1 Kings 11:27; 1 Kings 9:15; 2 Kings 12:20; Judges 9:20; Judges 9:6; Nehemiah 4:2
The narrative here given fills out a manifest defect in 2 Samuel 5:8 where something has evidently dropped out of the text. The prowess of Joab...
David Made King in Hebron; Jerusalem Taken; David's Mighty Men (see notes on 2 Samuel 5:1-3 ; 2 Samuel 5:6-10 ; 2 Samuel 23:8-39 ). 1 Chroni...
Millo . the filling up: i.e. of the valley north of Jebus and south of Moriah. Compare 2 Samuel 5:9 . repaired . rebuilt.
And he built the city round about, even from Millo round about: and Joab repaired the rest of the city.
And he built the city round about, even from Millo round about: and Joab repaired the rest of the city. And he built the city round about, ev...
David's Coronation at Hebron and his Capture of Zion The writer, though mentioning David's crowning at Hebron, omits all description of his 7 year...
(4-9) THE CAPTURE OF ZION BY JOAB’S VALOUR, AND DAVID’S SETTLEMENT THERE. The accession of the new king is followed by a warlike enterprise, accor...
And he built the city round about. — Literally, and he built (or rebuilt or fortified) the city all round, from the Millo even unto the (comple...
DAVID 1. HIS TRIBE AND DYNASTY KING and kingdom were so bound up in ancient life that an ideal for the one implied an ideal for the other: all di...
We now enter on the second section of this Book. In this section there are four movements: the story of David's crowning, the events connected with t...
I refer the Reader to the parallel history, 2 Samuel 5:1-10 , and to the Commentary upon it in that Chapter. But in addition to the observations the...
1 Chronicles 11:1
And he built the city round about, even from Millo round about: and Joab repaired the rest of the city. Ver. 8. From Millo. ] This was a fair stre...
David's Accession to the Throne. B. C. 1055....
No text from Poole on this verse.
CRITICAL NOTES.] The writer here passes by the 7½ years of David’s reign over Judah, at which he had glanced in his introductory section (chap. 1 Ch...
1 Chronicles 11:11 . Jashobeam, called Tachmoni, 2 Samuel 23:8 , a wise man and valiant. He had earned the laurel to sit as the chairman of David...
EXPOSITION 1 Chronicles 11:1 Upon the death of Saul, Abner, for a while espousing the cause of Ishbo-sheth, the only surviving son of Saul,...
David King of all Israel
And he built the city round about, this upper section of Jerusalem, even from Millo, the fortress on the northwest corner of Zion, round about, r...
8 And he built the city round about, even from Millo round about: and Joab repairedd the rest of the city.