Text: 1 Chronicles 18:1
OT Text Referred to: 2 Samuel 8:1
Subject: David establishes a regional empire
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Direct Quotation
Connection Method(s): None
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 gave David victory wherever he went."