1Ch 12:1-15 | TSK | e4.org | these are , ; , while he yet etc. Heb. being yet shut up, Sometimes, in the East, when a successful prince endeavoured to extirpate the preceding royal family, some of them escaped the slaughter, and secured themselves in an impregnable fortress, or in a place of great secrecy; while others have been known to seek an asylum in a foreign county, from when they have occasioned, from time to time, great anxiety and great difficulties to the usurper of the crown. The expression shut up, so often applied to the extermination of eastern royal families ( . ; . ; ), strictly speaking, refers to the two first of these cases; but the term may be used in a more extensive sense, for those who, by retiring into deserts, or foreign countries, preserve themselves from being slain by the men who usurp the dominions of their ancestors. Thus the term is here applied to David, though he did not shut himself up, strictly speaking, in Ziklag. It is described as a town in the country, and was probably an unwalled town; and it is certain that he did not confine himself to it, but, on the contrary, was continually making excursions from thence. Saul , the mighty , ,

‏ 1 Chronicles 12:1-15

these are 1Sam 27:2, 1Sam 27:6; 2Sam 1:1, 2Sam 4:10

while he yet etc. Heb. being yet shut up, Sometimes, in the East, when a successful prince endeavoured to extirpate the preceding royal family, some of them escaped the slaughter, and secured themselves in an impregnable fortress, or in a place of great secrecy; while others have been known to seek an asylum in a foreign county, from when they have occasioned, from time to time, great anxiety and great difficulties to the usurper of the crown. The expression shut up, so often applied to the extermination of eastern royal families (Deut 32:32. 1Kgs 14:10; 1Kgs 21:21. 2Kgs 9:8; 2Kgs 14:26), strictly speaking, refers to the two first of these cases; but the term may be used in a more extensive sense, for those who, by retiring into deserts, or foreign countries, preserve themselves from being slain by the men who usurp the dominions of their ancestors. Thus the term is here applied to David, though he did not shut himself up, strictly speaking, in Ziklag. It is described as a town in the country, and was probably an unwalled town; and it is certain that he did not confine himself to it, but, on the contrary, was continually making excursions from thence.

Saul 1Chr 8:33, 1Chr 9:39

the mighty 1Chr 11:10, 1Chr 11:19, 1Chr 11:24-25

could use Judg 3:15, Judg 20:16

in hurling 1Sam 17:49

Shemaah or, Hasmaah

Gibeathite 1Sam 11:4; 2Sam 21:6

Azmaveth 1Chr 11:33

the Antothite 1Chr 11:28

Gibeonite Josh 9:3, Josh 9:17-23

a mighty man 1Chr 11:15

Gederathite Josh 15:36

Gedor 1Chr 4:18, 1Chr 4:39; Josh 15:58

into the hold 1Chr 12:16, 1Chr 11:16; 1Sam 23:14, 1Sam 23:29, 1Sam 24:22

of war Heb. of the host

handle 2Chr 25:5; Jer 46:9

whose faces 1Chr 11:22; 2Sam 1:23, 2Sam 17:10, 2Sam 23:20; Prov 28:1

as swift as the roes upon the mountains Heb. as the roes upon the mountains to make haste, 2Sam 2:18; Prov 6:5; Song 8:14

one of the least was over an hundred, and the greatest over a thousand or, one that was least could resist an hundred, the greatest a thousand. Lev 26:8; Deut 32:30

it had overflown Heb. it had filled over, Josh 3:15, Josh 4:18; Jer 12:5, Jer 49:19