Morning Bible Study 2 Samuel 10:1-10 2Sa 10:1 The king of Ammon died. His son Hanun became the next king after him. 2Sa 10:2 David thought, Im going to be kind to Hanun. His father Nahash was kind to me. So David sent messengers to Hanun. He wanted them to tell Hanun how sad he was that Hanuns father had died. Davids messengers went to the land of Ammon. 2Sa 10:3 The Ammonite nobles spoke to their master Hanun. They said, David has sent messengers to tell you he is sad. They say he wants to honor your father. But the real reason theyve come is to look the city over. They want to destroy it. 2Sa 10:4 So Hanun grabbed hold of Davids men. He shaved off half of each mans beard. He cut their clothes off just below the waist and left them half naked. Then he sent them away. 2Sa 10:5 David was told about it. So he sent messengers to his men because they were filled with shame. King David said to them, Stay at Jericho until your beards grow out again. Then come back here. 2Sa 10:6 The Ammonites realized that what they had done had made David very angry with them. So they hired 20,000 Aramean soldiers who were on foot. The soldiers came from Beth Rehob and Zobah. The Ammonites also hired the king of Maacah and 1,000 men. And they hired 12,000 men from Tob. 2Sa 10:7 David heard about it. So he sent Joab out with the entire army of Israels fighting men. 2Sa 10:8 The Ammonites marched out. They took up their battle positions at the entrance of their city gate. The Arameans of Zobah and Rehob gathered their troops together in the open country. So did the men of Tob and Maacah. 2Sa 10:9 Joab saw that there were lines of soldiers in front of him and behind him. So he chose some of the best troops in Israel. He sent them to march out against the Arameans. 2Sa 10:10 He put the rest of the men under the command of his brother Abishai. Joab sent them to march out against the Ammonites. The Holy Bible, New International Readers Version Copyright © 1995, 1996, 1998 by International Bible Society The NIrV and New International Readers Version trademarks are registered in the United States Patent and Trademark Office by International Bible Society. Use of either trademark requires the permission of International Bible Society. My Commentary David tried and to do the right thing and pay respect for a fallen King. However His son does not believe David has good intentions and sends an army to strike down David after humiliating his envoy. God tells us that we are to give our battles over to God, no matter how big or small. Nothing is to big or small for God. Albert Barnes Notes on the Bible Albert Barnes (1798-1870) 2 Samuel 10:1 The king - In marginal reference. Nahash, king, etc. The interval between the two events, not less than 50 years, and possibly more, is against his being the same as the Nahash of 1Sa_11:1-15. The Ammonites are almost always spoken of as the children of Ammon, from the name of their first ancestor Ben-ammi Gen_19:38. Hanun - The equivalent of the Carthaginian Hanno, from the same root as the Hebrew, Hananiah, Johanan, Hannah, etc. The same name appears in composition with Baal in Baal-Hanan, an Aramean king Gen_36:38-39. 2 Samuel 10:2 The history does not record any instance of Nahash’s kindness to David, but the enmity of the house of Nahash against Saul may have disposed him favorably toward Saul’s enemy David, and if there was any family connection between David’s house and Nahash 2Sa_17:25 this may have increased the friendship. 2 Samuel 10:3 The princes ... - Compare Rehoboam’s advisers 1Ki_12:10-11. It is not improbable that David’s severe treatment of Moab 2Sa_8:2 was in part the cause of the fear of the Ammonites that a similar treatment was in store for themselves. 2 Samuel 10:4 In 1Ch_19:4, more concisely “shaved.” Cutting off a person’s beard is regarded by the Arabs as an indignity equal to flogging and branding among ourselves. The loss of their long garments, so essential to Oriental dignity, was no less insulting than that of their beards. 2 Samuel 10:6 Stank ... - A strong figure for to be odious or detested. Compare the marginal references The Syrians of Beth-rehob - If identical with the Mesopotamians of 1Ch_19:6, Beth-rehob is the same as Rehoboth by the river Gen_36:37. Others think Beth-rehob (Rehob, 2Sa_10:8) the same as the Rehob and Beth-rehob of Num_13:21, near Hamath (perhaps the modern ruin of Hunin). If so, Beth-rehob, as well as Tob, must have been a colony of Aram Naharaim (compare the numbers in 1Ch_19:7 and here). Syrians of Zoba - Compare 1Sa_14:47 note. King Maacah - Read the “King of Maacah” 1Ch_19:6-7. For the position of Maacah, see Deu_3:14; Jos_12:5. It appears to have been a very small state, since its king only brought a thousand men into the field. Ish-tob - See the margin. Tob was the district where Jephthah fled when driven out by the Gileadites. 2 Samuel 10:7 This sufficiently indicates the greatness of the danger to Israel from this formidable league of Ammonites and Syrians. 2 Samuel 10:8 Came out - From their city, Rabbah Deu_3:11, Deu_3:15 or 20 miles from Medeba, where 1Ch_19:7 the Syrian army was encamped. Medeba (modern Madeba) was taken from Sihon Num_21:30, and fell to Reuben Jos_13:9, Jos_13:16; in the reign of Ahaz it seems to have returned to Moab Isa_15:2, and in the time of the Maccabees to the Amorites (1 Macc. 9:36, 37). In church history it was a bishop’s see. In the field - i. e. in the plain below the round rocky hill on which the city stood. 2 Samuel 10:9 The two armies of the Ammonites and the Syrians were drawn up facing one another; the Ammonites supported by the city Rabbah behind them; the Syrians in great force, with numerous chariots able to manoeuvre in the plain in front of Medeba. If Joab advanced against either, he would have the other in his rear.
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