1 Chronicles 27:25.
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...
Ishmaelite. Camels appropriately committed to him.
Over the camels also was Obil the Ishmaelite: and over the asses was Jehdeiah the Meronothite:
Over the camels also was Obil the Ishmaelite: and over the asses was Jehdeiah the Meronothite: Camels. These were probably in the countries e...
Particulars respecting various Military Officers This c., as distinguished from the four preceding Chapter s which describe David's ecclesiastical...
Over the camels also was Obil the Ishmaelite. — Obil’s name means either “owner of camels” or “a good manager of camels,” answering exactly to the...
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...
Over the herds that fed in Sharon A place famous for its fruitfulness, (see Isaiah 33:9 ; Isaiah 35:2 ,) which lay about Lidda and Joppa. David s...
The Military Force. B. C. 1015. 16 F...
The Ishmaelite; so called, either because he was born of that people, or had lived among them; or from some notable exploit which he did against th...
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
over the camels also, among the richest possessions of the king, was Obil the Ishmaelite, of a race which had always kept camels; and over the ass...
Genesis 47:6 ; Job 1:3
30 Over the camels also was Obil the Ishmaelite: and over the asses was Jehdeiah the Meronothite: