1Ch 19:6, Psa 60:1 | JFB | STEP | 6. when the children of Ammon saw that they had made themselves odious to David —One universal feeling of indignation was roused throughout Israel, and all classes supported the king in his determination to avenge this unprovoked insult on the Hebrew nation. Hanun . . . sent a thousand talents of silver —a sum equal to £342,100, to procure the services of foreign mercenaries. chariots and horsemen out of Mesopotamia . . . Syria-maachah, and . . . Zobah —The Mesopotamian troops did not arrive during this campaign ( ). Syria-maachah lay on the north of the possessions of the trans-jordanic Israelites, near Gilead. Zobah

1 Chronicles 19:6

6. when the children of Ammon saw that they had made themselves odious to David—One universal feeling of indignation was roused throughout Israel, and all classes supported the king in his determination to avenge this unprovoked insult on the Hebrew nation.

Hanun . . . sent a thousand talents of silver—a sum equal to £342,100, to procure the services of foreign mercenaries.

chariots and horsemen out of Mesopotamia . . . Syria-maachah, and . . . Zobah—The Mesopotamian troops did not arrive during this campaign (1Ch 19:16). Syria-maachah lay on the north of the possessions of the trans-jordanic Israelites, near Gilead.

Zobah—(see on 1Ch 18:3).

Psalms 60:1

1-3. allude to disasters.

cast . . . off—in scorn (Ps 43:2; 44:9).

scattered—broken our strength (compare 2Sa 5:20).

Oh, turn thyself—or, "restore to us" (prosperity). The figures of physical, denote great civil, commotions (Ps 46:2, 3).