1Ch 19:1 | Clarke | STEP | David sends a congratulatory message to Hanun, king of Ammon, , . He treats the messengers with great incivility, , . David is exasperated, but condoles with the degraded messengers, . The Ammonites prepare for war, and hire thirty-two thousand chariots, and besiege Medeba, , . David sends Joab to attack them; he defeats the Syrians and Ammonites, . The discomfited Syrians recruit their army, and invade David's territories beyond Jordan; he attacks them, kills Shophach their general, seven thousand charioteers, and forty thousand of their infantry, . The Syrians abandon the Ammonites and make a separate peace with David, . Verse 1 Now it came to pass - See the same history, (note), etc., and the notes there.

1 Chronicles 19:1

Introduction

David sends a congratulatory message to Hanun, king of Ammon, 1Chr 19:1, 1Chr 19:2. He treats the messengers with great incivility, 1Chr 19:3, 1Chr 19:4. David is exasperated, but condoles with the degraded messengers, 1Chr 19:5. The Ammonites prepare for war, and hire thirty-two thousand chariots, and besiege Medeba, 1Chr 19:6, 1Chr 19:7. David sends Joab to attack them; he defeats the Syrians and Ammonites, 1Chr 19:8-15. The discomfited Syrians recruit their army, and invade David's territories beyond Jordan; he attacks them, kills Shophach their general, seven thousand charioteers, and forty thousand of their infantry, 1Chr 19:16-18. The Syrians abandon the Ammonites and make a separate peace with David, 1Chr 19:19.

Verse 1

Now it came to pass - See the same history, 2Sam 10:1 (note), etc., and the notes there.