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1 Chronicles 19
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1 Chronicles 19:1 Now it came to pass after this, that Nahash the king of
the children of Ammon died, and his son reigned in his stead.
2 And David said, I will shew kindness unto Hanun the son of
Nahash, because his father shewed kindness to me. And David sent
messengers to comfort him concerning his father. So the servants of
David came into the land of the children of Ammon to Hanun, to comfort
him.
3 But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun,
Thinkest thou that David doth honour thy father, that he hath sent
comforters unto thee? are not his servants come unto thee for to search,
and to overthrow, and to spy out the land?
4 Wherefore Hanun took David's servants, and shaved them, and
cut off their garments in the midst hard by their buttocks, and sent
them away.
5 Then there went certain, and told David how the men
were served. And he sent to meet them: for the men were greatly ashamed.
And the king said, Tarry at Jericho until your beards be grown, and
then return.
6 And when the children of Ammon saw that they had made
themselves odious to David, Hanun and the children of Ammon sent a
thousand talents of silver to hire them chariots and horsemen out of
Mesopotamia, and out of Syria-maachah, and out of Zobah.
7 So they hired thirty and two thousand chariots, and the
king of Maachah and his people; who came and pitched before Medeba. And
the children of Ammon gathered themselves together from their cities,
and came to battle.
8 And when David heard of it, he
sent Joab, and all the host of the mighty men.
9 And the children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in
array before the gate of the city: and the kings that were come were
by themselves in the field.
10 Now when Joab saw that the battle was set against him
before and behind, he chose out of all the choice of Israel, and put
them in array against the Syrians.
11 And the rest of the people he delivered unto the hand of
Abishai his brother, and they set themselves in array against the
children of Ammon.
12 And he said, If the Syrians be too strong for me, then
thou shalt help me: but if the children of Ammon be too strong for thee,
then I will help thee.
13 Be of good courage, and let us behave ourselves valiantly
for our people, and for the cities of our God: and let the LORD do
that which is good in his sight.
14 So Joab and the people that were with him drew nigh
before the Syrians unto the battle; and they fled before him.
15 And when the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians were
fled, they likewise fled before Abishai his brother, and entered into
the city. Then Joab came to Jerusalem.
16 And when the Syrians saw that they were put to the worse
before Israel, they sent messengers, and drew forth the Syrians that
were beyond the river: and Shophach the captain of the host of
Hadarezer went before them.
17 And it was told David; and he gathered all Israel, and
passed over Jordan, and came upon them, and set the battle in
array against them. So when David had put the battle in array against
the Syrians, they fought with him.
18 But the Syrians fled before Israel; and
David slew of the Syrians seven thousand men which
fought in chariots, and forty thousand footmen, and killed
Shophach the captain of the host.
19 And when the servants of Hadarezer saw that they were put
to the worse before Israel, they made peace with David, and became his
servants: neither would the Syrians help the children of Ammon any more.
• Exactly 2520 years from the exile
of Benjamin, Iceland became an independent nation.
•
The first tribe to be
conquered by the Assyrians was Manasseh,
in 745 B.C. Exactly 2520 years later America became a nation on July 4, 1776.
(Leviticus. 26: 28-46) God warned Israel that if they persisted in continually
breaking His Laws, not only would curses come upon them.
He would punish them for seven times, (a time being 360 years, seven times would
be 2520 years) and would banish them from the land of Palestine and scatter them
among the heathens (like lost sheep)
• Study the book:
Abrahamic Covenant,
(A study outline of the identity of God's people) By E. Raymond Capt
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Jeremiah 17:5 Thus saith the Lord; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh
his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord.
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