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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - 1 Chronicles 19:6 - 19:6
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1Ch 19:6-15. Joab and Abishai overcome the Ammonites.
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 about $2,000,000 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 (1Ch 19:16). Syria-maachah lay on the north of the possessions of the trans-jordanic Israelites, near Gilead.
Zobah - (see on 1Ch 18:3).