What Does 1 Chronicles 19:6 Mean in the King James?
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.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
“Odious” carries the smell of a relationship turned foul: Ammon sees that its own actions have made it stink in David’s eyes, then spends heavily to hire armed backing.
THE MEANING
You can recognize when your own actions have made you odious to someone; the rupture is no longer something only they can see. Here that recognition turns into a costly purchase of force: a thousand talents of silver go out to hire chariots and horsemen from distant powers.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that being despised is always something done to you: Ammon sees that it has made itself odious to David.
THE ROOT
הִתְבָּאֲשׁוּ
hitba’ashu
GROWS FROM
ב־א־שׁ
b-ʾ-sh
To stink, become foul, or be odious.
The Hebrew makes social judgment sensory: Ammon has become a stench in David’s regard. The reflexive form places the source in Ammon’s own actions, while the same root describes both a river that literally stinks and a people made odious in another nation’s eyes.
ALSO GROWS
ba’ash: To stink; give off a foul odor.
בָּאַשׁ
In Exodus 7:18, the river’s literal stench uses this root, showing how “odious” carries the sense of something foul to encounter.
nib’ash: To become foul or odious; to be held in abomination.
נִבְאַשׁ
In 1 Samuel 13:4, this root describes Israel’s standing among the Philistines, linking social hostility to a public, felt repulsion.
hib’ish: To make odious; to make stink.
הִבְאִישׁ
In 1 Samuel 27:12, Achish believes David has made Israel abhor him; the same root shows how perceived estrangement can shape political trust.
THE PATTERN
A foul condition becomes socially real when others sense it, changing what they loathe, whom they gather behind, or whom they trust.
And the fish that is in the river shall die, and the river shall stink; and the Egyptians shall lothe to drink of the water of the river.And all Israel heard say that Saul had smitten a garrison of the Philistines, and that Israel also was had in abomination with the Philistines. And the people were called together after Saul to Gilgal.And Achish believed David, saying, He hath made his people Israel utterly to abhor him; therefore he shall be my servant for ever.THE THREAD
And Achish believed David, saying, He hath made his people Israel utterly to abhor him; therefore he shall be my servant for ever.The same stink-and-odious root appears in Achish’s belief that David has made Israel abhor him. Here it names Ammon’s self-made standing before David; in Samuel, perceived estrangement becomes something a ruler uses to interpret David’s allegiance.
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