2 Samuel 8:5

5 Cuando los arameos de Damasco llegaron para ayudar al rey Hadad-ezer, David mató a veintidós mil de ellos.

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 también destruyó las fuerzas de Hadad-ezer, hijo de Rehob, rey de Soba, cuando Hadad-ezer marchó para fortalecer su control a lo largo del río Éufrates.

4 David capturó mil carros de guerra, siete mil conductores de carros de guerra
y veinte mil soldados de infantería. Les lisió los caballos de tiro, excepto los necesarios para cien carros de guerra.

5 Cuando los arameos de Damasco llegaron para ayudar al rey Hadad-ezer, David mató a veintidós mil de ellos.

6 Luego puso varias guarniciones militares en Damasco, la capital aramea, y los arameos se convirtieron en súbditos de David y le pagaban tributo. Así que el Señor
le daba la victoria a David dondequiera que iba.

7 David llevó a Jerusalén los escudos de oro de los oficiales de Hadad-ezer,