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1–15. David's war with the Ammonites and their allies. 16–19. War with the Syrians (see chapter 2 Samuel 10). 1 Chronicles 19:3. But the princes of Ammon said to Hanun: Do you really think that David, out of respect for your father, sent comforters to you? Didn’t his servants come to you for this purpose, to scout and spy out the land and destroy it? In (2 Kings 10:3) the words: “to examine, to destroy and to bypass” are arranged in the best order: “to examine, to look and to destroy.” In addition, subject to inspection, etc. is, according to the instructions of the book. Kingdoms, not the whole earth, but only the city, i.e. capital of the Ammonites. 1 Chronicles 19:6. When the Ammonites saw that they had become hated by David, then Hanun and the Ammonites sent a thousand talents of silver to hire chariots and horsemen from Syria Mesopotamia and from Syria Maach and from Zobah. In the book. Kings (2 Sam. 10:6) does not say about the amount of money used by the Ammonites to hire allies. But there the number of hired soldiers is more likely represented - 33,000 soldiers, while here there are 32,000 chariots and a whole people (1 Chronicles 19:7). 1 Chronicles 19:7. And they hired thirty-two thousand chariots and king Maach and his people, who came and encamped before Medeva. And the Ammonites gathered from their cities and went out to war. In the book. Kingdoms there is absolutely no indication of the location of the mercenary troops in front of Medeva. as well as about the gathering of the Ammonites from their cities for war. Both information was borrowed, as one might think, from an ancient source common to the authors of both books. According to the instructions (Joshua 13:16), Medeva is a city in the inheritance of the tribe of Reuben. You might be interested in: