Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
JOAB AND ABISHAI OVERCOME THE AMMONITES. (I Chronicles 19:6-15)
when the children of Ammon saw that they had made themselves odious to David—One universal feeling of indignation was roused throughout Israel, and all classes supported the king in his determination to avenge this unprovoked insult on the Hebrew nation.
Hanun . . . sent a thousand talents of silver—a sum equal to £342,100, to procure the services of foreign mercenaries.
chariots and horsemen out of Mesopotamia . . . Syria-maachah, and . . . Zobah—The Mesopotamian troops did not arrive during this campaign (I Chronicles 19:16). Syria-maachah lay on the north of the possessions of the trans-jordanic Israelites, near Gilead.
Zobah—(see on I Chronicles 18:3).
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing 1 Chronicles 19:6:
2 Samuel 10:6-14
1 Chronicles 19:6
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