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<p id="Chapter20" align="center">Commentary by ROBERT JAMIESON<br>CHAPTER 20
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<p id="a1Ch20_1"><a onclick="return mV('1Ch',20,'1-3');">1Ch 20:1-3</a>. RABBAH BESIEGED BY JOAB, SPOILED BY DAVID, AND THE PEOPLE TORTURED.
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<p><b>1. at the time when kings go out to battle</b>—in spring, the usual season in ancient times for entering on a <i>campaign;</i> that is, a year subsequent to the Syrian war. <br><br><b>Joab led forth the power of the army, and wasted the country ...of Ammon</b>—The former campaign had been disastrous, owing chiefly to the hired auxiliaries of the Ammonites; and as it was necessary, as well as just, that they should be severely chastised for their wanton outrage on the Hebrew ambassadors, Joab ravaged their country and invested their capital, Rabbah. After a protracted siege, Joab took one part of it, the lower town or "city of waters," insulated by the winding course of the Jabbok. Knowing that the fort called "the royal city" would soon fall, he invited the king to come in person, and have the honor of storming it. The knowledge of this fact (mentioned in <a onclick="return mV('2Sa',12,26);">2Sa 12:26</a>) enables us to reconcile the two statements—"David tarried at Jerusalem" (<a onclick="return mV('1Ch',20,1);">1Ch 20:1</a>), and "David and all the people returned to Jerusalem" (<a onclick="return mV('1Ch',20,3);">1Ch 20:3</a>).
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<p id="a1Ch20_2"><b>2. David took the crown of their king...a talent of gold</b>—equal to one hundred twenty-five pounds. Some think that <i>Malcom,</i> rendered in our version "their king," should be taken as a proper name, Milcom or Molech, the Ammonite idol, which, of course, might bear a heavy weight. But, like many other state crowns of Eastern kings, the crown got at Rabbah was not worn on the head, but suspended by chains of gold above the throne.
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<br><br><b>precious stones</b>—<i>Hebrew,</i> a "stone," or cluster of precious stones, which was set on David's head.
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<p id="a1Ch20_3"><b>3. cut them with saws,</b> etc.—The <i>Hebrew</i> word, "cut them," is, with the difference of the final letter, the same as that rendered "put them," in the parallel passage of Samuel [<a onclick="return mV('2Sa',12,31);">2Sa 12:31</a>]; and many consider that putting them to saws, axes, and so forth, means nothing more than that David condemned the inhabitants of Rabbah to hard and penal servitude.
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<p id="a1Ch20_4"><a onclick="return mV('1Ch',20,'4-8');">1Ch 20:4-8</a>. THREE OVERTHROWS OF THE PHILISTINES AND THREE GIANTS SLAIN.
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<p><b>4. war at Gezer</b>—or Gob (see <a onclick="return mV('2Sa',21,'18-22');">2Sa 21:18-22</a>).
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