2 Samuel 10:1

The king. The parallel passage gives his name as Nahash (1 Chron. 19:1). About 50 years previous an Ammonite ruler by the name of Nahash was engaged in a struggle with Saul over the possession of Jabesh-gilead (1 Sam. 11:1-11). It is possible that the Nahash of the days of Saul was identical with the Nahash of the time of David. A reign of 50 years would be unusual but conceivable. The incidents here recorded could hardly have taken place later than the middle of David’s reign, since Solomon, who was probably born within about two years after David’s adultery and the Ammonite war (2 Sam. 12:24), had a son a year old when he came to the throne (1 Kings 1:42; 14:21).