2 Samuel 8:5

And, when the Syrians of Damascus came to help Hadadezer, king of Zobah, David smote of the Syrians, twenty-two thousand men.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

And when the Syrians of Damascus came to succour Hadadezer king of Zobah, David slew of the Syrians two and twenty thousand men.

In Context

4And David captured from him, a thousand and seven hundred horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen,—and David destroyed all the chariots, but reserved of them, a hundred chariots.

6Then David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus, and the Syrians became David’s, as servants bringing gifts,—and so Yahweh gave victory unto David, whithersoever he went.

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Cross References

2 Samuel 8:3And David smote Hadadezer son of Rehob, king of Zobah,—when he went to lay his hand on the River Euphrates.

1 Chronicles 18:5And, when the Syrians of Damascus came to help Hadarezer king of Zobah, David smote of the Syrians, twenty-two thousand men.

Psalms 83:4They have said—Come, and let us wipe them out from being a nation, That the name of Israel may be remembered no more.

Isaiah 8:9Rage, O ye peoples,—and be overthrown, And give ear, all ye distant parts of the earth,—Gird yourselves and be overthrown, Gird yourselves, and be overthrown:

Matthew Henry on 2 Samuel 8:2-9

David's Conquests. ( b. c. 1042.) 1 And after this it came to pass, that David smote the Philistines, and subdued them: and David took Metheg-ammah out of the hand of the Philistines. 2 And he smote Moab, and measured them with a line, casting them down to the ground; even with two lines measured he to put to death, and with one full line to keep alive. And so the Moabites became David's servants, and brought gifts. 3 David smote also Hadadezer, the son of Rehob, king of Zobah, as he went to recover his border at… Read the whole commentary →

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