“ David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years. ”
The age of David is conclusive as to the fact that the earlier years of Saul’s reign (during which Jonathan grew up to be a man) are passed over in silence, and that the events narrated from 1 Sam...
David Becomes King of united Israel and Judah. He Captures Jerusalem (J). ( Cf. p. 282.) Two notes have been added to this section ( 2 Samuel 5:4 f. and 2 Samuel 5:13-16 ), of the same character...
David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years.
David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years. No JFB commentary on this verse.
David is anointed King, captures Jerusalem, and smites the Philistines 1. There was no longer any member of the house of Saul who could take the lead.
Thirty years old. — This statement of the age and of the length of the reign of David (which is repeated in 1 Chronicles 29:26-27 , at the end of the history of David’s life) shows us approximatel...
CHAPTER VI. DAVID KING OF ALL ISRAEL. 2 Samuel 5:1-9 . AFTER seven and a half years of opposition, * David was now left without a rival, and the representatives of the whole tribes came to Heb...
David King in Jerusalem 2 Samuel 5:1-12 David was anointed thrice: by Samuel in his home, by the men of Judah, and here. So our Lord has been crowned in the Father's purpose and by his Church....
At this point the second section in the first movement of the Book commences. David had won the heart of all Israel by his consistent justice and magnanimity toward those who stood in the way of his...
(4) David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years. (5) In Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months: and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty and three years o...
David [was] thirty years old when he began reign ,.... Over Judah, which was the age of his antitype Christ, when he entered upon his public ministry, Luke 3:23 ; [and] he reigned forty years ; a...
David [was] thirty years old when he began to reign, [and] he reigned forty years. Ver. 4. David was thirty years old. ] So was Christ when he entered upon his kingdom, which he hath twofold: 1. P...
David was thirty years old when he began to reign At this age the Levites were at first appointed to begin their ministrations, Numbers 4:3 . About this age the Son of David entered upon his publi...
Yet the sovereign wisdom of God has been over all these matters, and David's way becomes clear without his fighting for it. God's time had now come for the voluntary submission of the other tribes to...
David King over All Israel. B. C. 1048. 1 Then came all the tribes of Israel to David un...
And some odd months, as it follows.
David Is At Last Anointed As King Over All Israel ( 2 Samuel 5:1-5 ). This section began in 2 Samuel 2:1 onwards with David being anointed as king over Judah, and it now ends with David being an...
CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES— 2 Samuel 5:1 . “ Then , etc. “The tenor of the history leads us to hold with Ewald that the recognition of David as king over all Israel occurred immediately after...
2 Samuel 5:2 . Thou shalt feed my people. Probably the highpriest, or a prophet, delivered a short coronation charge, as Samuel had already done. This divine promise is made the final reason why t...
Then came all the tribes of Israel to David unto Hebron, and spake saying, Behold we are thy bone and thy flesh. David king over all Israel It was probably very soon after the death of Ishboshe...
EXPOSITION 2 Samuel 5:1 Then came all the tribes of Israel. As Ishbosheth reigned only two years, and David's reign at Hebron lasted for seven years and a half, there is an interval of mo...
David Anointed King over all Israel
1 Chronicles 26:31 ; 1 Chronicles 29:27 ; Luke 3:23