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chapter 10
1
And it
came to pass after this, that the king of the children of Ammon died, and Hanon
his son reigned in his stead.
2 And David said: I Will shew kindness to Hanon the son
of Daas, as his father shewed kindness to me. So David sent his servants to
comfort him for the death of his father. But when the servants of David were
come into the land of the children of Ammon,
3 The princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanon
their lord: Thinkest thou that for the honour of thy father, David hath sent
comforters to thee, and hath not David rather sent his servants to thee to
search, and spy into the city, and overthrow it?
4 Wherefore Hanon took the servants of David, and
shaved off the one half of their beards, and cut away half of their garments
even to the buttocks, and sent them away.
5 When this was told David, he sent to meet them: for
the men were sadly put to confusion, and David commanded them, saying: Stay at
Jericho, till your beards be grown, and then return.
6 And the children of Ammon seeing that they had done
an injury to David, Bent and hired the Syrians of Rohob, and the Syrians of
Soba, twenty thousand footmen, and of the king of Maacha a thousand men, and of
Istob twelve thousand men.
7 And when David heard this, he sent Joab and the whole
army of warriors.
8 And the children of Ammon came out, and set their men
in array at the entering in of the gate: but the Syrians of Soba, and of Rohob,
and of Istob, and of Maacha were by themselves in the field.
9 Then Joab seeing that the battle was prepared against
him, both before and behind, chose of all the choice men of Israel, and put
them in array against the Syrians:
10 And the rest of the people he delivered to Abisai
his brother, who set them in array against the children of Ammon.
11 And Joab said: If the Syrians are too strong for me,
then thou shalt help me: but if the children of Ammon are too strong for thee,
then I will help thee.
12 Be of good courage, and let us fight for our people,
and for the city of our God: and the Lord will do what is good in his sight.
13 And Joab and the people that were with him, began to
fight against the Syrians: and they immediately fled before him.
14 And the children of Ammon seeing that the Syrians
were fled, they fled also before Abisai, and entered into the city: and Joab
returned from the children of Ammon, and came to Jerusalem.
15 Then the Syrians seeing that they had fallen before
Israel, gathered themselves together.
16 And Adarezer sent and fetched the Syrians, that were
beyond the river, and brought over their army: and Sobach, the captain of the
host of Adarezer, was their general.
17 And when this was told David, he gathered all Israel
together, and passed over the Jordan, and came to Helam: and the Syrians set
themselves in array against David, and fought against him.
18 And the Syrians fled before Israel, and David slew
of the Syrians the men of seven hundred chariots, and forty thousand horsemen:
and smote Sobach the captain of the army, who presently died.
19 And all the kings that were auxiliaries of Adarezer,
seeing themselves overcome by Israel, were afraid and fled away, eight and
fifty thousand men before Israel. And they made peace with Israel: and served
them, and all the Syrians were afraid to help the children of Ammon any more.
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