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1 Chronicles 18:5

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When the Arameans of Damascus came to help King Hadadezer of Zobah, David struck down twenty-two thousand men.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And when the Syrians of Damascus came to succor Hadarezer king of Zobah, David smote of the Syrians two and twenty thousand men.

KJV

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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This verse in 1 Chronicles 18

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

In 2Sa 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.

This site's exposition

took Gath and its villages

on 1 Chronicles 18:1-6

The wars summary runs parallel to 2 Sam 8:1-6: the Philistines and Gath, Moab made to pay tribute, and Hadadezer of Zobah. A refrain brackets the chapter: “So the LORD made David victorious wherever he went”. It stands at verse 6 and returns word for word at verse 13.

This site's exposition

the Arameans of Damascus came

The Arameans of Damascus come to help Hadadezer of Zobah, and David strikes down twenty-two thousand of them. The help only adds to the losses. Matthew Henry notes on verse 4 that the enemies of God's church often ruin themselves by helping one another.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

The Syrians of Damascus were smitten when they came to help Hadarezer. When hand thus joins in hand they shall not only not go unpunished, but thereby they shall be gathered as the sheaves into the floor, Mic. iv. The wealth of the sinner sometimes proves to have been laid up for the just.

The words behind it

14 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיָּבֹא֙and it came

    vaiyavo'H935 →2568 times

  • אֲרַ֣םAram

    ʾaramH758 →143 times

  • דַּרְמֶ֔שֶׂקDamascus

    darmesekH1834 →

  • לַעְז֕וֹרto help

    la'zorH5826 →81 times

  • לַהֲדַדְעֶ֖זֶר<to> Hadadezer

    lahadadezerH1928 →12 times

  • מֶ֣לֶךְ[the] king of

    melekhH4428 →2525 times

  • צוֹבָ֑הZobah

    tzovahH6678 →12 times

  • וַיַּ֤ךְand he struck down

    vaiyakhH5221 →499 times

  • דָּוִיד֙David

    davidH1732 →999 times

  • בַּאֲרָ֔םin Aram

    baaramH758 →143 times

  • עֶשְׂרִֽים־twenty

    ʾesrim-H6242 →315 times

  • וּשְׁנַ֥יִםand two

    ushenayimH8147 →768 times

  • אֶ֖לֶףthousand

    ʾelefH505 →505 times

  • אִֽישׁ׃man

    ʾishH376 →1663 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

9 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

1 Chronicles 19:6When the Ammonites realized that they had become a stench to David, Hanun and the Ammonites sent a thousand talents of silver to hire for themselves chariots and horsemen from Aram-naharaim, Aram-maacah, and Zobah.3 worksIsaiah 8:9–10Huddle together, O peoples, and be shattered; pay attention, all you distant lands; prepare for battle, and be shattered; prepare for battle, and be shattered!3 works2 Samuel 8:5–6When the Arameans of Damascus came to help King Hadadezer of Zobah, David struck down twenty-two thousand men.3 works1 Samuel 14:47After Saul had assumed the kingship over Israel, he fought against all his enemies on every side—the Moabites, the Ammonites, the Edomites, the kings of Zobah, and the Philistines. Wherever he turned, he routed them.2 works1 Kings 11:23–24And God raised up against Solomon another adversary, Rezon the son of Eliada, who had fled from his master, Hadadezer king of Zobah,2 works1 Chronicles 18:3As far as Hamath, David also defeated King Hadadezer of Zobah, who had marched out to establish his dominion along the Euphrates River.2 works
The other 3 cross-references, with their words ▾
2 Samuel 10:16Hadadezer sent messengers to bring more Arameans from beyond the Euphrates, and they came to Helam with Shobach the commander of Hadadezer’s army leading them.2 worksEzekiel 47:16On the north side it will extend from the Great Sea by way of Hethlon through Lebo-hamath to Zedad, Berothah, and Sibraim (which is on the border between Damascus and Hamath), as far as Hazer-hatticon, which is on the border of Hauran.2 worksIsaiah 17:1This is the burden against Damascus: “Behold, Damascus is no longer a city; it has become a heap of ruins.1 works

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    1 Samuel 14:47

    After Saul had assumed the kingship over Israel, he fought against all his enemies on every side—the Moabites, the Ammonites, the Edomites, the kings of Zobah, and the Philistines. Wherever he turned, he routed…

    it leads to

    • 2 Samuel 10:6

      When the Ammonites realized that they had become a stench to David, they hired twenty thousand Aramean foot soldiers from Beth-rehob and Zoba, as well as a thousand men from the king of Maacah…

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • 1 Samuel 14:52

      And the war with the Philistines was fierce for all the days of Saul. So whenever he noticed any strong or brave man, Saul would enlist him.

    • 1 Samuel 12:2

      Now here is the king walking before you, and I am old and gray, and my sons are here with you. I have walked before you from my youth until this day.

    • 1 Samuel 11:1–13

      Soon Nahash the Ammonite came up and laid siege to Jabesh-gilead. All the men of Jabesh said to him, “Make a treaty with us, and we will serve you.”

  • Through

    1 Chronicles 19:6

    When the Ammonites realized that they had become a stench to David, Hanun and the Ammonites sent a thousand talents of silver to hire for themselves chariots and horsemen from Aram-naharaim, Aram-maacah, and Zobah.

    it leads to

    • 1 Chronicles 18:9

      When King Tou of Hamath heard that David had defeated the entire army of Hadadezer king of Zobah,

    • Genesis 34:30

      Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought trouble upon me by making me a stench to the Canaanites and Perizzites, the people of this land. We are few in number; if…

    • 2 Chronicles 27:5

      Jotham waged war against the king of the Ammonites and defeated them, and that year they gave him a hundred talents of silver, ten thousand cors of wheat, and ten thousand cors of barley.…

    • 2 Chronicles 16:2–3

      So Asa withdrew the silver and gold from the treasuries of the house of the LORD and the royal palace, and he sent it with this message to Ben-hadad king of Aram, who was…

Where this verse is studied

About 1 Chronicles

King David Playing the Harp, Gerard van Honthorst, 1622. Public domain.
King David Playing the Harp, Gerard van Honthorst, 1622. Public domain.
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This page draws on Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Keil, The Books of the Chronicles and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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