2 Samuel 10
McGee2 Samuel 10:1
DAVID WARS AGAINST AMMON AND SYRIAYou can see that these people had no confidence at all in David. They believed that he intended to attack them. His friendly gesture was completely misunderstood.
2 Samuel 10:4
My friend, that was an insult! I can’t think of a way to more thoroughly humiliate David’s ambassadors than this. Some commentators believe that this was Hanun’s challenge to warwhereas David had meant it as a gesture of goodwill and peace.
2 Samuel 10:5
The Ammonites see that they have made themselves odious to David and prepare for war. They hire mercenaries from Syriaat considerable cost, we learn from the account in 1Ch_19:6-7.
2 Samuel 10:7
The Israelites were now veterans in warfare. Joab, apparently, is throwing his best forces between the approaching Syrian mercenaries and the forces of the Ammonites to prevent their joining together.
2 Samuel 10:18
It was a tremendous victory for Israel. This establishes David, without doubt, as the great ruler of that day.