1 Chronicles 18:5
When the Arameans of Damascus came to help King Hadadezer of Zobah, David struck down twenty-two thousand men.
Sermons
Spoils from EdomJ. Parker, D. D.1 Chronicles 18:1-12
The Christian CampaignW. Clarkson 1 Chronicles 18:1-12
David's WarsF. Whitfield 1 Chronicles 18:1-5, 12, 13
David, Hadarezer, and TouF. Whitfield 1 Chronicles 18:4, 9-11














The Spirit of God is a faithful Biographer. If he records the good features of character in God's children, he is no less faithful in describing the dark side of their character. In this the Word of God is a striking contrast to all human biography. David's cruel conduct in "houghing the chariot-horses" is in keeping with the imperfect light of that dispensation, and is not recorded for our imitation any more than the records of crime in our daily press. It teaches us that there is only One perfect. There is a blot on every escutcheon except that of the Lord Jesus; and they are recorded by the Spirit of God in order that the eye of the soul should be ever turning from the best of earth's heroes to him who is the "chief of ten thousand, and the altogether lovely." Let us be warned by the cruelties of David's time and mark his graces, and follow him so far as he followed Christ. Hadarezer's spoils and every other are consecrated to God. Not a trophy falls into David's hands but is laid there. Hadarezer's spoils and Tou's gifts are all alike - the Lord's. May we follow him here, and cast every crown at the feet of Jesus! - W.

Now after this it came to pass that David smote the Philistines. &&&
If we have conquered an enemy we must hold the conquest as an illustration of the power of God rather than of the skill of our own might or hand. The idols which we bring away from the lands of darkness are to be set up in God's house, and are to mark points in the progress of Christian civilisation. They are to be regarded as indications of a universal conquest which Christ has yet to win over the nations of the whole world. If we have brought back spoils — such as art, music, or any form of pleasure by which the popular mind can be touched and moved in an upward direction — we are to remember that in all these spoils we are to see the Divine power, and not proofs of our own military genius.

(J. Parker, D. D.)

People
Abiathar, Abimelech, Abishai, Ahilud, Ahimelech, Ahitub, Amalek, Amalekites, Ammonites, Aram, Benaiah, Cherethites, David, Edomites, Hadadezer, Hadarezer, Hadoram, Jehoiada, Jehoshaphat, Joab, Kerethites, Moabites, Pelethites, Shavsha, Solomon, Syrians, Tou, Zadok, Zeruiah
Places
Amalek, Cun, Damascus, Edom, Euphrates River, Gath, Hamath, Jerusalem, Moab, Syria, Tibhath, Valley of Salt, Zobah, Zobah-Hamath
Topics
Aram, Aramaeans, Arameans, Damascus, David, Hadadezer, Hadade'zer, Hadarezer, Killed, Slew, Smiteth, Smote, Struck, Succor, Succour, Sword, Syrians, Thousand, Twenty, Twenty-two, Zobah
Outline
1. David subdues the Philistines and the Moabites
3. He smites Hadarezer and the Syrians
9. Tou sends Hadoram with presents to bless David
11. The presents and the spoil David dedicates to God
13. He put garrisons in Edom
14. David's officers

Dictionary of Bible Themes
1 Chronicles 18:1-13

     5087   David, reign of

1 Chronicles 18:1-17

     7236   Israel, united kingdom

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The Sovereignty of God in Operation
"For of Him, and through Him, and to Him, are all things: to whom be the glory for ever. Amen" (Romans 11:36). Has God foreordained everything that comes to pass? Has He decreed that what is, was to have been? In the final analysis this is only another way of asking, Is God now governing the world and everyone and everything in it? If God is governing the world then is He governing it according to a definite purpose, or aimlessly and at random? If He is governing it according to some purpose, then
Arthur W. Pink—The Sovereignty of God

Chronicles
The comparative indifference with which Chronicles is regarded in modern times by all but professional scholars seems to have been shared by the ancient Jewish church. Though written by the same hand as wrote Ezra-Nehemiah, and forming, together with these books, a continuous history of Judah, it is placed after them in the Hebrew Bible, of which it forms the concluding book; and this no doubt points to the fact that it attained canonical distinction later than they. Nor is this unnatural. The book
John Edgar McFadyen—Introduction to the Old Testament

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