1Chr 19
1
And it came to pass after this, that Naas the king of the children of Ammon died,
and Anan his son reigned in his stead.
2
And David said, I will Gr. execute mercy with act kindly toward Anan the son of Naas, as his father acted kindly towards me.
And
David sent messengers to Gr. comfort him concerning condole with him on the death of his father. So the servants of David
came into the
land of the children of Ammon to Anan, to comfort him.
3
And the chiefs of the children of Ammon said to Anan, Is it to honour your father
before you, that David has sent Gr. comforting ones comforters to you? Have not his servants come to you that they might search
the city,
and to spy out the land?
4
And Anan took the servants of David, and shaved them, and cut off the half of their
garments as far as Gr. the tunic their tunic, and sent them away.
5
And there came men to report to David concerning the men: and he sent to meet them,
for they were greatly disgraced: and the king said, Dwell in Jericho until your beards
have grown, and return.
6
And the children of Ammon saw that the people of David were ashamed, and Anan and
the children of Ammon sent a thousand talents of silver to hire for themselves chariots
and horsemen out of Syria of Mesopotamia, and out of Syria Maacha, and from Sobal.
7
And they hired for themselves two and thirty thousand chariots, and the king of Maacha
and his people; and they came and encamped before Medaba: and the children of Ammon
assembled out of their cities, and came to fight.
8
And David heard, and sent Joab and all the host of mighty men.
9
And the children of Ammon came forth, and set themselves in array for battle by the
gate of the city: and the kings that were come forth encamped by themselves in the
plain.
10
And Joab saw that they were fronting him to fight against him before and behind, and
he chose some out of all the Gr. young man young men of Israel, and they set themselves in array against the Syrian.
11
And the rest of the people he gave into the hand of his brother Abesai, and they set
themselves in array against the children of Ammon.
12
And he said, If the Syrian should prevail against me, then shall you Gr. be for deliverance to me deliver me: and if the children
of Ammon should prevail against you, then will I
deliver you.
13
Be of good courage, and let us be strong, for our people, and for the cities of our
God: and the Lord shall do what is good in his eyes.
14
So Joab and the people that were with him set themselves in battle array against the
Syrians, and they fled from them.
15
And the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians fled, and they also fled from before
Abesai, and from before Joab his brother, and they came to the city: and Joab came
to Jerusalem.
16
And the Syrian saw that Israel had defeated him, and he sent messengers, and they
brought out the Syrians from beyond the river; and Sophath the commander-in-chief
of the forces of Adraazar was before them.
17
And it was told David; and he gathered all Israel, and crossed over Jordan, and came
upon them, and set the battle in array against them. So David set his army in array
to fight against Gr. the Syrian the Syrians, and they fought against him.
18
And the Syrians fled from before Israel; and David slew of the Syrians seven thousand
riders in chariots, and forty thousand infantry, and he slew Sophath the commander-in-chief
of the forces.
19
And the servants of Adraazar saw that they were defeated before Israel, and they made
Gr. a covenant peace with David and served him: and the Syrians would not any more help the children
of Ammon.