Skip to content
mannafest.faith
Read

1 Chronicles 19:1

in 1 Chronicles 19

Some time later, Nahash king of the Ammonites died and was succeeded by his son.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And it came to pass after this, that Nahash the king of the children of Ammon died, and his son reigned in his stead.

KJV

Now it came to pass after this, that Nahash the king of the children of Ammon died, and his son reigned in his stead.

⋯

This verse in 1 Chronicles 19

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

Nahash the king of the children of Ammon died

on 1 Chronicles 19:1-2

Nahash's death and David's embassy of comfort to Hanun repeat 2 Samuel 10:1-2 almost word for word, and the Samuel exposition already carries the history behind Nahash's earlier kindness to David. Chronicles keeps the episode because it explains the war that follows rather than to add anything of its own to it. Kindness offered becomes kindness suspected, and in the next verses suspicion becomes the cause of a war neither side needed.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century3 voices

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

after this--This phrase seems to indicate that the incident now to be related took place immediately, or soon after the wars described in the preceding chapter. But the chronological order is loosely observed, and the only just inference that can be drawn from the use of this phrase is, that some farther account is to be given of the wars against the Syrians.

quarantine:debris (2026-07-29) — starts-lowercase

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

Now it came to pass - See the same history, 2Sa 10:1 (note), etc., and the notes there.
Compare the marginal references and notes. The writer here adds one or two touches, and varies in one or two of the numbers.

The words behind it

11 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.

  • וַיְהִי֙and it was

    vayhiH1961 →3559 times

  • אַחֲרֵי־after

    ʾacharei-H310 →715 times

  • כֵ֔ןthus

    khenH3651 →771 times

  • וַיָּ֕מָתand he died

    vaiyamotH4191 →839 times

  • נָחָ֖שׁNahash

    nachashH5176 →10 times

  • מֶ֣לֶךְ[the] king of

    melekhH4428 →2525 times

  • בְּנֵי־[the] people of

    benei-H1121 →4930 times

  • עַמּ֑וֹןAmmon

    amonH5983 →106 times

  • וַיִּמְלֹ֥ךְand he reigned

    vaiyimlokhH4427 →348 times

  • בְּנ֖וֹson his

    benoH1121 →4930 times

  • תַּחְתָּֽיו׃in place of him

    tachtavH8478 →505 times

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

Related verses

3 in all, six open

The walk

5 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 12:12

    But when you saw that Nahash king of the Ammonites was moving against you, you said to me, ‘No, we must have a king to rule over us’—even though the LORD your God was…

    it leads to

    • Judges 8:23

      But Gideon replied, “I will not rule over you, nor will my son. The LORD shall rule over you.”

    • 1 Samuel 8:5–7

      “Look,” they said, “you are old, and your sons do not walk in your ways. Now appoint a king to judge us like all the other nations.”

    • 1 Samuel 11:1–2

      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.”

    • Genesis 17:7

      I will establish My covenant as an everlasting covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.

    • 1 Samuel 10:19

      But today you have rejected your God, who saves you from all your troubles and afflictions, and you have said to Him, ‘No, set a king over us.’ Now therefore present yourselves before the…

About 1 Chronicles

Cedars Are Cut Down for the Jerusalem Temple, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Cedars Are Cut Down for the Jerusalem Temple, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
1 Chronicles: the study guide →Read 1 Chronicles 19 →

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); 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.

Read on in 1 Chronicles 19 →