George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
1 Chronicles 27:29
Saron, a fertile region at the food of the mountains of Galaad; also a vale near the Mediterranean, (Calmet) in Ephraim, extending as far as Joppe. (Adrichomius) (Menochius)
Saron, a fertile region at the food of the mountains of Galaad; also a vale near the Mediterranean, (Calmet) in Ephraim, extending as far as Joppe. (Adrichomius) (Menochius)
Verse 1 Chronicles 27:29. 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....
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...
_Sharon_ The great maritime plain bounded on the East by the "lowland" (Shephelah). "The valleys" would probably be the depressions among the hills of the Shephelah which open out into Sharon; cp. Son...
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...
_AND OVER THE HERDS THAT FED IN SHARON WAS SHITRAI THE SHARONITE: AND OVER THE HERDS THAT WERE IN THE VALLEYS WAS SHAPHAT THE SON OF ADLAI:_ Herds that fed in Sharon - a fertile plain between Caesare...
27:29 Sharon (d-8) Or 'the Sharon,' i.e. the fertile maritime region of western Palestine, between Caesarea and Joppa. see Song of Song of Solomon 2:1 ; Isaiah 33:9 ....
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 –...
AND OVER THE HERDS THAT FED IN SHARON. — Heb., _the oxen that grazed in the Sharon._ The Sharon (_i.e.,_ “the Level”) was a fertile strip of pasture-land running along the coast of the Mediterranean,...
וְ עַל ־הַ בָּקָר֙ הָ רֹעִ֣ים בַּ
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...
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...
and over the herds that fed in Sharon, the rich plain in the west, between Caesarea and Joppa, WAS SHITRAI THE SHARONITE; AND OVER THE HERDS THAT WERE IN THE VALLEYS, namely, those in the hill country...
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...
SHARON; a place famous for its fruitfulness. See ISAIAH 33:9, ISAIAH 35:2....
1 Chronicles 27:29 Shitrai H7861 Sharonite H8290 herds H1241 fed H7462 (H8802) Sharon H8289 Shaphat H8202 son...
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 h...
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 s
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 so...
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...
1 Chronicles 5:16; Isaiah 65:10...