The Biblical Illustrator - 1 Chronicles 11:15-19
1 Chronicles 11:15-19Now three of the thirty captains went down to the rock to David.The water of the well of BethlehemThis incident, although it rests upon a basis of conspicuous bravery, evidently owes its cardinal importance to far deeper considerations. Some might be tempted to think that David’s conduct in pouring out the water was fantastic and wasteful--an ill-timed intrusion of a poetic sentiment on the stern realities of life. On the contrary his conduct is penetrated with the sense of... read more
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - 1 Chronicles 11:1-47
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 hundred more in the pursuit, which makes up the eight hundred mentioned in the above passage. 1 Chronicles 11:22 . Two lion-like men. The Vulgate reads as the Hebrew, two lions of Moab. Slaying the Egyptian giant, more than nine feet high, and the lion at the cave, or rather at the cistern,... read more