(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 Hebron.
Had prepared victuals. — 2 Chronicles 35:14.
Related Commentaries of 1 Chronicles 12:39
1 Chronicles 12:39-40
39 And there they were with David three days, eating and drinking: for their brethren had prepared for them.
40 Moreover they that were nigh them, even unto Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali, brought bread on asses, and on camels, and on mules, and on oxen, and meat,m meal, cakes of figs, and bunches of raisins, and wine, and oil, and oxen, and sheep abundantly: for there was joy in Israel.