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When a ruler dies, his offspring have an opportunity to change course. Other rulers who want to keep things the same will try to appease the new leader, sometimes by reminding them of treaties and friendships. David tries to do the same here with Nachash\u2019s son, Hanon. He sends a delegation to the new king to wish him well and bring gifts and to solidify the friendship between David and the ruler of Ammon.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Hanon has other plans. The delegation arrives and his advisors warn him:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u2018Do you think David is really honoring your father just because he sent you men with condolences? Why, David has sent his courtiers to you to explore and spy out the city, and to overthrow it.\u2019 (verse 3).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Hanon listens to his advisors and instead of welcoming the delegation, he cuts off their beards and cuts off the bottoms of their clothes, exposing them. Independently, this was embarrassing, but for the Israelites who did not shave, it was also religiously humiliating. The act was a major miscalculation by Hanon that ended with disastrous results.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Perhaps, though, this act was \u2018foretold\u2019 by something that happened centuries earlier in Egypt. There was a famine in the land of Canaan and Jacob sent ten of his sons to Egypt to get food. The brothers arrive in front of the viceroy of Egypt and plead their case. Instead of welcoming this delegation with open arms, Joseph takes advantage of the moment to scare them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Recalling the dreams that he had dreamed about them, Joseph said to them, 'You are spies, you have come to see the land in its nakedness.' The brothers protest: \u2018We are all of us sons of the same man; we are being honest; your servants have never been spies!\u2019 And he said to them, 'No, you have come to see the land in its nakedness!'\u201d (Genesis 42:12-15).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Joseph, like Hanon\u2019s advisors, accuses the brothers of being spies even if they arrived for peaceful purposes. He twice accuses them of wanting to uncover the nakedness of the land. Joseph is able to get away with it because the brothers do not recognize him because he has the beard of an Egyptian ruler, and is wearing royal clothes. David\u2019s delegation has their beards removed and their royal garments sullied to reveal their nakedness recalls Joseph\u2019s accusations centuries earlier.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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David attempted to be gracious to the Ammonites\u2014in return for an undisclosed favor\u2014but his ambassadors suffered grievous insult at their hands and war was declared pitting Israel against the combined forces of Ammon and its ally, Aram.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Joab, David\u2019s commander-in-chief, assessed the dire situation and came up with a successful strategy: he divided the command of his forces between himself and his brother Abishai. He himself took \u201cselect\u201d forces (9) and faced off against the Arameans, while the remainder of the army faced off against Ammon (10), with the explicit understanding that should one force be overwhelmed, the other would come to its rescue (11). Joab then declared: \u201cBe of good courage, and let us prove strong for our people and for the cities of our God, and the Lord will do that which seems good to Him\u201d (12), which, to be candid, can be read as a protestation of faith or of resignation.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Although Joab\u2019s choice of the select force implies that he saw Aram as the greater threat, their forces fled before him, inspiring a similar flight by the Ammonites, enabling Abishai to enter \u201cthe city\u201d (14), by implication, its capital, Rabbat Ammon (whose biblical name carries on today in the Jordanian capital Amman). The Arameans, fearful of David seizing this advantage to consolidate his hold over them, gathered an even larger force and met Israel in another pitched battle at Helam (somewhere between present day Syria and Jordan) and the result is another striking victory for David and Israel.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

As to that unspecified favor David was intent on repaying in the first place, the best the exegetes can offer is a Midrash that stipulates that a sole survivor of his family of the Moabite perfidy against David\u2019s family found refuge in Ammon. While this serves to link this chapter to his harsh treatment of the Moabites in chapter 8, since the entire matter of the tragic fate of his family (<\/span>see our comments there<\/span><\/a>) is hypothetical, this would be a speculation built on another speculation. Yet, it seems the best explanation that has been offered.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Preparing to face down an Ammonite-Aramean alliance, Joab strategizes carefully with his brother and fellow commander, Abishai, and then offers these words of encouragement: \u201cLet us be strong and resolute for the sake of our people and the land of our God; and the Lord ya\u2019aseh<\/em>, will do what He deems right\u201d (10:12).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Joab\u2019s words call to mind one version of a brief prayer the Talmud recommends one use when in a dangerous situation: \u201cCarry out Your will in the heavens above, and give peace of mind to those who fear You below, and perform that which is good in Your eyes\u2026\u201d (Berachot 29b). One might argue such a prayer expresses the ultimate faith in God: rather than articulating a long list of the things we think we want God to give or do for us, we simply acknowledge that He knows best and submit ourselves to His will.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

On the other hand, this shortened formula is recommended only in specific situations, while the <\/span>Amidah <\/span><\/i>prayer recited multiple times on a typical day contains no less than 13 different topics of request, not to mention optional paragraphs in which one might articulate further personal prayers. Generally speaking, we pray to God as if we know very well what we want Him to do \u2013 and surely Joab too felt strongly that he wanted God to help them win that battle.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Taking another look at Joab\u2019s words, we might note that the Hebrew future tense, <\/span>ya\u2019aseh<\/span><\/em>, is ambiguous: Is Joab <\/span>asking<\/b> for God to do as He sees fit, or expressing confidence that He <\/span>will<\/b>? If the latter \u2013 as indicated by the fact that he is apparently addressing Abishai, not God \u2013 then we are not talking about prayer in the conventional sense, but part of a pep talk.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In the complex interplay between faith and personal human effort, Joab encourages his brother, and himself, to do their best \u2013 and at the same time, he expresses confidence that things will turn out however God deems best, perhaps <\/span>in order <\/span><\/em>to<\/span><\/i> bolster his and his brother\u2019s strength and resolve as they go out to fight. After all, danger can be paralyzing; the assurance that not everything depends on us can help provide the peace of mind necessary to act.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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10:4 \u201cSo Hanun took David\u2019s servants and shaved off half the beard of each and cut off half their diplomat\u2019s garb down to their buttocks, and sent them off.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Commentary: Shaving the beard is an insult to the masculinity of the ambassadors, all the more so because it is done in a disfiguring way, with half the beard left uncut. The exposure of one buttock, by cutting away half the garment vertically, is similarly shaming, perhaps sexually shaming. The garments in question, moreover, are not ordinary clothes, <\/span>begadim<\/span><\/i>, but <\/span>madim<\/span><\/i>, garb worn in the performance of an official function (compare to the \u201cbattle garb\u201d <\/span>madim<\/span><\/i>, that Saul gives to David in 1:17:38). The Ammonites thus are not merely insulting the ambassadors personally but provocatively violating their diplomatic privilege. In all this, we observe an extravagant reflection of the symbolic violation of Saul by David when he cut off a corner of the king\u2019s robe.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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  1. Chesed - lovingkindness<\/em>. In the previous chapter, David showed chesed<\/em>, lovingkindness to Mephiboshet, as an expression of his commitment to his father, Jonathan. Here, in verse 2, he tries to show a similar act of honor and keeping faith (chesed<\/em>) to Hanun, son of Nachash, \u201cjust as his father kept faith with me\u201d (using the same word, chesed<\/em> - verse 2). But this time his efforts are rebuffed, to disastrous results.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. A little consideration<\/em>. In the midst of a political crisis, David\u2019s considerate treatment of his men who were shamed shows real sensitivity: \u201cWhen David was told of it, he dispatched men to meet them, for the men were greatly embarrassed. And the king gave orders: \u201cStop in Jericho until your beards grow back; then you can return\u201d (verse 5).<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  3. A war of no choice<\/em>. The atmosphere here is very different from the war-like atmosphere of two chapters ago (8). Here, David gives the impression that he has no interest in conquest, and he is entrapped in a war not of his own making.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  4. Be-strong!<\/em> Yoab charge to his brother Abishai in verse 12: \u201cLet us be strong and resolute [chazak venitchazak<\/em>] for the sake of our people and the land of our God\u201d (verse 12).<\/span><\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n

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