A thousand talents of silver - The price is not given in Samuel. On the practice of hiring troops about this time in western Asia, see [Refe…

And when the children of Ammon. —Up to this point the narrative has substantially coincided with 2 Samuel 10, and might h…

(See Gill on 1 Chronicles 19:1).

The history is here repeated which we read in 2 Samuel 10. The only safety of sinners consists in submitting to the Lord, seeking peace with him, a…