1 Chronicles 11:1
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...
And David dwelt in the castle; therefore they called it the city of David.
And David dwelt in the castle; therefore they called it the city of David. No JFB commentary on this verse.
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...
Castle. — Stronghold, fastness. (Comp. 2 Samuel 5:7 .) In 1 Chronicles 11:5 the form is meçûdâh, here it is the rare masculine form, meçâd:...
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...
And David dwelt in the castle; therefore they called it the city of David. Ver. 7. And David dwelt in the castle. ] Herein he became a type of Chr...
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 David dwelt in the castle, in the fortress of the city; therefore they called it the City of David.
1 Chronicles 11:5 ; 2 Samuel 5:7 ; Psalms 2:6
7 And David dwelt in the castle; therefore they called it the city of David.