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1 Chronicles 12:23

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am 2956, bc 1048, An, Ex, Is, 433

the numbers: 1 Chronicles 11:1-3; 2 Samuel 2:3-4, 2 Samuel 5:1-3

bands: or, captains, or men, Heb. heads

came to David: Some learned men understand this as relating to the time when David was make king over Judah, on his first coming to Hebron, but it seems wholly to refer to his being made king over all Israel, after the death of Ishbosheth; for there was no such union or assembly of the several tribes on the former occasion, as is here described.

to turn: 1 Chronicles 10:14

according: 1 Chronicles 11:10; 1 Samuel 16:1, 1 Samuel 16:3, 1 Samuel 16:12-13; 2 Samuel 3:18; Psalms 2:6, Psalms 89:19-20

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