1 Chronicles 12:1
_Siceleg, which had been given to David for a retreat. Hither many brave men came to join him. --- Fled. Hebrew, "was shut up through fear." (Calmet) --- Septuagint, "was under anxiety." (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Siceleg, which had been given to David for a retreat. Hither many brave men came to join him. --- Fled. Hebrew, "was shut up through fear." (Calmet) --- Septuagint, "was under anxiety." (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Hand, like Aod, Judges iii. 15. (Menochius) --- Brethren, of the same tribe. The opinion which they entertained of David, must have been very great, to make them expose themselves to such dangers. In adversity, true friendship and virtue shine the most. (Calmet) --- The hand of providence is here c... [ Continue Reading ]
_Thirty. Hebrew sheloshim, denotes "the officers" of the army. (Calmet) --- Protestants style this hero "Ismaiah."_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Jesbaam. Probably the second after Joab, chap. xi. 11. (Haydock) --- Of Carehim. Hebrew, "the Korhites." (Kennicott) --- So also the Septuagint. There were Levites, descendants of Core. (Menochius)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Gaddi, a city of the tribe of Gad, (2 Kings xxiii.) from which many went to join David, when he was in the country of Moab, (Menochius) as others of the Gadites did, ver. 14. --- Mountains. A fierce countenance and swiftness were much commended in soldiers. "The eyes are always first conquered." Pr... [ Continue Reading ]
_Thousand, after David had ascended the throne. (Calmet) --- At Siceleg he had only 600. (Menochius) --- Some suppose that each of these officers was worth 100 men, &c. (Vatable)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Month, Nisan. (Tirinus) --- Banks. This circumstance enhances their courage. Maundrel (Alep. p. 136) went to see the Jordan, 13th March, 1697, but the river was nine feet from the banks. Its rapidity has perhaps made its bed so much deeper, that it does not overflow so frequently at present. (Calme... [ Continue Reading ]
_Hold, in Moab, (1 Kings xxii. 4.; Du Hamel; Menochius) or to Siceleg. The people of Benjamin come with those of Juda, to avoid suspicion. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Hands. At that time he had done no injury to any man. (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Spirit of God (Calmet; or good will, Du Hamel) prompted Amasai, the chief of "the officers." (Calmet) --- Band, or "of a company." (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Fight. They joined him after he had left the Philistines. (Calmet) --- But he. Hebrew, "they helped them not." Neither David nor his partizans were involved in this danger, which might have caused their fidelity to be suspected, 1 Kings xxix. (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Thousands: heads of the principal cities, Micheas v. 2. (Du Hamel)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Rovers of Amalec, 1 Kings xxx. 1._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Of God; very great, (Calmet) particularly when Isboseth was slain, 2 Kings v. 1. (Haydock) --- The angels are to us innumerable, Job xxv. An army in concord is compared to them. (Worthington)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Joiada had the post of Eleazar over the Levites, (Numbers iii. 32.) and was at the head of the warriors of his tribe, while Abiathar was high priest. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Of excellent. Hebrew, "of great valour." Saul had appointed him in the place of Achimelec, and David permitted him to retain his dignity._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Followed. Hebrew, "kept guard at the palace." These guards submitted to David, like the rest, after the death of Isboseth. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Manasses, west of the Jordan. See ver. 37. (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Should, in agricultural pursuits, in which those of Issachar excelled, Genesis xlix. 14. Countrymen have often more skill about the weather, then the greatest astronomers, Virgil, Georg. i. (Menochius) (Tirinus) --- Others think that these men could calculate when the festivals would occur, (St. Je... [ Continue Reading ]
_Nephthali. All, both far and near, contributed to regale the deputies. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
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