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What does 1 Chronicles 19:1 mean?
"After this, Nahash the king of the children of Ammon died, and his son reigned in his place."
— 1 Chronicles 19:1 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
After this, Nahash the king of the children of Ammon died, and his son reigned in his place.
David said, “I will show kindness to Hanun the son of Nahash, because his father showed kindness to me.” So David sent messengers to comfort him concerning his father. David’s servants came into the land of the children of Ammon to Hanun, to comfort him.
But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun, “Do you think that David honors your father, in that he has sent comforters to you? Haven’t his servants come to you to search, to overthrow, and to spy out the land?”
So Hanun took David’s servants, shaved them, and cut off their garments in the middle at their buttocks, and sent them away.
Explanation
This verse marks a simple historical transition: Nahash, the king of the Ammonites, dies, and his son takes over the throne. On the surface it is a brief, almost administrative note — the kind of statement chroniclers used to move a narrative from one event to the next. Yet in the world of the text, the death of a king and the succession
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