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Verse 1 Chronicles 12:32. _CHILDREN OF ISSACHAR_] According to the
Targum they were all astronomers and astrologers: "and the sons of
Issachar, who had understanding to know the times, and were skill...
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MEN THAT HAD UNDERSTANDING OF THE TIMES - This is best interpreted
politically. Compare the marginal reference...
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2. DAVID'S WARRIORS AND FRIENDS
CHAPTER 12
_ 1. The Benjamite warriors with David at Ziklag (1 Chronicles 12:1)_
2. The other warriors (1 Chronicles 12:8)
3. Those who came to make him king ...
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DAVID'S SUPPORTERS. An enumeration of those who rallied round David
during his outlaw life in Ziklag (_cf._ 1 Samuel 27:5 f.), and a list
of those who were instrumental in setting him upon the throne....
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HAD UNDERSTANDING. Understood statesmanship.
THE TIMES. Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Adjunct), put for what is
(or ought to be) done in them.
COMMANDMENT. Hebrew mouth. Put by Figure of speech _M...
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which were men] R.V. MEN (simply).
_that had understanding of the times_ Cp. Esther 1:13, "which knew the
times." "Times" are "opportunities," "vicissitudes" (cp. 1 Chronicles
29:30), "experiences," g...
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DISCOURSE: 384
THE PROPRIETY OF CONSIDERING TIMES AND CIRCUMSTANCES
1 Chronicles 12:32. _The children of Issachar were men that had
understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do_.
THE d...
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CHILDREN OF ISSACHAR—THAT HAD UNDERSTANDING OF THE TIMES— See
Genesis 49:15. _To know what Israel ought to do;_ that is, says
Houbigant, when the passover, the feast of pentecost, and the new
moons we...
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_AND OF THE CHILDREN OF ISSACHAR, WHICH WERE MEN THAT HAD
UNDERSTANDING OF THE TIMES, TO KNOW WHAT ISRAEL OUGHT TO DO; THE HEADS
OF THEM WERE TWO HUNDRED; AND ALL THEIR BRETHREN WERE AT THEIR
COMMANDM...
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12:32 bidding. (b-34) Lit. 'mouth.'...
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HAD UNDERSTANDING, etc.] possessed practical statesmanship: cp. Esther
1:13.
ALL THEIR BRETHREN] The rank and file were obedient to their chiefs.
The full numbers of Issachar are not given....
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VARIOUS STATISTICS
This chapter is entirely supplementary to what is related in 2 S, and
gives particulars respecting certain companies that joined David at
various times, and the numbers that came t...
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THE BOOK OF 1 CHRONICLES
GOD RULES HISTORY
1 CHRONICLES
_Ian Mackervoy_
CHAPTER 12
The men who came to David at Ziklag –...
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AND OF THE CHILDREN OF ISSACHAR... — Rather_,_ And of the sons of
Issachar (_came_) men sage in discernment for the times (_tempora,
critical junctures_)_,_ so as to know what Israel ought to do; viz....
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_[1 Chronicles 12:33]_ וּ מִ בְּנֵ֣י יִשָּׂשכָ֗ר
יֹודְעֵ֤י
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DAVID
1. HIS TRIBE AND DYNASTY
KING and kingdom were so bound up in ancient life that an ideal for
the one implied an ideal for the other: all distinction and glory
possessed by either was shared by...
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Here the story is continued; it thrills with the enthusiasm of the
multitudes as they marched under the standard of the new king. Over
the list of names flashes light from certain outstanding statemen...
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And of the children of Issachar, [which were men] that had
understanding of the (l) times, to know what Israel ought to do; the
heads of them [were] two hundred; and all their brethren [were] at
their...
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_Should, in agricultural pursuits, in which those of Issachar
excelled, Genesis xlix. 14. Countrymen have often more skill about the
weather, then the greatest astronomers, Virgil, Georg. i. (Menochiu...
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David's army, in the numbers, may serve to remind us of that holy army
of the Lord Jesus which John saw, which over and above the hundred and
forty and four thousand of the sealed of Israel, had a mul...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 10, 11, AND 12.
A brief recital of the ruin of Saul's house introduces Jehovah's
establishment of the house of David. All that took place before the
people g...
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1 Chronicles 12:23....
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And of the children of Issachar, [which were men] that had
understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do; the heads
of them [were] two hundred; and all their brethren [were] at their
com...
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_That had understanding of the times_ They understood public affairs,
the temper of the nation, and the tendencies of the present events.
And they showed their wisdom at this time; for as they had adh...
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1 The companies that came to Dauid at Ziklag.
23 The armies that came to him at Hebron.
1 NOW [NOTE: 1 Samuel 27:1.] these are they that came to Dauid to
Ziklag [NOTE: _Hebrew:_ being yet shut vp.]...
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And of the children of Issachar, which were men that had understanding
of the times to know what Israel ought to do, eminent for their
knowledge of astronomical and physical science. THE HEADS OF THEM...
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THE COMPANIES THAT CAME TO DAVID AT HEBRON...
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23-40 When the throne of Christ is set up in a soul, there is, or
ought to be, great joy in that soul; and provision is made, not as
here, for a few days, but for the whole life, and for eternity. Ha...
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UNDERSTANDING OF THE TIMES; either,
1. Skill in the stars, and several seasons and changes of the air;
which might be of good use in husbandry, to which this tribe was
addicted GENESIS 49:14 DEUTERON...
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CONTENTS: David's army at Ziglag. The leaders who made David king.
CHARACTERS: Holy Spirit, David, Amasai, Jehoiada.
CONCLUSION: It is good to take sides with those who take sides with
God and have...
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1 Chronicles 12:14. _Over a thousand._ David at Ziklag had but six
hundred men; the query is, whether these had already been captains
over a thousand, or whether David after his coronation promoted th...
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_Men that had understanding of the times._
WANTS OF THE TIME
It is an important thing to understand the times in which we live, and
to know what those times require (Esther 1:13; Matthew 16:3; Luke
1...
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1 CHRONICLES—NOTE ON 1 CHRONICLES 12:23 TO TURN THE KINGDOM OF SAUL
OVER TO HIM refers back to 1 Chronicles 10:14 and summarizes the
overal
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CRITICAL NOTES.] This chapter entirely new matter—supplementary to
Samuel—contains a list of those who joined David in time of Saul (1
Chronicles 12:1), and of those who came to make him king over Isr...
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EXPOSITION
This chapter is retrospective, and the contents of it are not found
elsewhere. It is occupied, first (1 Chronicles 12:1), with the names
and some accounts of those who had come to the help...
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Now in chapter twelve.
These are they which came to David to Ziklag, because he yet kept
himself close because of Saul the son of Kish: and they were among the
mighty men, the helpers of the war. They...
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Ecclesiastes 7:19; Ecclesiastes 9:18; Ephesians 5:17; Esther 1:13;...
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The times — They understood public affairs, the temper of the
nation, and the tendencies of the present events. And they shewed
their wisdom at this time; for as they had adhered to Saul while he
live...