1 Chronicles 27:25

_AND OVER THE KING'S TREASURES WAS AZMAVETH THE SON OF ADIEL: AND OVER THE STOREHOUSES IN THE FIELDS, IN THE CITIES, AND IN THE VILLAGES, AND IN THE CASTLES, WAS JEHONATHAN THE SON OF UZZIAH:_ Over the king's treasures. Those treasures consisted of gold, silver, precious stones, cedar-wood, etc.; those which he had in Jerusalem, as distinguished from others without the city. THE STOREHOUSES IN THE FIELDS. Grain covered over with layers of straw is frequently preserved in the fields under little earthen mounds, like our potato pits....

16-34 The officers of the court, or the rulers of the king's substance, had the oversight and charge of the king's tillage, his vineyards, his herds, his flocks, which formed the wealth of eastern kings. Much of the wisdom of princes is seen in the choice of their ministry, and common persons show it in the choice of their advisers. David, though he had all these about him, preferred the word of God before them all. Thy testimonies are my delight and my counsellors....

Verse 1 Chronicles 27:25-13. _OVER THE KING'S TREASURES_] We see from these verses in what the _personal property_ of David consisted: - 1. Treasures, gold, silver, c. 2. Goods and grain in castles, cities villages, and in the fields. 3. Vineyards and their produce. 4. Olive-trees and their produce. 5. Neat cattle, in different districts. 6. Camels and asses: they had no horses. 7. Flocks, sheep, goats, c....

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 large landed proprietor, as well as a capitalist, possessed of much moveable wealth. We may perhaps see the sources of both these kinds of property, in the successful wars which he had waged 1 Samuel 27:8; 1 Samuel 30:20; 2 Samuel 8:4, 2Sa 8:7-8, 2 Samuel 8:12; in the revenue derived from subject kings...

EXPOSITION This chapter, continuing the general subject of David's arrangements of all the leading departments, sacred and civil, of the kingdom, which he was so soon to yield into the hands of his son Solomon, proceeds in the first fifteen verses to the enumeration of the military courses of his people, month by month. These were twelve in number, each containing twenty,four thousand men; and the _captain_,_ _or _chief_, or _chief father_,_ of _each is specially mentioned. 1 CHRONICLES 27:1 It is impossible to feel fully satisfied with any translation which the words of this verse offer. Yet there can scarcely he any doubt of the meaning of the verse, viz. that the writer would speak of the children of Israel, including the chief fathers and captains of thousands and hundreds, as regards their c

Ver. 25-32. AND OVER THE KING'S TREASURES WAS AZMAVETH THE SON OF ADIEL,.... The historian here proceeds to relate who were employed in the economical and civil affairs of David; and the first mentioned is the lord of his treasury, who had the care of his gold and silver brought into his exchequer, either by a levy on his own people, or by the tribute of others: Jehonathan the son of Uzziah had the care of the storehouses, in which were laid up what the fields, cities, villages, and castles that belonged to the king produced, whether by fruits gathered in, or by rents collected: Ezri the son of Chelub looked after his workmen in the fields, employed in the tillage of the ground: Shimei of Ramath, in the tribe of Benjamin, had the care of the vineyards, to see that they were dressed and pruned, and kept in good order: Zabdi of Shepham, Numbers 34:10 had the charge of the wine squeezed out...

6. THE CAPTAINS, PRINCES, AND VARIOUS OFFICIALS CHAPTER 27 _ 1. The twelve captains (1 Chronicles 27:1)_ 2. The princes of the twelve tribes (1 Chron. 27-16-22) 3. The unfinished numbering (1 Chronicles 27:23) 4. Various officers (1 Chronicles 27:25) We have here the military organization of David's kingdom. The army comprised all males over twenty years of age. The host had twelve divisions each of 24,000. It is remarkable how the number twenty-four occurs again and again. Twelve is the governmental number and twice twelve, that is, twenty-four, would indicate a perfect and complete government such as will be established when Heaven's Ki

ORGANISATION OF DAVID'S ARMY: ENUMERATION OF HIS OFFICIALS (_cf._ 1 Chronicles 11:10 ff.) 1 Chronicles 27:1. According to this verse the army comprised 288,000 soldiers; this is an exaggeration. 1 Chronicles 27:32. David's uncle: better kinsman; the Hebrew word _dô d_ is used in this general sense. 1 Chronicles 27:33. _Cf._ 2 Samuel 15:12; 2 Samuel 15:37. the ki

OVER THE KING'S TREASURES. There were twelve of these stewards. TREASURES. treasuries. CASTLES. fortresses....

Various Officers of the King Twelve different officers are named here who acted as stewards of king David's property. 25. _treasures … storehouses_ R.V. TREASURIES … TREASURIES (the same Heb. word is repeated). _castles_ Lit. _towers_; cp. 2 Chronicles 26:10; 2 Chronicles 27:4. _Jehonathan_ R.V. JONATHAN....