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1 Chronicles 12:19

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Some from Manasseh defected to David when he went with the Philistines to fight against Saul. (They did not help the Philistines because the Philistine rulers consulted and sent David away, saying, “It will cost us our heads if he defects to his master Saul.”)

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Of Manasseh also there fell away some to David, when he came with the Philistines against Saul to battle: but they helped them not; for the lords of the Philistines upon advisement sent him away, saying, He will fall away to his master Saul to the jeopardy of our heads.

KJV

And there fell some of Manasseh to David, when he came with the Philistines against Saul to battle: but they helped them not: for the lords of the Philistines upon advisement sent him away, saying, He will fall to his master Saul to the jeopardy of our heads.

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Commentary

3 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

when he came with the Philistines

on 1 Chronicles 12:19-21

Some of Manasseh joined David during the Philistine campaign against Saul at Gilboa, a scene 1 Samuel 29 already tells from the Philistine lords' own suspicion of David and his dismissal from their ranks. Chronicles adds what Samuel does not: the captains' names, and the notice that these same men helped David against the band of the rovers, the Amalekites who had burned Ziklag while he marched with the Philistines. Jamieson, Fausset and Brown tie the notice directly to 1 Samuel 30's raid, reading these Manassite captains as reinforcements David gained just in time for that pursuit.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

And there fell some of Manasseh to David,....

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

there fell some of Manasseh--The period of their accession is fixed as the time when David came with the Philistines against Saul to battle. but they helped them not--(See on 1Sa 29:4).

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The words behind it

23 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.

  • וּמִֽמְּנַשֶּׁ֞הand some of Manasseh

    umimenashehH4519 →146 times

  • נָפְל֣וּthey fell

    nafeluH5307 →435 times

  • עַל־on

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • דָּוִ֗ידDavid

    davidH1732 →999 times

  • בְּבֹא֨וֹwhen went he

    bevooH935 →2568 times

  • עִם־with

    ʾim-H5973 →1050 times

  • פְּלִשְׁתִּ֧ים[the] Philistines

    pelishtimH6430 →287 times

  • עַל־on

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • שָׁא֛וּלSaul

    shaulH7586 →402 times

  • לַמִּלְחָמָ֖הfor <the> battle

    lamilchamahH4421 →320 times

  • וְלֹ֣אand not

    velo'H3808 →5168 times

  • עֲזָרֻ֑םthey helped them

    ʾazarumH5826 →81 times

  • כִּ֣יfor

    kiH3588 →4482 times

  • בְעֵצָ֗הby plan

    veetzahH6098 →

  • שִׁלְּחֻ֜הוּthey sent away him

    shilechuhuH7971 →845 times

  • סַרְנֵ֤י[the] rulers of

    sarneiH5633 →

  • פְלִשְׁתִּים֙[the] Philistines

    felishtimH6430 →287 times

  • לֵאמֹ֔ר<to> saying

    lemorH559 →5305 times

  • בְּרָאשֵׁ֕ינוּby heads our

    berasheinuH7218 →599 times

  • יִפּ֖וֹלhe will fall

    yipolH5307 →435 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • אֲדֹנָ֥יוlord<s> his

    ʾadonavH113 →333 times

  • שָׁאֽוּל׃Saul

    shaulH7586 →402 times

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

Related verses

6 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.

1 Samuel 29:2–9As the Philistine leaders marched out their units of hundreds and thousands, David and his men marched behind them with Achish.5 works1 Samuel 29:10Now then, get up early in the morning, along with your master’s servants who came with you, and go as soon as it is light.”3 works1 Samuel 29:4But the commanders of the Philistines were angry with Achish and told him, “Send that man back and let him return to the place you assigned him. He must not go down with us into battle only to become our adversary during the war. What better way for him to regain the favor of his master than with the heads of our men?3 worksPsalms 60:7Gilead is Mine, and Manasseh is Mine; Ephraim is My helmet, Judah is My scepter.3 works2 Chronicles 15:9And he assembled all Judah and Benjamin, along with those from the tribes of Ephraim, Manasseh, and Simeon who had settled among them, for great numbers had come over to him from Israel when they saw that the LORD his God was with him.2 works2 Kings 7:4If we say, ‘Let us go into the city,’ we will die there from the famine in the city; but if we sit here, we will also die. So come now, let us go over to the camp of the Arameans. If they let us live, we will live; if they kill us, we will die.”1 works

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This page draws on Jamieson Fausset and Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763).

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