Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Chronicles 20:1
Children of Ammon , and with them other beside the Ammonites - Here there must be a mistake; surely the Ammonites are the same as the children of Ammon. Our translators have falsified the text by inserting the words "other beside," which have nothing properly to represent them in the Hebrew. Literally translated, the words are: "And it happened after this, the children of Moab, and the children of Ammon, and with them of the Ammonites:" and thus the Vulgate. The Syriac,... read more
John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 20:10
And now, behold, the children of Ammon, and Moab, and Mount Seir, whom thou wouldest not let Israel invade, when they came out of the land of Egypt ,.... Charging them not to meddle with them, nor take any of their lands from them, Deuteronomy 2:5 , but they turned from them, and destroyed them not ; in obedience to the divine command, when it was in their power to have done it. read more