What does 1 Chronicles 27:30 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Over the camels also was Obil the Ishmaelite: and over the asses was Jehdeiah the Meronothite:"
Verse 30. 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 large landed proprietor, as well as a capitalist, possessed of...
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 Chro...
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 C...
ISHMAELITE. Camels appropriately committed to him....
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 i...
22. THE STEWARDS OF THE TREASURIES (1 Chronicles 27:25-31) TEXT 1 Chronicles 27:25. And over the king's treasures was Azmaveth the son of Adiel: and over the treasures in the fields, in the cities, a...
_OVER THE CAMELS ALSO WAS OBIL THE ISHMAELITE: AND OVER THE ASSES WAS JEHDEIAH THE MERONOTHITE:_ Camels. These were probably in the countries east of the Jordan, and hence, an Ishmaelite and Nezarite...
PARTICULARS RESPECTING VARIOUS MILITARY OFFICERS This c., as distinguished from the four preceding Chapter s which describe David's ecclesiastical officials, relates to his secular officers....
THE BOOK OF 1 CHRONICLES GOD RULES HISTORY 1 CHRONICLES _Ian Mackervoy_ CHAPTER 27 ORGANISATION OF OTHER LEADERS – 1 CHRONICLES 27:1-34 ARMY GROUPS – 1 CHRONICLES 27:1-15 V1 Each month a grou...
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 Arabic _‘âbil._ (Comp. Genesis 37:25; Judges 7:12.) A...
וְ עַל ־הַ֨ גְּמַלִּ֔ים אֹובִ֖יל הַ יִּשְׁמְעֵלִ֑י וְ עַל ־הָ֣ אֲתֹנֹ֔ות יֶחְדְּיָ֖הוּ הַ מֵּרֹנֹתִֽי׃ ס
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 chapter are not mentioned elsewhere in the Old Testam...
_Ismahelite. People of that nation deal much in camels. (Calmet) --- Ubil had embraced the Jewish religion, or perhaps he was originally an Israelite, but had acquired the title of Ismahelite by some...
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 to us, that the Lord arrayeth and disposeth all thin...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 22 THROUGH 27. From this chapter to Verses 28, 29 of chapter 26 all refers to the house which is to be built. We see the provision that David made of everythi...
1 Chronicles 27:25....
_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 seems to have kept great store of cattle in his pastures...
1 The twelue Captaines, for euery seuerall moneth. 16 The Princes of the twelue Tribes. 23 The numbring of the people is hindered. 25 Dauids seuerall Officers. 1 NOWE the children of Israel after...
SPECIAL OFFICERS OF THE NATION...
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 kin...
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 them....
1 Chronicles 27:30 Obil H179 Ishmaelite H3459 camels H1581 Jehdeiah H3165 Meronothite H4824 donkeys H860 the camels - Job 1:3 the Ishmaelite - Genesis 47:6...
CONTENTS: The captains for each month. Princes of the twelve tribes. David's several officers. CHARACTERS: God, David, Joab, Jonathan, Jeluel, Ahitophel, Hushai, Jehoiada, Abiathar. CONCLUSION: It i...
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 have had about a million and a half of men, from twent...
_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 presence of royal wisdom in-- 1. Securing the safety of...
1 CHRONICLES—NOTE ON 1 CHRONICLES 27:25 A list of 12 administrators of the royal PROPERTY (v. 1 Chronicles 27:31). The incomes from these sources would have met some of the expenses of David’s governm...
CRITICAL NOTES.] We have captains of monthly divisions of the army (1 Chronicles 27:1), princes of tribes (1 Chronicles 27:16), stewards of treasures and possessions of the king (1 Chronicles 27:25),...
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 s...
And then the courses were established in chapter twenty-seven. There were twelve captains for, one for each month to oversee a particular month. And then the princes were established for the twelve tr...
Genesis 47:6; Job 1:3...