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1 Chronicles 19
- 1
- Now it came to pass after this, that Nahash the king of
the children of Ammon died, and his son reigned in his stead.
- 2
- 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.
- 3
- But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun,
Thinkest thou that David doth honour thy father, that he hath sent comforters
unto thee? are not his servants come unto thee for to search, and to
overthrow, and to spy out the land?
- 4
- Wherefore Hanun took David's servants, and shaved them,
and cut off their garments in the midst hard by their buttocks, and sent them
away.
- 5
- Then there went certain, and told David how the men were
served. And he sent to meet them: for the men were greatly ashamed. And the
king said, Tarry at Jericho until your beards be grown, and then return.
- 6
- And when the children of Ammon saw that they had made
themselves odious to David, Hanun and the children of Ammon sent a thousand
talents of silver to hire them chariots and horsemen out of Mesopotamia, and
out of Syriamaachah, and out of Zobah.
- 7
- So they hired thirty and two thousand chariots, and the
king of Maachah and his people; who came and pitched before Medeba. And the
children of Ammon gathered themselves together from their cities, and came to
battle.
- 8
- And when David heard of it, he sent Joab, and all the
host of the mighty men.
- 9
- And the children of Ammon came out, and put the battle
in array before the gate of the city: and the kings that were come were by
themselves in the field.
- 10
- Now when Joab saw that the battle was set against him
before and behind, he chose out of all the choice of Israel, and put them in
array against the Syrians.
- 11
- And the rest of the people he delivered unto the hand of
Abishai his brother, and they set themselves in array against the children of
Ammon.
- 12
- And he said, If the Syrians be too strong for me, then
thou shalt help me: but if the children of Ammon be too strong for thee, then
I will help thee.
- 13
- Be of good courage, and let us behave ourselves
valiantly for our people, and for the cities of our God: and let the LORD do
that which is good in his sight.
- 14
- So Joab and the people that were with him drew nigh
before the Syrians unto the battle; and they fled before him.
- 15
- And when the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians were
fled, they likewise fled before Abishai his brother, and entered into the
city. Then Joab came to Jerusalem.
- 16
- And when the Syrians saw that they were put to the worse
before Israel, they sent messengers, and drew forth the Syrians that were
beyond the river: and Shophach the captain of the host of Hadarezer went
before them.
- 17
- And it was told David; and he gathered all Israel, and
passed over Jordan, and came upon them, and set the battle in array against
them. So when David had put the battle in array against the Syrians, they
fought with him.
- 18
- But the Syrians fled before Israel; and David slew of
the Syrians seven thousand men which fought in chariots, and forty thousand
footmen, and killed Shophach the captain of the host.
- 19
- And when the servants of Hadarezer saw that they were
put to the worse before Israel, they made peace with David, and became his
servants: neither would the Syrians help the children of Ammon any more.
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