; 1 Chronicles 24:31 ; 1 Chronicles 24:4 ; 1 Chronicles 26:30