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Verse 1 Chronicles 27:34. _AND AFTER AHITHOPHEL_] The _Targum_ is
curious: "When they went to war, they asked counsel of Ahithophel;
and, after the counsel of Ahithophel, they inquired by Urim and
Th...
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A list - supplemental in character - of some chief officers of David,
not mentioned before. The list cannot belong to a very late part of
David’s reign, since it contains the name of Ahithophel, who k...
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6. THE CAPTAINS, PRINCES, AND VARIOUS OFFICIALS
CHAPTER 27
_ 1. The twelve captains (1 Chronicles 27:1)_
2. The princes of the twelve tribes (1 Chron. 27-16-22)
3. The unfinished numbering (1 Chro...
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ORGANISATION OF DAVID'S ARMY: ENUMERATION OF HIS OFFICIALS (_cf._ 1
Chronicles 11:10 ff.)
1 Chronicles 27:1. According to this verse the army comprised 288,000
soldiers; this is an exaggeration....
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GENERAL. prince.
ARMY. host....
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_after Ahithophel_ Cp. 1 Chronicles 27:7, note.
_Jehoiada the son of Benaiah_ Either we must read, "Benaiah the son of
Jehoiada" (cp. 1 Chronicles 18:17), or we must assume that a person
known only f...
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23. SPECIAL COUNSELLORS (1 Chronicles 27:32-34)
TEXT
1 Chronicles 27:32. Also Jonathan, David's uncle, was a counsellor, a
man of understanding, and a scribe: and Jehiel the son of Hachmoni was
with...
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PARTICULARS RESPECTING VARIOUS MILITARY OFFICERS
This c., as distinguished from the four preceding Chapter s which
describe David's ecclesiastical officials, relates to his secular
officers....
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JEHOIADA THE SON OF BENAIAH] probably to be corrected to 'Benaiah the
son of Jehoiada': cp. 1 Chronicles 18:17.
Some of the names mentioned in this chapter belonged to periods much
earlier than David'...
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THE BOOK OF 1 CHRONICLES
GOD RULES HISTORY
1 CHRONICLES
_Ian Mackervoy_
CHAPTER 27
Organisation of other leaders –...
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IV. — DAVID’S PRIVY COUNCIL 1 Chronicles 27:32).
(32) ALSO JONATHAN DAVID’S UNCLE WAS A COUNSELLOR. — A son of
David’s brother Shimeah was named Jonathan (1 Chronicles 20:7; 2
Samuel 21:21).
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וְ אַחֲרֵ֣י אֲחִיתֹ֗פֶל יְהֹויָדָ֤ע
בֶּן ־בְּנָיָ֨הוּ֙...
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This chapter gives us an idea of the internal order of the kingdom
under the government of David. The courses mentioned in the opening
part of the chapter are not mentioned elsewhere in the Old Testam...
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And (i) after Ahithophel [was] Jehoiada the son of Benaiah, and
Abiathar: and the general of the king's army [was] Joab.
(i) After Ahithophel hanged himself, (2 Samuel 17:23), Jehoiada was
made couns...
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_After, inferior, (Salien) as Achitophel's advice was esteemed like an
oracle, (Calmet) or Joiada, a chief priest, and Abiathar, the pontiff,
succeeded to his place, after he had hung himself. (Tirinu...
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REFLECTIONS
IT is hardly possible to read the order of things observed in the days
of David, without having our minds led out to consider yet more, the
beautiful disposition and order made in the hous...
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The relations of the king are also put down, not only by way of
filling up the list, but by way of manifesting his attention to all....
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 22 THROUGH 27.
From this chapter to Verses 28, 29 of chapter 26 all refers to the
house which is to be built. We see the provision that David made of
everythi...
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1 Chronicles 27:25....
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_Ahithophel was the king's counsellor_ The person whose counsel, in
matters of state, the king most prized and followed. _Hushai was the
king's companion_ Or his friend, (2 Samuel 15:37,) the person w...
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1 The twelue Captaines, for euery seuerall moneth.
16 The Princes of the twelue Tribes.
23 The numbring of the people is hindered.
25 Dauids seuerall Officers.
1 NOWE the children of Israel after...
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SPECIAL OFFICERS OF THE NATION...
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and after Ahithophel was Jehoiada, the son of Benaiah, bearing the
same name as his grandfather, AND ABIATHAR, the priest of the line of
Ithamar; AND THE GENERAL, the commander-in-chief and, at the sa...
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16-34 The officers of the court, or the rulers of the king's
substance, had the oversight and charge of the king's tillage, his
vineyards, his herds, his flocks, which formed the wealth of eastern
kin...
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AFTER AHITHOPHEL, i.e. after his death, these were his chief
counsellors....
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1 Chronicles 27:34 After H310 Ahithophel H302 Jehoiada H3077 son H1121
Benaiah H1141 Abiathar H54 general H8269 kings...
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CONTENTS: The captains for each month. Princes of the twelve tribes.
David's several officers.
CHARACTERS: God, David, Joab, Jonathan, Jeluel, Ahitophel, Hushai,
Jehoiada, Abiathar.
CONCLUSION: It i...
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1 Chronicles 27:23. _The Lord had said he would increase Israel like
to the stars of heaven. Genesis 15:5_. If all had been numbered, David
would have had about a million and a half of men, from twent...
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_Now the children of Israel._
WISDOM, KINDNESS, AND FOLLY
In reading this chapter we are struck with three features of David’s
rule.
1. The presence of royal wisdom in--
1. Securing the safety of h...
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1 CHRONICLES—NOTE ON 1 CHRONICLES 27:32 An additional list of royal
counselors (see 1 Chronicles 18:14). This JONATHAN, DAVID’S UNCLE,
is n
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CRITICAL NOTES.] We have captains of monthly divisions of the army (1
Chronicles 27:1), princes of tribes (1 Chronicles 27:16), stewards of
treasures and possessions of the king (1 Chronicles 27:25
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EXPOSITION
This chapter, continuing the general subject of David's arrangements
of all the leading departments, sacred and civil, of the kingdom,
which he was so soon to yield into the hands of his so...
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And then the courses were established in chapter twenty-seven. There
were twelve captains for, one for each month to oversee a particular
month. And then the princes were established for the twelve tr...
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1 Chronicles 11:6; 1 Kings 1:7...
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After Ahithophel — After his death, these were his chief
counsellors....