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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - 1 Chronicles 12:23 - 12:23
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1Ch 12:23-40. The armies that came to him at Hebron.
these are the numbers of the bands ... that came to David to Hebron - after the death of Ish-bosheth (see on 2Sa 5:1).
to turn the kingdom of Saul to him, according to the word of the Lord - (1Ch 10:14; 1Ch 11:3, 1Ch 11:10). The account commences with the southern tribes, Levi being associated with Judah and Simeon, as the great majority of the leading men in this tribe resided in Judah; and, after recounting the representatives of the northern tribes, it concludes with those on the east of Jordan.