2 Samuel 8:13 BSB — MannaFest

2 Samuel 8:13

And David made a name for himself when he returned from striking down eighteen thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt.

BSB

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ASV

And David gat him a name when he returned from smiting the Syrians in the Valley of Salt, even eighteen thousand men.

KJV

And David gat him a name when he returned from smiting of the Syrians in the valley of salt, being eighteen thousand men.

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Commentary

3 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

The Syrians - Read the Edomites, as in marginal references (compare Psa 60:1-12 title), and as the context 2Sa 8:14 requires. For a further account of this war of extermination with Edom, see 1Ki 11:15-16. The war with Edom was of some duration, not without serious reverses and dangers to the Israelites (2Sa 8:2 note). The different accounts probably relate to different parts of the campaign.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

He got himself a name for all that conduct and courage which are the praise of a great and distinguished general. Something extraordinary, it is likely, there was in that action, which turned very much to his honour, yet he is careful to transfer the honour to God, as appears by the psalm he penned on this occasion,

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

David gat him a name when he returned from smiting of the Syrians--Instead of Syrians, the Septuagint version reads "Edomites," which is the true reading, as is evident from 2Sa 8:14. This conquest, made by the army of David, was due to the skilful generalship and gallantry of Abishai and Joab.

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Original language & word study

12 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיַּ֤עַשׂ	vai.Ya.'as	and he made	H6213 →
דָּוִד֙	da.Vid	David	H1732 →
שֵׁ֔ם	Shem	a name	H8034 →
בְּשֻׁב֕וֹ	be.shu.Vo	when returned he	H7725 →
מֵהַכּוֹת֥וֹ	me.ha.ko.To	from defeating he	H5221 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
אֲרָ֖ם	'a.Ram	Aram	H758 →
בְּגֵיא־	be.gei'-	in [the] Valley of	H1516 →
מֶ֑לַח	Me.lach	Salt	H4417 →
שְׁמוֹנָ֥ה	she.mo.Nah	eight-	H8083 →
עָשָׂ֖ר	'a.Sar	teen	H6240 →
אָֽלֶף׃	'A.lef	thousand	H505 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Psalms 60:1
You have rejected us, O God; You have broken us; You have been angry; restore us!
leads to
- 2 Samuel 8:12–13
  from Edom and Moab, from the Ammonites and Philistines and Amalekites, and from the spoil of Hadadezer son of Rehob, king of Zobah.
- 2 Samuel 8:3
  David also defeated Hadadezer son of Rehob, king of Zobah, who had marched out to restore his dominion along the Euphrates River.
Through
2 Samuel 7:9
I have been with you wherever you have gone, and I have cut off all your enemies from before you. Now I will make for you a name like the greatest in the land.
leads to
- 2 Samuel 5:10
  And David became greater and greater, for the LORD God of Hosts was with him.
- 1 Chronicles 17:8
  I have been with you wherever you have gone, and I have cut off all your enemies from before you. Now I will make for you a name like the greatest in the land.
- 2 Samuel 8:6
  Then he placed garrisons in Aram of Damascus, and the Arameans became subject to David and brought him tribute. So the LORD made David victorious wherever he went.
- Psalms 18:37–42
  I pursued my enemies and overtook them; I did not turn back until they were consumed.
- 1 Samuel 18:14
  and he continued to prosper in all his ways, because the LORD was with him.
Through
1 Chronicles 18:12
Moreover, Abishai son of Zeruiah struck down eighteen thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt.
leads to
- Psalms 60:1
  You have rejected us, O God; You have broken us; You have been angry; restore us!
  Reached by 3 independent paths from here.

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