(13) And he put garrisons (or "prefects," 1 Chronicles 18:6) in Edom.--Samuel adds, "in all Edom he set garrisons," thus marking the complete subjugation of the country.
18:1-17 David's victories. - This chapter is the same as 2Sa 8. Our good fight of faith, under the Captain of our salvation, will end in everlasting triumph and peace. The happiness of Israel, through David's victories, and just government, faintly shadowed forth the happiness of the redeemed in the realms above.
Thus the Lord preserved David.--See 1 Chronicles 18:6. David was victorious on all sides, north (1 Chronicles 18:3-8), and south, and east, and west (1 Chronicles 18:11). The six peoples whom he reduced had been the foes of his ill-fated predecessor (1 Samuel 14:47-48).