thirty years old The prime of life: the age at which the Levites entered upon their duties (Numbers 4:3): at which young men commenced to take part in public business in Greece: at which Joseph was made ruler over Egypt (Genesis 41:46): at which Jesus Christ was "anointed with the Holy Ghost" in His Baptism, and began His public ministry (Luke 3:23).
The age of David is conclusive as to the fact that the earlier years of Saul’s reign (during which Jonathan grew up to be a man) are passed over in silence, and that the events narrated from 1 Samuel...
II. DAVID KING OVER ALL ISRAEL AND THE EVENTS OF HIS REIGN 1. David Anointed King over all Israel CHAPTER 5:1-5 _ 1. David anointed king over all Israel (2 Samuel 5:1)_ 2. Duration of his reign (2...
DAVID BECOMES KING OF UNITED ISRAEL AND JUDAH. HE CAPTURES JERUSALEM (J). (_Cf._ p. 282.) Two notes have been added to this section (2 Samuel 5:4 f. and 2 Samuel 5:13), of the same character as 2 Samu...
5. David Made King Over All Israel, 2 Samuel 5:1-15. _David King Over All Israel._ 2 Samuel 5:1-5 Then came all the tribes of Israel to David unto Hebron, and spake, saying, Behold, we _are_ thy bon...
_DAVID WAS THIRTY YEARS OLD WHEN HE BEGAN TO REIGN, AND HE REIGNED FORTY YEARS._ No JFB commentary on this verse....
DAVID IS ANOINTED KING, CAPTURES JERUSALEM, AND SMITES THE PHILISTINES 1. There was no longer any member of the house of Saul who could take the lead....
The capture of Jerusalem marks a most important point in the history of Israel. Hitherto, the national life had had no real centre; the residence of a judge or a prophet or a king would be a temporary...
DAVID, THE GREAT KING OF ISRAEL 2 SAMUEL _HELEN POCOCK_ CHAPTER 5 This chapter records three very important things that David did: (1) He united the nation of *Israel. (2) He made the city of Je...
THIRTY YEARS OLD. — This statement of the age and of the length of the reign of David (which is repeated in 1 Chronicles 29:26, at the end of the history of David’s life) shows us approximately the le...
בֶּן ־שְׁלֹשִׁ֥ים שָׁנָ֛ה דָּוִ֖ד בְּ מָלְכֹ֑ו...
CHAPTER VI. _ DAVID KING OF ALL ISRAEL._ 2 Samuel 5:1. AFTER seven and a half years of opposition, * David was now left without a rival, and the representatives of the whole tribes came to Hebron to...
DAVID KING IN JERUSALEM 2 Samuel 5:1 David was anointed thrice: by Samuel in his home, by the men of Judah, and here. So our Lord has been crowned in the Father's purpose and by his Church. There awa...
At this point the second section in the first movement of the Book commences. David had won the heart of all Israel by his consistent justice and magnanimity toward those who stood in the way of his c...
_Forty, a round number, as another half year is specified below; (Calmet) or Solomon might be crowned at the expiration of the 40th year. (Du Hamel)_...
(4) David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years. (5) In Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months: and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty and three years ov...
We have seen the sorrowful circumstances out of which arose the first desire to have a king in Israel, and the remarkable fact that, although it was a sin, God nevertheless did not put the people back...
David, the king of Judah in Hebron for seven years and a half, becomes the king of all Israel upon Ishbosheth's death And now David is no longer the man of faith who, himself the head of the armies of...
DAVID [WAS] THIRTY YEARS OLD WHEN HE BEGAN REIGN,.... Over Judah, which was the age of his antitype Christ, when he entered upon his public ministry, Luke 3:23; [AND] HE REIGNED FORTY YEARS; and six...
David [was] thirty years old when he began to reign, [and] he reigned forty years. Ver. 4. _David was thirty years old._] So was Christ when he entered upon his kingdom, which he hath twofold: 1. Pat...
_David was thirty years old when he began to reign_ At this age the Levites were at first appointed to begin their ministrations, Numbers 4:3. About this age the Son of David entered upon his public m...
1 The tribes come to Hebron to annoint Dauid ouer Israel. 4 Dauids age. 6 Hee taking Zion from the Iebusites dwelleth in it. 11 Hiram sendeth to Dauid. 13 Eleuen sonnes are borne to him in Ierusal...
David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years....
DAVID ANOINTED KING OVER ALL ISRAEL...
Yet the sovereign wisdom of God has been over all these matters, and David's way becomes clear without his fighting for it. God's time had now come for the voluntary submission of the other tribes to...
1-5 David was anointed king a third time. His advances were gradual, that his faith might be tried, and that he might gain experience. Thus his kingdom typified that of the Messiah, which was to come...
And some odd months, as it follows....
2 Samuel 5:4 David H1732 thirty H7970 years H8141 old H1121 reign H4427 (H8800) reigned H4427 (H8804) forty...
DAVID IS AT LAST ANOINTED AS KING OVER ALL ISRAEL (2 SAMUEL 5:1). This section began in 2 Samuel 2:1 onwards with David being anointed as king over Judah, and it now ends with David being anointed as...
CONTENTS: David becomes king over Israel. War with Philistines. CHARACTERS: God, David, Hiram. CONCLUSION: Those who have the Lord of Hosts for them need have no fear what hosts of men or demons can...
2 Samuel 5:2. _Thou shalt feed my people._ Probably the highpriest, or a prophet, delivered a short coronation charge, as Samuel had already done. This divine promise is made the final reason why they...
_Then came all the tribes of Israel to David unto Hebron, and spake saying, Behold we are thy bone and thy flesh._ DAVID KING OVER ALL ISRAEL It was probably very soon after the death of Ishbosheth...
CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES— 2 Samuel 5:1. “THEN, etc. “The tenor of the history leads us to hold with Ewald that the recognition of David as king over all Israel occurred immediately after Ishboshe...
EXPOSITION 2 SAMUEL 5:1 THEN CAME ALL THE TRIBES OF ISRAEL. As Ishbosheth reigned only two years, and David's reign at Hebron lasted for seven years and a half, there is an interval of more than five...
Then all of the tribes came to David there in Hebron, and they said, Behold, we're of your bone, we're of your flesh. In times past, when Saul was king, you were the one that led us out to victories o...
1 Chronicles 26:31; 1 Chronicles 29:27; Luke 3:23...