TEXT: BIB   |   AUDIO: MISLR - DAVIS   |   VIDEO: BIB - COMM

HELPS: KJS - KJV - ASV - DBY - DOU - WBS - YLT - HEB - BBE - WEB - NAS - SEV - TSK - CRK - WES - MHC - GILL - JFB

King James Bible - 2 Samuel 8:5

---

SEV Biblia, Chapter 8:5

Y vinieron los sirios de Damasco a dar ayuda a Hadad-ezer rey de Soba; y David hirió de los Sirios veintidós mil hombres.

---

John Gill's Bible Commentary

Ver. 5. And when the Syrians of Damascus came to succour Hadadezer king of Zobah , etc.] These seem to have had no king at this time, or, if they had, Hadadezer was their king, which is not improbable; and Nicholas of Damascus f139 ; an Heathen writer, is clear for it, whom he calls Adad, who, he says, reigned over Damascus, and the other Syria without Phoenicia, who made war with David king of Judea, and was routed by him at Euphrates: and he seems to be the first king of Damascus, which he joined to the kingdom of Zobah, and all the kings of Damascus afterwards were called by the same name; though Josephus f140 , who also speaks of Adad being king of Damascus and of the Syrians, yet makes him different from this Hadadezer, to whose assistance he says he came: David slew of the Syrians two and twenty thousand men ; that is, of the Syrians of Damascus.

---

Matthew Henry Commentary

Verses 1-8 - David subdued the Philistines. They had long been troublesome to Israel. And after the long and frequent struggles the saints have with the powers of darkness, like Israel with the Philistines, the Son of David shall tread them all under foot, and make the saints more tha conquerors. He smote the Moabites, and made them tributaries to Israel Two parts he destroyed, the third part he spared. The line that was to keep alive, though it was but one, is ordered to be a full line. Le the line of mercy be stretched to the utmost. He smote the Syrians. I all these wars David was protected, for this in his psalms he ofte gives glory to God.

---

Original Hebrew

ותבא 935 ארם 758 דמשׂק 1834 לעזר 5826 להדדעזר 1909 מלך 4428 צובה 6678 ויך 5221 דוד 1732 בארם 758 עשׂרים 6242 ושׁנים 8147 אלף 505 אישׁ׃ 376