_NOW AFTER THIS IT CAME TO PASS, THAT DAVID SMOTE THE PHILISTINES, AND SUBDUED THEM, AND TOOK GATH AND HER TOWNS OUT OF THE HAND OF THE PHILISTINES._ DAVID ... TOOK GATH AND HER TOWNS. The full extent of David's conquests in the Philistine territory is here distinctly stated; whereas in the parallel... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE SMOTE MOAB; AND THE MOABITES BECAME DAVID'S SERVANTS, AND BROUGHT GIFTS._ He smote Moab. The terrible severities by which David's conquest of that people was marked, and the probable reason of their being subjected to such a dreadful retribution, are narrated, 2 Samuel 8:2. THE MOABITES .... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND DAVID SMOTE HADAREZER KING OF ZOBAH UNTO HAMATH, AS HE WENT TO STABLISH HIS DOMINION BY THE RIVER EUPHRATES._ Hadarezer - or Hadadezer (2 Samuel 8:3), which was probably the original form of the name, was derived from Hadad, a Syrian deity. It seems to have become the official and hereditary t... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND DAVID TOOK FROM HIM A THOUSAND CHARIOTS, AND SEVEN THOUSAND HORSEMEN, AND TWENTY THOUSAND FOOTMEN: DAVID ALSO HOUGHED ALL THE CHARIOT HORSES, BUT RESERVED OF THEM AN HUNDRED CHARIOTS._ David took from him a thousand chariots - (see the notes at 2 Samuel 8:3.) In that passage David is said to h... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND WHEN THE SYRIANS OF DAMASCUS CAME TO HELP HADAREZER KING OF ZOBAH, DAVID SLEW OF THE SYRIANS TWO AND TWENTY THOUSAND MEN._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_LIKEWISE FROM TIBHATH, AND FROM CHUN, CITIES OF HADAREZER, BROUGHT DAVID VERY MUCH BRASS, WHEREWITH SOLOMON MADE THE BRASEN SEA, AND THE PILLARS, AND THE VESSELS OF BRASS._ From Tibhath, and from Chun. These places are called Betah and Berothai, 2 Samuel 8:8. Perhaps the one might be the Jewish, t... [ Continue Reading ]
_NOW WHEN TOU KING OF HAMATH HEARD HOW DAVID HAD SMITTEN ALL THE HOST OF HADAREZER KING OF ZOBAH;_ Tou - or Toi whose dominions border on those of Hadarezer (see the notes at 2 Samuel 8:9; 1 Kings 11:15) TOU - or Toi, whose dominions border on those of Hadarezer (see the notes at 2 Samuel 8:9; 1 Ki... [ Continue Reading ]
_HE SENT HADORAM HIS SON TO KING DAVID, TO INQUIRE OF HIS WELFARE, AND TO CONGRATULATE HIM, BECAUSE HE HAD FOUGHT AGAINST HADAREZER, AND SMITTEN HIM; (FOR HADAREZER HAD WAR WITH TOU;) AND WITH HIM ALL MANNER OF VESSELS OF GOLD AND SILVER AND BRASS._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_MOREOVER ABISHAI THE SON OF ZERUIAH SLEW OF THE EDOMITES IN THE VALLEY OF SALT EIGHTEEN THOUSAND._ Moreover Abishai the son of Zeruiah slew of the Edomites in the valley of Salt eighteen thousand. The conduct of the Edomites having provoked a war, David sent an army into their country, subdued it,... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE PUT GARRISONS IN EDOM; AND ALL THE EDOMITES BECAME DAVID'S SERVANTS. THUS THE LORD PRESERVED DAVID WHITHERSOEVER HE WENT._ He put garrisons in Edom; and all the Edomites became David's servants. This annexation of Edom enlarged the border of Israel on the southeast to the Red Sea, conformab... [ Continue Reading ]
_SO DAVID REIGNED OVER ALL ISRAEL, AND EXECUTED JUDGMENT AND JUSTICE AMONG ALL HIS PEOPLE._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND ZADOK THE SON OF AHITUB, AND ABIMELECH THE SON OF ABIATHAR, WERE THE PRIESTS; AND SHAVSHA WAS SCRIBE;_ Abimelech - elsewhere Ahimelech (cf. 1 Chronicles 24:6: see the notes at 1 Samuel 14:3; 1 Samuel 22:20; 2 Samuel 8:17) [Septuagint, Achimelech. So also the Vulgate, as well as the Syriac and... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND BENAIAH THE SON OF JEHOIADA WAS OVER THE CHERETHITES AND THE PELETHITES; AND THE SONS OF DAVID WERE CHIEF ABOUT THE KING._ The Cherethites and the Pelethites - who formed the royal body-guard. The Cherethites were most probably those brave men who all along accompanied David while among the Ph... [ Continue Reading ]