1 Chronicles 26:31; 1 Chronicles 29:27; Luke 3:23
The age of David is conclusive as to the fact that the earlier years of Saul’s reign (during which Jonathan grew up to be a man) are passed over in...
David Becomes King of united Israel and Judah. He Captures Jerusalem (J). ( Cf. p. 282.) Two notes have been added to this section ( 2 Samuel 5:4...
David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years.
David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years. No JFB commentary on this verse.
David is anointed King, captures Jerusalem, and smites the Philistines 1. There was no longer any member of the house of Saul who could take the l...
The capture of Jerusalem marks a most important point in the history of Israel. Hitherto, the national life had had no real centre; the residence of...
Thirty years old. — This statement of the age and of the length of the reign of David (which is repeated in 1 Chronicles 29:26-27 , at the end of...
CHAPTER VI. DAVID KING OF ALL ISRAEL. 2 Samuel 5:1-9 . AFTER seven and a half years of opposition, * David was now left without a rival, and t...
David King in Jerusalem 2 Samuel 5:1-12 David was anointed thrice: by Samuel in his home, by the men of Judah, and here. So our Lord has been c...
At this point the second section in the first movement of the Book commences. David had won the heart of all Israel by his consistent justice and mag...
(4) David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years. (5) In Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months: an...
David [was] thirty years old when he began reign ,.... Over Judah, which was the age of his antitype Christ, when he entered upon his public ministr...
David [was] thirty years old when he began to reign, [and] he reigned forty years. Ver. 4. David was thirty years old. ] So was Christ when he ent...
David was thirty years old when he began to reign At this age the Levites were at first appointed to begin their ministrations, Numbers 4:3 . Abou...
Yet the sovereign wisdom of God has been over all these matters, and David's way becomes clear without his fighting for it. God's time had now come f...
David King over All Israel. B. C. 1048. ...
And some odd months, as it follows.
David Is At Last Anointed As King Over All Israel ( 2 Samuel 5:1-5 ). This section began in 2 Samuel 2:1 onwards with David being anointed as ki...
CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES— 2 Samuel 5:1 . “ Then , etc. “The tenor of the history leads us to hold with Ewald that the recognition of David a...
2 Samuel 5:2 . Thou shalt feed my people. Probably the highpriest, or a prophet, delivered a short coronation charge, as Samuel had already done....
Then came all the tribes of Israel to David unto Hebron, and spake saying, Behold we are thy bone and thy flesh. David king over all Israel It...
EXPOSITION 2 Samuel 5:1 Then came all the tribes of Israel. As Ishbosheth reigned only two years, and David's reign at Hebron lasted for...
David Anointed King over all Israel
4 David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years.