1Ch 18:15-17 | Clarke | STEP | Verse 15 Joab - was over the host - General-in-chief. Jehoshaphat - recorder - The king's remembrancer, or historiographer royal.

1 Chronicles 18:15-17

Verse 15

Joab - was over the host - General-in-chief.

Jehoshaphat - recorder - The king's remembrancer, or historiographer royal. Verse 16

Zadok - and Abimelech - priests - Both high priests; one at Gibeon, and the other at Jerusalem, as we have seen 1Chr 16:39.

Shavsha was scribe - Called Seraiah, 2Sam 8:17. Verse 17

Cherethites and the Pelethites - See the note on 2Sam 8:18.

The Targum says, "Benaiah was over the great Sanhedrin and the small Sanhedrin, and consulted Urim and Thummim. And at his command the archers and slingers went to battle."

The sons of David - These were the highest in authority.