1 Chronicles 12:1
And these are they that came to Ziklag, when he yet kept himself close because of Saul the son of Kish; and these were among the mighty, aiding him in war,
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1 Samuel 27:2So David arose, and the six hundred men that were with him, and he went to Achish, son of Maoch, king of Gath.
2 Samuel 1:1And it came to pass after Saul was dead, that David returned from smiting Amalek, and David abode two days in Ziklag.
2 Samuel 4:10he that reported to me that Saul was dead, even he was as one bringing glad tidings before me: but I seized him and slew him in Ziklag, to whom I ought, as he thought, to have given a reward for his tidings.
1 Chronicles 9:39And Ner begot Kish, and Kish begot Saul, and Saul begot Jonathan, and Malchi-shua, and Abinadab, and Eshbaal.
1 Chronicles 11:19God forbid that I should do this thing: shall I drink the blood of these men with their lives? for with the peril of their lives they brought it. So he would not drink it. These things did the three mighty men.
Matthew Henry on 1 Chronicles 12:1
What the mighty men did towards making David king we read in the foregoing chapter. Here we are told what the many did towards it. It was not all at once, but gradually, that David ascended the throne. His kingdom was to last; and therefore, like fruits that keep longest, it ripened slowly. After he had long waited for the vacancy of the throne, it was at two steps and those above seven years distant, that he ascended it. Now we are here told, I. What help came in to him to Ziklag, to make him king of Judah, ver.… Read the whole commentary →