2 Samuel 2:2-4; 2 Samuel 3:1; Genesis 32:2; Job 17:9; Joshua 5:14; Psalms 148:2
For at [that] time day by day there came to David to help him, until [it was] a great host, like the host of (h) God. (h) Meaning, mighty or strong,...
David's Supporters. An enumeration of those who rallied round David during his outlaw life in Ziklag ( cf. 1 Samuel 27:5 f.), and a list of thos...
a great host. About 300,000 men.
For at that time day by day there came to David to help him, until it was a great host, like the host of God. Like the host of God - "That is, a...
For at that time day by day there came to David to help him, until it was a great host, like the host of God. The host of God - i:e., great a...
Various Statistics This chapter is entirely supplementary to what is related in 2 S, and gives particulars respecting certain companies that joine...
(19-22) The seven Manassite chieftains who went over to David on the eve of Saul’s last battle.
For at that time day by day... — Literally, For at the time of each day ( i.e. , every day) men used to come to David to help him; amounting to...
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...
Here the story is continued; it thrills with the enthusiasm of the multitudes as they marched under the standard of the new king. Over the list of na...
David seemed to have good ground for his enquiry of the Benjamites, for Saul was of that tribe. But the Lord was better to him than all his fears. Is...
For at that time, day by day, there came to David to help him ,.... Particularly after the defeat of Saul by the Philistines, unto the time that Dav...
For at [that] time day by day there came to David to help him, until [it was] a great host, like the host of God. Ver. 22. Like the host of God, ]...
They helped David against the band , &c. Against the Amalekites, who had taken and burned Ziklag, and whom David and his six hundred men were no...
David's Army. B. C. 1055. 1 Now these...
At that time, i.e. while he was at Ziklag, and in his march to Hebron, and principally at Hebron, as the next verse explains it. Like the host of...
CRITICAL NOTES.] This chapter entirely new matter—supplementary to Samuel—contains a list of those who joined David in time of Saul ( 1 Chronicles 12...
1 Chronicles 12:14 . Over a thousand. David at Ziklag had but six hundred men; the query is, whether these had already been captains over a thousa...
EXPOSITION This chapter is retrospective, and the contents of it are not found elsewhere. It is occupied, first ( 1 Chronicles 12:1-13 ), with t...
The Companies that came to David at Ziklag
For at that time day by day there came to David to help him, gradually increasing the number of his followers, until it was a great host, like the h...
That time — While he was at Ziklag, and in his march to Hebron, and principally at Hebron. Like — Innumerable, like the stars or angels, both which...
22 For at that time day by day there came to David to help him, until it was a great host, like the host of God.