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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 ...
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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....
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AND ON CAMELS. Note the Figure of speech _Polysyndeton_, emphasizing
the fact that there were _no horses_....
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_MOREOVER THEY THAT WERE NIGH THEM, EVEN UNTO ISSACHAR AND ZEBULUN AND
NAPHTALI, BROUGHT BREAD ON ASSES, AND ON CAMELS, AND ON MULES, AND ON
OXEN, AND MEAT, MEAL, CAKES OF FIGS, AND BUNCHES OF RAISINS...
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12:40 food (c-17) Lit. 'bread.'...
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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...
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THEY THAT WERE NIGH] i.e. relations.
The total numbers of those who assembled to crown David at Hebron, as
enumerated in 1 Chronicles 12:23, amount to 340,822, a military force
(1 Chronicles 12:23) wh...
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THE BOOK OF 1 CHRONICLES
GOD RULES HISTORY
1 CHRONICLES
_Ian Mackervoy_
CHAPTER 12
The men who came to David at Ziklag –...
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(39-40) The coronation feast. Comp. 1 Kings 1:9; 1 Kings 1:19; 1 Kings
1:25; the usurpation of Adonijah.
THEIR BRETHREN. — Fellow tribesmen of Judah; especially those living
at and around Hebron.
HAD...
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THEY THAT WERE NIGH THEM. — The tribes bordering on Judah (LXX.
οἱ ὁμοροῦντες), and even the northern tribes,
contributed provisions.
BROUGHT, _were bringing._
Asses... camels... mules... oxen, but...
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_[1 Chronicles 12:41]_ וְ גַ֣ם הַ קְּרֹֽובִים
־אֲ֠לֵיהֶם
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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...
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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...
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_Nephthali. All, both far and near, contributed to regale the
deputies. (Calmet)_...
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David's army, in the numbers, may serve to remind us of that holy army
of the Lord Jesus which John saw, which over and above the hundred and
forty and four thousand of the sealed of Israel, had a mul...
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REFLECTIONS
WHILE we behold David thus surrounded with his worthies, let our
thoughts take wing and fly away to the contemplation of David's Lord,
now attended with his redeemed ones around the throne...
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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...
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MOREOVER, THEY THAT WERE NIGH,.... To Hebron, or bordered on the tribe
of Judah:
EVEN UNTO ISSACHAR, AND ZEBULUN, AND NAPHTALI; as far as to those
tribes, and including them:
BROUGHT BREAD ON ASSES,...
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Moreover they that were nigh them, [even] unto Issachar and Zebulun
and Naphtali, brought bread on asses, and on camels, and on mules, and
on oxen, [and] meat, meal, cakes of figs, and bunches of rais...
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_They that were nigh them_ That lived not far from Hebron, the place
where they now were. _Unto Issachar_, &c. This is added by way of
amplification and explication, to show that this was not to be
un...
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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.]...
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Moreover, they that were nigh them, even unto Issachar and Zebulun and
Naphtali, the northern parts of the country west of Jordan, BROUGHT
BREAD ON ASSES, AND ON CAMELS, AND ON MULES, AND ON OXEN, AND...
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THE COMPANIES THAT CAME TO DAVID AT HEBRON...
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MEAT:
Or, victual of meal...
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23-40 When the throne of Christ is set up in a soul, there is, or
ought to be, great joy in that soul; and provision is made, not as
here, for a few days, but for the whole life, and for eternity. Ha...
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THEY THAT WERE NIGH THEM; that lived not far from Hebron, the place
where they now were. UNTO ISSACHAR AND ZEBULUN AND NAPHTALI: this is
added by way of amplification and explication, to show that he...
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1 Chronicles 12:40 near H7138 Issachar H3485 Zebulun H2074 Naphtali
H5321 bringing H935 (H8688) food H3899 donkeys...
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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...
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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...
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_All these men of war._
THE JOYOUS ENTERTAINMENT.
I. The cause of joy.
1. United under one king.
2. A king chosen of God.
3. Universal loyalty to the chosen king.
II. The manifestation of joy....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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1 Kings 1:40; 1 Samuel 25:18; 2 Kings 11:20; 2 Samuel 16:1;...