1 Chronicles 19:1
Compare the marginal references and notes. The writer here adds one or two touches, and varies in one or two of the numbers.... [ Continue Reading ]
Compare the marginal references and notes. The writer here adds one or two touches, and varies in one or two of the numbers.... [ Continue Reading ]
HANUN - A Philistine king of this name is mentioned in the Assyrian inscriptions as paying tribute to Tiglath-pileser and warring with Sargon.... [ Continue Reading ]
A THOUSAND TALENTS OF SILVER - The price is not given in Samuel. On the practice of hiring troops about this time in western Asia, see 1 Kings 15:18; 2Ki 7:6; 2 Chronicles 25:6.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEY HIRED THIRTY AND TWO THOUSAND CHARIOTS - The reading is corrupt. Such a number as 32,000 chariots alone was never brought into battle on any occasion. Compare the numbers in Exodus 14:7; 1 Kings 10:26; 2 Chronicles 12:3. The largest force which an Assyrian king ever speaks of encountering is 3,... [ Continue Reading ]