What does 1 Chronicles 12:39 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"And there they were with David three days, eating and drinking: for their brethren had prepared for them."
Verse 1 Chronicles 12:39. _THEY WERE WITH DAVID THREE DAYS_] These were the _deputies_ of the different people mentioned here: it is not possible that all the thousands mentioned above could have fea...
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....
EATING AND DRINKING.. covenant generally followed by festivities (Genesis 31:44; Genesis 31:46). Compare 1 Kings 1:9....
_eating and drinking_ The feasting probably began with the sacrificial meal with which a covenant was usually ratified; cp. Genesis 31:46; Genesis 31:54....
_AND THERE THEY WERE WITH DAVID THREE DAYS, EATING AND DRINKING: FOR THEIR BRETHREN HAD PREPARED FOR THEM._ There they were with David three days, eating and drinking. According to the statements mad...
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...
(39-40) The coronation feast. Comp. 1 Kings 1:9; 1 Kings 1:19; 1 Kings 1:25; the usurpation of Adonijah. THEIR BRETHREN. — Fellow tribesmen of Judah; especially those living at and around Hebron. HA...
_[1 Chronicles 12:40]_ וַ יִּהְיוּ ־שָׁ֤ם עִם ־דָּוִיד֙ יָמִ֣ים שְׁלֹושָׁ֔ה אֹכְלִ֖ים וְ שֹׁותִ֑ים כִּֽי ־הֵכִ֥ינוּ...
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...
And there they were with David three days, eating and drinking: for their (n) brethren had prepared for them. (n) The rest of the Israelites....
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...
AND THERE THEY WERE WITH DAVID THREE DAYS, EATING AND DRINKING,.... Keeping a festival, to testify their joy on this occasion: FOR THEIR BRETHREN HAD PREPARED FOR THEM; not the inhabitants of Hebron...
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...
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1 Chronicles 12:39 David H1732 three H7969 days H3117 eating H398 (H8802) drinking H8354 (H8802) brethren H251 prepared H3559 (H8689) for them eating and drinking - Genesis 26:30, Genesis 31:54; 2 Sa...
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...
_All these men of war._ THE JOYOUS ENTERTAINMENT. I. The cause of joy. 1. United under one king. 2. A king chosen of God. 3. Universal loyalty to the chosen king. II. The manifestation of joy....
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...
2 Samuel 19:42; 2 Samuel 6:19; Genesis 26:30; Genesis 31:54...