1 Chronicles 27:26
This section is important as showing that David, the younger son of a not very opulent family 1Sa 16:11 , 1 Samuel 16:20 , had now become a lar...
Organisation of David's Army: Enumeration of his Officials ( cf. 1 Chronicles 11:10 ff.) 1 Chronicles 27:1 . According to this verse the arm...
And over them that did the work of the field for tillage of the ground was Ezri the son of Chelub:
And over them that did the work of the field for tillage of the ground was Ezri the son of Chelub: No JFB commentary on this verse.
Particulars respecting various Military Officers This c., as distinguished from the four preceding Chapter s which describe David's ecclesiastical...
And over them that did the work of the field. — Ezri was steward of the arable domains.
This chapter gives us an idea of the internal order of the kingdom under the government of David. The courses mentioned in the opening part of the ch...
The particular mention that is made of the respective situations of those heads of houses, no doubt had a divine authority, and may serve to convey t...
1 Chronicles 27:25 .
The Military Force. B. C. 1015. 16 F...
Over the king's husbandry.
CRITICAL NOTES.] We have captains of monthly divisions of the army ( 1 Chronicles 27:1-15 ), princes of tribes ( 1 Chronicles 27:16-24 ), stewards of...
1 Chronicles 27:23 . The Lord had said he would increase Israel like to the stars of heaven. Genesis 15:5 . If all had been numbered, David would...
Now the children of Israel. Wisdom, kindness, and folly In reading this chapter we are struck with three features of David’s rule. 1. The pr...
EXPOSITION This chapter, continuing the general subject of David's arrangements of all the leading departments, sacred and civil, of the kingdom...
Special officers of the Nation
and over them that did the work of the field for tillage of the ground, the laborers on the royal domains, was Ezri, the son of Chelub;
26 And over them that did the work of the field for tillage of the ground was Ezri the son of Chelub: