What does 1 Chronicles 12:31 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"And of the half tribe of Manasseh eighteen thousand, which were expressed by name, to come and make David king."
2. DAVID'S WARRIORS AND FRIENDS CHAPTER 12 _ 1. The Benjamite warriors with David at Ziklag (1 Chronicles 12:1)_ 2. The other warriors (1 Chronicles 12:8) 3. Those who came to make him king (1 Chr...
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 those who were instrumental in setting him upon the throne....
_which were expressed by name_ The document followed by the Chronicler probably contained not the names of the 18,000 individuals, but the names of the heads of the families to which they belonged....
_AND OF THE CHILDREN OF EPHRAIM TWENTY THOUSAND AND EIGHT HUNDRED, MIGHTY MEN OF VALOUR, FAMOUS THROUGHOUT THE HOUSE OF THEIR FATHERS._ No JFB commentary on these verses....
VARIOUS STATISTICS This chapter is entirely supplementary to what is related in 2 S, and gives particulars respecting certain companies that joined David at various times, and the numbers that came t...
THE BOOK OF 1 CHRONICLES GOD RULES HISTORY 1 CHRONICLES _Ian Mackervoy_ CHAPTER 12 THE MEN WHO CAME TO DAVID AT ZIKLAG – 1 CHRONICLES 12:1-7 V1 David went to Ziklag town to escape from Saul so...
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, _by names_. The men had been levied by the tribal chiefs, a...
_[1 Chronicles 12:32]_ וּ מֵ חֲצִי֙ מַטֵּ֣ה מְנַשֶּׁ֔ה שְׁמֹונָ֥ה עָשָׂ֖ר אָ֑לֶף אֲשֶׁ֤ר נִקְּבוּ֙ בְּ שֵׁמֹ֔ות...
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 distinction and glory possessed by either was shared by...
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 names flashes light from certain outstanding statemen...
_Manasses, west of the Jordan. See ver. 37. (Haydock)_...
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 and four thousand of the sealed of Israel, had a mul...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 10, 11, AND 12. A brief recital of the ruin of Saul's house introduces Jehovah's establishment of the house of David. All that took place before the people g...
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 name._] Heb., Pierced or bored through; haply in tabl...
_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 name_ Who were not ashamed publicly to own David by...
1 The companies that came to Dauid at Ziklag. 23 The armies that came to him at Hebron. 1 NOW [NOTE: 1 Samuel 27:1.] these are they that came to Dauid to Ziklag [NOTE: _Hebrew:_ being yet shut vp.]...
THE COMPANIES THAT CAME TO DAVID AT HEBRON...
23-40 When the throne of Christ is set up in a soul, there is, or ought to be, great joy in that soul; and provision is made, not as here, for a few days, but for the whole life, and for eternity. Hap...
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 NAME; which were not ashamed nor afraid publicly to ow...
1 Chronicles 12:31 half-tribe H2677 H4294 Manasseh H4519 eighteen H8083 H6240 thousand H505 designated H5344 (H8738) name H8034 come H935 (H8800) David H1732 king H4427 (H8687) the half tribe - Joshu...
CONTENTS: David's army at Ziglag. The leaders who made David king. CHARACTERS: Holy Spirit, David, Amasai, Jehoiada. CONCLUSION: It is good to take sides with those who take sides with God and have...
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 thousand, or whether David after his coronation promoted th...
1 CHRONICLES—NOTE ON 1 CHRONICLES 12:23 TO TURN THE KINGDOM OF SAUL OVER TO HIM refers back to 1 Chronicles 10:14 and summarizes the overall theme of chs. 1 Chronicles 10:1. ACCORDING TO THE WORD OF T...
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), and of those who came to make him king over Isr...
EXPOSITION This chapter is retrospective, and the contents of it are not found elsewhere. It is occupied, first (1 Chronicles 12:1), with the names and some accounts of those who had come to the help...
Now in chapter twelve. These are they which came to David to Ziklag, because he yet kept himself close because of Saul the son of Kish: and they were among the mighty men, the helpers of the war. The...
Joshua 17:1...
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 to own David by putting their names to some paper presen...