📖WEB · 1 Chronicles 12:39
What does 1 Chronicles 12:39 mean?
"They were there with David three days, eating and drinking; for their brothers had supplied provisions for them."
— 1 Chronicles 12:39 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
Of Asher, such as were able to go out in the army, who could set the battle in array, forty thousand.
On the other side of the Jordan, of the Reubenites, the Gadites, and of the half-tribe of Manasseh, with all kinds of instruments of war for the battle, one hundred twenty thousand.
All these were men of war, who could order the battle array, and came with a perfect heart to Hebron, to make David king over all Israel; and all the rest also of Israel were of one heart to make David king.
They were there with David three days, eating and drinking; for their brothers had supplied provisions for them.
Moreover those who were near to them, as far as Issachar, Zebulun, and Naphtali, brought bread on donkeys, on camels, on mules, and on oxen: supplies of flour, cakes of figs, clusters of raisins, wine, oil, cattle, and sheep in abundance; for there was joy in Israel.
Explanation
First Chronicles 12:39 describes the closing scene of a great gathering: after warriors from every tribe of Israel had come to Hebron to make David king over the whole nation, they stayed together for three days, sharing meals and celebrating. The verse notes a specific, practical detail — their own relatives back home had sent food and supplies so that this large host of fighting men could eat and drink
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