(11) He brought.--Samuel, "dedicated." Chronicles avoids the tautology.

These nations.--The nations--scil., "whom he had reduced" (Samuel).

From Edom.--Samuel, "from Aram," but LXX., Syriac, and Arabic, "Edom;" (Targum and Vulg., "Aram"). All the versions read "Edom" here, which appears correct. Edom and Moab were conterminous, and the reference includes all the nations whom David conquered and despoiled.

And from Amalek may refer to 1Samuel 30:16, seq., but more probably to an unrecorded campaign. Samuel adds, "and from the spoil of Hadadezer son of Rehob, king of Zobah," which Chronicles omits, as implied already in 1Chronicles 18:7-8.

Verse 11. - From Edom. This is probably the correct reading, and not, as in the parallel, "from Aram," unless, as some think, both places were named in the original authority. From the children of Ammon. Perhaps the events narrated in our succeeding chapter are here referred to by the compiler. From Amalek (see 1 Samuel 30:1-20, 26-31).

18:1-17 David's victories. - This chapter is the same as 2Sa 8. Our good fight of faith, under the Captain of our salvation, will end in everlasting triumph and peace. The happiness of Israel, through David's victories, and just government, faintly shadowed forth the happiness of the redeemed in the realms above.See Chapter Introduction