10 SHEMU'EL -2- SAMUEL 10

David's Messengers Ill-Treated By Hanun

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  1     ^¶  And it came to pass after this, that the king of the children of Ammon died, and Hanun his son reigned in his stead.

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  2    Then said David, I will show kindness to Hanun the son of Nahash, as his father shown kindness to me. And David sent to comfort him by the hand of his servants for his father. And David's servants came into the land of the children of Ammon.

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  3    And the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun their master, Think you that David does honor your father, that he has sent comforters to you? has not David [rather] sent his servants to you, to search the city, and to spy it out, and to overthrow it?

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  4    Wherefore Hanun took David's servants, and shaved off the one half of their beards, and cut off their garments in the middle, even to their buttocks, and sent them away.

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  5    When they told it to 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.

 The Ammonites Defeated

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  6     ^¶  And when the children of Ammon saw that they stank before David, the children of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of Bethrehob, and the Syrians of Zoba, twenty thousand footmen, and of king Maacah a thousand men, and of Ishtob twelve thousand men.

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  7    And when David heard of it, he sent Joab, and all the host of the mighty men.

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  8    And the children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in array at the entering in of the gate: and the Syrians of Zoba, and of Rehob, and Ishtob, and Maacah, were by themselves in the field.

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  9    When Joab saw that the front of the battle was against him before and behind, he chose of all the choice men of Yisrael, and put them in array against the Syrians:

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  10    And the rest of the people he delivered into the hand of Abishai his brother, that he might put them in array against the children of Ammon.

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  11    And he said, If the Syrians be too strong for me, then you shall help me: but if the children of Ammon be too strong for you, then I will come and help you.

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  12    Be of good courage, and let us play the men for our people, and for the cities of YAHWEH our ABBA: and YAHWEH do that which seems him good.

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  13    And Joab drew nigh, and the people that were with him, to the battle against the Syrians: and they fled before him.

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  14    And when the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians were fled, then fled they also before Abishai, and entered into the city. So Joab returned from the children of Ammon, and came to Yerusalem.

The Syrians Defeated

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  15     ^¶  And when the Syrians saw that they were smitten before Yisrael, they gathered themselves together.

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  16    And Hadarezer sent, and brought out the Syrians that were beyond the river: and they came to Helam; and Shobach the captain of the host of Hadarezer [went] before them.

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  17    And when it was told David, he gathered all Yisrael together, and passed over Yardan, and came to Helam. And the Syrians set themselves in array against David, and fought with him.

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  18    And the Syrians fled before Yisrael; and David slew [the men of] seven hundred chariots of the Syrians, and forty thousand horsemen, and smote Shobach the captain of their host, who died there.

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  19    And when all the kings [that were] servants to Hadarezer saw that they were smitten before Yisrael, they made shalom with Yisrael, and served them. So the Syrians feared to help the children of Ammon anymore.