Geneva Study Bible Commentary
1 Chronicles 11:25
Behold, he was honourable among the thirty, but attained not to the (f) [first] three: and David set him over his guard.
(f) Meaning, those three who brought the water to David.
Behold, he was honourable among the thirty, but attained not to the (f) [first] three: and David set him over his guard.
(f) Meaning, those three who brought the water to David.
Verse 1 Chronicles 11:25. _DAVID SET HIM OVER HIS GUARD_] "Made him chief ruler over his disciples." - _T_. FOR other particulars, see the notes on the parallel places, where the subject is farther c...
III. THE CROWNING OF DAVID AND THE ESTABLISHMENT OF HIS KINGDOM 1. David at Hebron CHAPTER 11 _ 1. David crowned king (1 Chronicles 11:1)_ 2. Jerusalem becomes David's capital (1 Chronicles 11:4)...
DAVID MADE KING IN HEBRON; JERUSALEM TAKEN; DAVID'S MIGHTY MEN (see notes on 2 Samuel 5:1; 2 Samuel 5:6; 2 Samuel 23:8)....
GUARD. audience chamber....
_he was honourable among the thirty_ R.V. (cp. 1 Chronicles 11:21), HE WAS MORE HONOURABLE THAN THE THIRTY. The verse probably comes from some poem written in praise of Benaiah. Cp. 1 Chronicles 27:6....
(2 Samuel 23:8-39). David's Mighty Men and their Deeds (The names of twelve of these heroes reappear in chap. 27 as the commanders of David's twelve "courses.") This section seems to consist of elem...
3. DAVID'S MIGHTY MEN (1 Chronicles 11:10-47) TEXT 1 Chronicles 11:10. Now these are the chief of the mighty men whom David had, who showed themselves strong with him in his kingdom, together with al...
_BEHOLD, HE WAS HONOURABLE AMONG THE THIRTY, BUT ATTAINED NOT TO THE FIRST THREE: AND DAVID SET HIM OVER HIS GUARD._ David set him over his guard - the Cherethites and Pelethites that composed the sm...
DAVID'S CORONATION AT HEBRON AND HIS CAPTURE OF ZION The writer, though mentioning David's crowning at Hebron, omits all description of his 7 years' reign there, and in this chapter unites with some...
HONOURABLE AMONG] RV 'more honourable than.'...
THE BOOK OF 1 CHRONICLES GOD RULES HISTORY 1 CHRONICLES _Ian Mackervoy_ CHAPTER 11 All *Israel accepts David as king –...
(22-25) BENAIAH THE SON OF JEHOIADA. — Captain of the royal guard (1 Chronicles 18:17) and third “captain of the host” (1 Chronicles 27:5). SON OF A VALIANT MAN. — “Son” is probably a spurious additio...
BEHOLD, HE WAS HONOURABLE AMONG THE THIRTY. — Rather, _above the thirty behold he was honoured._ BUT ATTAINED NOT TO THE FIRST THREE. — For he was a member of the second triad of heroes. The third me...
(10-44) _X_ list of the warriors who helped David to win and maintain his kingdom. This catalogue answers to that of 2 Samuel 23:8, which, however, breaks off with Uriah the Hittite; whereas our text...
(20-25) Feats of Abishai and Benaiah. (Comp. 2 Samuel 23:18, of which the present passage is little more than a duplicate.)...
מִן ־הַ שְּׁלֹושִׁ֗ים הִנֹּ֤ו נִכְבָּד֙ ה֔וּא...
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...
We now enter on the second section of this Book. In this section there are four movements: the story of David's crowning, the events connected with the Ark of God, the account of David's reign, and, f...
Among, or rather "above," as he was the second captain of this series, and not one of the body of Thirty. (Kennicott) --- Council. Literally, "placed him at his ear," (Haydock) fecit eum auricularium...
We know not which to admire most, the bravery of those men, or the piety of David, in the instance concerning the water of Bethlehem here recorded. With what boldness did they enter the host of the Ph...
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...
1 Chronicles 11:1...
Behold, he was honourable among the thirty, but attained not to the [first] three: and David set him over his guard. Ver. 25. _Behold, he was honourable among the thirty._] Yea, and above them too....
1 Dauid by a generall consent is made king at Hebron. 4 Hee winneth the castle of Sion from the Iebusites, by Ioabs valour. 10 A catalogue of Dauids mightie men. 1 THEN [NOTE: 2Sa_5:] all Israel ga...
Behold, he was honorable among the thirty, but attained not to the first three; and David set him over his guard, which, in turn, seems to have been made up of the bravest of David's six hundred follo...
David's Mighty Men and their Deeds...
10-47 An account is given of David's worthies, the great men who served him. Yet David reckoned his success, not as from the mighty men that were with him, but from the mighty God, whose presence is...
Heb. _his hearing_, or obedience, i.e. those that were always ready to hear and obey or execute his commands, to wit, the guards of his body....
1 Chronicles 11:25 Indeed H2009 honored H3513 (H8737) thirty H7970 attain H935 (H8804) three H7969 David H17
CONTENTS: David becomes King of Israel. Catalog of his mighty men. CHARACTERS: God, David, Joab, Jashobeam, Eleazar, Abishai, Benaiah. CONCLUSION: God's counsels will be fulfilled at last, whatever...
1 Chronicles 11:11. _Jashobeam,_ called Tachmoni, 2 Samuel 23:8, a wise man and valiant. He had earned the laurel to sit as the chairman of David's generals. Three hundred men he killed, and five hund...
1 CHRONICLES—NOTE ON 1 CHRONICLES 11:10 From 2 Samuel 23:8, with additional material (1 Chr
1 CHRONICLES—NOTE ON 1 CHRONICLES 11:25 The original list of the THIRTY (vv. 1 Chronicles 11:26 =...
CRITICAL NOTES.] The writer here passes by the 7½ years of David’s reign over Judah, at which he had glanced in his introductory section (chap. 1 Chronicles 3:4), and hastens to the glorious period of...
EXPOSITION 1 CHRONICLES 11:1 Upon the death of Saul, Abner, for a while espousing the cause of Ishbo-sheth, the only surviving son of Saul, "made him king over" a large proportion of the people, excl...
David became the king, and so in chapter eleven, All of Israel gathered themselves to David in Hebron (1 Chronicles 11:1), And it tells the numbers of people that gathered. Huge force of people from...
1 Chronicles 11:21; 2 Samuel 20:23...