Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
2 Samuel 8:4
A thousand chariots, and seven hundred horsemen] RV 'a thousand and seven hundred horsemen.'
A thousand chariots, and seven hundred horsemen] RV 'a thousand and seven hundred horsemen.'
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...
SEVEN HUNDRED HORSEMEN - It should be seven thousand, as in 1 Chronicles 18:4....
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...
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]...
_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...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
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...
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...
וַ יִּלְכֹּ֨ד דָּוִ֜ד מִמֶּ֗נּוּ אֶ֤לֶף וּ שׁ
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...
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...
(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...
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....
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...
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...
_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...
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....
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 t...
VICTORIES OVER VARIOUS NATIONS...
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...
FROM HIM: Or, of his...
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
2 Samuel 8:4 David H1732 took H3920 (H8799) thousand H505 seven H7651 hundred H3967 horsemen H6571 twenty H6242 thousa
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...
_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 Kings 10:26; Deuteronomy 17:16; Joshua 11:6; Joshua 11:9; Psalms 20:7
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 —...
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...