THEOSISJohn Chrysostom
After the death of the king of the Ammonites, David, being a compassionate and upright man, dispatched envoys to console his son and encourage him to face his father's passing with fortitude.
2 Kingdoms (2 Samuel) 10:2Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
And David said: I will shew kindness to Hanon the son of Daas, as his father shewed kindness to me. So David sent his servants to comfort him for the death of his father. But when the servants of David were come into the land of the children of Ammon,
וַיֹּ֨אמֶר דָּוִ֜ד אֶעֱשֶׂה־חֶ֣סֶד ׀ עִם־חָנ֣וּן בֶּן־נָחָ֗שׁ כַּאֲשֶׁר֩ עָשָׂ֨ה אָבִ֤יו עִמָּדִי֙ חֶ֔סֶד וַיִּשְׁלַ֨ח דָּוִ֧ד לְנַחֲמ֛וֹ בְּיַד־עֲבָדָ֖יו אֶל־אָבִ֑יו וַיָּבֹ֙אוּ֙ עַבְדֵ֣י דָוִ֔ד אֶ֖רֶץ בְּנֵ֥י עַמּֽוֹן׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- 1 Sam 11:1And it came to pass about a month after this, that Naas, the Ammonite, came up, and began to fight against Jabes Galaad. And all the men of Jabes said to Naas: Make a covenant with us, and we will serve thee.
- Neh 13:1And on that day they read in the book of Moses in the hearing of the people: and therein was found written, that the Ammonites and the Moabites should not come in to the church of God for ever:
- Neh 13:3And it came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated every stranger from Israel.
- Deut 23:3The Ammonite and the Moabite, even after the tenth generation shall not enter into the church of the Lord for ever:
- Deut 23:6Thou shalt not make peace with them, neither shalt thou seek their prosperity all the days of thy life for ever.
- 1 Sam 22:3And David departed from thence into Maspha of Moab: and he said to the king of Moab: Let my father and my mother tarry with you, I beseech thee, till I know what God will do for me.
- 1 Sam 22:4And he left them under the eyes of the king of Moab, and they abode with him all the days that David was in the hold.
- Neh 4:3Tobias also the Ammonite who was by him said: Let them build: if a fox go up, he will leap over their stone wall.