When the Syrians of Damascus came to help Hadadezer king of Zobah, David struck twenty-two thousand men of the Syrians.
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When the Syrians of Damascus came to help Hadadezer king of Zobah, David struck twenty-two thousand men of the Syrians.
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And when the Syrians of Damascus came to help Hadarezer king of Zobah, David slew of the Syrians two and twenty thousand men.
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And when the Arameans of Damascus came to succour Hadarezer king of Zobah, David smote of the Arameans two and twenty thousand men.
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Passages linked to 1 Chronicles 18:5 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- 2 Samuel 8:5-6 When the Syrians of Damascus came to help Hadadezer king of Zobah, David struck twenty two thousand men of the Syrians. Then David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus; and the Syrians became servants to David, and brought tribute. Yahweh gave victory to David wherever he went.
- 1 Chronicles 19:6 When the children of Ammon saw that they had made themselves odious to David, Hanun and the children of Ammon sent one thousand talents of silver to hire chariots and horsemen out of Mesopotamia, out of Aram-maacah, and out of Zobah.
- Isaiah 8:9-10 Make an uproar, you peoples, and be broken in pieces! Listen, all you from far countries: dress for battle, and be shattered! Dress for battle, and be shattered! Take counsel together, and it will be brought to nothing; speak the word, and it will not stand, for God is with us.”
- 1 Samuel 14:47 Now when Saul had taken the kingdom over Israel, he fought against all his enemies on every side, against Moab, and against the children of Ammon, and against Edom, and against the kings of Zobah, and against the Philistines. Wherever he turned himself, he defeated them.
- 1 Kings 11:23-24 God raised up an adversary to him, Rezon the son of Eliada, who had fled from his lord Hadadezer king of Zobah. He gathered men to himself, and became captain over a troop, when David killed them of Zobah. They went to Damascus, and lived there, and reigned in Damascus.
- 1 Chronicles 18:3 David defeated Hadadezer king of Zobah to Hamath, as he went to establish his dominion by the river Euphrates.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain 1Ch 18:5-6. When the Syrians came to help Hadarezer,…
1Ch 18:5-6. When the Syrians came to help Hadarezer, David slew of the Syrians, &c. — Thus the enemies of God’s church are often made to ruin themselves by helping one another. The Syrians became David’s servants, and brought gifts — For the wealth of the sinner often proves to have been laid up for the just. The Syrians’ shields of gold, and their brass, were brought to Jerusalem, 1Ch 18:7-8. As the tabernacle was built of the spoils of the Egyptians, so the temple of the spoils of other Gentile nations: a happy presage of the interest the Gentiles should have in the gospel church.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Damascus. Hebrew, "Aram of Darmesek." Elsewhere the r is…
Damascus. Hebrew, "Aram of Darmesek." Elsewhere the r is omitted.
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 5. Damascus] The name is variously written in Heb.,…
5. Damascus] The name is variously written in Heb., Darmesek (Chron.), Dammesek (Gen., 1 Kin.), Dummesek (2Ki_16:10). In Arabic it is Dimishk. See Bädeker, p. 306 ff. and Kirkpatrick on 2Sa_8:5.
came to help] By interposing between David and his own land and threatening his rear.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (5) And when the Syrians of Damascus came.—Literally, And…
(5) And when the Syrians of Damascus came.—Literally, And Aram of Damascus came. The verb is masculine here, feminine in Samuel. (Comp. 1Ch_18:2.)
Damascus.—Heb., Darmèseq, a late form, occurring again in 2Ch_28:5; 2Ch_28:23 (= ancient Dammèseq). In Syriac the name is similar: Darmĕsûq. The Arabic is Dimashqu, the cuneiform Dimashqa or Dimmasqa.
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David slew of the Syrians.—Literally, smote in Aram. The preposition is partitive.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain The Hebrew text of Damascus, here, next verse, and…
The Hebrew text of Damascus, here, next verse, and also 2Ch_28:5, spells the word with a resh, omitting the dagesh forte in the mere following, which Gesenius instances (see his "Lexicon as the Syriac orthography.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 killed twenty-two thousand
killed twenty-two thousand
"killed 22,000" (See: Numbers)
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garrisons
groups of soldiers assigned to particular areas
Yahweh gave victory to David
"Yahweh caused David to be victorious"
translationWords
Aram
Damascus
servant
tribute
Yahweh
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