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Keil & Delitzsch on 1 Chronicles 27:32
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C. F. Keil & F. Delitzsch · 19th-century historical commentary
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David's councillors. This catalogue of the king's officials forms a supplementary companion piece to the catalogues of the public officials, Ch1 18:15-17, and Sa2 8:15-18 and Sa2 20:25-26. Besides Joab, who is met with in all catalogues as prince of the host, i.e., commander-in-chief, we find in our catalogue partly other men introduced, partly other duties of the men formerly named, than are mentioned in these three catalogues. From this it is clear that it is not the chief public officials who are enumerated, but only the first councillors of the king, who formed as it were his senate, and that the catalogue probably is derived from the same source as the preceding catalogues. Jonathan, the דּוד of David. The word דּוד generally denotes a father's brother; but since a Jonathan, son of Shimea, the brother of David, occurs Ch1 20:7 and Sa2 21:21, Schmidt and Bertheau hold him to be the same as our Jonathan, when דּוד would be used in the general signification of "relative," here of a nephew. Nothing certain can be ascertained in reference to it. He was יויץ, councillor, and, as is added, a wise and learned man. סופר is here not an official designation, but signifies literatus, learned, scholarly, as in Ezr 7:6. Jehiel, the son of Hachmon, was with the children of the king, i.e., was governor of the royal princes. Ch1 27:33 Ahithophel was also, according to Sa2 15:31; Sa2 16:23, David's confidential adviser, and took his own life when Absalom, in his conspiracy against David, did not regard his counsel (2 Sam 17). Hushai the Archite was also a friend and adviser of David ( Sa2 15:37 and Sa2 16:16), who caused Absalom to reject Ahithophel's counsel (2 Sam 17). Ch1 27:34 After Ahithophel, i.e., after his death, was Jehoiada the son of Benaiah (scil. counsellor of the king), and Abiathar. As Benaiah the son of Jehoiada is elsewhere, when named among the public officials of David, called chief of the royal body-guard (cf. Ch1 18:17), Bertheau does not scruple to transpose the names here. But the hypothesis of such a transposition is neither necessary nor probable in the case of a name which, like Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, so frequently occurs (e.g., in Ch1 27:5). Since sons not unfrequently received the name of the grandfather, Jehoiada the son of the hero Benaiah may have been named after his grandfather Jehoiada. Abiathar is without doubt the high priest of this name of Ithamar's family) Ch1 15:11, etc.; see on Ch1 6:1-4), and is here mentioned as being also a friend and adviser of David. As to Joab, see on Ch1 18:15. Next: 1 Chronicles Chapter 28
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