1 Chronicles 19:3

_BUT THE PRINCES OF THE CHILDREN OF AMMON SAID TO HANUN, THINKEST THOU THAT DAVID DOTH HONOUR THY FATHER, THAT HE HATH SENT COMFORTERS UNTO THEE? ARE NOT HIS SERVANTS COME UNTO THEE FOR TO SEARCH, AND TO OVERTHROW, AND TO SPY OUT THE LAND?_ Are not his servants come unto thee for to search? - i:e., thy capital, Rabbah (2 Samuel 10:3)....

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)....

_the land_ 2 Samuel 10:3, _the city_, i.e. Rabbah....

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....

THE BOOK OF 1 CHRONICLES GOD RULES HISTORY 1 CHRONICLES _Ian Mackervoy_ CHAPTER 19 DEFEAT OF THE NATION CALLED AMMON – 1 CHRONICLES 19:1-20 CHAPTER 19 V1 Later King Nahash of Ammon died, and his son (Hanun) became king. V2 And David said, ‘I will be kind to Hanun, the son of Nahash. His father was kind to me.’ So, David sent some men to comfort him because of his father’s death....

ARE NOT HIS SERVANTS COME... FOR TO SEARCH, AND TO OVERTHROW, AND TO SPY OUT THE LAND? — Literally, _Is it not for to search_... _that his servants are come unto thee?_ This is hardly an improvement on Samuel: “Is it not to search the city (Rabbath-Ammon, the capital), and to spy it out, and to overthrow it, that David hath sent his servants unto thee?” The Syriac and Arabic agree with Samuel in reading “city;” LXX. and Vulg., “land.”...