1 Chronicles 12:38-40

38 All these, men of war, arrayed in battle order, came to Hebron with ¹full intent to make David king over all Israel. Likewise, all the rest of Israel were of a ²single mind to make David king.

39 And they were there with David for three days, eating and drinking, for their brothers had made preparation for them.

40 And also their relatives, from as far as Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali, came bringing food on donkeys and on camels and on mules and on oxen, abundant provisions of flour, ³cakes of figs, clusters of raisins, and wine and oil, oxen and sheep, for there was joy in Israel.

1 Chronicles 12:38-40 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 1 CHRONICLES 12

This chapter gives an account of those that came to David at different times, and joined and assisted him both before the death of Saul, and when persecuted by him, and after he was made king of Judah in Hebron, and before he was king of all Israel, in order to it; of the Benjaminites that came to him when at Ziklag, 1Ch 12:1-7 of the Gadites that came to him when in the hold, 1Ch 12:8-15 of some of Judah and Benjamin, who came to him in the same place, 1Ch 12:16-18, and of the Manassites at the time he came with the Philistines against Saul, 1Ch 12:19-22 and the number of the several tribes are given, that came to him at Hebron to make him king over all Israel, 1Ch 12:23-40.

Cross References

• 1. [1 Kings 8:61]
• 2. [ver. 33]
• 3. [1 Samuel 25:18; 1 Samuel 30:12]