Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Chronicles 12:40

40 Moreover, they that were nigh them , even unto Issachar, and Zebulun, and Naphtali , brought bread on asses, and on camels, and on mules, and on oxen , and meat, meal, cakes of figs, and bunches of raisins, and wine, and oil, and oxen, and sheep abundantly: for there was joy in Israel .

That lived not far from Hebron, the place where they now were.

This is added by way of amplification and explication, to shew that he did not understand this of those Israelites onely who lived in the Neighbourhood of Hebron, but of those that lived at some distance, yet were nearer to Hebron, than some of the other Tribes here named.

Which, though not commonly used in this manner, nor fit for such Purposes, now they so used, because the quantity of Provisions which they brought was very great, as the Numbers of the People at Hebron were, and Horses they had few in Israel, and most of their Asses, and Camels, and Mules here mentioned probably were used to carry divers Men, or Women and Children, to this great, and publick, and happy Solemnity.

Partly because their Civil Wars were wholly ended, and they were all united under one King: and partly because they had now a King of Eminent Valour, and Piety, and Felicity, and therefore expected to be saved from all their Enemies and Calamities, as they were.

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