2 Samuel 10:19

Contextual Overview

¹⁵ And when the Syrians saw that they were put to the worse before Israel, they gathered themselves together. ¹⁵ The Arameans now realized that they were no match for Israel. So when they regrouped, ¹⁵ And when the Syrians saw that they were put to the worse before Israel, they gathered themselves together. ¹⁵ When the Arameans saw that Israel had defeated them, they came together into one big army. ¹⁵ When the Arameans realized that they had been defeated by Israel, they consolidated their forces. ¹⁵ And when the Syrians saw that they were smitten before Israel, they assembled themselves. ¹⁵ When the Syrians saw that they were put to the worse before Israel, they gathered themselves together. ¹⁵When the Arameans saw that they were defeated by Israel, they gathered together. ¹⁵ But when the Syrians saw that they had been defeated by Israel, they gathered themselves together. ¹⁵ Forsothe men of Sirye sien that thei hadden feld bifor Israel, and thei weren gaderid to gidere.

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servants: Genesis 14:1-5, Joshua 11:10, Judges 1:7, 1 Kings 20:1, Daniel 2:37

feared: 2 Samuel 8:6, 1 Chronicles 19:19, Psalms 18:37, Psalms 18:38, Psalms 48:4, Psalms 48:5, Isaiah 26:11, Revelation 18:10

Reciprocal: Psalms 119:67 - Before

Cross-References

Genesis 10:1
These are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sons were born to them after the flood.

Genesis 10:1
Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, [namely], of Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and to them were sons born after the flood.

Genesis 10:1
This is the family history of Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah. After the flood these three men had sons.

Genesis 10:1
This is the account of Noah's sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sons were born to them after the flood.

Genesis 10:1
Now these [are] the generations of the sons of Noah; Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and to them were sons born after the flood.

Genesis 10:1
Now this is the history of the generations of the sons of Noah and of Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sons were born to them after the flood.

Genesis 10:1
These are the records of the generations (descendants) of Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah; and the sons born to them after the flood:

Genesis 10:1
These ben the generaciouns of the sones of Noe, Sem, Cham, and Jafeth. And sones weren borun to hem aftir the greet flood.

Genesis 10:1
And these [are] births of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth; and born to them are sons after the deluge.

Genesis 10:1
This is the account of Noah's sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, who also had sons after the flood.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And when all the kings [that were] servants to Hadarezer,.... That were subject to him, and at his beck and command, at least were hired by him into his service:

saw that they were smitten before Israel; could not stand their ground against them, being too powerful for them;

they made peace with Israel, and served them; became tributaries to them, whereby the promise of the land of Canaan made to Abraham and his seed, as reaching to the river Euphrates, had its accomplishment, Genesis 15:18;

so the Syrians feared to help the children of Ammon any more; who standing by themselves, they were soon and easily conquered by David's forces, as recorded in the following chapters.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Servants to Hadarezer - This gives us an idea of the great power of Hadarezer, and consequently of the strength of Israel in David’s victorious reign.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Samuel 10:19. Made peace with Israel — They made this peace separately, and were obliged to pay tribute to the Israelites. Some copies of the Vulgate add here after the word Israel, Expaverunt et fugerunt quinquaginta et octo millia coram Israel; "and they were panic-struck, and fled fifty-eight thousand of them before Israel." This reading is nowhere else to be found. "Thus," observes Dr. Delaney, "the arms of David were blessed; and God accomplished the promises which he had made to Abraham, Genesis 15:18, and renewed to Joshua, Joshua 1:2; Joshua 1:4." And thus, in the space of nineteen or twenty years, David had the good fortune to finish gloriously eight wars, all righteously undertaken, and all honourably terminated; viz.

1. The civil war with Ish-bosheth.

2. The war against the Jebusites.

3. The war against the Philistines and their allies.

4. The war against the Philistines alone.

5. The war against the Moabites.

6. The war against Hadadezer.

7. The war against the Idumeans.

8. The war against the Ammonites and Syrians.

This last victory was soon followed by the complete conquest of the kingdom of the Ammonites, abandoned by their allies. What glory to the monarch of Israel, had not the splendour of this illustrious epoch been obscured by a complication of crimes, of which one could never have even suspected him capable!

WE have now done with the first part of this book, in which we find David great, glorious, and pious: we come to the second part, in which we shall have the pain to observe him fallen from God, and his horn defiled in the dust by crimes of the most flagitious nature. Let him that most assuredly standeth take heed lest he fall.