1 Chronicles 19:2

_AND DAVID SAID, I WILL SHEW KINDNESS UNTO HANUN THE SON OF NAHASH, BECAUSE HIS FATHER SHEWED KINDNESS TO ME. AND DAVID SENT MESSENGERS TO COMFORT HIM CONCERNING HIS FATHER. SO THE SERVANTS OF DAVID CAME INTO THE LAND OF THE CHILDREN OF AMMON TO HANUN, TO COMFORT HIM._ No JFB commentary on this verse....

HANUN - A Philistine king of this name is mentioned in the Assyrian inscriptions as paying tribute to Tiglath-pileser and warring with Sargon....

EXPOSITION This chapter runs very closely parallel with 2 Samuel 10:1; a chapter also of nineteen verses. The slight differences between them avail to make one or the other narrative a little clearer or a little fuller. The time is only marked, as in the first verse of the preceding chapter, by the too general formula, "after this." Between the last verse of the preceding chapter and the first of this, we find interposed, in the Book of Samuel, the account of David's thoughts and deeds of kindness "for Jonathan's sake" to Mephibosheth "of the house of Saul," who was a son of Jonathan, though apparently not personally known at present to David. The chapter gives an account of David's war with Ammon and Aram allied temporarily, and the ungracious cause of the war—the insult put upon David's messengers, when sent on a mission of kindly and sincere condolence, on occasi

See Gill "1Ch 19:1"....

9. THE WARS WITH AMMON, SYRIA AND THE PHILISTINES (19-20) CHAPTER 19 _ 1. Hanun's insult to David's servants (1 Chronicles 19:1)_ 2. Joab's victory (1 Chronicles 19:6) 3. David's victorious campaign (1 Chronicles 19:17) See annotations on 2 Samuel chapter 10. The occasion of the war with the Ammonites was the insult to the messengers of David whom he had sent to the son of King Nahash. Nahash had died and David sent the messengers to comfort Hanun concerning his father. It gives a little glimpse of the tenderness of David. “But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun, Thinkest thou that David doth honor thy father, that he hath sent comfo

THE AMMONITE WAR (see notes on 2 Samuel 10)....

MESSENGERS TO COMFORT. consolers....

_sent messengers to comfort him_ A usual piece of international courtesy; cp. 2 Kings 20:12. Its breach was resented. In the Tellel-Amarna letters (x. 16) the king of Kardunias writes, "Should not my brother (i.e. the king of Egypt) have heard that I am sick? Why has he not comforted me? Why has he not sent his messenger, not looked into it?" (ed. H. Winckler, p. 23)....

LESSON NINE 19-20 ISRAEL'S CONFLICT WITH AMMON THE CONQUEST OF THE PHILISTINES 11. VICTORY OVER AMMON AND SYRIA (1 Chronicles 19:1-19) INTRODUCTION The conflict with the Ammonites was one of the most critical in which David was ever involved. During this encounter David sinned with Bathsheba and opened the door to numerous troubles which plagued him until he died. He was a great king, but he failed God in this Bathsheba incident. TEXT 1 Chronicles 19:1. And it came to pass after this, that Nahash the king of the children of Ammon died, and his son reigned in his stead. 2. And David said, I will show kindness unto Hanun the son of Nahash, because his father showed kindness to me. So David sent messengers to comfort him concerning hi

DAVID'S WARS WITH-THE AMMONITES AND THE SYRIANS This chapter is parallel to 2 Samuel 10:1 with some differences in certain names, and a few additions....