Better to Have Christ as a Friend than an Enemy
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Today’s passage is 1 Chronicles 19:1-19. Let’s go!
1 Chronicles 19:6-7 (NIV)
6 When the Ammonites realized that they had become a stench in David’s nostrils, Hanun and the Ammonites sent a thousand talents of silver to hire chariots and charioteers from Aram Naharaim, Aram Maacah and Zobah.
7 They hired thirty-two thousand chariots and charioteers, as well as the king of Maacah with his troops, who came and camped near Medeba, while the Ammonites were mustered from their towns and moved out for battle.
On verses 1-8, 16-19: David tries to show kindness and sympathy to Hanun king of the Ammonites after hearing about the death of Hanun’s father Nahash. But Hanun, influenced by his commanders, is suspicious of David’s act of kindness. He repays David’s kindness with great disrespect, humiliating the messengers David sent (v4-5). Knowing he has angered David, Hanun forms an alliance with other kingdoms like Aram, Zobah and Maakah (v6-7). David sends out his army in full force and scores a decisive victory over Hanun and this newly formed alliance soundly (v8-19).