1 Chronicles 12:22

22 {Day in and day out} they came to David to help him until [there was] a great army, like the army of God.

1 Chronicles 12:22 Meaning and Commentary

1 Chronicles 12:22

For at that time, day by day, there came to David to help him,
&c.] Particularly after the defeat of Saul by the Philistines, unto the time that David came to Hebron:

until it was a great host, like the host of God;
the heavenly host, the angels; so the Targum.

1 Chronicles 12:22 In-Context

20 When he went to Ziklag some Manassites deserted to him: Adnah, Jehozabad, Jediael, Michael, Jozabad, Elihu, and Zillethai, heads of the thousands that [were] for Manasseh.

21 And they themselves helped David against the troops, for all of them [were] mighty men of strength and were commanders in the army.

22 {Day in and day out} they came to David to help him until [there was] a great army, like the army of God.

23 And these are the numbers of the chiefs of those prepared for the army who came to David at Hebron to turn the kingdom of Saul over to him according to the word of Yahweh.

24 The sons of Judah bearing shield and spear: six thousand eight hundred armed troops.

Footnotes

• [a]. Literally "for to the time of day to the day"