1 Chronicles 19:1-5

The relation we have of this event in 2 Samuel 10:1 is so very similar with this, that I would refer the Reader to what is there said upon it, and not detain him with many observations further. How strange it is that a poor king, like Hanun, and of a poor little kingdom, like Ammon, could venture to affront king David. But pause, Reader, and I will show you a yet more marvellous thing. When the Lord Jesus sends to us his ambassadors, not indeed to congratulate, but to tell us how we may flee from the wrath to come, how are they entertained? Equal, if not greater contempt is poured upon all that beseech sinners, in Christ's stead, to be reconciled to God! Alas! to what a blind, ruined, and undone state is man by nature fallen!