2 Samuele 8:8

8 Il re Davide prese ancora grandissima quantità di rame da Beta, e da Berotai, città di Hadadezer.

2 Samuele 8:8 Meaning and Commentary

2 Samuel 8:8

And from Betah, and from Berothai, cities of Hadadezer
Which, in ( 1 Chronicles 18:8 ) , are called Tibhath and Chun, they having different names; or their names might be changed upon this conquest of them, and the one might be the names they went by with the Syrians, and the other the Israelites called them by; the latter is the same with Berothah in ( Ezekiel 47:16 ) ; and the Barathena of Ptolemy ^F19, placed by him near Mesopotamia; in the Arabic version of ( 1 Chronicles 18:8 ) , they are called Emesa and Baalbec, the former was a city of Coele-Syria, the latter was at the foot of Mount Lebanon; (See Gill on Amos 1:5);

King David took exceeding much brass;
whereby he was furnished and able to give the large quantity he did for the service of the temple, ( 1 Chronicles 29:7 ) . The Septuagint version adds here what is expressed in ( 1 Chronicles 18:8 ) ,

``wherewith Solomon made the brazen sea, and the pillars, and the layers, and all the vessels.''

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FOOTNOTES:

F19 Geograph. l. 5. c. 19.

2 Samuele 8:8 In-Context

6 Poi pose guernigioni nella Siria di Damasco; e i Siri furono renduti soggetti a Davide, e tributari. E il Signore salvava Davide, dovunque egli andava.

7 E Davide prese gli scudi d’oro ch’erano de’ servitori di Hadadezer, e li portò in Gerusalemme.

8 Il re Davide prese ancora grandissima quantità di rame da Beta, e da Berotai, città di Hadadezer.

9 Or Toi, re di Hamat, avendo udito che Davide avea sconfitto tutto l’esercito di Hadadezer,

10 mandò al re Davide Ioram, suo figliuolo, per salutarlo, e per benedirlo, di ciò ch’egli avea guerreggiato contro a Hadadezer, e l’avea sconfitto; imperocchè Hadadezer avea guerra aperta con Toi. E Ioram portò seco vasellamenti d’argento, e vasellamenti di oro e vasellamenti di rame.