Introduction
In this chapter we have a number of records that have been nowhere else preserved. They serve as interesting supplements to 1 Samuel 22:2; 1 Samuel 27:7; 1 Samuel 29:11; and 2 Samuel 2:3, and inform us of a number of notable heroes who resorted unto David at different periods of his career. First we have a list of those who came to him at Ziklag. 1 Chronicles 12:1-7. Next a list of Gadites, and men of Benjamin and Judah, who joined him in the desert. Vers. 8-18. Then a list of Manassites, who joined him on his return to Ziklag after having accompanied the Philistines to the war against Saul, (vers. 19-22;) and finally a record of the number of those from various tribes who helped to make David king at Hebron. Vers. 23-40.
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