Later text
Some time later, David defeated the Philistines, subdued them, and took Gath and its villages from the hand of the Philistines.
Intertextuality Pair
1 Chronicles 18:1 → 2 Samuel 8:1
Quotation
Earlier text
2 Samuel 8:1BSB
Some time later, David defeated the Philistines, subdued them, and took Metheg-ammah from the hand of the Philistines.
Significance
Both texts open identically with David defeating the Philistines, but they diverge in a telling detail. 2 Samuel 8:1 says David took "Metheg-ammah" (מֶתֶג הָאַמָּה, literally "the bridle of the mother-city") from Philistine control — an obscure phrase. 1 Chronicles 18:1 clarifies: David took "Gath and its villages" (אֶת גַּת וּבְנֹתֶיהָ). The Chronicler's replacement of the enigmatic Metheg-ammah with the concrete "Gath and its daughters" demonstrates how Chronicles functions as an interpretive companion to Samuel, resolving textual difficulties for later readers. Both texts then proceed through the same sequence of victories — Moab, Hadadezer, Damascus — emphasizing that "the LORD made David victorious wherever he went."
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- Reference Type
- Direct Quotation
- Connection Method(s)
- Redemptive-Historical Progression — Samuel's victory summary is retold with its obscurity clarified (Metheg-ammah rendered as Gath and its villages) under the same refrain that "the LORD made David victorious wherever he went"; in Chronicles the conquests are carried forward as the securing of the kingdom for the temple project — the wars advance the history toward the house of God.
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