1 Chronicles 11 - Introduction
_A.M. 2956. B.C. 1048._ David is made king, 1 Chronicles 11:1. He takes the castle of Zion, 1 Chronicles 11:4. A catalogue of his mighty men, 1 Chronicles 11:10.... [ Continue Reading ]
_A.M. 2956. B.C. 1048._ David is made king, 1 Chronicles 11:1. He takes the castle of Zion, 1 Chronicles 11:4. A catalogue of his mighty men, 1 Chronicles 11:10.... [ Continue Reading ]
_All Israel gathered themselves to David_ That is, _all the tribes of Israel_, as it is expressed 2 Samuel 5:1, by their elders (1Ch 11:3) and officers, and a great multitude of their soldiers and people. _The Lord said unto thee_ Or, _concerning thee:_ for it is apparent that they knew it was God's... [ Continue Reading ]
_David and all Israel went to Jerusalem_ Of this and the following verses, to 1 Chronicles 11:9, see notes on 2 Samuel 5:6, &c.... [ Continue Reading ]
_And was chief_ Before this he was one of David's chief captains; but now he is made captain-general of all the forces of Israel and Judah.... [ Continue Reading ]
_The chief of the mighty men_ Who helped with all their might to settle him in his kingdom. _With all Israel_ In conjunction with all those loyal Israelites who joined with David. Yet David ascribed his success, not to the hosts he had, but to _the Lord of hosts:_ not to the mighty men that were wit... [ Continue Reading ]
_Jashobeam a Hachmonite_ Called the _Tachmonite_, and _Adino the Eznite, 2 Samuel 23:8_. _He lifted up his spear against three hundred slain_, &c. By his own hand, five hundred more being slain by others then joining with him, who pursued the victory, both which sums make up the eight hundred, numbe... [ Continue Reading ]
_David would not drink of it_ That water which he thought too precious for his own drinking, he _poured out to the Lord_ For a drink-offering. If we have any thing better than other, let God be honoured with it, who is the best, and should have the best. _Shall I drink the blood_, &c. It put him int... [ Continue Reading ]
_Lifting up his spear against three hundred, he slew them_ He vanquished them all, and slew a great number of them: it is, however, not said that he slew them all at one time, as it is said of Jashobeam, 1 Chronicles 11:11. _He attained not unto the first three_ He did not equal them in valiant expl... [ Continue Reading ]
_Uriah the Hittite_ The last of that catalogue in 2 Samuel 23:39. But here some others are added to the number, because though they were not of the thirty, yet they were men of great valour and renown among David's commanders. _Thirty with him_ Thirty captains, who were under him as their colonel.... [ Continue Reading ]
_The Aroerite_ So called possibly because his station and quarters were upon the river Aroer, beyond Jordan, being placed there for the defence of those parts.... [ Continue Reading ]
_Ithmah the Moabite_ So called, either because he was by birth a Moabite, though now proselyted to the true religion; or from some eminent service done by him among the Moabites. Thus, among the Romans, Publius Scipio was surnamed _Africanus_, for his great achievements in Africa; and Lucius Scipio,... [ Continue Reading ]