1 Chronicles 18:8

1 Chronicles 18:8

6 Then David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus; and the Syrians became David’s servants, and brought tribute. So the Lord preserved David wherever he went.

7 And David took the shields of gold that were on the servants of Hadadezer, and brought them to Jerusalem.

8 Also from¹ Tibhath and from Chun, cities of Hadadezer, David brought a large amount of ^abronze, with which ^bSolomon made the bronze Sea, the pillars, and the articles of bronze.

9 Now when¹ Tou king of Hamath heard that David had defeated all the army of Hadadezer king of Zobah,

10 he sent¹ Hadoram his son to King David, to greet him and bless him, because he had fought against Hadadezer and defeated him (for Hadadezer had been at war with Tou); and Hadoram brought with him all kinds of ^aarticles of gold, silver, and bronze.

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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from Tibhath and from Chun—These places are called Betah and Berothai (II Samuel 8:8). Perhaps the one might be the Jewish, the other the Syrian, name of these towns. Neither their situation nor the connection between them is known. The Arabic version makes them to be Emesa (now Hems) and Baal-bek, both of which agree very well with the relative position of Zobah.

1 Chronicles 18:4-8

And David took from him a thousand chariots—(See on II Samuel 8:3-14). In II Samuel 8:4 David is said to have taken seven hundred horsemen, whereas here it is said that he took seven thousand. This great discrepancy in the text of the two narratives seems to have originated with a transcriber in confounding the two Hebrew letters which indicate the numbers, and in neglecting to mark or obscure the points over one of them. We have no means of ascertaining whether seven hundred or seven thousand be the more correct. Probably the former should be adopted [DAVIDSON'S HERMENUTICS].

but reserved of them an hundred chariots—probably to grace a triumphal procession on his return to Jerusalem, and after using them in that way, destroy them like the rest.

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