Sāmǔĕrjìxià 8:5

5 Dàmǎsè de Yàlán rén lái bāngzhu suǒ bā wáng Hādà dǐ xiè , Dàwèi jiù shā le Yàlán rén èr wàn èr qiā .

Sāmǔĕrjìxià 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.

Sāmǔĕrjìxià 8:5 In-Context

3 Suǒ bā wángLìhé de érzi Hādà dǐ xiè wǎng dà hé qù , yào duó huí tāde guó quán . Dàwèi jiù gōngdǎ tā ,

4 Qín ná le tāde mǎ bīng yī qiā qī bǎi , bù bīng èr wàn , jiāng là zhàn chē de mǎ kǎn duàn tí jīn , dàn liú xià yī bǎi liàng chē de mǎ .

5 Dàmǎsè de Yàlán rén lái bāngzhu suǒ bā wáng Hādà dǐ xiè , Dàwèi jiù shā le Yàlán rén èr wàn èr qiā .

6 Yúshì Dàwèi zaì Dàmǎsè de Yàlán dì shèlì fáng yíng , Yàlán rén jiù guī fú tā , gĕi tā jìn gòng . Dàwèi wúlùn wǎng nǎli qù , Yēhéhuá dōu shǐ tā déshèng .

7 Tā duó le Hādà dǐ xiè chénpú suǒ ná de jīn dùnpái , daì dào Yēlùsǎlĕng .