1 Chronicles 11:1,2 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

All Israel gathered themselves to David That is, all the tribes of Israel, as it is expressed 2 Samuel 5:1, by their elders (1Ch 11:3) and officers, and a great multitude of their soldiers and people. The Lord said unto thee Or, concerning thee: for it is apparent that they knew it was God's will David should be king, and therefore many of them had opposed David hitherto against their own consciences.

1 Chronicles 11:1-2

1 Then all Israel gathered themselves to David unto Hebron, saying, Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh.

2 And moreover in timea past, even when Saul was king, thou wast he that leddest out and broughtest in Israel: and the LORD thy God said unto thee, Thou shalt feed my people Israel, and thou shalt be ruler over my people Israel.