1 Chronicles 12:1-20
joined <0935> [these are.]
banished <06113> [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. (De 32:32. 1 Ki 14:10; 21:21. 2 Ki 9:8; 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 <07586> [Saul.]
warriors <01368> [the mighty.]
right <03231> [could use.]
sling stones <068> [in hurling.]
Shemaah <08094> [Shemaah. or, Hasmaah. Gibeathite.]
Azmaveth <05820> [Azmaveth.]
Anathothite <06069> [the Antothite.]
Gibeonite <01393> [Gibeonite.]
warriors <01368> [a mighty man.]
Gederathite <01452> [Gederathite.]
Gedor <01446> [Gedor.]
stronghold <04679> [into the hold.]
trained <06635> [of war. Heb. of the host. handle.]
fierce <06440> [whose faces.]
quickly ... gazelles .... hills <06643 02022 04116> [as swift as the roes upon the mountains. Heb. as the roes upon the mountains to make haste.]
hundred .... greatest a thousand <0259 06996 03967 01419 0505> [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.]
overflowing <04390> [it had overflown. Heb. it had filled over.]
<01121> [the children.]
stronghold <04679> [the hold.]
meet .... said <06440 06030> [to meet them. Heb. before them. If ye be come.]
make <03824> [heart.]
alliance <03162> [knit. Heb. one.]
harmed <02555> [wrong. or, violence. God.]
judge <03198> [rebuke it.]
spirit <07307> [the spirit.]
empowered Amasai <03847 06022> [came upon Amasai. Heb. clothed Amasai.]
[Amasa.]
Thine are we.
[and on they side.]
prosper <07965> [peace.]
God <0430> [thy God.]
leader ........................................... leaders ... raiding bands <01416 07218> [captains of the band.]
went <0935> [when he came.]
<07218> [to the jeopardy of our heads. Heb. on our heads.]
<03212> [As he went.]
These captains of Manasseh seem to have met David as he was returning from the army of the Philistines to Ziklag. It is probable that they did not bring their companies with them; yet they both assured him of future assistance, and very seasonably helped him against the Amalekites who had spoiled Ziklag.
leaders <07218> [captains.]
