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1 Chronicles 19:2

in 1 Chronicles 19

And David said, “I will show kindness to Hanun son of Nahash, because his father showed kindness to me.” So David sent messengers to console Hanun concerning his father. But when David’s servants arrived in the land of the Ammonites to console him,

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

And David said, I will show kindness unto Hanun the son of Nahash, because his father showed kindness to me. So David sent messengers to comfort him concerning his father. And David’s servants came into the land of the children of Ammon to Hanun, to comfort him.

KJV

And David said, I will shew kindness unto Hanun the son of Nahash, because his father shewed kindness to me. And David sent messengers to comfort him concerning his father. So the servants of David came into the land of the children of Ammon to Hanun, to comfort him.

This verse in 1 Chronicles 19

Commentary

3 notes on this verse
Hanun - A Philistine king of this name is mentioned in the Assyrian inscriptions as paying tribute to Tiglath-pileser and warring with Sargon.

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 Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

That is becomes good people to be neighbourly, and especially to be grateful. David will pay respect to Hanun because he is his neighbour; and religion teaches us to be civil and obliging to all, to honour all men, and to be ready to do all offices of kindness to those we live among; nor must difference in religion be any obstruction to this.

The words behind it

29 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.

  • וַיֹּ֨אמֶרand he said

    vaiyomerH5595305 times

  • דָּוִ֜ידDavid

    davidH1732999 times

  • אֶֽעֱשֶׂה־I will do

    ʾeeseh-H62132628 times

  • חֶ֣סֶד׀loyalty

    chesedH2617247 times

  • עִם־with

    ʾim-H59731050 times

  • חָנ֣וּןHanun

    chanunH258611 times

  • בֶּן־[the] son of

    ben-H11214930 times

  • נָחָ֗שׁNahash

    nachashH517610 times

  • כִּֽי־for

    ki-H35884482 times

  • עָשָׂ֨הhe did

    ʾasahH62132628 times

  • אָבִ֤יוfather his

    ʾavivH11212 times

  • עִמִּי֙with me

    ʾimiH59731050 times

  • חֶ֔סֶדloyalty

    chesedH2617247 times

  • וַיִּשְׁלַ֥חand he sent

    vaiyishlachH7971845 times

  • דָּוִ֛ידDavid

    davidH1732999 times

  • מַלְאָכִ֖יםmessengers

    malakhimH4397213 times

  • לְנַחֲמ֣וֹto comfort him

    lenachamoH5162108 times

  • עַל־on

    ʾal-H59215755 times

  • אָבִ֑יוfather his

    ʾavivH11212 times

  • וַיָּבֹאוּ֩and they came

    vaiyavouH9352568 times

  • עַבְדֵ֨י[the] servants of

    ʾavdeiH5650799 times

  • דָוִ֜ידDavid

    davidH1732999 times

  • אֶל־into

    ʾel-H4135510 times

  • אֶ֧רֶץ[the] land of

    ʾeretzH7762504 times

  • בְּנֵי־[the] people of

    benei-H11214930 times

  • עַמּ֛וֹןAmmon

    amonH5983106 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H4135510 times

  • חָנ֖וּןHanun

    chanunH258611 times

  • לְנַחֲמֽוֹ׃to comfort him

    lenachamoH5162108 times

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

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

    Nehemiah 4:7

    When Sanballat and Tobiah, together with the Arabs, Ammonites, and Ashdodites, heard that the repair to the walls of Jerusalem was progressing and that the gaps were being closed, they were furious,

    it leads to

    • Nehemiah 2:10

      But when Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite official heard about this, they were deeply disturbed that someone had come to seek the well-being of the Israelites.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Nehemiah 4:1

      Now when Sanballat heard that we were rebuilding the wall, he was furious and filled with indignation. He ridiculed the Jews

    • Revelation 12:12–13

      Therefore rejoice, O heavens, and you who dwell in them! But woe to the earth and the sea; with great fury the devil has come down to you, knowing he has only a short…

    • Revelation 12:17

      And the dragon was enraged at the woman, and went to make war with the rest of her children, who keep the commandments of God and hold to the testimony of Jesus. And the…

    • Amos 1:13

      This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of the Ammonites, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they ripped open the pregnant women of Gilead in order to enlarge their…

  • Through

    Nehemiah 4:3

    Then Tobiah the Ammonite, who was beside him, said, “If even a fox were to climb up on what they are building, it would break down their wall of stones!”

    it leads to

    • Nehemiah 2:19

      But when Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the Ammonite official, and Geshem the Arab heard about this, they mocked us and ridiculed us, saying, “What is this you are doing? Are you rebelling against the…

    • 1 Kings 20:18

      “If they have marched out in peace,” he said, “take them alive. Even if they have marched out for war, take them alive.”

  • Through

    1 Samuel 30:26

    When David arrived in Ziklag, he sent some of the plunder to his friends, the elders of Judah, saying, “Here is a gift for you from the plunder of the LORD’s enemies.”

    it leads to

    • 1 Samuel 25:27

      Now let this gift your servant has brought to my lord be given to the young men who follow you.

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.

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Keil, The Books of the Chronicles and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.