Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
Ismaiah the Gibeonite—It appears that not only the Canaanites who were admitted into the congregation (Jos. 9:1-27), but people of the tribe of Benjamin, were among the inhabitants of Gibeon. The mention of "the Gederathite," probably from Gederah (Joshua 15:36), in the lowlands of Judah; of the Korhites (I Chronicles 12:6), from Korah (I Chronicles 2:43), and of Gedor (I Chronicles 12:7), a town in Judah, to the southwest of Beth-lehem (compare I Chronicles 4:4), shows that this first list contains men of Judah as well as Benjamin [BERTHEAU].
THE COMPANIES THAT CAME TO DAVID AT ZIKLAG. (1Ch. 12:1-22)
Now these are they that came to David to Ziklag—There are three lists given in this chapter, arranged, apparently, according to the order of time when the parties joined the standard of David.
while he yet kept himself close because of Saul—that is, when the king's jealousy had driven him into exile from the court and the country.
Ziklag—(See on I Samuel 27:6). It was during his retirement in that Philistine town that he was joined in rapid succession by the heroes who afterwards contributed so much to the glory of his reign.
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