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1 Chronicles 11:1

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Then all Israel came together to David at Hebron and said, “Here we are, your own flesh and blood.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Then all Israel gathered themselves to David unto Hebron, saying, Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh.

KJV

Then all Israel gathered themselves to David unto Hebron, saying, Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh.

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This verse in 1 Chronicles 11

Commentary

4 notes on this verse
This chapter runs parallel with 2 Sam. 5 as far as 1Ch 11:9, after which it is to be compared with 2 Sam. 23:8-39 as far as 1Ch 11:40, the remainder 1Ch 11:41-47 being an addition, to which Samuel has nothing corresponding. Compare throughout the notes in Samuel.

This site's exposition

gathered themselves to David

on 1 Chronicles 11:1-3

Chronicles opens David's reign already unified. The seven years of civil war against Ish-bosheth that fill 2 Sam 2-4 are never retold; all Israel simply comes to Hebron and the elders make a covenant with David there. Verse 3 grounds the anointing not in the tribes' own choice but in the word of the Lord by Samuel, the selection already made at 1 Sam 16 and only now confirmed by the nation.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

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).

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

Then all Israel gathered themselves to David - See 2Sa 5:1-10 (note), for the history contained in the first nine verses of this chapter, and the notes there.

The words behind it

11 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיִּקָּבְצ֧וּand they gathered together

    vaiyikavetzuH6908 →127 times

  • כָֽל־all

    khol-H3605 →5413 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵ֛לIsrael

    yisraelH3478 →2507 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • דָּוִ֖ידDavid

    davidH1732 →999 times

  • חֶבְר֣וֹנָהHebron towards

    chevronahH2275 →72 times

  • לֵאמֹ֑ר<to> saying

    lemorH559 →5305 times

  • הִנֵּ֛הhere!

    hinehH2009 →843 times

  • עַצְמְךָ֥[are] bone your

    ʾatzmekhaH6106 →

  • וּֽבְשָׂרְךָ֖and flesh your

    uvesarekhaH1320 →

  • אֲנָֽחְנוּ׃we

    ʾanachenuH587 →120 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

11 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Judges 9:2“Please ask all the leaders of Shechem, ‘Is it better for you that seventy men, all the sons of Jerubbaal, rule over you, or just one man?’ Remember that I am your own flesh and blood.”3 works1 Kings 2:11The length of David’s reign over Israel was forty years—seven years in Hebron and thirty-three years in Jerusalem.2 worksGenesis 29:14Then Laban declared, “You are indeed my own flesh and blood.” After Jacob had stayed with him a month,2 worksDeuteronomy 17:15you are to appoint over yourselves the king whom the LORD your God shall choose. Appoint a king from among your brothers; you are not to set over yourselves a foreigner who is not one of your brothers.2 works2 Samuel 5:1–16Then all the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron and said, “Here we are, your own flesh and blood.2 works2 Samuel 15:10Then Absalom sent spies throughout the tribes of Israel with this message: “When you hear the sound of the horn, you are to say, ‘Absalom reigns in Hebron!’”2 works
The other 5 cross-references, with their words ▾
1 Chronicles 12:23–40Now these are the numbers of men armed for battle who came to David at Hebron to turn Saul’s kingdom over to him, in accordance with the word of the LORD:2 works2 Samuel 19:12–13You are my brothers, my own flesh and blood. So why should you be the last to restore the king?’1 worksNumbers 13:22They went up through the Negev and came to Hebron, where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak, dwelled. It had been built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.1 worksEphesians 5:30For we are members of His body.1 works2 Samuel 2:1Some time later, David inquired of the LORD, “Should I go up to one of the towns of Judah?” “Go up,” the LORD answered. Then David asked, “Where should I go?” “To Hebron,” replied the LORD.0 works

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Deuteronomy 17:15

    you are to appoint over yourselves the king whom the LORD your God shall choose. Appoint a king from among your brothers; you are not to set over yourselves a foreigner who is not…

    it leads to

    • Jeremiah 30:21

      Their leader will be one of their own, and their ruler will arise from their midst. And I will bring him near, and he will approach Me, for who would dare on his own…

    • 1 Chronicles 22:10

      He is the one who will build a house for My Name. He will be My son, and I will be his Father. And I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel…

  • Through

    Genesis 29:14

    Then Laban declared, “You are indeed my own flesh and blood.” After Jacob had stayed with him a month,

    it leads to

    • 2 Samuel 19:12–13

      You are my brothers, my own flesh and blood. So why should you be the last to restore the king?’

    • Judges 9:2

      “Please ask all the leaders of Shechem, ‘Is it better for you that seventy men, all the sons of Jerubbaal, rule over you, or just one man?’ Remember that I am your own flesh…

    • Genesis 2:23

      And the man said: “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for out of man she was taken.”

    • 2 Samuel 5:1

      Then all the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron and said, “Here we are, your own flesh and blood.

  • Through

    1 Kings 2:11

    The length of David’s reign over Israel was forty years—seven years in Hebron and thirty-three years in Jerusalem.

    it leads to

    • 2 Samuel 5:4–5

      David was thirty years old when he became king, and he reigned forty years.

  • Through

    Judges 9:2

    “Please ask all the leaders of Shechem, ‘Is it better for you that seventy men, all the sons of Jerubbaal, rule over you, or just one man?’ Remember that I am your own flesh…

    it leads to

    • Judges 8:30

      Gideon had seventy sons of his own, since he had many wives.

About 1 Chronicles

Cedars Are Cut Down for the Jerusalem Temple, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Cedars Are Cut Down for the Jerusalem Temple, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
1 Chronicles: the study guide →Read 1 Chronicles 11 →

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Keil, The Books of the Chronicles and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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