Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 1 Chronicles 27:31
And over the flocks [was] Jaziz the Hagerite. All these [were] the rulers of the substance which [was] king David’s.
31. Hagerite ] R.V. Hagrite; cp. 1Ch 5:10.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Verse 31. 1Ch 27:25.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
31. rulers of the substance that wasking David’sHow and when the king acquired these demesnes andthis variety of propertywhether it was partly by conquests, orpartly by confiscation, or by his own active cultivation of wastelandsis not said. It was probably in all these ways. Themanagement of the king’s private possessions was divided into twelveparts, like his public affairs and the revenue derived from all thesesources mentioned must have been very large.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
[See comments on 1Ch 27:25].
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(31) And over the flocks.Of sheep and goats.
Jaziz the Hagerite.See 1Ch. 5:10-19, for the conquest of East Gilead, the home of the Hagrim, or Hagerites, by the tribe of Reuben, in the days of Saul. Davids herds of camels and flocks of small cattle may have grazed in the pastures east of the Jordan, under the charge of his Bedawi overseers.
All these were the rulers of the substance which was king Davids.The word rendered rulers is srm, captains or princes. (See 1Ch. 27:22.) The same term is translated stewards in 1Ch. 28:1.
Substance (rksh) is an old word, denoting especially the moveable wealth of a nomad chief. (Comp. Gen. 12:5; Gen. 14:21.) The wealth of David consisted partly of flocks and herds, but partly also of the produce of husbandry, and, no doubt, of commerce. (See 1Ch. 14:1; 1Ch. 22:4.) The period of the kings saw Israel a settled nation, that had exchanged the purely nomad life for an ordered social existence.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
Reciprocal: 1Ch 5:10 – the Hagarites
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
1Ch 27:31. All these were the rulers of the substance which was Davids It is observable, here are no officers for state, none for sport, no master of the ceremonies, or of the hounds, but all for substance, agreeable to the simplicity and plainness of those times. David was a great soldier, a great scholar, and a great prince; and yet a great husband of his estate. Those magistrates who would have their subjects industrious, must themselves be examples of application to business.