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After some time the king died of Ammon, and reigned in his stead his son Hanun. |
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And David said, I will shew kindness to Hanun, the son of Naasovu, for a blessing that my father had it. So David sent his servants to comfort him concerning his father. And David's servants came into the land of Ammon. |
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But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun their lord, Do you think that David doth honor thy father sent comforters to you? not in order, to search the city and to spy it out, and [after] to destroy it, David sent his servants to you? |
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And Hanun took David's servants, and shaved off the one half of their beards, and cut off their garments in half to their buttocks, and sent them away. |
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And it was told David, he sent to meet them, because the men were greatly ashamed. And the king said, Tarry at Jericho until your beards be grown, and [then] return.
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And the children of Ammon saw that they had made themselves odious to David; Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of Beth Rehob and the Syrians of Zoba, twenty thousand footmen, and the king of Maacah a thousand men, and from Tob twelve thousand men. |
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When David heard of it, he sent Joab and all the host of the mighty men. |
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And Ammon came out, and the battle in the gate, and the Syrians of Zoba, and Rehob, and the men of Tob and Maacah, [Steel] in the field. |
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And Joab saw that the enemy army was against him both in front and behind, he chose [the soldiers] out of all the choice of Israel, and arrayed them against the Syrians; |
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rest of the people entrusted to Abishai his brother, that he put them against the Ammonites. |
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And he said, [Joab]: If the Syrians be too strong for me, you help me; but if the Ammonites are too strong for you, I will come to your aid; |
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Be of good courage, and let us play the man for our people and for the cities of our God, and the Lord will do what he pleases. |
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So Joab and the people that [was] with him, to battle against the Syrians, and they fled before him. |
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Ammonites saw that the Syrians were fleeing, they fled from Abishai and went into the city. And Joab returned from the children of Ammon and came to Jerusalem.
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The Syrians saw that they were smitten before Israel, they gathered themselves together. |
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And Hadarezer sent, and called on the Syrians that were beyond the River, and they came to Helam; and Shophach the captain of Hadarezer went before them. |
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When they told [it] unto David, he gathered all Israel and crossed the Jordan and came to Helam. Syrians in array against David and fought with him. |
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And the Syrians fled before Israel. And David slew the Syrians seven hundred chariots, and forty thousand horsemen; He struck and Shophach the commander, who died there. |
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When all the kings that were servants to Hadarezer saw that they were smitten before Israel, they made peace with Israel and served them. So the Syrians feared to help the children of Ammon. |
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