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The chronicler passes over the subsequent history of the house of Saul, and its decline under the feeble Ishbosheth, who reigned at Mahanaim as a puppet-king in the hands of Abner his powerful kinsman and general (2 Samuel 2-4).<p><span class= "bld">All Israel.</span>—This proves that the allusion is not to David’s election by Judah (<a href="/2_samuel/2-4.htm" title="And the men of Judah came, and there they anointed David king over the house of Judah. And they told David, saying, That the men of Jabeshgilead were they that buried Saul.">2Samuel 2:4</a>).<p><span class= "bld">Hebron,</span> the burial-place of the patriarchs, was the capital of Judah, the tribe of David.<p><span class= "bld">Thy bone and thy flesh.</span>—A proverb first of physical, then of moral unity (<a href="/genesis/2-23.htm" title="And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.">Genesis 2:23</a>; <a href="/judges/9-2.htm" title="Speak, I pray you, in the ears of all the men of Shechem, Whether is better for you, either that all the sons of Jerubbaal, which are three score and ten persons, reign over you, or that one reign over you? remember also that I am your bone and your flesh.">Judges 9:2</a>). It was not as if David were some valiant foreigner, like certain of his own heroes. Moreover, the affection and sympathy of the tribes were with him, whose life of struggle and success had marked him out as their divinely chosen leader.<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/benson/1_chronicles/11.htm">Benson Commentary</a></div><span class="bld"><a href="/context/1_chronicles/11-1.htm" title="Then all Israel gathered themselves to David to Hebron, saying, Behold, we are your bone and your flesh....">1 Chronicles 11:1-2</a></span>. <span class="ital">All Israel gathered themselves to David — </span>That is, <span class="ital">all the tribes of Israel, </span>as it is expressed <a href="/2_samuel/5-1.htm" title="Then came all the tribes of Israel to David to Hebron, and spoke, saying, Behold, we are your bone and your flesh.">2 Samuel 5:1</a>, by their elders (<a href="/1_chronicles/11-3.htm" title="Therefore came all the elders of Israel to the king to Hebron; and David made a covenant with them in Hebron before the LORD; and they anointed David king over Israel, according to the word of the LORD by Samuel.">1 Chronicles 11:3</a>) and officers, and a great multitude of their soldiers and people. <span class="ital">The Lord said unto thee — </span>Or, <span class="ital">concerning thee: </span>for it is apparent that they knew it was God’s will David should be king, and therefore many of them had opposed David hitherto against their own consciences.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="mhc" id="mhc"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/mhc/1_chronicles/11.htm">Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary</a></div>11:1-9 David was brought to possess the throne of Israel after he had reigned seven years in Hebron, over Judah only. God's counsels will be fulfilled at last, whatever difficulties lie in the way. The way to be truly great, is to be really useful, to devote all our talents to the Lord.<a name="bar" id="bar"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/barnes/1_chronicles/11.htm">Barnes' Notes on the Bible</a></div>This chapter runs parallel with <a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/5.htm">2 Samuel 5</a> as far as <a href="http://biblehub.com/1_chronicles/11-9.htm">1 Chronicles 11:9</a>, after which it is to be compared with <a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/23-8.htm">2 Samuel 23:8-39</a> as far as <a href="http://biblehub.com/1_chronicles/11-40.htm">1 Chronicles 11:40</a>, the remainder <a href="http://biblehub.com/1_chronicles/11-41.htm">1 Chronicles 11:41-47</a> being an addition, to which Samuel has nothing corresponding. Compare throughout the notes in Samuel. <a name="jfb" id="jfb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/jfb/1_chronicles/11.htm">Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary</a></div>CHAPTER 11<p>1Ch 11:1-3. David Made King.<p>1. Then all Israel gathered themselves to David unto Hebron—This event happened on the death of Ish-bosheth (see on [362]2Sa 5:1). The convention of the estates of the kingdom, the public and solemn homage of the representatives of the people, and the repeated anointing of the new king in their presence and by their direction, seem to have been necessary to the general acknowledgment of the sovereign on the part of the nation (compare 1Sa 11:15).David made king at Hebron; by Joab’s valour winneth the castle of Zion from the Jebusites; repaireth the city of Jerusalem, <span class="bldvs"> <a href="/context/1_chronicles/11-1.htm" title="Then all Israel gathered themselves to David to Hebron, saying, Behold, we are your bone and your flesh....">1 Chronicles 11:1-9</a></span>. A catalogue of his mighty men, <span class="bldvs"> <a href="/context/1_chronicles/11-10.htm" title="These also are the chief of the mighty men whom David had, who strengthened themselves with him in his kingdom, and with all Israel, to make him king, according to the word of the LORD concerning Israel....">1 Chronicles 11:10-47</a></span>. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span> <span class="bld">All Israel, </span> i.e. <span class="ital">all the tribes of Israel</span>, as it is expressed, <span class="bldvs"> <a href="/2_samuel/5-1.htm" title="Then came all the tribes of Israel to David to Hebron, and spoke, saying, Behold, we are your bone and your flesh.">2 Samuel 5:1</a></span>, i.e. their <span class="ital">elders</span>, as it is there said, <span class="bldvs"> <a href="/2_samuel/5-3.htm" title="So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron; and king David made a league with them in Hebron before the LORD: and they anointed David king over Israel.">2 Samuel 5:3</a></span>, and officers, and a great multitude of the soldiers and people. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="gil" id="gil"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gill/1_chronicles/10.htm">Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible</a></div>And inquired not of the Lord,.... For though he did inquire in some sense in an external, careless, and hypocritical manner, yet not done seriously, sincerely, and heartily, nor with constancy; it was accounted as if he inquired not at all, <a href="/1_samuel/28-6.htm">1 Samuel 28:6</a> the Targum adds another reason of his death, because he killed the priests of Nob; but that is not in the text: <p>therefore he slew him; or suffered him to be slain: <p>and turned the kingdom unto David the son of Jesse; translated the kingdom of Israel out of Saul's family, upon his death, into Jesse's, even unto David; for the sake of which observation this short account is given of the last end of Saul. <a name="gsb" id="gsb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gsb/1_chronicles/11.htm">Geneva Study Bible</a></div><span class="cverse2">Then all Israel <span class="cverse3">{a}</span> gathered themselves to David unto Hebron, saying, Behold, we <i>are</i> thy bone and thy flesh.</span><p>(a) This was after the death of Ishbosheth Saul's son, when David had reigned over Judah seven years and six months in Hebron, 2Sa 5:5.</div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="comtype">EXEGETICAL (ORIGINAL LANGUAGES)</div><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/cambridge/1_chronicles/11.htm">Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges</a></div>Ch. <a href="/context/1_chronicles/11-1.htm" title="Then all Israel gathered themselves to David to Hebron, saying, Behold, we are your bone and your flesh....">1 Chronicles 11:1-3</a> (= <a href="/context/2_samuel/5-1.htm" title="Then came all the tribes of Israel to David to Hebron, and spoke, saying, Behold, we are your bone and your flesh....">2 Samuel 5:1-3</a>). David made King over all Israel<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">1</span>. <span class="ital">Then</span>] Render, <span class="bld">And</span>. Chron. has nothing here corresponding to 2 Samuel 1-4, chapters which cover a period of seven years (<a href="/2_samuel/5-5.htm" title="In Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months: and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty and three years over all Israel and Judah.">2 Samuel 5:5</a>). David’s earlier coronation by the men of Judah (<a href="/2_samuel/2-4.htm" title="And the men of Judah came, and there they anointed David king over the house of Judah. And they told David, saying, That the men of Jabeshgilead were they that buried Saul.">2 Samuel 2:4</a>), the reign of Ish-bosheth over Northern and Eastern Israel (<span class="ital">ib.</span> <a href="/2_samuel/2-8.htm" title="But Abner the son of Ner, captain of Saul's host, took Ishbosheth the son of Saul, and brought him over to Mahanaim;">2 Samuel 2:8</a> ff.), and the “long war” (<span class="ital">ib.</span> <a href="/2_samuel/3-1.htm" title="Now there was long war between the house of Saul and the house of David: but David waxed stronger and stronger, and the house of Saul waxed weaker and weaker.">2 Samuel 3:1</a>) with the house of Saul are omitted. Some reference to the civil war however occurs in <a href="/1_chronicles/12-23.htm" title="And these are the numbers of the bands that were ready armed to the war, and came to David to Hebron, to turn the kingdom of Saul to him, according to the word of the LORD.">1 Chronicles 12:23</a>; <a href="/1_chronicles/12-29.htm" title="And of the children of Benjamin, the kindred of Saul, three thousand: for till now the greatest part of them had kept the ward of the house of Saul.">1 Chronicles 12:29</a>.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="ital">we</span> are <span class="ital">thy bone and thy flesh</span>] The phrase is not to be taken strictly as implying kinship, for only the tribe of Judah could say “The king is near of kin to us” (<a href="/2_samuel/19-42.htm" title="And all the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, Because the king is near of kin to us: why then be you angry for this matter? have we eaten at all of the king's cost? or has he given us any gift?">2 Samuel 19:42</a>). The other tribes mean that they will obey David as though he were their own kin.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="pul" id="pul"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/1_chronicles/11.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 1.</span> - Upon the death of Saul, Abner, for a while espousing the cause of Ishbo-sheth, the only surviving son of Saul, "made him king over" a large proportion of the people, exclusive of Judah (<a href="/2_samuel/2-8.htm">2 Samuel 2:8-10</a>). Already David had been anointed at Hebron by "the men of Judah, king over the house of Judah" (<a href="/2_samuel/2-1.htm">2 Samuel 2:1-4</a>). And David continued "king in Hebron over the house of Judah seven years and six months" (<a href="/2_samuel/2-11.htm">2 Samuel 2:11</a>; <a href="/2_samuel/5-5.htm">2 Samuel 5:5</a>; <a href="/1_kings/2-11.htm">1 Kings 2:11</a>; <a href="/1_chronicles/3-4.htm">1 Chronicles 3:4</a>). Notice the agreement of this date with the account of the six sons born to David in Hebron (<a href="/2_samuel/3-2.htm">2 Samuel 3:2-5</a>). The explanation of the chronology for Ishbosheth affecting this period is not easy. It is said that he reigned over Israel "two years" (<a href="/2_samuel/2-10.htm">2 Samuel 2:10</a>). Where was the difference of five and a half years lost? Our first verse here, with its apparently emphatic <span class="cmt_word">then</span> (comp. <a href="/2_samuel/5-1.htm">2 Samuel 5:1</a>), would seem to make it very unlikely that it was lost between the death of Ishbosheth and the kingship of David over "all the tribes of Israel" together with Judah. On the other hand, the interval in question might find its account in the "<span class="accented">long war</span> (<a href="/2_samuel/3-1.htm">2 Samuel 3:1, 6, 17-21</a>) between the house of Saul and the house of David." There is, however, still possible the supposition that the historian intends to give the intrinsically correct facts of the case, and means that, what with delay before getting the adhesion of the people to Ishbosheth, and what with the early decay of his sovereign power, he could not be said to have <span class="accented">reigned</span> more than two years. This verse, then, shows that the history proper of Chronicles purports to begin from the time of David's rule over the entire and united people, at the exact date of seven and a half years after Saul's death, while no mention is here made of his intermediate partial rule over Judah, or of Ishbosheth's temporary rule over Benjamin and Israel. <span class="cmt_word">All Israel</span>; <span class="accented">i.e.</span> "all the tribes of Israel" (<a href="/2_samuel/5-1.htm">2 Samuel 5:1</a>), by their representatives, "the elders of Israel" (<a href="/2_samuel/3-17.htm">2 Samuel 3:17</a>; <a href="/2_samuel/5-3.htm">2 Samuel 5:3</a>; as well as our ver. 3). The first nine verses of this chapter cover the same ground as the first ten verses of <a href="/2_samuel/5.htm">2 Samuel 5</a>. Unto Hebron. We learn how David came to be here from <a href="/2_samuel/2-1.htm">2 Samuel 2:1</a>. "And it came to pass after this" (<span class="accented">i.e.</span> after David's "lamentation over Saul and Jonathan") "that David inquired of the Lord, saying, Shall I go up into any of the cities of Judah? And the Lord said unto him, Go up. And David said, Whither shall I go up? And he said, Unto Hebron." Hebron was the "earliest seat of civilized life, not of Judah only, but of all Palestine." It and Bethlehem are two of the most special memorials of David. An interesting sketch of the topography and natural features of this place, and a succinct Biblical history of it in Stanley's 'Sinai and Palestine,' p. 164 (edit. 1866), from which comes the following quotation: - "Hebron, according to the Jewish tradition, was the primeval city of the vine. Its name indicates <span class="accented">community or society.</span> It was the ancient city of Ephron the Hittite, in whose gate he and the elders received the offer of Abraham, when as yet no other fixed habitation of man was known in central Palestine. It was the first home of Abraham and the patriarchs; their own permanent resting-place when they were gradually exchanging the pastoral for the agricultural life. In its neighbourhood can be traced, by a continuous tradition, the site of the venerable tree under which Abraham pitched his tent, and of the double cavern in which he and his family were deposited and perhaps still remain. It was the city of Arba, the old Canaanite chief, with his three giant sons, under whose walls the trembling spies stole through the land by the adjacent valley of Eshcoh Here Caleb chose his portion when, at the head of his valiant tribe, he drove out the old inhabitants, and called the whole surrounding territory after his own name; and here the tribe of Judah always rallied, when it asserted its independent existence against the rest of the Israelite nation. It needs but few words to give the secret of this early selection, of this long continuance of the metropolitan city of Judah. Every traveller from the desert must have been struck by the sight of that pleasant vale, with its orchards and vineyards and numberless wells, and we must add, in earlier times, the groves of terebinths and oaks which then attracted from far the eye of the wandering tribes. This fertility was in part owing to its elevation into the cooler and the more watered region above the dry and withered valleys of the rest of Judaea - and commanding this fertile valley, rose Hebron, on its crested hill." <span class="cmt_word">Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh</span>. This is a figurative expression, the pedigree and lineage of which it is interesting to note (see <a href="/2_samuel/19-12.htm">2 Samuel 19:12</a>; <a href="/judges/9-2.htm">Judges 9:2</a>; <a href="/genesis/29-14.htm">Genesis 29:14</a>; <a href="/genesis/2-23.htm">Genesis 2:23</a>). The highest service to which it was promoted may be said to be reached, however, in <a href="/ephesians/5-30.htm">Ephesians 5:30</a>. 1 Chronicles 11:1<a name="kad" id="kad"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/kad/1_chronicles/11.htm">Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament</a></div>The anointing of David to be king over the whole of Israel in Hebron; cf. <a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/5-1.htm">2 Samuel 5:1-3</a>. - After Saul's death, in obedience to a divine intimation, David left Ziklag, whither he had withdrawn himself before the decisive battle between the Philistines and the Israelites, and betook himself with his wives and his warriors to Hebron, and was there anointed by the men of Judah to be king over their tribe (<a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/2-1.htm">2 Samuel 2:1-4</a>). But Abner, the captain of Saul's host, led Ishbosheth, Saul's son, with the remainder of the defeated army of the Israelites, to Mahanaim in Gilead, and there made him king over Gilead, and gradually also, as he reconquered it from the Philistines, over the land of Israel, over Jezreel, Ephraim, Benjamin, and all (the remainder of) Israel, with the exception of the tribal domain of Judah. Ishbosheth's kingship did not last longer than two years, while David reigned over Judah in Hebron for seven years and a half (<a href="/2_samuel/2-10.htm">2 Samuel 2:10</a> and <a href="/2_samuel/2-11.htm">2 Samuel 2:11</a>). When Abner advanced with Ishbosheth's army from Mahanaim against Gibeon, he was defeated by Joab, David's captain, so that he was obliged again to withdraw beyond Jordan (<a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/2-12.htm">2 Samuel 2:12-32</a>); and although the struggle between the house of Saul and the house of David still continued, yet the house of Saul waxed ever weaker, while David's power increased. At length, when Ishbosheth reproached the powerful Abner because of a concubine of his father's, he threatened that he would transfer the crown of Israel to David, and carried his threat into execution without delay. He imparted his design to the elders of Israel and Benjamin; and when they had given their consent, he made his way to Hebron, and announced to David the submission of all Israel to his sway (<a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/3-1.htm">2 Samuel 3:1-21</a>). Abner, indeed, did not fully carry out the undertaking; for on his return journey he was assassinated by Joab, without David's knowledge, and against his will. Immediately afterwards, Ishbosheth, who had become powerless and spiritless through terror at Abner's death, was murdered in his own house by two of the leaders of his army. There now remained of Saul's family only Jonathan's son Mephibosheth (<a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/4-1.htm">2 Samuel 4:1-12</a>), then not more than twelve years old, and lame in both his feet, and all the tribes of Israel determined to anoint David to be their king. The carrying out of this resolution is narrated in <a href="http://biblehub.com/1_chronicles/11-1.htm">1 Chronicles 11:1-3</a>, in complete agreement as to the facts with <a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/5-1.htm">2 Samuel 5:1-3</a>, where the matter has been already commented upon. In ch. 12 23-40 there follows a more detailed account of the assembly of the tribes of Israel in Hebron. The last words in <a href="http://biblehub.com/1_chronicles/11-3.htm">1 Chronicles 11:3</a>, וגו יהוה כּדבר, are a didactic addition of the author of the Chronicle, which has been derived from <a href="/1_samuel/16-13.htm">1 Samuel 16:13</a> and <a href="/1_samuel/15-28.htm">1 Samuel 15:28</a>. 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