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Selected Verse: 2 Samuel 11:1 - Strong Concordance
Verse |
Translation |
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2Sa 11:1 |
Strong Concordance |
And it came to pass, after the year [08141] was expired [08666], at the time [06256] when kings [04428] [04397] go forth [03318] to battle, that David [01732] sent [07971] Joab [03097], and his servants [05650] with him, and all Israel [03478]; and they destroyed [07843] the children [01121] of Ammon [05983], and besieged [06696] Rabbah [07237]. But David [01732] tarried still [03427] at Jerusalem [03389]. |
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King James |
And it came to pass, after the year was expired, at the time when kings go forth to battle, that David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the children of Ammon, and besieged Rabbah. But David tarried still at Jerusalem. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
JOAB BESIEGES RABBAH. (Sa2 11:1)
at the time when kings go forth to battle--The return of spring was the usual time of commencing military operations. This expedition took place the year following the war against the Syrians; and it was entered upon because the disaster of the former campaign having fallen chiefly upon the Syrian mercenaries, the Ammonites had not been punished for their insult to the ambassadors.
David sent Joab and his servants . . . they destroyed the children of Ammon--The powerful army that Joab commanded ravaged the Ammonite country and committed great havoc both on the people and their property, until having reached the capital, they besieged Rabbah-- Rabbah denotes a great city. This metropolis of the Ammonites was situated in the mountainous tract of Gilead, not far from the source of the Arnon. Extensive ruins are still found on its site. |
Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
After the year was expired - The next spring after the escape of the Ammonites into their city Sa2 10:14.
The children of Ammon - The marginal reference supplies the word "the land of," which is obviously the right reading.
David tarried at Jerusalem - The Syrians being subdued, the war with Ammon was not of sufficient moment to require David's personal presence. The whole section relating to David's adultery and Uriah's death, from this verse to Sa2 12:26, is omitted in the Book of Chronicles. |
Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
(Cf. Ch1 20:1). Siege of Rabbah. - "And it came to pass at the return of the year, at the time when the kings marched out, that David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah: but David remained in Jerusalem." This verse is connected with Sa2 10:14, where it was stated that after Joab had put to flight the Aramaeans who came to the help of the Ammonites, and when the Ammonites also had fallen back before Abishai in consequence of this victory, and retreated into their fortified capital, Joab himself returned to Jerusalem. He remained there during the winter or rainy season, in which it was impossible that war should be carried on. At the return of the year, i.e., at the commencement of spring, with which the new years began in the month Abib (Nisan), the time when kings who were engaged in war were accustomed to open their campaign, David sent Joab his commander-in-chief with the whole of the Israelitish forces to attack the Ammonites once more, for the purpose of chastising them and conquering their capital. The Chethibh המּלאכים should be changed into המּלכים, according to the Keri and the text of the Chronicles. The א interpolated is a perfectly superfluous mater lectionis, and probably crept into the text from a simple oversight. The "servants" of David with Joab were not the men performing military service, or soldiers, (in which case "all Israel" could only signify the people called out to war in extraordinary circumstances), but the king's military officers, the military commanders; and "all Israel," the whole of the military forces of Israel. Instead of "the children of Ammon" we find "the country of the children of Ammon," which explains the meaning more fully. But there was no necessity to insert ארץ (the land or country), as השׁחית is applied to men in other passages in the sense of "cast to the ground," or destroy (e.g., Sa1 26:15). Rabbah was the capital of Ammonitis (as in Jos 13:25): the fuller name was Rabbath of the children of Ammon. It has been preserved in the ruins which still exist under the ancient name of Rabbat-Ammn, on the Nahr Ammn, i.e., the upper Jabbok (see at Deu 3:11). The last clause, "but David sat (remained) in Jerusalem," leads on to the account which follows of David's adultery with Bathsheba (vv. 2-27 and 2 Samuel 12:1-25), which took place at that time, and is therefore inserted here, so that the conquest of Rabbah is not related till afterwards (Sa2 12:26-31). |
Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
After - When that year ended, and the next begun, which was in the spring time. When kings - Which is, when the ground is fit for the march of soldiers, and brings forth provision for man and beast. Tarried at Jerusalem - Had he been now in his post, at the head of his forces be had been out of the way of temptation. |
Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
When kings go forth - This was about a year after the war with the Syrians spoken of before, and about the spring of the year, as the most proper season for military operations. Calmet thinks they made two campaigns, one in autumn and the other in spring; the winter being in many respects inconvenient, and the summer too hot. |
1 And it came to pass, after the year [08141] was expired [08666], at the time [06256] when kings [04428] [04397] go forth [03318] to battle, that David [01732] sent [07971] Joab [03097], and his servants [05650] with him, and all Israel [03478]; and they destroyed [07843] the children [01121] of Ammon [05983], and besieged [06696] Rabbah [07237]. But David [01732] tarried still [03427] at Jerusalem [03389].
26 And Joab [03097] fought [03898] against Rabbah [07237] of the children [01121] of Ammon [05983], and took [03920] the royal [04410] city [05892].
14 And when the children [01121] of Ammon [05983] saw [07200] that the Syrians [0758] were fled [05127], then fled [05127] they also before [06440] Abishai [052], and entered [0935] into the city [05892]. So Joab [03097] returned [07725] from the children [01121] of Ammon [05983], and came [0935] to Jerusalem [03389].
26 And Joab [03097] fought [03898] against Rabbah [07237] of the children [01121] of Ammon [05983], and took [03920] the royal [04410] city [05892].
27 And Joab [03097] sent [07971] messengers [04397] to David [01732], and said [0559], I have fought [03898] against Rabbah [07237], and have taken [03920] the city [05892] of waters [04325].
28 Now therefore gather [0622] the rest [03499] of the people [05971] together [0622], and encamp [02583] against the city [05892], and take [03920] it: lest I take [03920] the city [05892], and it be called [07121] after my name [08034].
29 And David [01732] gathered [0622] all the people [05971] together [0622], and went [03212] to Rabbah [07237], and fought [03898] against it, and took [03920] it.
30 And he took [03947] their king's [04428] crown [05850] from off his head [07218], the weight [04948] whereof was a talent [03603] of gold [02091] with the precious [03368] stones [068]: and it was set on David's [01732] head [07218]. And he brought forth [03318] the spoil [07998] of the city [05892] in great [03966] abundance [07235].
31 And he brought forth [03318] the people [05971] that were therein, and put [07760] them under saws [04050], and under harrows [02757] of iron [01270], and under axes [04037] of iron [01270], and made them pass [05674] through the brickkiln [04404]: and thus did [06213] he unto all the cities [05892] of the children [01121] of Ammon [05983]. So David [01732] and all the people [05971] returned [07725] unto Jerusalem [03389].
11 For only Og [05747] king [04428] of Bashan [01316] remained [07604] of the remnant [03499] of giants [07497]; behold, his bedstead [06210] was a bedstead [06210] of iron [01270]; is it not [03808] in Rabbath [07237] of the children [01121] of Ammon [05983]? nine [08672] cubits [0520] was the length [0753] thereof, and four [0702] cubits [0520] the breadth [07341] of it, after the cubit [0520] of a man [0376].
25 And their coast [01366] was Jazer [03270], and all the cities [05892] of Gilead [01568], and half [02677] the land [0776] of the children [01121] of Ammon [05983], unto Aroer [06177] that is before [06440] Rabbah [07237];
15 And David [01732] said [0559] to Abner [074], Art not thou a valiant man [0376]? and who is like to thee in Israel [03478]? wherefore then hast thou not kept [08104] thy lord [0113] the king [04428]? for there came [0935] one [0259] of the people [05971] in to destroy [07843] the king [04428] thy lord [0113].
14 And when the children [01121] of Ammon [05983] saw [07200] that the Syrians [0758] were fled [05127], then fled [05127] they also before [06440] Abishai [052], and entered [0935] into the city [05892]. So Joab [03097] returned [07725] from the children [01121] of Ammon [05983], and came [0935] to Jerusalem [03389].
1 And it came to pass, that after [06256] the year [08141] was expired [08666], at the time [06256] that kings [04428] go out [03318] to battle, Joab [03097] led forth [05090] the power [02428] of the army [06635], and wasted [07843] the country [0776] of the children [01121] of Ammon [05983], and came [0935] and besieged [06696] Rabbah [07237]. But David [01732] tarried [03427] at Jerusalem [03389]. And Joab [03097] smote [05221] Rabbah [07237], and destroyed [02040] it.