2 Samuel 10:1-19 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Bible Study & Commentary

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2 Samuel 10. War with the Ammonites and the Syrians (J).

2 Samuel 10:1-Deuteronomy : . The king of Ammon insults David’ s ambassadors. [J. G. Frazer ( Taboo and the Perils of the Soul, p. 273) connects Hanun’ s action with the well-known belief that to get possession of the hair of a person is to have him in one’ s power. He supposes that Hanun, distrusting David’ s designs and desirous to have some guarantee of peace, thought he secured this by retaining half the beards and garments He quotes as a parallel the treatment of a traitor by two Moabite Arabs who shaved completely one side of his head and his moustache on the other, and set him at liberty.— A. S. P.]

2 Samuel 10:6-2 Chronicles : . The Ammonites hire mercenaries from the Syrian states; Joab takes command of the general levy of Israel and the standing army (read, “ the host and the mighty men” ; probably David’ s 600 were continued as the nucleus of a standing army). Joab marched to the gate, i.e. of Rabbah, the capital of Ammon; and though caught between the Ammonites and the Syrians, won a signal victory.

2 Samuel 10:6 . Beth-rehob: Numbers 13:21 *.— Maachah: Deuteronomy 3:14.— Tob: Judges 11:3 *.

2 Samuel 10:15-Psalms : . Further victories over the Syrians. Apparently a variant of 2 Samuel 8:3-Ruth :, which see; perhaps an editorial addition.

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Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Arthur Samuel Peake (1865-1929) was an English biblical scholar, born at Leek, Staffordshire, and educated at St John's College, Oxford. He was the first holder of the Rylands Chair of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis in the University of Manchester, from its establishment as an independent institution in 1904. He was thus the first non-Anglican to become a professor of divinity in an English university.In 1890-92 he was a lecturer at Mansfield College, Oxford, and from 1890 to 1897 held a fellowship at Merton College.In 1892, however, he was invited to become tutor at the Primitive Methodist Theological Institute in Manchester, which was renamed Hartley College in 1906. He was largely responsible for broadening the curriculum which intending Primitive Methodist ministers were required to follow, and for raising the standards of the training.In 1895-1912 he served as lecturer in the Lancashire Independent College, from 1904 to 1912 also in the United Methodist College at Manchester. In 1904 he was appointed Professor of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis in the (Victoria) University of Manchester. (This chair was in the Faculty of Theology established in that year; it was renamed "Rylands Professor, etc." in 1909.)Peake was also active as a layman in wider Methodist circles, and did a great deal to further the reunion of Methodism which took effect in 1932, three years after his death. In the wider ecumenical sphere Peake worked for the National Council of Evangelical Free Churches, serving as president in 1928, and was a member of the World Conference on Faith and Order held in Lausanne in 1927. He published and lectured extensively, but is best remembered for his one-volume commentary on the Bible (1919), which, in its revised form, is still in use.The University of Aberdeen made him an honorary D. D. in 1907. He was a governor of the John Rylands Library.... Show more

First published in 1919, Peake's commentary of the bible was a one-volume commentary that gave special attention to Biblical archaeology and the then-recent discoveries of biblical manuscripts. Biblical quotations in this edition were from the Revised Version of the Bible.... Show more

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