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Bible Commentaries

Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible

1 Chronicles 14

1 Chronicles 13

1 Chronicles

1 Chronicles 15

Verse 1

Compare 2 Samuel 5:11-25, the only important variations from which are in 1 Chronicles 14:4-7, the list of the sons of David (see 1 Chronicles 3:1 note), and in 1 Chronicles 14:12, where the fact is added that the idols taken from the Philistines were burned.

Verse 12

When they had left their gods there - The practice of carrying images of the gods to battle was common among the nations of antiquity, and arose from the belief that there was virtue in the images themselves, and that military success would be obtained by means of them.

1 Chronicles 13

1 Chronicles

1 Chronicles 15

Bibliographical Information
Barnes, Albert. "Commentary on 1 Chronicles 14". "Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible". https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/eng/bnb/1-chronicles-14.html. 1870.

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