Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
This section is important as showing that David, the younger son of a not very opulent family I Samuel 16:11, I Samuel 16:20, had now become a large landed proprietor, as well as a capitalist, possessed of much moveable wealth. We may perhaps see the sources of both these kinds of property, in the successful wars which he had waged I Samuel 27:8-9; I Samuel 30:20; II Samuel 8:4, II Samuel 8:7-8, II Samuel 8:12; in the revenue derived from subject kings I Samuel 8:2, I Samuel 8:14; I Samuel 10:19; and in the purchase and occupation of lands in different places. Further, he enjoyed, of course, the usual rights of a Jewish king over the landed property of his subjects, and was thus entitled to receive a tithe of the produce in tithes (I Samuel 8:15, I Samuel 8:17) and in "benevolences." Compare I Samuel 10:27; I Samuel 16:20, etc.
I Chronicles 27:25
The castles - Probably the watchtowers in the border districts, exposed to raids from the plundering tribes of the desert II Chronicles 26:10; II Chronicles 27:4.
I Chronicles 27:28
In the low plains - Rather, "in the Shephelah," the proper name of the low tract between the hill country of Judaea and the Mediterranean.
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing 1 Chronicles 27:25:
1 Chronicles 4:23
1 Chronicles 27:25-31
Isaiah 43:3
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