Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
And David said, I will shew kindness unto Hanun the son of Nahash, because his father shewed kindness to me. And David sent messengers to comfort him concerning his father. So the servants of David came into the land of the children of Ammon to Hanun, to comfort him.
The children
Bible References
I will shew
1 Samuel 30:26
And when David came to Ziklag, he sent some of the goods to the responsible men of Judah, and to his friends, saying, Here is an offering for you from the goods of those who were fighting against the Lord;
2 Samuel 9:1
And David said, Is there still anyone of Saul's family living, so that I may be a friend to him, because of Jonathan?
2 Kings 4:13
And he said to him, Now say to her, See, you have taken all this trouble for us; what is to be done for you? will you have any request made for you to the king or the captain of the army? But she said, I am living among my people.
Esther 6:3
And the king said, What honour and reward have been given to Mordecai for this? Then the servants who were waiting on the king said, Nothing has been done for him.
Ecclesiastes 9:15
Now there was in the town a poor, wise man, and he, by his wisdom, kept the town safe. But no one had any memory of that same poor man.
The children
Genesis 19:37
And the older daughter had a son, and she gave him the name Moab: he is the father of the Moabites to this day.
Deuteronomy 23:3
No Ammonite or Moabite or any of their people to the tenth generation may come into the meeting of the Lord's people:
Nehemiah 4:3
Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Such is their building that if a fox goes up it, their stone wall will be broken down.
Nehemiah 13:1
On that day there was a reading from the book of Moses in the hearing of the people; and they saw that it said in the book that no Ammonite or Moabite might ever come into the meeting of God;