2 Samuel 10:1-6

Ammon and Aram Defeated

1 ¹Now it happened afterwards * that ²the king of the Ammonites * died, and Hanun his son became king in his place.

2 Then David said, "I will show kindness to Hanun the son of ³Nahash, just as his father showed kindness to me." So David sent some of his servants to console him concerning his father. But when David's servants came to the land of the Ammonites *,

3 the princes of the Ammonites * said to Hanun their lord, "Do you think that David is honoring your father because he has sent consolers to you? ⁴Has David not sent his servants to you in order to search the city, to spy it out and overthrow it?"

4 So Hanun took David's servants and ⁵shaved off half of their beards, and ⁶cut off their garments in the middle as far as their hips, and sent them away.

5 When they told it to David, he sent to meet them, for the men were greatly humiliated. And the king said, "Stay at Jericho until your beards grow, and then return."

6 Now when the sons of Ammon saw that ⁷they had become odious to David, the sons of Ammon sent and ⁸hired the Arameans of ⁹Beth-rehob and the ¹⁰Arameans of Zobah, 20,000 * foot soldiers, and the king of ¹¹Maacah with 1,000 men, and the men of Tob with 12,000 * * men.

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2 Samuel 10:1-6 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO SECOND SAMUEL 10

This chapter gives an account of the ill treatment of David's messengers to the king of Ammon, who were sent to condole the death of his father, and were basely used by him, which David resented, 2Sa 10:1-5; which the Ammonites perceiving prepared for war, and got the Syrians to be confederates with them; of which David being informed, sent Joab and Abishai into their country, 2Sa 10:6-8; who divided the army between them, and attacked the Ammonites and Syrians with great courage, and routed them both, and returned to Jerusalem, 2Sa 10:9-14; after which the Syrians gathered together again to fight with David, who went out to meet them, and got an entire conquest over them, and made them servants to him, 2Sa 10:15-19.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 11

1. 1 Chronicles 19:1-19
2. 1 Samuel 11:1
3. 1 Samuel 11:1
4. Genesis 42:9, 16
5. Isaiah 15:2; Jeremiah 41:5
6. Isaiah 20:4
7. Genesis 34:30; 1 Samuel 27:12
8. 2 Samuel 8:3, 5; 2 Kings 7:6
9. Judges 18:28
10. 2 Samuel 8:3
11. Deuteronomy 3:14

Footnotes 3

[a]. Lit "by the hand of"
[b]. Lit "In your eyes is David honoring"
[c]. Lit "Return to"