And it came to pass, that after the year was expired, at the time that kings go out to battle, Joab led forth the power of the army, and wasted the country of the children of Ammon, and came and besieged Rabbah. But David tarried at Jerusalem. And Joab smote Rabbah, and destroyed it.
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Gill's Exposition
See Gill on Ch1 20:1, Sa2 11:1, Ch1 20:2, Sa2 12:30, Sa2 21:15, and Ch1 21:1.
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Barnes' Notes
This chapter, containing such other warlike exploits belonging to David’s reign as the writer of Chronicles thinks it important to put on record, is to be compared with the passages of Samuel noted in…
Adam Clarke
After the year was expired, at the time that kings go out to battle - About the spring of the year; see the note on Sa2 11:1.
After this verse the parallel place in Samuel relates the whole story of…
How the army of the Ammonites and their allies was routed in the field we read in the foregoing chapters. Here we have the destruction of Rabbah, the metropolis of their kingdom (Ch1 20:1), the…
1Ch 20:1-3 (2Sa 11:1; 2Sa 12:26-31). The Subjugation of Ammon
The account of the siege of Rabbah is given more shortly in Chron. than in 2 Sam. From the latter we learn that the Ark was in the…
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