Joshua 17:1-18
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...
And of the half tribe of Manasseh eighteen thousand, which were expressed by name, to come and make David king.
And of the children of Ephraim twenty thousand and eight hundred, mighty men of valour, famous throughout the house of their fathers. No JFB...
Various Statistics This chapter is entirely supplementary to what is related in 2 S, and gives particulars respecting certain companies that joine...
Which were expressed by name. — See the same phrase, 1 Chronicles 16:41 ; Numbers 1:17 . Literally it is pricked down, or entered in a list, b...
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's army, in the numbers, may serve to remind us of that holy army of the Lord Jesus which John saw, which over and above the hundred and forty a...
1 Chronicles 12:23 .
And of the half tribe of Manasseh eighteen thousand, which were expressed by name, to come and make David king. Ver. 31. Which were expressed by n...
Of the half-tribe of Manasseh Which was within Jordan: for of the other half beyond Jordan he speaks 1 Chronicles 12:37 . Which were expressed by...
David's Army. B. C. 1048. 23 And the...
Of the half tribe of Manasseh, which was within Jordan; for of the other half beyond Jordan he speaks 1 Chronicles 12:37 . Which were expressed...
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 Hebron
And of the half-tribe of Manasseh, the western half, eighteen thousand, which were expressed by name, to come and make David king.
Manasseh — Which was within Jordan: for of the other half beyond Jordan he speaks, 1 Chronicles 12:37 . By name — Who were not ashamed publickly t...
31 And of the half tribe of Manasseh eighteen thousand, which were expressed by name, to come and make David king.