1 Chronicles 19:2-6

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 1 Chronicles 19:1-5

Let us here observe, 1. That is becomes good people to be neighbourly, and especially to be grateful. David will pay respect to Hanun because he is his neighbour; and religion teaches us to be civil and obliging to all, to honour all men, and to be ready to do all offices of kindness to those we live among; nor must difference in religion be any obstruction to this. But, besides this, David remembered the kindness which his father showed to him. Those that have received kindness must return it... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 1 Chronicles 19:6-19

We may see here, 1. How the hearts of sinners that are marked for ruin are hardened to their destruction. The children of Ammon saw that they had made themselves odious to David (1 Chron. 19:6), and then it would have been their wisdom to desire conditions of peace, to humble themselves and offer any satisfaction for the injury they had done him, the rather because they had made themselves not only odious to David, but obnoxious to the justice of God, who is King of nations, and will assert... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Chronicles 19:1-19

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Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Chronicles 19:4

And cut off their garments in the midst - Usque ad eorum, pudenda . So the Targum, Jarchi, and others; leaving exposed what nature and decency require to be concealed. See on 2 Samuel 10:4 ; (note). read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Chronicles 19:6

Chariots and horsemen out of Mesopotamia - These are not mentioned in the parallel place in Samuel; probably they did not arrive till the Ammonites and their other allies were defeated by the Israelites in the first battle. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Chronicles 19:2

Because his father showed kindness to me . The instance of kindness here alluded to is not recorded. There may have been many opportunities and calls for it during David's persecuted life, and when the Ammonite king would feel a motive beyond any intrinsic goodness of heart to "show kindness" to the youth who was Saul's object of hatred. It is, however, very remarkable that we find a genuine kindliness towards David still cleaving to the succession of Ammonite kings, even after the events of... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Chronicles 19:3

Thinkest thou that David , etc.? The Hebrew is, "In thine eyes doth David?" The order of to overthrow, and to spy out is reversed in Samuel. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Chronicles 19:4

The classical scholar will not fail to be reminded, so far as the shaving here spoken of is concerned, of the account contained in Herodotus, 2:121. The parallel place makes the resemblance close, in that it tells us that "one-half of their beards" was shaved. To shave them was an affront to their customs, dignity, and religion: to shave them half added mockery; and to cut off half their garments completed the tale of ignominious and contemptuous insult ( Isaiah 20:4 ). The beard was held... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Chronicles 19:6

Made themselves odious . The Hebrew root of very strong force, בָּאשׁ , is here employed, and which our Authorized Version translates, both in the parallel place and elsewhere, far more uncompromisingly than here. A thousand talents . Not stated in Samuel. This talent was of three thousand shekels, believed to be equivalent to f342. Mesopotamia. The parallel place has Aram-beth-rehob, instead of our Aram-naharaim ("Syria of the Two Rivers," i.e. Tigris and Euphrates; Authorized... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 1 Chronicles 19:2

Hanun - A Philistine king of this name is mentioned in the Assyrian inscriptions as paying tribute to Tiglath-pileser and warring with Sargon. read more

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