John Gill's Bible Commentary Ver. 8. And from Betah, and from Berothai, cities of Hadadezer , etc.] Which, in ( 1 Chronicles 18:8), are called Tibhath and Chun, they having different names; or their names might be changed upon this conquest of them, and the one might be the names they went by with the Syrians, and the other the Israelites called them by; the latter is the same with Berothah in ( Ezekiel 47:16); and the Barathena of Ptolemy f143 , placed by him near Mesopotamia; in the Arabic version of ( 1 Chronicles 18:8), they are called Emesa and Baalbec, the former was a city of Coele-Syria, the latter was at the foot of Mount Lebanon; (see Gill on “Amos 1:5”); King David took exceeding much brass ; whereby he was furnished and able to give the large quantity he did for the service of the temple, ( Chronicles 29:7). The Septuagint version adds here what is expressed in ( 1 Chronicles 18:8), “wherewith Solomon made the brazen sea, and the pillars, and the layers, and all the vessels.”
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-8 - David subdued the Philistines. They had long been troublesome to Israel. And after the long and frequent struggles the saints have with the powers of darkness, like Israel with the Philistines, the Son of David shall tread them all under foot, and make the saints more tha conquerors. He smote the Moabites, and made them tributaries to Israel Two parts he destroyed, the third part he spared. The line that was to keep alive, though it was but one, is ordered to be a full line. Le the line of mercy be stretched to the utmost. He smote the Syrians. I all these wars David was protected, for this in his psalms he ofte gives glory to God.
Original Hebrew ומבטח984 ומברתי1268 ערי5892 הדדעזר1909 לקח3947 המלך4428 דוד1732 נחשׁת5178 הרבה7235 מאד׃3966
