CONTENTS
In following David's history, we are here again presented with the
relation of war. David sent a friendly message to the king of the
Ammonites; but he receiving it unfriendly, and treating the
ambassadors of David ill, David enters upon a war with him, and
entirely defeats the king of Ammo... [ Continue Reading ]
(1) В¶ And it came to pass after this, that the king of the children
of Ammon died, and Hanun his son reigned in his stead. (2) Then said
David, I will shew kindness unto Hanun the son of Nahash, as his
father shewed kindness unto me. And David sent to comfort him by the
hand of his servants for his... [ Continue Reading ]
(3) And the princes of the children of Ammon said unto Hanun their
lord, Thinkest thou that David doth honour thy father, that he hath
sent comforters unto thee? hath not David rather sent his servants
unto thee, to search the city, and to spy it out, and to overthrow it?
(4) Wherefore Hanun took Da... [ Continue Reading ]
(5) When they told it unto David, he sent to meet them, because the
men were greatly ashamed: and the king said, Tarry at Jericho until
your beards be grown, and then return.
And how doth Jesus graciously deal by his despised servants, but in
the same tender way? Tarry till I come. Be patient, bret... [ Continue Reading ]
(6) В¶ And when the children of Ammon saw that they stank before
David, the children of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of Bethrehob,
and the Syrians of Zoba, twenty thousand footmen, and of king Maacah a
thousand men, and of Ishtob twelve thousand men.
Spiritualizing still the subject, we may in... [ Continue Reading ]
(7) And when David heard of it, he sent Joab, and all the host of the
mighty men. (8) And the children of Ammon came out, and put the battle
in array at the entering in of the gate: and the Syrians of Zoba, and
of Rehob, and Ishtob, and Maacah, were by themselves in the field. (9)
When Joab saw that... [ Continue Reading ]
(15) В¶ And when the Syrians saw that they were smitten before
Israel, they gathered themselves together. (16) And Hadarezer sent,
and brought out the Syrians that were beyond the river: and they came
to Helam; and Shobach the captain of the host of Hadarezer went before
them. (17) And when it was t... [ Continue Reading ]
REFLECTIONS
READER! What a correspondence do we find, in all ages, in the
circumstances of the people of God. The Lord said at the fall, that he
would put enmity between the seed of the woman, and the seed of the
serpent; and how evidently do the effects of it appear. In civil, as
well as in religi... [ Continue Reading ]