1 Chronicles 12:8 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

separated themselves. Another example of how Judah came to be representative of the whole of Israel. See note on 1 Kings 12:17.

men of might. Hebrew. gibbor. App-14.

buckler. Hebrew. spear. But some codices, with one early printed edition and Syriac, read "buckler". Compare Jeremiah 46:3.

1 Chronicles 12:8

8 And of the Gadites there separated themselves unto David into the hold to the wilderness men of might, and men of warb fit for the battle, that could handle shield and buckler, whose faces were like the faces of lions, and were as swift as the roes upon the mountains;