Wesley's Explanatory Notes
1 Chronicles 12:22
That time — While he was at Ziklag, and in his march to Hebron, and principally at Hebron. Like — Innumerable, like the stars or angels, both which are called God's hosts.
That time — While he was at Ziklag, and in his march to Hebron, and principally at Hebron. Like — Innumerable, like the stars or angels, both which are called God's hosts.
Verse 1 Chronicles 12:22. _LIKE THE HOST OF GOD._] "That is, a very numerous army; like the army of the angel of God." - _T_....
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 ...
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....
A GREAT HOST. About 300,000 men....
_For at_that _time day by day_ R.V. FOR FROM DAY TO DAY. _the host of God_ The phrase comes from Genesis 32:2; cp. Psalms 68:15 (R.V.) "a mountain of God." The epithet "of God" is used to distinguish...
Manassite Adherents 19. _And there fell some of Manasseh_ R.V. OF MANASSEH ASLO THERE FELL AWAY SOME. _when he came with the Philistines_ See 1 Samuel 28:1-2; 1 Samuel 29:1-11. _but they helped the...
4. DAVID'S MEN IN SAUL'S DAY (1 Chronicles 12:1-22) TEXT 1 Chronicles 12:1. Now these are they that came to David to Ziklag, while he yet kept himself close because of Saul the son of Kish; and they...
_FOR AT THAT TIME DAY BY DAY THERE CAME TO DAVID TO HELP HIM, UNTIL IT WAS A GREAT HOST, LIKE THE HOST OF GOD._ The host of God - i:e., great and powerful army. 'Of all the Hebrew tribes, there were...
12:22 God. (c-23) See Genesis 32:2 ....
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 –...
FOR AT THAT TIME DAY BY DAY... — Literally, _For at the time of each day_ (_i.e._, every day) _men used to come to David to help him; amounting to a mighty camp, like a camp of God_. The verse explain...
(19-22) The seven Manassite chieftains who went over to David on the eve of Saul’s last battle....
_[1 Chronicles 12:23]_ כִּ֚י לְ עֶת ־יֹ֣ום בְּ...
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...
For at [that] time day by day there came to David to help him, until [it was] a great host, like the host of (h) God. (h) Meaning, mighty or strong, for the Hebrews say a thing is of God when it is e...
_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)_...
David seemed to have good ground for his enquiry of the Benjamites, for Saul was of that tribe. But the Lord was better to him than all his fears. Is there not a sweet spiritual lesson veiled under th...
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...
FOR AT THAT TIME, DAY BY DAY, THERE CAME TO DAVID TO HELP HIM,.... Particularly after the defeat of Saul by the Philistines, unto the time that David came to Hebron: UNTIL IT WAS A GREAT HOST, LIKE T...
For at [that] time day by day there came to David to help him, until [it was] a great host, like the host of God. Ver. 22. _Like the host of God,_] _i.e., _ A numerous and a notable host, such as God...
_They helped David against the band_, &c. Against the Amalekites, who had taken and burned Ziklag, and whom David and his six hundred men were now pursuing. Or, as in the margin, _with a band_, or tro...
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.]...
For at that time day by day there came to David to help him, gradually increasing the number of his followers, UNTIL IT WAS A GREAT HOST, LIKE THE HOST OF GOD. From having only six hundred men loyal t...
THE COMPANIES THAT CAME TO DAVID AT ZIKLAG...
1-22 Here is an account of those who appeared and acted as David's friends, while he was persecuted. No difficulties or dangers should keep the sinner from coming to the Savior, nor drive the believe...
AT THAT TIME, i.e. while he was at Ziklag, and in his march to Hebron, and principally at Hebron, as the next verse explains it. LIKE THE HOST OF GOD, i.e. innumerable, like the stars or angels, both...
1 Chronicles 12:22 time H6256 came H935 (H8799) David H1732 day H3117 day H3117 help H5826 ...
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...
1 CHRONICLES—NOTE ON 1 CHRONICLES 12:1 Before his reign in Hebron, David took refuge from Saul in various strongholds in the Judean desert. He also stayed in Ziklag for 16 months under the protection...
1 CHRONICLES—NOTE ON 1 CHRONICLES 12:22 FROM DAY TO DAY MEN CAME TO DAVID TO HELP HIM. This comment summarizes the chapter. A great army was gathered to David. LIKE AN ARMY OF GOD. God was strengtheni...
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. They...
2 Samuel 2:2; 2 Samuel 3:1; Genesis 32:2; Job 17:9; Joshua 5:14;...