2 Samuel 10

2 Samuel 10:1

ANd] Compare this Chapter with 1 Chron. 19. where the same story is related.

king of the children of Ammon died] 1 Chronicles 19:1.

the king] Called Nahash, 1 Chronicles 19:1. and v. 2.

2 Samuel 10:2

shewed kindenesse] What this kindenesse was the Scripture mentioneth not, nor when shewed. Hierome thinketh that it was when he fled from Achish king of Gath; the which, it is like, he did out of hatred to Saul, 1 Sam. 11.

his father] That is, for his fathers death.

2 Samuel 10:3

Thinkest thou that David] Hebr. In thine eyes doth David.

to spie] That is, to discover some advantages, that he may the more easily surprise it; and thus some politicians think, That they are then most wise, when as they are most suspitious.

2 Samuel 10:4

buttocks] To discover their nakednesse, to their shame. So Isai, 20. 4. and 47. 2.

2 Samuel 10:5

at Jericho] That is, in some private houses set up in the place where Jericho stood before it was destroyed, Josh. 6. 24, 26. for it was not rebuilt till the time of Ahab, 1 Kings 16:34.

2 Samuel 10:6

stank] That is, had made themselves odious and abominable, by so soul and barbarous an act, in thus disgracing his ambassadours, against the law of nations.

hired] To wit, for a thousand talents of silver, 1 Chronicles 19:6.

thy Syrians] See Chap. 8. 5.

Beth-rehob] That is, out of that part of Syria in which the metropolis or chief city was Rehob.

Zobah] See Chap. 8. 3.

Maacah] King of one part of Syria, 1 Chronicles 19:6. neer Gilead Trachonitis, Deuteronomy 3:14.

Ish-tob] See Judges 11:3.

2 Samuel 10:8

the gate] To wit, of the city Medeba, in the border of the Ammonites, 1 Chro. 19. 7. Others understand it of Rabbah, the chief city of the Ammonites.

by themselves] To wit, that they might inclose Joab on both sides, as v. 9.

2 Samuel 10:12

for our people] To wit, which have been so injuriously abused and disgraced by the Ammonites and their king.

2 Samuel 10:16

sent] To wit, his agents, and hired the Syrians, which inhabited beyond the river Euphrates.

Shobach] Called also Shophach, 1 Chronicles 19:16.

2 Samuel 10:18

of seven hundred chariots] Which had in them ten fighting men in every chariot, which make up the number of seven thousand, mentioned, 1 Chro. 19. 18. See Chap. 8. 4. or seven hundred troops of horsemen in chariots, consisting of ten in a troop.

fourtie thousand horse-men] Besides the fourty thousand footmen mentioned, 1 Chronicles 19:18. For with such huge multitudes of men, the Syrians, and others in those dayes used to go out to battell, 1 Kings 20:10. So David is said to have gathered all Israel to fight with them.

2 Samuel 10:19

servants] That is, who were in his pay, and fought under him in his quarrell.

made peace] Yeelding subjection, and becoming tributaries.