1 Chronicles 18:8

_LIKEWISE FROM TIBHATH, AND FROM CHUN, CITIES OF HADAREZER, BROUGHT DAVID VERY MUCH BRASS, WHEREWITH SOLOMON MADE THE BRASEN SEA, AND THE PILLARS, AND THE VESSELS OF BRASS._ From Tibhath, and from Chun. These places are called Betah and Berothai, 2 Samuel 8:8. Perhaps the one might be the Jewish, the other the Syrian name of these towns. Neither their situation nor the connection between them is known. The Arabic version makes them to be Emesa, (now Hems) and Baalbeck, both of which agree very well with the relative position of Zobah....

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"....

TIBHATH Called Betah, and Berothai. (2 Samuel 8:8)....

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....

TIBHATH. Called also Beta and Berothai (2 Samuel 8:8): unless the four names represent four cities. THE PILLARS: i.e. the two pillars afterward made by Solomon (1 Kings 7:15; 1 Kings 7:21; 2 Chronicles 3:15)....

_Likewise from_ R.V. AND FROM. _Tibhath_ Cp. _Tebah_, the name of an Aramæan family, Genesis 22:24. Nothing is known certainly of the position of the city; but cp. Sayce, _Higher Criticism_, p. 317. In 2 Samuel 8:8 _Betah_(_Tebah_). _Chun_ R.V. CUN; 2 Samuel 8:8, "Berothai." Nothing is certainly known of a city of either name; but "Berothai" may be the same as "Berothah" (Ezekiel 47:16). _very much brass_ Cp. 1Ch 22:14; 1 Chronicles 29:2. _brass_ Not the metal generally s

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

18:8 brass, (d-14) Or 'bronze.'...