_NOW IT CAME TO PASS AFTER THIS, THAT NAHASH THE KING OF THE CHILDREN OF AMMON DIED, AND HIS SON REIGNED IN HIS STEAD._ After this. This phrase seems to indicate that the incident now to be related took place immediately, or soon after the wars described in the preceding chapter. But the chronologi... [ Continue Reading ]
_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 ver... [ Continue Reading ]
_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.,... [ Continue Reading ]
_WHEREFORE HANUN TOOK DAVID'S SERVANTS, AND SHAVED THEM, AND CUT OFF THEIR GARMENTS IN THE MIDST HARD BY THEIR BUTTOCKS, AND SENT THEM AWAY._ Shaved them - not completely, but only the half of their face. This disrespect to the beard, and indecent exposure of their persons by their clothes being cu... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN THERE WENT CERTAIN, AND TOLD DAVID HOW THE MEN WERE SERVED. AND HE SENT TO MEET THEM: FOR THE MEN WERE GREATLY ASHAMED. AND THE KING SAID, TARRY AT JERICHO UNTIL YOUR BEARDS BE GROWN, AND THEN RETURN._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND WHEN THE CHILDREN OF AMMON SAW THAT THEY HAD MADE THEMSELVES ODIOUS TO DAVID, HANUN AND THE CHILDREN OF AMMON SENT A THOUSAND TALENTS OF SILVER TO HIRE THEM CHARIOTS AND HORSEMEN OUT OF MESOPOTAMIA, AND OUT OF SYRIA-MA'ACHAH, AND OUT OF ZOBAH._ When the children of Amman saw that they ... odio... [ Continue Reading ]
_SO THEY HIRED THIRTY AND TWO THOUSAND CHARIOTS, AND THE KING OF MAACHAH AND HIS PEOPLE; WHO CAME AND PITCHED BEFORE MEDEBA. AND THE CHILDREN OF AMMON GATHERED THEMSELVES TOGETHER FROM THEIR CITIES, AND CAME TO BATTLE._ They hired thirty and two thousand chariots, х_ REKEB_ (H7393) chariots] - but... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND WHEN DAVID HEARD OF IT, HE SENT JOAB, AND ALL THE HOST OF THE MIGHTY MEN._ David ... sent Joab, and all the host of the mighty men. The whole forces of Israel, including the great military orders, were engaged in this war.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE CHILDREN OF AMMON CAME OUT, AND PUT THE BATTLE IN ARRAY BEFORE THE GATE OF THE CITY: AND THE KINGS THAT WERE COME WERE BY THEMSELVES IN THE FIELD._ Children of Ammon ... put the battle in array before the gate of the city - i:e., outside the walls of Medebah, a frontier town on the Arnon.... [ Continue Reading ]
_NOW WHEN JOAB SAW THAT THE BATTLE WAS SET AGAINST HIM BEFORE AND BEHIND, HE CHOSE OUT OF ALL THE CHOICE OF ISRAEL, AND PUT THEM IN ARRAY AGAINST THE SYRIANS._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND WHEN THE SYRIANS SAW THAT THEY WERE PUT TO THE WORSE BEFORE ISRAEL, THEY SENT MESSENGERS, AND DREW FORTH THE SYRIANS THAT WERE BEYOND THE RIVER: AND SHOPHACH THE CAPTAIN OF THE HOST OF HADAREZER WENT BEFORE THEM._ And when the Syrians saw that they were put to the worse - (see the notes at 2 S... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND IT WAS TOLD DAVID; AND HE GATHERED ALL ISRAEL, AND PASSED OVER JORDAN, AND CAME UPON THEM, AND SET THE BATTLE IN ARRAY AGAINST THEM. SO WHEN DAVID HAD PUT THE BATTLE IN ARRAY AGAINST THE SYRIANS, THEY FOUGHT WITH HIM._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_BUT THE SYRIANS FLED BEFORE ISRAEL; AND DAVID SLEW OF THE SYRIANS SEVEN THOUSAND MEN WHICH FOUGHT IN CHARIOTS, AND FORTY THOUSAND FOOTMEN, AND KILLED SHOPHACH THE CAPTAIN OF THE HOST._ Seven thousand men - (cf. 2 Samuel 10:18, which has 7,000 chariots.) Either the text in one of the books is corru... [ Continue Reading ]