Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
1 Chronicles 20:6
Verse 1 Chronicles 20:6. Fingers and toes were four and twenty] 2 Samuel 21:20.
Verse 1 Chronicles 20:6. Fingers and toes were four and twenty] 2 Samuel 21:20.
CHAPTER 20 JOAB AND DAVID TAKE RABBAH _ 1. Rabbah destroyed (1 Chronicles 20:1)_ 2. The Philistine giants slain (1 Chronicles 20:4) Rabbah was the capital of Ammon (Deuteronomy 3:11
THE AMMONITES SUBDUED (see notes on 2 Samuel 11:1; 2 Samuel 12:30 f.). 1 CHRONICLES 20:4. INCIDENTS DURING THE PHILISTINE WAR (see notes on...
_a man of_great _stature_ In 2 Samuel 21:20 (Heb.) _a man of contention_, i.e. a challenger or champion. _giant_ See 1 Chronicles 20:4, note....
_JOAB TAKES THE CITY OF RABBAH. THE PHILISTINES ARE THREE TIMES OVERCOME BY DAVID AND HIS SERVANTS._ _Before Christ 1037._ REFLECTIONS.—While Joab conquered the country of the Ammonites, David staye...
12. WARS WITH RABBAH AND THE PHILISTINES (1 Chronicles 20:1-8) 1 Chronicles 20:1. And it came to pass, at the time of the return of the year, at the time when kings go out to battle, that Joab led for...
THE SIEGE OF RABBAH. THE SLAUGHTER OF THREE PHILISTINE GIANTS This chapter corresponds, with some unimportant differences, to several distinct sections in 2 S, viz. 2 Samuel 11:1; 2 Samuel 12:26; 2 Sa...
THE BOOK OF 1 CHRONICLES GOD RULES HISTORY 1 CHRONICLES _Ian Mackervoy_ CHAPTER 20 Battles against the *Philistines –...
MAN OF GREAT STATURE. — See Margin. Samuel has a slightly different form. WHOSE FINGERS... — The Authorised Version here agrees with the Hebrew text of Samuel. The Hebrew text of Chronicles is abridg...
וַ תְּהִי ־עֹ֥וד מִלְחָמָ֖ה בְּ גַ֑ת וַ
Joab's conquest of the children of Ammon was complete. They were despoiled of their possessions and reduced to servitude. There is practically no doubt that this is the meaning of the story as it is w...
And yet again there was war at Gath, where was a man of [great] stature, whose fingers and toes [were] four and twenty, (d) six [on each hand], and six [on each foot]: and he also was the son of the g...
We had the account of these battles before related. 2 Samuel 21:18. In addition to the observations there made, I would only detain the Reader just to remark, that whether giants, or men of little sta...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 18, 19, AND 20. In Chapter s 18, 19 and 20 David, already delivered from all internal conflict in Israel, triumphs over the heathen, and spreads the glory of...
See Gill "1Ch 20:1"....
_A.M. 2969. B.C. 1035._ A repetition of David's wars with the Ammonites, and the taking of Rabbah, 1 Chronicles 20:1; with the giants of the Philistines, 1 Chronicles 20:4. NOTES ON CHAPTER 20....
1 Rabbah is besieged by Ioab, spoiled by Dauid, and the people thereof tortured. 4 Three giants are slaine in three seuerall ouerthrowes of the Philistines. 1 AND [NOTE: 2 Samuel 11:1.] it came to pa...
And yet again there was war at Gath, in the Philistine country proper, WHERE WAS A MAN OF GREAT STATURE, WHOSE FINGERS AND TOES WERE FOUR AND TWENTY, SIX ON EACH HAND AND SIX ON EACH FOOT; AND HE ALSO...
EXPLOITS OF INDIVIDUAL HEROES...
MAN OF GREAT STATURE: _ Heb._ a man of measure THE SON OF THE GIANT: _ Heb._ born to the giant, or, Rapha...
No text from Poole on this verse....
1 Chronicles 20:6 war H4421 Gath H1661 man H376 stature H4060 twenty-four H6242 H702 fingers H676 toes H676 si
CONTENTS: Joab and David take Rabbah. War with Philistines. CHARACTERS: David, Joab, Sibbechai, Sippai, Jonathan, Elhanan. CONCLUSION: The power and pride of great men against us need not terrify us...
1 Chronicles 20:1. _Joab besieged Rabbah._ This is related more at large in 2 Samuel 12. David humanely left Shobi on the throne, after putting the rebel chiefs to death. 1 Chronicles 20:7. When he de...
_Where was a man of great stature, whose fingers and toes were four and twenty?_ GREAT GIANTS AND SMALL “A giant,” “the son of a giant,” “children of the giant,” “a man of great stature.” There were...
_And it came to pass, that after the year was expired._ THE CAPTURE OF RABBAH From its capture and punishment of its people we learn-- I. That in spiritual warfare there must be no cessation. Rest...
1 CHRONICLES—NOTE ON 1 CHRONICLES 20:4 From 2 Samuel 21:18. Three incidents from David’s war against the Philistines in Gezer and Gath bring this unit back to where it began ...
CRITICAL NOTES.] This extract from the ancient records tells of Rabbah taken (1 Chronicles 20:1); and three sons of the giant of Gath slain (1 Chronicles 20:4). It covers 2 Samuel 11-21. [_Murphy_]....
EXPOSITION The contents of this chapter are all to be found in the work of Samuel, but woven in, in very different places. The cause of the first considerable difference of this kind is in connection...
By Chuck Smith And it came to pass, after the year was expired, and the time that the kings go out to battle, Joab led forth the power of the army, and he wasted the country of the children of Ammon,...
2 Samuel 21:20...