1Ch 19 | TSK | STEP | David's messengers, sent to comfort Hanun, the son of Nahash, are villainously treated. The Ammonites, strengthened by the Syrians, are overcome by Joab and Abishai. Shophach, making a new supply of the Syrians, is slain by David. Nahash.

thirty.Thirty-two thousand soldiers, exclusive of the thousand send by the Maachah, are mentioned in the parallel passage (2 Sa 10:6;) but of chariots or cavalry there is no mention; and the number of chariots stated here is prodigious, and beyond all credibility. But as the word {raichev} denotes not only a chariot, but a rider, (see Isa 21:7,) it ought most probably to be rendered here, in a collective sense, cavalry; and then the number of troops will exactly agree with the passage in Samuel. It is probable that they were a kind of auxiliary troops who were usually mounted on horses, or in chariots, but who occasionally served as foot-soldiers.

the king of Maachah.This variation exists only in the translation, the original being the same in both places, {melech mäachah,} "the king of Maachah."

2Sa 10:6

king Maachah. Medeba.

Nu 21:30; Jos 13:9; Isa 15:2

Joab.

11:6,10-47; 2Sa 23:8-39

put the battle.

1Sa 17:2; 2Sa 18:4; 2Ch 13:3; 14:10; Isa 28:6; Jer 50:42; Joe 2:5

the kings.

2Sa 10:8; 1Ki 20:1,24

when Joab.

2Sa 10:9-14

battle. Heb. face of the battle. set against.

Jos 8:22; Jud 20:42,43

choice. or, young men.

Abishai. Heb. Abshai.

11:20; 18:12The variation of ['Abîyshay ,] Abishai, and ['Abshay ,] Abshai, is simply caused by the elision of [Yôwd,] {yood,} which is by no means uncommon.

and they set.

If the Syrians.

Ne 4:20; Ec 4:9-12; Ga 6:2; Php 1:27,28

of good.

De 31:6,7; Jos 1:7; 10:25; 1Sa 4:9; 14:6-12; 17:32; 2Sa 10:12

Ezr 10:4; Ne 4:14; Ps 27:14; 1Co 16:13

let us behave, etc.In Samuel, "let us play the men;" but the original is the same in both places, {nithchazzak}.

let the Lord.

Jud 10:15; 1Sa 3:18; 2Sa 15:26; 16:10,11; Job 1:22

they fled.

1Ki 20:13,19-21,28-30; 2Ch 13:5-16; Jer 46:15,16

they likewise.

Le 26:7; Ro 8:31

A.M. 2968. B.C. 1036. An. Ex. Is. 455. and drew.

Ps 2:1; Isa 8:9; Mic 4:11,12; Zec 14:1-3

river. that is, Euphrates. Shophach.This variation arises from the permutation of [Bêyth,] {baith,} and [Pê,] {pay;} being written in the parallel passage [Shôwbâk ,] Shobach, and here [Shôwphâk ,] Shophach.

2Sa 10:16

Shobach.

upon them.Instead of {alaihem,} "upon them," it is in 2 Sa 10:17 {chelamah,} "to Helam:" the one seems evidently to be a mistake for the other.

and set.

9; Isa 22:6,7

fled before Israel.

13,14; Ps 18:32; 33:16; 46:11

seven thousand.In the parallel passage, "the men of seven hundred chariots;" which difference probably arose from mistaking [Nûwn,] {noon final}, which stands for 700, for [Zayin,] {zayin,} with a dot above, which denotes 7,000, or vice versa: the great similarity of these letters might easily cause the one to be mistaken for the other.

footmen.If these troops were as we have suppose, a kind of dismounted cavalry, the terms footmen and horsemen might be indifferently applied to them.

2Sa 10:18

horsemen.

the servants.

Ge 14:4,5; Jos 9:9-11; 2Sa 10:19; 1Ki 20:1,12; Ps 18:39,44

Isa 10:8

would.

14:17; Ps 48:3-6