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1 Chronicles 12:31-40

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31 Of the half-tribe * of Manasseh 18,000 * *, who were designated by name to come and make David king.
32 Of the sons of Issachar, 1men who understood the times, with knowledge of what Israel should do, their chiefs were two hundred; and all their kinsmen were at their command.
33 Of Zebulun, there were 50,000 * who went out in the army, who could draw up in battle formation with all kinds of weapons of war and helped David with 2an undivided * heart.
34 Of Naphtali there were 1,000 captains, and with them 37,000 * * with shield and spear.
35 Of the Danites who could draw up in battle formation, there were 28,600 * * *.
36 Of Asher there were 40,000 * who went out in the army to draw up in battle formation.
37 From the other side of the Jordan, of the Reubenites and the Gadites and of the half-tribe * of Manasseh, there were 120,000 * * with all kinds of weapons of war for the battle.
38 All these, being men of war who could draw up in battle formation, came to Hebron with 3a perfect heart to make David king over all Israel; and all the rest also of Israel were of one mind to make David king.
39 They were there with David three days, eating and drinking, for their kinsmen had prepared for them.
40 Moreover those who were near to them, even as far as Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali, 4brought food on donkeys, camels, mules and on oxen, great quantities of flour cakes, fig cakes and bunches of raisins, wine, oil, oxen and sheep. There was joy indeed in Israel.
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1 Chronicles 12:31-40 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.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 4

  • 1. Esther 1:13
  • 2. Psalms 12:2
  • 3. 2 Samuel 5:1-3; 1 Chronicles 12:33
  • 4. 1 Samuel 25:18

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. Lit "not of double heart"
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