2 Samuel 8:6 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Then David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus: and the Syrians became servants to David, and brought gifts. And the LORD preserved David whithersoever he went. ”

2 Samuel 8:6 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Garrisons - The word is used for officers in 1 Kings 4:5 , 1 Kings 4:19 , and some think that that is its meaning here. Perhaps, however, it is best to take it with the King James Version in th...
2 Samuel 8:6 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Then David put garrisons in (c) Syria of Damascus: and the Syrians became servants to David, (d) [and] brought gifts. And the LORD preserved David whithersoever he went. (c) In that part of Syria, w...
2 Samuel 8:6 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

2 Samuel 8. David's Victories. His Ministers (D) . A concluding summary, corresponding to the similar section on Saul ( 1 Samuel 14:47 ff.) and by the same hand. Apparently it formed the conclusion...
2 Samuel 8:6 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

gifts : i.e. tribute. the LORD . Hebrew. Jehovah . App-4.
2 Samuel 8:6 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Then David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus: and the Syrians became servants to David, and brought gifts. And the LORD preserved David whithersoever he went. Brought gifts - Paid tribute.
2 Samuel 8:6 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And David took from him a thousand chariots, and seven hundred horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen: and David houghed all the chariot horses, but reserved of them for an hundred chariots. N...
2 Samuel 8:6 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

David's Victories, and a List of his Officers This chapter concludes this account of David's reign. The remainder of the book is taken from a different source.
2 Samuel 8:6 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Garrisons. — The primary meaning of this word in the original is something placed, and then placed over. Hence it comes to have the different derived meanings of officer in 1 Kings 4:5 ; 1...
2 Samuel 8:6 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

CHAPTER X. FOREIGN WARS. 2 Samuel 8:1-14 . THE transitions of the Bible, like those of actual life, are often singularly abrupt; that which now hurries us from the scene of elevated communion...
2 Samuel 8:6 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Victorious on Every Side 2 Samuel 8:1-18 Twice in this chapter we are told that the Lord gave victory to David “whithersoever he went,” 2 Samuel 8:6 ; 2 Samuel 8:14 . Indeed, he was more than...
2 Samuel 8:6 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Here we have the record of some of the victories of David, again not necessarily in chronological order. There is, however, a very close relation between this account of them and what had preceded....
2 Samuel 8:6 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(5) And when the Syrians of Damascus came to succour Hadadezer king of Zobah, David slew of the Syrians two and twenty thousand men. (6) Then David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus: and the Syrians...
2 Samuel 8:6 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Then David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus ,.... Which was Coele-Syria, and lay between Libanus and Antilibanus, the chief city of which was Damascus; which Curtius q calls Damascus of Syria, bei...
2 Samuel 8:6 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Then David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus: and the Syrians became servants to David, [and] brought gifts. And the LORD preserved David whithersoever he went. Ver. 6. Then David put garrisons i...
2 Samuel 8:6 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Syrians of Damascus That is, that were subject to Damascus, the chief city of Syria. Put garrisons in Syria of Damascus Hebrew, in Aram Damasek. This was that part of Syria which lay betwee...
2 Samuel 8:6 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

God's declaration to David of His sovereign counsels in chapter 7 and David's submission and worship had good practical effect. Notice it is "after this" (v.1) that David defeated and subdued the Phi...
2 Samuel 8:6 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

David's Conquests. B. C. 1042. 1 And after this it came to pass, that David smote the Ph...
2 Samuel 8:6 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Brought gifts, to purchase their peace, and acknowledge their subjection to him.
2 Samuel 8:6 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES.— 2 Samuel 8:1 . “Metheg-ammah.” This is a very obscure word, and has been very variously translated. “Metheg” is a “bridle,” and “ammah” is translated moth...
2 Samuel 8:6 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

2 Samuel 8:2 . Two lines. The measuring line gave inheritance, but here the line gave the inheritance of rebels to others, as is the manner of treating rebels by a total forfeiture of inheritance....
2 Samuel 8:6 - The Biblical Illustrator

David smote the Philistines and subdued them. The victorious king These years of war gave birth to some of the grandest of the psalms, amongst which may be numbered, 2., 20., 21., 60., 110. I...
2 Samuel 8:6 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION 2 Samuel 8:1 David smote the Philistines. In the previous chapter we have seen that the empire of David not only marked an era in the development of Israel nationally, but was...
2 Samuel 8:6 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Victories over Various Nations
2 Samuel 8:6 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Chronicles 18:13 ; 1 Samuel 13:3 ; 1 Samuel 14:1 ; 1 Samuel 14:15 ; 1 Samuel 14:6 ; 2 Chronicles 17:2 ; 2 Samuel 23:14 ; 2 Samuel 7:9 ; 2 Samuel 8:14 ; 2 Samuel 8:2 ; Proverbs 21:31 ; P...

2 Samuel 8:6 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

2 Samuel 8:6 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

2 Samuel 8:6 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

2 Samuel 8:6 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

2 Samuel 8:6 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

2 Samuel 8:6 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

2 Samuel 8:6 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

2 Samuel 8:6 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

2 Samuel 8:6 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

2 Samuel 8:6 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

2 Samuel 8:6 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

2 Samuel 8:6 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

2 Samuel 8:6 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

2 Samuel 8:6 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

2 Samuel 8:6 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

2 Samuel 8:6 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

2 Samuel 8:6 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

2 Samuel 8:6 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

2 Samuel 8:6 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

2 Samuel 8:6 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

2 Samuel 8:6 - The Biblical Illustrator

2 Samuel 8:6 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

2 Samuel 8:6 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

2 Samuel 8:6 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge