Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
2 Samuel 10:19
Servants to Hadarezer - This gives us an idea of the great power of Hadarezer, and consequently of the strength of Israel in David’s victorious reign.
Servants to Hadarezer - This gives us an idea of the great power of Hadarezer, and consequently of the strength of Israel in David’s victorious reign.
Verse 2 Samuel 10:19. _MADE PEACE WITH ISRAEL_] They made this peace separately, and were obliged to pay tribute to the Israelites. Some copies of the Vulgate add here after the word _Israel,_ _Expav...
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...
Renewed attack of the Syrians. Their total defeat 16. _And Hadarezer sent_, &c. The correct form of his name is probably _Hadadezer_. See note on ch. 2 Samuel 8:3. He now mustered his vassals and trib...
_the kings_that were _servants to Hadarezer_ His vassals and tributaries transferred their allegiance to David. According to ch. 2 Samuel 8:6 (assuming it to refer to the same war), the kingdom of Dam...
WHEN ALL THE KINGS, &C.— Thus the arms of David were blessed, and God accomplished the promises which he had made to Abraham, and renewed to Joshua. Genesis 15:18. Joshua 2:4. Thus, in the space of ni...
_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...
THE WAR WITH AMMON AND SYRIA 2. His father shewed kindness unto me] Occasion not stated....
ALL THE KINGS _that were_ SERVANTS TO HADAREZER] cp. 1 Kings 20:16....
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...
SERVANTS TO HADAREZER. — The vassal kings, who had been tributary to Hadarezer, now transferred their allegiance to David; but it is not said that Hadarezer himself became a tributary, though it is pl...
וַ יִּרְא֨וּ כָֽל ־הַ מְּלָכִ֜ים עַבְדֵ֣י הֲד
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...
Before Israel. Hebrew and Septuagint only read, "And when all the kings, servants of Adarezer, saw that they were smitten before Israel, they made peace with Israel, and served them," &c. (Haydock) --...
(15) В¶ And when the Syrians saw that they were smitten before Israel, they gathered themselves together. (16) And Hadarezer sent, and brought out the Syrians that were beyond the river: and they came...
REFLECTIONS READER! What a correspondence do we find, in all ages, in the circumstances of the people of God. The Lord said at the fall, that he would put enmity between the seed of the woman, and the...
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 ALL THE KINGS [THAT WERE] SERVANTS TO HADAREZER,.... That were subject to him, and at his beck and command, at least were hired by him into his service: SAW THAT THEY WERE SMITTEN BEFORE ISR...
And when all the kings [that were] servants to Hadarezer saw that they were smitten before Israel, they made peace with Israel, and served them. So the Syrians feared to help the children of Ammon any...
_The kings that were servants to Hadarezer_ He being the most powerful prince in those parts, it appears there were several petty kings that were subject to him. _They made peace with Israel, and serv...
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...
And when all the kings that were servants, vassals, TO HADAREZER SAW THAT THEY WERE SMITTEN BEFORE ISRAEL, THEY MADE PEACE WITH ISRAEL AND SERVED THEM, became tributary to them together with their for...
THE FINAL DEFEAT OF THE SYRIANS...
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...
15-19 Here is a new attempt of the Syrians. Even the baffled cause will make head as long as there is any life in it; the enemies of the Son of David do so. But now the promise made to Abraham, Genes...
THE KINGS THAT WERE SERVANTS TO HADAREZER, to wit, for that time, or in that expedition to which he hired them....
2 Samuel 10:19 kings H4428 servants H5650 Hadadezer H1928 saw H7200 (H8799) defeated H5062 (H8738) by H6440 Isr
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 10:9 David’s army under Joab is trapped between the Syrians and the Ammonites, but they defeat the Syrians and force them to leave. HADADEZER of Zobah (see...
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 19:19; 1 Kings 20:1; 2 Samuel 8:6; Daniel 2:37; Gene
And served them — And thus at length was fulfilled the promise made to Abraham, and repeated to Joshua, that the borders of Israel should extend as far as the river Euphrates. The son of David sent hi...