Wesley's Explanatory Notes
1 Chronicles 27:34
After Ahithophel — After his death, these were his chief counsellors.
After Ahithophel — After his death, these were his chief counsellors.
Verse 1 Chronicles 27:34. _AND AFTER AHITHOPHEL_] The _Targum_ is curious: "When they went to war, they asked counsel of Ahithophel; and, after the counsel of Ahithophel, they inquired by Urim and Th...
A list - supplemental in character - of some chief officers of David, not mentioned before. The list cannot belong to a very late part of David’s reign, since it contains the name of Ahithophel, who k...
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....
GENERAL. prince. ARMY. host....
_after Ahithophel_ Cp. 1 Chronicles 27:7, note. _Jehoiada the son of Benaiah_ Either we must read, "Benaiah the son of Jehoiada" (cp. 1 Chronicles 18:17), or we must assume that a person known only f...
23. SPECIAL COUNSELLORS (1 Chronicles 27:32-34) TEXT 1 Chronicles 27:32. Also Jonathan, David's uncle, was a counsellor, a man of understanding, and a scribe: and Jehiel the son of Hachmoni was with...
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....
JEHOIADA THE SON OF BENAIAH] probably to be corrected to 'Benaiah the son of Jehoiada': cp. 1 Chronicles 18:17. Some of the names mentioned in this chapter belonged to periods much earlier than David'...
THE BOOK OF 1 CHRONICLES GOD RULES HISTORY 1 CHRONICLES _Ian Mackervoy_ CHAPTER 27 Organisation of other leaders –...
IV. — DAVID’S PRIVY COUNCIL 1 Chronicles 27:32). (32) ALSO JONATHAN DAVID’S UNCLE WAS A COUNSELLOR. — A son of David’s brother Shimeah was named Jonathan (1 Chronicles 20:7; 2 Samuel 21:21).
וְ אַחֲרֵ֣י אֲחִיתֹ֗פֶל יְהֹויָדָ֤ע בֶּן ־בְּנָיָ֨הוּ֙...
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...
And (i) after Ahithophel [was] Jehoiada the son of Benaiah, and Abiathar: and the general of the king's army [was] Joab. (i) After Ahithophel hanged himself, (2 Samuel 17:23), Jehoiada was made couns...
_After, inferior, (Salien) as Achitophel's advice was esteemed like an oracle, (Calmet) or Joiada, a chief priest, and Abiathar, the pontiff, succeeded to his place, after he had hung himself. (Tirinu...
REFLECTIONS IT is hardly possible to read the order of things observed in the days of David, without having our minds led out to consider yet more, the beautiful disposition and order made in the hous...
The relations of the king are also put down, not only by way of filling up the list, but by way of manifesting his attention to all....
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....
And after Ahithophel [was] Jehoiada the son of Benaiah, and Abiathar: and the general of the king's army [was] Joab. Ver. 34. _And after Ahithophel,_] _i.e., _ After his death....
_Ahithophel was the king's counsellor_ The person whose counsel, in matters of state, the king most prized and followed. _Hushai was the king's companion_ Or his friend, (2 Samuel 15:37,) the person w...
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...
and after Ahithophel was Jehoiada, the son of Benaiah, bearing the same name as his grandfather, AND ABIATHAR, the priest of the line of Ithamar; AND THE GENERAL, the commander-in-chief and, at the sa...
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...
AFTER AHITHOPHEL, i.e. after his death, these were his chief counsellors....
1 Chronicles 27:34 After H310 Ahithophel H302 Jehoiada H3077 son H1121 Benaiah H1141 Abiathar H54 general H8269 kings...
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 27:32 An additional list of royal counselors (see 1 Chronicles 18:14). This JONATHAN, DAVID’S UNCLE, is n
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 11:6; 1 Kings 1:7...