1Ch 11:47 | KD | STEP | המּצביה, which, so far as the form is concerned, is not a nomen gentil., Reland ( Palaest. ill. p. 899) holds for a contraction of צבעויא מגדל, Migdal Zebujah-a place which, according to the rabbins, is said to have been somewhere in the neighbourhood of Hebron. Bertheau’s opinion is, that the article has come into the text by mistake; and when it has been struck out, the remaining consonants, מצביה, recall the מצּבה of (?). Registers of the Valiant Men Who Helped David to the Kingdom - 1 Chronicles 12 This chapter contains two somewhat long registers, viz.: (1) a register of the valiant men who before Saul’s death went over to David, vv. 1-22; and (2) a register of the fighting men who anointed him king in Hebron. The first is divided into three smaller registers: ( a ) that of the valiant Benjamites who came to David during his stay in Ziklag ( ); ( b ) that of the Gadites and the men of Judah and Benjamin who went over to him while he remained in the mountain fastnesses; and ( c ) that of the Manassites who, on his return to Ziklag before Saul’s last battle with the Philistines, joined themselves to him ( ).

‏ 1 Chronicles 11:47

1Ch 11:47 המּצביה, which, so far as the form is concerned, is not a nomen gentil., Reland (Palaest. ill. p. 899) holds for a contraction of צבעויא מגדל, Migdal Zebujah-a place which, according to the rabbins, is said to have been somewhere in the neighbourhood of Hebron. Bertheau’s opinion is, that the article has come into the text by mistake; and when it has been struck out, the remaining consonants, מצביה, recall the מצּבה of 2Sa 23:36 (?). Registers of the Valiant Men Who Helped David to the Kingdom - 1 Chronicles 12

This chapter contains two somewhat long registers, viz.: (1) a register of the valiant men who before Saul’s death went over to David, vv. 1-22; and (2) a register of the fighting men who anointed him king in Hebron. The first is divided into three smaller registers: (a) that of the valiant Benjamites who came to David during his stay in Ziklag (1Ch 12:1-7); (b) that of the Gadites and the men of Judah and Benjamin who went over to him while he remained in the mountain fastnesses; and (c) that of the Manassites who, on his return to Ziklag before Saul’s last battle with the Philistines, joined themselves to him (1Ch 12:19-22).