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1SOME time afterwards the king of the Ammonites died and was succeeded by his son Hanun.

2David said, “I must keep up the same loyal friendship with Hanun son of Nahash as his father showed me,” and he sent a mission to condole with him on the death of his father. When David's envoys entered the country of the Ammonites,

3the Ammonite princes said to Hanun their lord, “Do you suppose David means to do honour to your father when he sends envoys to condole with you? These men of his are spies whom he has sent to find out how to overthrow the city.”

4So Hanun took David's servants, shaved off half their beards and cut off half their garments up to the buttocks, and then dismissed them.

5Hearing how they had been treated, David ordered them to be met, for they were deeply humiliated; he told them to wait in Jericho and not return until their beards had grown again.

6The Ammonites, realizing they had given offence to David, hired the Aramaeans of Beth-rehob and of Zobah to come to their help with twenty thousand infantry; they hired also the king of Maacah with a thousand men, and twelve thousand men from Tob.

7When this was reported to David, he sent Joab out with all the fighting men.

8The Ammonites came on and took up their position at the entrance to the city gate, while the Aramaeans of Zobah and of Rehob and the men of Tob and Maacah took up theirs in the open country.

9When Joab saw that he was threatened from both front and rear, he detailed some picked Israelite troops and drew them up facing the Aramaeans.

10The rest of his forces he put under his brother Abishai, who took up a position facing the Ammonites.

11“If the Aramaeans prove too strong for me,” he said, “you must come to my relief; and if the Ammonites prove too strong for you, I shall come to yours.

12Courage! Let us fight bravely for our people and for the cities of our God. And may the LORD's will be done.”

13Joab and his men engaged the Aramaeans closely and put them to flight;

14and when the Ammonites saw them in flight, they too fled before Abishai and withdrew into the city. Then Joab returned from the battle against the Ammonites and came to Jerusalem.

15The Aramaeans, reviewing their defeat by Israel, rallied their forces,

16and Hadadezer sent to summon other Aramaeans from the Great Bend of the Euphrates, and they advanced to Helam under Shobach, commander of Hadadezer's army.

17Their movement was reported to David, who immediately mustered all the forces of Israel, crossed the Jordan, and advanced to Helam. The Aramaeans took up positions facing David and engaged him,

18but were put to flight by Israel. David slew seven hundred Aramaeans in chariots and forty thousand horsemen, mortally wounding Shobach, who died on the field.

19When all the vassal kings of Hadadezer saw that they had been worsted by Israel, they sued for peace and submitted to the Israelites. The Aramaeans never dared to help the Ammonites again.



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