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2 Samuel 10:6-14
The First Defeat of the Enemies
The First Defeat of the Enemies
Verse 2 Samuel 10:6. _THE CHILDREN OF AMMON SAW THAT THEY STANK_] That is, that their conduct rendered them abominable. This is the Hebrew mode of expressing such a feeling. See Genesis 34:30. _THE...
STANK ... - A strong figure for to be odious or detested. Compare the marginal references THE SYRIANS OF BETH-REHOB - If identical with the Mesopotamians of 1 Chronicles 19:6, Beth-rehob is the same a...
7. THE WAR WITH AMMON AND THE SYRIANS CHAPTER 10 _ 1. David and Hanun (2 Samuel 10:1)_ 2. Ammon and the Syrians smitten (2 Samuel 10:6) The chapter with the war against Ammon and the Syrians is the...
2 SAMUEL 10. WAR WITH THE AMMONITES AND THE SYRIANS (J). 2 Samuel 10:1. The king of Ammon insults David's ambassadors. [J. G. Frazer (_Taboo and the Perils of the Soul,_ p. 273) connects Hanun's acti...
MEN. Hebrew. _ish_, App-14. ISH-TOB. men of Tob....
Defeat of the Ammonites and their Syrian allies 6. _that they stank_ Lit. _that they had made themselves stink_: had brought themselves into evil odour, or, made themselves odious. Ancient history re...
SAW THAT THEY STANK— See Genesis 34:30 and 1 Chronicles 19:6. The children of Ammon, instead of apologizing, or making any reparation for the insult to David's ambassadors, joined their own forces to...
_David's Army Divided Into Two Companies._ 2 Samuel 10:6-19 6 And when the children of Ammon saw that they stank before David, the children of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of Beth-rehob, and the S...
_AND WHEN THE CHILDREN OF AMMON SAW THAT THEY STANK BEFORE DAVID, THE CHILDREN OF AMMON SENT AND HIRED THE SYRIANS OF BETHREHOB, AND THE SYRIANS OF ZOBA, TWENTY THOUSAND FOOTMEN, AND OF KING MAACAH A...
HIRED] cp. 1 Kings 15:18. BETH-REHOB] near Laish or Dan (Judges 18:28). KING MAACAH] RV 'the king of Maacah.' Maacah was a small Syrian kingdom on the border of eastern Manasseh. ISH-TOB] RV 'the men...
THE WAR WITH AMMON AND SYRIA 2. His father shewed kindness unto me] Occasion not stated....
DAVID, THE GREAT KING OF ISRAEL 2 SAMUEL _HELEN POCOCK_ CHAPTER 10 DAVID DEFEATS THE *AMMONITES V1 Some time later, Nahash, the king of the *Ammonites, died. His son Hanun became king. V2 David...
SAW THAT THEY STANK. — The Hebrew, translated literally, shows that they were conscious that this was by their own fault — “that they had made themselves stink,” and is so rendered in 1 Chronicles 19:...
וַ יִּרְאוּ֙ בְּנֵ֣י עַמֹּ֔ון כִּ֥י נִבְאֲשׁ֖וּ...
CHAPTER XIII. _ DAVID AND HANUN._ 2 Samuel 10:1. POWERFUL though David had proved himself in every direction in the art of war, his heart was inclined to peace. A king who had been victorious over s...
THE PENALTY OF REJECTING KINDNESS 2 Samuel 10:1 A Jewish tradition tells us that Nahash, Hanun's father, had shown kindness to David by sheltering one of his brothers, when the king of Moab treachero...
Here we have the record of victories over Ammon and Syria. So far as David is concerned it is interesting in revealing the same spirit of good will in David in his attempt to show kindness to Hanum, a...
And when the children of Ammon saw that they (c) stank before David, the children of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of Bethrehob, and the Syrians of Zoba, twenty thousand footmen, and of king Maacah...
Rohob, the capital, between Libanus and Antibanus. --- Soba was subject to Adarezer, chap. viii. 3. --- Maacha, at the foot of Hermon. --- Istob (Hebrew ish tob) signifies, the man, or prince, or "the...
(6) В¶ And when the children of Ammon saw that they stank before David, the children of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of Bethrehob, and the Syrians of Zoba, twenty thousand footmen, and of king Maa...
We have seen the sorrowful circumstances out of which arose the first desire to have a king in Israel, and the remarkable fact that, although it was a sin, God nevertheless did not put the people back...
Chapter 10, the details of which we pass over, sets before us the general principle of the king's rule in Zion. When grace is despised by those to whom it is manifested, the king's judgment follows. O...
AND WHEN THE CHILDREN OF AMMON SAW THAT THEY STANK BEFORE DAVID,.... Or had made themselves odious to him, as it is rendered in 1 Chronicles 19:6; were abominable to him, that he was incensed against...
And when the children of Ammon saw that they stank before David, the children of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of Bethrehob, and the Syrians of Zoba, twenty thousand footmen, and of king Maacah a t...
_When the children of Ammon saw that they stank_, &c, They wanted not intelligence how heinously David resented the barbarous usage of his ambassadors; which is expressed by a phrase signifying that t...
1 Dauids messengers sent to comfort Hanun the sonne of Nahash, are villenously intreated. 6 The Ammonites, strengthened by the Syrians, are ouercome by Ioab and Abishai. 15 Shobach making a new supp...
The Ammonites were of the family of Lot (Genesis 19:36). We have seen in 1 Samuel 2:1 that in Saul's day their king was called "Nahash," which means "serpent." It is thought likely that this was a fla...
6-14 They that are at war with the Son of David, not only give the provocation, but begin the war. God has forces to send against those that set his wrath at defiance, Isaiah 5:19, which will convinc...
BETH-REHOB, near Hamath, NUMBERS 13:21. ZOBA; of which see 1 SAMUEL 14:47 2 SAMUEL 8:3. OF KING MAACAH, i. e. of that part of Syria which was under king Maacah; for Syria was a large country, and ther...
2 Samuel 10:6 people H1121 Ammon H5983 saw H7200 (H8799) repulsive H887 (H8738) David H1732 people H1121 Ammon...
CONTENTS: The Ammonite-Syrian war. CHARACTERS: David, Joab, Abishai, Hanun, Hadarezer, Shobach. CONCLUSION: False men are ready to think all others as false as themselves. There is nothing so well m...
2 Samuel 10:4. _Shaved half their beard._ The critics make many quotations from ancient authors, showing how high a value eastern nations set on the hair of the head and beard; and even at the present...
_I will show kindness unto Hanun the son of Nahash, as his father showed kindness unto me._ DAVID AND HANUN Powerful though David had proved himself in every direction in the art of war, his heart wa...
2 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 2 SAMUEL 10:1 The Ammonite war is the background for the events of chs. 2 Samuel 10:1. The war led to David’s domination of the Syrian kingdoms (see...
2 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 2 SAMUEL 10:6 BETH-REHOB, ZOBAH, MAACAH, and TOB were Syrian kingdoms in the northern Transjordan and Lebanon Valley. Hiring a
CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES— 2 Samuel 10:2. “NAHASH.” This may be the same Nahash mentioned in 1 Samuel 11; but as this was probably forty years after the event there recorded, it is more likely a s...
EXPOSITION 2 SAMUEL 10:1 THE KING OF THE CHILDREN OF AMMON DIED. This war is very briefly referred to in 2 Samuel 8:12; but we have now entered upon a narrative, the interest of which is altogether u...
It came to pass after this, that the king of the children of Ammon died, and Hanun his son reigned in his stead. And David, upon hearing the death of the king, sent certain of his men [Emissaries, act...
1 Chronicles 19:6; 1 Chronicles 19:7; 1 Samuel 13:4; 1 Samuel 27:12;...