2 Samuel 10:19
in 2 Samuel 10When all the kings who were subject to Hadadezer saw that they had been defeated by Israel, they made peace with Israel and became subject to them. So the Arameans were afraid to help the Ammonites anymore.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And when all the kings that were servants to Hadarezer saw that they were put to the worse before Israel, they made peace with Israel, and served them. So the Syrians feared to help the children of Ammon any more.
KJV
And when all the kings that were servants to Hadarezer saw that they were smitten before Israel, they made peace with Israel, and served them. So the Syrians feared to help the children of Ammon any more.
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This verse in 2 Samuel 10
Commentary
7 notes on this verseA commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
Servants to Hadarezer - This gives us an idea of the great power of Hadarezer, and consequently of the strength of Israel in David’s victorious reign.
This site's exposition
passed over Jordan, and came to Helam
on 2 Samuel 10:17-19
This time David takes the field himself, gathers all Israel, crosses the Jordan, and meets the Syrians at Helam, where they break before Israel a second time and their commander Shobach dies in the rout. Every king who had served Hadarezer now makes peace with Israel and serves David instead, and the coalition that hired itself out to Ammon at the chapter's opening will not help them again. Wesley reads the outcome as the promise of the Euphrates border made to Abraham and repeated to Joshua reaching further than it had before, so a war that began over a shaved beard ends with Israel's border pressed toward where the covenant had said it would stand.
This site's exposition
they made peace with Israel
Clarke says each king made peace alone and paid tribute. Barnes measures the strength of Israel by the kings who had been subject to Hadadezer. Clarke counts eight wars David had won, and here the book turns toward his fall.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices
And served them - And thus at length was fulfilled the promise made to Abraham, and repeated to Joshua, that the borders of Israel should extend as far as the river Euphrates.
4 ), that the borders of Israel should extend to the river Euphrates, was performed, at length. (2.) The Ammonites lost their old allies: The Syrians feared to help the children of Ammon, not because they had an unrighteous cause (justifying a crime which was a breach of the law of nations), but because they found it was an unsuccessful cause.
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The Nineteenth Century1 voice
Made peace with Israel - They made this peace separately, and were obliged to pay tribute to the Israelites. Some copies of the Vulgate add here after the word Israel, Expaverunt et fugerunt quinquaginta et octo millia coram Israel; “and they were panic-struck, and fled fifty-eight thousand of them before Israel.” This reading is nowhere else to be found. “Thus,” observes Dr. Delaney, “the arms of David were blessed; and God accomplished the promises which he had made to Abraham, Gen 15:18, and renewed to Joshua, Jos 1:2, Jos 1:4.” And thus, in the space of nineteen or twenty years, David had the good fortune to finish gloriously eight wars, all righteously undertaken, and all honourably terminated; viz. 1. The civil war with Ish-bosheth. 2. The war against the Jebusites. 3. The war against the Philistines and their allies. 4. The war against the Philistines alone. 5. The war against the Moabites. 6. The war against Hadadezer. 7. The war against the Idumeans. 8. The war against the Ammonites and Syrians. This last victory was soon followed by the complete conquest of the kingdom of the Ammonites, abandoned by their allies. What glory to the monarch of Israel, had not the splendor of this illustrious epoch been obscured by a complication of crimes, of which one could never have even suspected him capable! We have now done with the first part of this book, in which we find David great, glorious, and pious: we come to the second part, in which we shall have the pain to observe him fallen from God, and his horn defiled in the dust by crimes of the most flagitious nature. Let him that most assuredly standeth take heed lest he fall.
The words behind it
20 Hebrew wordsEvery 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.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַיִּרְא֨וּ | vaiyiru | and they saw | H7200 → | 1300 times |
| כָֽל־ | khol- | all | H3605 → | 5413 times |
| הַמְּלָכִ֜ים | hamelakhim | the kings | H4428 → | 2525 times |
| עַבְדֵ֣י | ʾavdei | [the] servants of | H5650 → | 799 times |
| הֲדַדְעֶ֗זֶר | hadadezer | Hadadezer | H1928 → | 12 times |
| כִּ֤י | ki | that | H3588 → | 4482 times |
| נִגְּפוּ֙ | nigefu | they were defeated | H5062 → | 49 times |
| לִפְנֵ֣י | lifnei | <to> before | H6440 → | 2123 times |
| יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל | yisrael | Israel | H3478 → | 2507 times |
| וַיַּשְׁלִ֥מוּ | vaiyashlimu | and they made peace | H7999 → | 116 times |
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | with | H854 → | 929 times |
| יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל | yisrael | Israel | H3478 → | 2507 times |
| וַיַּֽעַבְד֑וּם | vaiyaavdum | and they served them | H5647 → | 288 times |
| וַיִּֽרְא֣וּ | vaiyiru | and they were afraid | H3372 → | 315 times |
| אֲרָ֔ם | ʾaram | Aram | H758 → | 143 times |
| לְהוֹשִׁ֥יעַ | lehoshia' | to deliver | H3467 → | 206 times |
| ע֖וֹד | od | again | H5750 → | 490 times |
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| בְּנֵ֥י | benei | [the] people of | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| עַמּֽוֹן׃ פ | amon | Ammon | H5983 → | 106 times |
וַיִּרְא֨וּand they saw
vaiyiruH7200 →1300 times
כָֽל־all
khol-H3605 →5413 times
הַמְּלָכִ֜יםthe kings
hamelakhimH4428 →2525 times
עַבְדֵ֣י[the] servants of
ʾavdeiH5650 →799 times
הֲדַדְעֶ֗זֶרHadadezer
hadadezerH1928 →12 times
כִּ֤יthat
kiH3588 →4482 times
נִגְּפוּ֙they were defeated
nigefuH5062 →49 times
לִפְנֵ֣י<to> before
lifneiH6440 →2123 times
יִשְׂרָאֵ֔לIsrael
yisraelH3478 →2507 times
וַיַּשְׁלִ֥מוּand they made peace
vaiyashlimuH7999 →116 times
אֶת־with
ʾet-H854 →929 times
יִשְׂרָאֵ֖לIsrael
yisraelH3478 →2507 times
וַיַּֽעַבְד֑וּםand they served them
vaiyaavdumH5647 →288 times
וַיִּֽרְא֣וּand they were afraid
vaiyiruH3372 →315 times
אֲרָ֔םAram
ʾaramH758 →143 times
לְהוֹשִׁ֥יעַto deliver
lehoshia'H3467 →206 times
ע֖וֹדagain
odH5750 →490 times
אֶת־<obj.>
ʾet-H853 →10935 times
בְּנֵ֥י[the] people of
beneiH1121 →4930 times
עַמּֽוֹן׃ פAmmon
amonH5983 →106 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach 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
Revelation 18:10In fear of her torment, they will stand at a distance and cry out: “Woe, woe to the great city, the mighty city of Babylon! For in a single hour your judgment has come.”
it leads to
- Revelation 18:19
Then they will throw dust on their heads as they weep and mourn and cry out: “Woe, woe to the great city, where all who had ships on the sea were enriched by her…
- Revelation 18:8
Therefore her plagues will come in one day—death and grief and famine—and she will be consumed by fire, for mighty is the Lord God who judges her.”
- Revelation 18:15–17
The merchants who sold these things and grew their wealth from her will stand at a distance, in fear of her torment. They will weep and mourn,
- Revelation 14:8
Then a second angel followed, saying, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, who has made all the nations drink the wine of the passion of her immorality.”
- Amos 5:16
Therefore this is what the LORD, the God of Hosts, the Lord, says: “There will be wailing in all the public squares and cries of ‘Alas! Alas!’ in all the streets. The farmer will…
- Revelation 18:19
Through
2 Samuel 8:6Then 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.
it leads to
- 2 Samuel 8:14
He placed garrisons throughout Edom, and all the Edomites were subject to David. So the LORD made David victorious wherever he went.
- Psalms 144:1–2
Blessed be the LORD, my Rock, who trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle.
- 2 Samuel 8:14
Through
Isaiah 26:11O LORD, Your hand is upraised, but they do not see it. They will see Your zeal for Your people and be put to shame. The fire set for Your enemies will consume them!
it leads to
- Hebrews 10:27
but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume all adversaries.
- Hebrews 10:27
Where this verse is studied
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About 2 Samuel

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.
