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Kretzmann's Popular Commentary

2 Samuel 8:4

And David took from him a thousand chariots and seven hundred horsemen (some read seven thousand, 1 Chronicles 18:4) and twenty thousand footmen. And David houghed all the chariot horses, by cutting the sinews of their hind feet, but reserved of them for an hundred chariots, probably to display them in a triumphal procession or for the use of his guard.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse 2 Samuel 8:4. _A THOUSAND_ CHARIOTS] It is strange that there were a _thousand chariots_, and only _seven hundred horsemen_ taken, and twenty thousand foot. But as the discomfiture appears comp...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    SEVEN HUNDRED HORSEMEN - It should be seven thousand, as in 1 Chronicles 18:4....

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    5. THE EXTENSION OF HIS KINGDOM CHAPTER 8 _ 1. The Philistines and Moab smitten (2 Samuel 8:1)_ 2. Hadadezer overthrown (2 Samuel 8:3) 3. Further conquests and triumphs (2 Samuel 8:9) 4. David'

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    2 SAMUEL 8. DAVID'S VICTORIES. HIS MINISTERS (D). A concluding summary, corresponding to the similar section on Saul (1 Samuel 14:47 ff.) and by the same hand. Apparently it formed the conclusion of a...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    SEVEN HUNDRED. = 1Ch 18:47. 1 Chronicles 18. but Hebrew. =. and. = 700 are easily mistaken one for the other. See note on 1 Kings 4:26. [f and. represent Hebrew characters]...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _a thousand_chariots, _and seven hundred horsemen_ The Heb. text as it stands can only mean _a thousand and seven hundred horsemen_; but it seems best to follow the text of the LXX. and of 1 Chronicle...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Conquest of Zobah and Damascus 3. _Hadadezer_ This name is written _Hadarezer_in ch. 2 Samuel 10:16-19, and in Chronicles, the letters _d_(ד) and _r_(ר) being easily confused in Hebrew. _Hadad_was th...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    A THOUSAND CHARIOTS— The word _chariots,_ though not in the Hebrew, is rightly supplied from the parallel place, 1 Chronicles 18:4. Instead of _seven hundred horsemen,_ says Houbigant, I read also as...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    The Throne of David Established, 2 Samuel 8:1-18. _David's Victories._ 2 Samuel 8:1-13 And after this it came to pass, that David smote the Philistines, and subdued them: and David took Methegammah o...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND DAVID TOOK FROM HIM A THOUSAND CHARIOTS, AND SEVEN HUNDRED HORSEMEN, AND TWENTY THOUSAND FOOTMEN: AND DAVID HOUGHED ALL THE CHARIOT HORSES, BUT RESERVED OF THEM FOR AN HUNDRED CHARIOTS._ No JFB...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    A THOUSAND _chariots,_ AND SEVEN HUNDRED HORSEMEN] RV 'a thousand and seven hundred horsemen.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    DAVID'S VICTORIES, AND A LIST OF HIS OFFICERS This chapter concludes this account of David's reign. The remainder of the book is taken from a different source....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    DAVID, THE GREAT KING OF ISRAEL 2 SAMUEL _HELEN POCOCK_ CHAPTER 8 DAVID WINS MANY WARS V1 Some time later, David fought the *Philistines. He defeated them and he controlled their chief city. V2...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    A THOUSAND CHARIOTS. — The word _chariots_ has evidently dropped out of the text here, but is rightly inserted, following the LXX. and 1 Chron.; 700 horsemen should also be changed to 7,000, in accord...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יִּלְכֹּ֨ד דָּוִ֜ד מִמֶּ֗נּוּ אֶ֤לֶף וּ שׁ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER X. _ FOREIGN WARS._ 2 Samuel 8:1. THE transitions of the Bible, like those of actual life, are often singularly abrupt; that which now hurries us from the scene of elevated communion with Go...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    VICTORIOUS ON EVERY SIDE 2 Samuel 8:1 Twice in this chapter we are told that the Lord gave victory to David “whithersoever he went,” 2 Samuel 8:6; 2 Samuel 8:14. Indeed, he was more than a conqueror,...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Here we have the record of some of the victories of David, again not necessarily in chronological order. There is, however, a very close relation between this account of them and what had preceded. Th...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    A thousand. Protestants supply chariots, (Haydock) after the Septuagint and 1 Paralipomenon (xviii. 4.) which have 7000 horsemen. See how we have attempted to reconcile these texts, 1 Kings xiii. 5. P...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (3) David smote also Hadadezer, the son of Rehob, king of Zobah, as he went to recover his border at the river Euphrates. (4) And David took from him a thousand chariots, and seven hundred horsemen, a...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    We have seen the sorrowful circumstances out of which arose the first desire to have a king in Israel, and the remarkable fact that, although it was a sin, God nevertheless did not put the people back...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    Being entirely delivered from the insurrections of the people,* David exercises his power in bringing his enemies into subjection. The Philistines, who dwelt within the land of Israel, are subjugated....

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND DAVID TOOK FROM HIM A THOUSAND [CHARIOTS], AND SEVEN HUNDRED HORSEMEN,.... "Chariots" are not in the text here, it is only 1700 "horsemen"; but it is supplied from 1 Chronicles 18:4; where the wor...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And David took from him a thousand [chariots], and seven hundred horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen: and David houghed all the chariot [horses], but reserved of them [for] an hundred chariots. Ver...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _David took from him a thousand chariots_ The word chariot is not in the Hebrew, but is well supplied by our translators from 1 Chronicles 18:4, in which book many things are explained which are brief...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 Dauid subdueth the Philistines and the Moabites. 3 He smiteth Hadadezer, and the Syrians. 9 Toi sendeth Ioram with Presents to blesse him. 11 The Presents and the spoile Dauid dedicateth to God....

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    God's declaration to David of His sovereign counsels in chapter 7 and David's submission and worship had good practical effect. Notice it is "after this" (v.1) that David defeated and subdued the Phil...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    FROM HIM: Or, of his...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    CHARIOTS; which word is fitly supplied out of 1 CHRONICLES 18:4, such substantives being oft understood in the Hebrew language, as GENESIS 26:30 2 SAMUEL 21:16. SEVEN HUNDRED HORSEMEN, or seven

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    2 Samuel 8:4 David H1732 took H3920 (H8799) thousand H505 seven H7651 hundred H3967 horsemen H6571 twenty H6242 thousa

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Full establishment of David's kingdom. CHARACTERS: God, David, Hadadezer, Joram, Toi. CONCLUSION: After the long and frequent struggles which the Christian has with the powers of darkness,...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    2 Samuel 8:2. _Two lines._ The measuring line gave inheritance, but here the line gave the inheritance of rebels to others, as is the manner of treating rebels by a total forfeiture of inheritance. Th...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _David smote the Philistines and subdued them._ THE VICTORIOUS KING These years of war gave birth to some of the grandest of the psalms, amongst which may be numbered, 2., 20., 21., 60., 110. I. The...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    2 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 2 SAMUEL 8:1__ Chapter 2 Samuel 8:1 lists David’s military victories. These events do not necessarily match the historical order of the rest of the book....

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    2 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 2 SAMUEL 8:3 ZOBAH and DAMASCUS were both in Syria. Zobah was in the northern part of the Lebanon Valley (see Joshua 1

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES.— 2 Samuel 8:1. “METHEG-AMMAH.” This is a very obscure word, and has been very variously translated. “METHEG” is a “BRIDLE,” and “AMMAH” is translated _mother_ by Keil, E...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION 2 SAMUEL 8:1 DAVID SMOTE THE PHILISTINES. In the previous chapter we have seen that the empire of David not only marked an era in the development of Israel nationally, but was also the rea...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    In the eighth chapter of second Samuel there is chronicled for us certain of David's victories over their enemies round about, how that God was establishing David and his kingdom, and was subduing his...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Kings 10:26; Deuteronomy 17:16; Joshua 11:6; Joshua 11:9; Psalms 20:7

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Seven hundred — Or, seven hundred companies of horsemen, that is, in all seven thousand; as it is 1 Chronicles 18:4, there being ten in each company, and each ten having a ruler or captain. Houghed —...

  • When Critics Ask: A Popular Handbook on Bible Difficulties, Norman L. Geisler and Thomas Howe, 1960

    Did David capture 1,700 horsemen or 7,000 as 1 Chronicles 18:4 says? PROBLEM: After David had defeated Hadadezer, he took prisoners from Hadadezer’s army. According to 2 Samuel 8:4, David captured “on...

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