1 Chronicles 19:1-15
Nahash <05176> [Nahash.]
express <06213> [I will shew.]
son ........................... Ammonite <01121> [the children.]
officials <08269> [but the princes.]
David <05869 01732> [Thinkest thou that David. Heb. In thine eyes doth David.]
they can ... information <02713> [to search.]
seized David's <03947 01732> [took David's.]
shaved their beards off ... cut off <01548 03772> [shaved them.]
cut off <03772> [and cut.]
sent ... away <07971> [sent them.]
told David <01732 05046> [and told David.]
Jericho <03405> [at Jericho.]
beards <02206> [your beards.]
disgusted <0887> [had made.]
disgusted <0887> [odious. Heb. to stink.]
1,000 <0505> [a thousand.]
Aram <0758> [Syria-maachah.]
Zobah <06678> [Zobah.]
hired <07936> [hired.]
32,000 <07970> [thirty.]
Thirty-two thousand soldiers, exclusive of the thousand send by the Maachah, are mentioned in the parallel passage (2 Sa 10:6;) but of chariots or cavalry there is no mention; and the number of chariots stated here is prodigious, and beyond all credibility. But as the word {raichev} denotes not only a chariot, but a rider, (see Isa 21:7,) it ought most probably to be rendered here, in a collective sense, cavalry; and then the number of troops will exactly agree with the passage in Samuel. It is probable that they were a kind of auxiliary troops who were usually mounted on horses, or in chariots, but who occasionally served as foot-soldiers.
king ... Maacah <04601 04428> [the king of Maachah.]
This variation exists only in the translation, the original being the same in both places, {melech m„achah,} "the king of Maachah."
king <04428> [king Maachah. Medeba.]
Joab <03097> [Joab.]
battle <04421> [put the battle.]
kings <04428> [the kings.]
Joab <03097> [when Joab.]
battle <04421> [battle. Heb. face of the battle. set against.]
chose <0977> [choice. or, young men.]
Abishai <052> [Abishai. Heb. Abshai.]
The variation of ['AbŒyshay <\\See definition 052\\>,] Abishai, and ['Abshay <\\See definition 052\\>,] Abshai, is simply caused by the elision of [Y“wd,] {yood,} which is by no means uncommon.
deployed <06186> [and they set.]
Arameans <0758> [If the Syrians.]
strong .... bravely <02388> [of good.]
strong .... bravely <02388> [let us behave, etc.]
In Samuel, "let us play the men;" but the original is the same in both places, {nithchazzak}.
Lord <03068> [let the Lord.]
fled <05127> [they fled.]
flee ... fled <05127> [they likewise.]
