Read 2 Samuel 10 here (text coming …) or at Bible Gateway.
The Hebrew paragraphs:
10:1-16 {s} David’s kindness to Ammon rejected / war with Ammon and Aramea
10:17-19 {p} Aramea and all its kings defeated before David
The Strong Theme:
10:1-19 {s+p} Ammon rejected David’s kindness, leading to war with Ammon and Aramea, defeated before David
2 Samuel 8:1-10:19 Chiastic Structure:
David didn’t want war with Ammon (roughly modern-day Jordan). He did not subdue them as he had subdued all the other nations round about him. He offered them kindness. When his kindness was rejected, then war ensued. And the war, on David’s part, was not started by him, even though he received the brunt of shameful indignities. It started, because Ammon hired Arameans against David, who amassed themselves at his frontier.
Let’s recall that David is a Prophetic Type for Messiah. We saw in 2 Sam 9 that the kindness David extended was the same lovingkindness, mercy, which God extends to us because of Messiah Yeshua. God does not reject us. But when man rejects God’s mercy, they make themselves His enemy.
For He must reign till He has put all enemies under His feet. 1 Cor 15:25
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