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1. David's war with the Philistines. 2. With the Moabites. 3–8. With Adraazar, king of Suba, and the Syrians. 9–11. Embassy from Foy, king of Imath. 12–13. Defeat of the Edomites by Abishai. 14–17. David's first dignitaries. Like the others, the eighteenth chapter presents a repetition with slight peculiarities (2 Samuel 8). 1 Chronicles 18:1. After this, David defeated the Philistines and humbled them, and took Gath and the cities depending on it from the hand of the Philistines. Instead of an incomprehensible expression (2 Samuel 8:1): “and he took the bridle of the nations from the hands of the Philistines,” bk. Chronicles uses words explaining it: “Geth and the cities dependent on it.” Gath was one of the five main Philistine cities and, due to its position, as it was located on the border of the Israeli and Philistine lands, it could actually be in the hands of one or the other side as a bridle on opponents. 1 Chronicles 18:2. He also defeated the Moabites, and the Moabites became David's slaves, bringing him tribute. For unknown reasons, the author omits the remark (2 Samuel 8:2) about David’s cruel reprisal against the Moabites. It is unlikely that he was driven by the desire to show David in a favorable light, then he would have to shut up and carry out a similar reprisal against the Ammonites (1 Chronicles 20:3). In this, it seems, war with the Moabites, Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, defeated the two sons of Ariel of Moab (1 Chronicles 11:22). 1 Chronicles 18:4. And David took from him a thousand chariots, seven thousand horsemen and twenty thousand footmen, and David destroyed all the chariots, leaving only one hundred of them. In the book. The kingdoms mean only 1,700 horsemen, and there is no mention of chariots at all, although further words suggest their destruction. 1 Chronicles 18:8. And from Tivhava and Kun, the cities of Hadarezer, David took a great deal of copper. From it Solomon made a copper sea and pillars and copper vessels. In (2 Samuel 8:8) these cities are called Bethah and Beroth. It is impossible to say what caused the disagreement. Neither one nor the other name appears in other places in Holy Scripture. Notes on Solomon's use of copper captured by David in the book. There are no kingdoms. 1 Chronicles 18:12. And Abishai the son of Zeruiah smote the Edomites in the valley of Salt, eighteen thousand; The Second Book of Samuel (2 Samuel 8:13) attributes this victory to David himself, noting that it was won over the “Aramians.” But the war with the Edomites of David himself, in which Joab, among other things, took part, ended, according to testimony (1 Kings 11:15–16), with the extermination of all males. Meanwhile, 2 books. Kings and 1 Chronicles speak only of the slaughter of some of the Edomites. Therefore, the latter reading should be considered more correct. The assimilation of the victory over the Edomites to David is explained, perhaps, by the fact that Abishai acted on his behalf, due to which the work of the military leader is attributed to his overlord the king. As for the difference in names: Aramians and Edomites, it is explained by the similarity of their Hebrew characters. You might be interested in: