Today, I am reading and commenting on  1 Chronicles 10-12.

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Today’s passage summarizes what the book of 1 Kings said about the death of King Saul and David’s rise to power.  It does tell us a few new things.  In particular, it gives us the idea that warriors went to support David while Saul was still alive.  It looks like there were four waves of warriors who went to support David (or perhaps five).  In the order they are described here.  There were men who went to join David while he was based at Ziklag under the Philistine ruler of Gath.  Then the writer tells us that some men joined David when he was at the stronghold in the wilderness.  Depending on how you read the passage, there may have been two waves of men who came to follow David while he was at the stronghold, one wave from the tribe of Gad, and another wave of Benjaminite and Judean warriors.  The writer also tells us that some warriors deserted from King Saul and came over to David as he mustered with the Philistines to go to war against King Saul in what became King Saul’s last battle.  The passage does remind us that David and his followers did not join in that battle because the Philistine commanders were convinced that David would switch sides in the middle of the battle.  The writer seems to suggest that the men who joined David at this point may have done so because he was not taking part in the battle.  Finally, there were the warriors who came to David once he was established at Hebron after King Saul’s death.  The way I read this, men trickled in to support David in Hebron, with a few large groups officially representing some of the tribes, until basically all of Israel was supporting David.  The key take away from this passage is that David did not seize the throne, but gradually more and more of the Israelites threw their support behind him until he had the loyalty of the entire nation.

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