4 Regum 10:17

Jerome's Latin Vulgate

Quod cum nuntiatum esset David, contraxit omnem Israëlem, et transivit Jordanem, venitque in Helam: et direxerunt aciem Syri ex adverso David, et pugnaverunt contra eum.

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
Et convocavit Samuel populum ad Dominum in Maspha :

Nova Vulgata (1979)
Quod cum nuntiatum esset David, contraxit omnem Israelem et transivit Iordanem venitque in Elam. Et direxerunt aciem Syri ex adverso David et pugnaverunt contra eum.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

he gathered: 1 Chronicles 19:17

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And when it was told David,.... What preparations the Syrians were making to fight him, and where they were:

he gathered all Israel together; all the fighting men in the country:

and passed over Jordan, and came to Helam: which, according to Bunting b, was twenty miles from Jerusalem. David seems to have gone himself in person to this war:

and the Syrians set themselves in array against David, and fought with him; they formed themselves in a line of battle, and attacked him first, being eager to fight, and perhaps confident of victory, because of their numbers.

b Travels, &c. p. 140, 141.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Samuel 10:17. David - gathered all Israel together — He thought that such a war required his own presence.