2 Samuel 8:5

5 Cuando vinieron los arameos de Damasco en ayuda de Hadad-ezer, rey de Soba, David mató a veintidós mil hombres de los arameos.

2 Samuel 8:5 Meaning and Commentary

2 Samuel 8:5

And when the Syrians of Damascus came to succour Hadadezer king
of Zobah
These seem to have had no king at this time, or, if they had, Hadadezer was their king, which is not improbable; and Nicholas of Damascus ^F15; an Heathen writer, is clear for it, whom he calls Adad, who, he says, reigned over Damascus, and the other Syria without Phoenicia, who made war with David king of Judea, and was routed by him at Euphrates: and he seems to be the first king of Damascus, which he joined to the kingdom of Zobah, and all the kings of Damascus afterwards were called by the same name; though Josephus ^F16, who also speaks of Adad being king of Damascus and of the Syrians, yet makes him different from this Hadadezer, to whose assistance he says he came:

David slew of the Syrians two and twenty thousand men;
that is, of the Syrians of Damascus.

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FOOTNOTES:

F15 Apud Joseph. ib. (l. 7. c. 5.) sect. 2.
F16 Ibid.

2 Samuel 8:5 In-Context

3 David derrotó también a Hadad-ezer, hijo de Rehob, rey de Soba, cuando éste iba a restaurar su dominio en el río .

4 David le tomó mil setecientos hombres de a caballo y veinte mil soldados de a pie; David desjarretó los caballos de los carros, pero dejó suficientes de ellos para cien carros.

5 Cuando vinieron los arameos de Damasco en ayuda de Hadad-ezer, rey de Soba, David mató a veintidós mil hombres de los arameos.

6 Entonces David puso guarniciones entre los arameos de Damasco, y los arameos fueron siervos de David, trayéndole tributo. Y el SEÑOR ayudaba a David dondequiera que iba.

7 Tomó David los escudos de oro que llevaban los siervos de Hadad-ezer, y los trajo a Jerusalén.