1 Chronicles 18:4

_AND DAVID TOOK FROM HIM A THOUSAND CHARIOTS, AND SEVEN THOUSAND HORSEMEN, AND TWENTY THOUSAND FOOTMEN: DAVID ALSO HOUGHED ALL THE CHARIOT HORSES, BUT RESERVED OF THEM AN HUNDRED CHARIOTS._ David took from him a thousand chariots - (see the notes at 2 Samuel 8:3.) In that passage David is said to have taken 700 horsemen, whereas here it is said that be took 7,000. This great discrepancy in the text of the two narratives seems to have originated with a transcriber in confounding the two Hebrew letters which indicate the numbers, and in neglecting to mark or observe the points over one of them. We have no means of ascertaining whether 700 or 7,000 is the more correct. Probably the former, should be adopted (Davidson's 'Hermeneutics'). BUT RESERVED OF THEM AN HUNDRED CHARIOTS - probably to grace a triumphal procession on his return to Jerusalem, and after using th

EXPOSITION The course of last chapter's parallel is continued here, and answers closely to 2 Samuel 8:1. The present chapter contains the wars and victories of David (2 Samuel 8:1), with the arrangements consequent upon them; and (2 Samuel 8:14-10) an enumeration of some of his chief officers. 1 CHRONICLES 18:1 TOOK GATH AND HER TOWNS OUT OF THE HAND OF THE PHILISTINES; literally, her _daughters. _The compiler of Chronicles gives us this plain statement where, in the parallel place, we find, "took Metheg-ammah," or more exactly, _Metheg-ha-ammah_

See Gill "1Ch 18:1"....

8. DAVID'S WARS AND SUCCESSFUL REIGN CHAPTER 18 _ 1. War with the Philistines (1 Chronicles 18:1)_ 2. War with Moab (1 Chronicles 18:2) 3. War with Zobah (1 Chronicles 18:3) 4. War with Damascus (1 Chronicles 18:5) 5. Wars with Edom (1 Chronicles 18:12) 6. David's administration (1 Chronicles 18:14) After such glorious experiences David went f

DAVID'S WARS (see notes on 2 Samuel 8). GATH AND HER TOWNS: lit. and her daughters; in 2 Samuel 8:1 the words the bridle of the mother city are probably corrupt. 1 Chronicles 18:17. the sons of David were chief about the king: the words in 2 Samuel 8:18, and David's sons were priests, were altered by the Chronicler, who held that only the descendants of _Aaron_ could be priests....

SEVEN THOUSAND. See note on 2 Samuel 8:4 AN. for an....

_a thousand chariots, and seven thousand horsemen_ Sam. _a thousand and seven hundred horsemen_(so Heb. but LXX. of Sam. agrees with Chron.). _Houghed_= "hamstrung....

DAVID—HOUGHED ALL THE CHARIOT-HORSES, &C.— _David destroyed all the chariots, save a hundred, which he reserved._ Houbigant. We observe, once for all, upon these Chapter s, that having enlarged on the subjects of them in the notes on Samuel, we shall make our annotations on them very short....

10. WAR WITH MOAB, PHILISTIA, AND SYRIA (Chapter 18) TEXT 1 Chronicles 18:1. And after this it came to pass, that David smote the Philistines, and subdued them, and took Gath and its towns out of the hand of the Philistines. 2. And he smote Moab; and the Moabites became servants to David, and brought tribute. 3. And David smote Hadarezer king of Zobah unto Hamath, as he went to establish his dominion by the river Euphrates. 4. And David took from him a thousand chariots, and seven thousand horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen; and David hocked all the chariot horses, but reserved of them for a hundred chariots. 5. And when the Syrians of Damascus came to succor Hadarezer king of Zobah, David smote of the Syrians two and twenty thousand men. 6. Then David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus; and the Syrians became servants to David, and brought tribute. And Je

DAVID'S WARS AND OFFICERS OF STATE This chapter is closely parallel to 2 Samuel 8:1, but with some variations in names and numbers....