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2 Samuel 8:9
When Toi, king of Hamath, a district of Syria on the Orontes River, heard that David had smitten all the host of Hadadezer,
When Toi, king of Hamath, a district of Syria on the Orontes River, heard that David had smitten all the host of Hadadezer,
Verse 2 Samuel 8:9. _TOI KING OF HAMATH_] Hamath is supposed to be the famous city of _Emesa_, situated on the _Orontes_, in Syria. This was contiguous to Hadadezer; and led him to wage war with Toi,...
HAMATH - This appears as an independent kingdom so late as the time of Senacherib Isaiah 37:13. But in the time of Nebuchadnezzar, both Hamath and Arpad appear to have been incorporated in the kingdom...
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'
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...
TOI. Septuagint and Vulgate read "Tou" throughout. Compare 1 Chronicles 18:9. He was. Hittite king....
Congratulatory embassy from Toi king of Hamath 9. _Toi_ The Sept. agrees with Chr. in reading his name _Toü_. _Hamath_ A kingdom north of Zobah, with a capital of the same name situated on the Oronte...
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...
_WHEN TOI KING OF HAMATH HEARD THAT DAVID HAD SMITTEN ALL THE HOST OF HADADEZER,_ Toi king of Hamath - Coele-Syria. Northwards it extended to the city Hamath, on the Orontes, which was the capital of...
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....
HAMATH] on the Orontes....
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...
TOI KING OF HAMATH. — The Vatican LXX. has the name, in accordance with Chron., _Tau._ Hamath, the capital of the kingdom of the same name, was situated on the Orontes. According to 1 Chronicles 18:3....
וַ יִּשְׁמַ֕ע תֹּ֖עִי מֶ֣לֶךְ חֲמָ֑ת כִּ֚י הִ
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...
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,...
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...
_Emath, or Emesa. Its king, Thou, being alarmed at the ambition of his neighbour Adarezer, (Calmet) was pleased with the victories of a prince from whom he thought he had less to fear, as the lived at...
(9) В¶ When Toi king of Hamath heard that David had smitten all the host of Hadadezer, (10) Then Toi sent Joram his son unto king David, to salute him, and to bless him, because he had fought against...
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...
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....
WHEN TOI KING OF HAMATH,.... Which was another small kingdom in Syria, perhaps lately erected to defend themselves against Hadadezer, and this the first king of it, at least the first we hear of; his...
When Toi king of Hamath heard that David had smitten all the host of Hadadezer, Ver. 9. _When Toi king of Hamath._] Called afterwards Antiochia, as the Chaldee Paraphrast hath it, of King Antiochus;...
_King of Hamath_ This city was also in Syria, and lay north of Judea. _To salute him, and bless him_ To congratulate him on his good success in the war with Hadadezer, and to wish him continued prospe...
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....
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...
9-14 All the precious things David was master of, were dedicated things; they were designed for building the temple. The idols of gold David destroyed, 2 Samuel 5:21, but the vessels of gold he dedic...
HAMATH; another eminent city of Syria....
2 Samuel 8:9 Toi H8583 king H4428 Hamath H2574 heard H8085 (H8799) David H1732 defeated H5221 (H8689) army...
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,...
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...
_And David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus._ THE GARRISON OF THE GRACES “He that buildeth a ship doth not make his work of such a sort that it may avoid all waves and billows, that is impossible;...
_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...
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....
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
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...
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...
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...
1 Chronicles 18:9; Amos 6:2...