1 Chronicles 19:3
_Land, or city, 2 Kings x. 3. (Calmet) --- What evils proceed from evil counsellors!_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Land, or city, 2 Kings x. 3. (Calmet) --- What evils proceed from evil counsellors!_... [ Continue Reading ]
_From. Hebrew, "in the midst, above the thighs:" exposing them to derision. (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Done. Hebrew, "made themselves stinking." Septuagint, "that the people of David were covered with confusion." The insult fell on all Israel. --- Mesopotamia is not mentioned [in] 2 Kings, as the troops perhaps did not arrive soon enough for the first battle, ver. 16._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Chariots. This number seems excessive, and it may have been put for infantry; the number of which, specified [in] 2 Kings, was 33,000. But the troops of Mesopotamia are not there mentioned, and this supplies what was left defective. (Calmet) --- The chariots may signify those who fought upon them,... [ Continue Reading ]
_River, in Mesopotamia. Joab did not allow them time to arrive. --- Sophach, or Sobac. Adarezer sent also to collect these forces, 2 Kings._... [ Continue Reading ]
CHAPTER XIX.... [ Continue Reading ]
_Chariots. Literally, "chariot." 2 Kings has only 700, and 40,000 horsemen. (Calmet) --- Ten men might be in each chariot. (Du Hamel)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Went. Hebrew, "made peace with David." The many petty kings who had hitherto been tributary to Adarezer, submitted now to the conqueror. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]