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2 Samuele 10:2

Davide disse: "lo voglio usare con Hanun, figlio di Nahash, la stessa benevolenza che suo padre us con me". Cos Davide mand i suoi servi a consolarlo della perdita del padre. Ma quando i servi di Davide giunsero nel paese dei figli di Ammon,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Ammonites;   Condolence;   Friendship;   Mortification;   Motive;   Nahash;   Thankfulness;   Thompson Chain Reference - Gratitude;   Gratitude-Ingratitude;   Nahash;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Ammonites, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Nahash;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Ammon;   Encouragement;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Consolation;   Theophany;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Ambassador;   Hanun;   Nahash;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Ambassador;   Ammon;   David;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Consolation;   Disciples;   Nahash;   Samuel, Books of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Abishai;   Ammon, Ammonites;   Joab;   Maacah;   Nahash;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Ambassador;   Ammon, Ammonites, Children of Ammon;   Hanun ;   Nahash ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Ammon ammonites children of ammon;   Hanun;   Nahash;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Da'vid;   Ha'nun;   Na'hash;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - War;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Hadadezer;   Joab;   Nahash;   Serpent;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Ammon, Ammonites;   Consolation;   Hanun;   Naamah;   Nahash;  

Parallel Translations

Riveduta Bibbia
Davide disse: "Io voglio usare verso Hanun, figliuolo di Nahash, la benevolenza che suo padre usò verso di me". E Davide mandò i suoi servi a consolarlo della perdita del padre. Ma quando i servi di Davide furon giunti nel paese dei figliuoli di Ammon,
Giovanni Diodati Bibbia
E Davide disse: Io userò benignità inverso Hanun, figliuolo di Nahas come suo padre usò benignità inverso me. E Davide mandò a consolarlo di suo padre, per li suoi servitori. Ma, quando i servitori di Davide furono giunti nel paese de’ figliuoli di Ammon,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

show kindness: Deuteronomy 23:3-6, Nehemiah 4:3-7, Nehemiah 13:1-3

Nahash: 1 Samuel 11:1

as his father: 1 Samuel 22:3, 1 Samuel 22:4

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 2:6 - I also 2 Samuel 17:27 - the son of Nahash 1 Kings 5:1 - sent 2 Kings 20:12 - sent letters Isaiah 39:1 - sent letters Jeremiah 37:2 - the prophet John 11:19 - to comfort Ephesians 6:20 - bonds

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then said David, I will show kindness to Hanun the son of Nahash,.... Send him a friendly compliment of condolence on the death of his father:

as his father showed kindness unto me; when David was persecuted by Saul, he sent him aid, and invited him into his country for protection it may be, and some way or other showed respect unto him; though not out of real love and friendship to David, but in enmity to Saul, who had defeated him at Jabeshgilead, and had often wars with him: the Jews say o the particular kindness was, that when David left his father, mother, and brethren, with the king of Moab, he slew all but one, who fled to the king of the children of Ammon, and was by him saved alive:

and David sent to comfort him by the hand of his servants for his father; for the death of his father; to condole the loss of him, which was the custom of kings in friendship and alliance in former times, and still continues:

and David's servants came into the land of the children of Ammon; even to Rabbah, the metropolis of the nation, and the royal city, where the king kept his court.

o Tanchuma apud Jarchium in loc.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The history does not record any instance of Nahash’s kindness to David, but the enmity of the house of Nahash against Saul may have disposed him favorably toward Saul’s enemy David, and if there was any family connection between David’s house and Nahash 2 Samuel 17:25 this may have increased the friendship.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Samuel 10:2. I will show kindness unto Hanun the son of Nahash — We do not know exactly the nature or extent of the obligation which David was under to the king of the Ammonites; but it is likely that the Nahash here mentioned was the same who had attacked Jabesh-gilead, and whom Saul defeated: as David had taken refuge with the Moabites, (1 Samuel 22:3), and this was contiguous to the king of the Ammonites, his hatred to Saul might induce him to show particular kindness to David.


 
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