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So David sent by his servants to comfort him concerning his father. David's servants came into the land of the children of Ammon. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/10-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun their lord, "Do you think that David honors your father, in that he has sent comforters to you? Hasn't David sent his servants to you to search the city, and to spy it out, and to overthrow it?" <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/10-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>So 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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/10-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>When they told it to David, he sent to meet them; for the men were greatly ashamed. The king said, "Wait at Jericho until your beards have grown, and then return."</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/10-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>When the children of Ammon saw that they were become odious to David, the children of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of Beth Rehob, and the Syrians of Zobah, twenty thousand footmen, and the king of Maacah with one thousand men, and the men of Tob twelve thousand men. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/10-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>When David heard of it, he sent Joab, and all the army of the mighty men. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/10-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>The children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in array at the entrance of the gate: and the Syrians of Zobah and of Rehob, and the men of Tob and Maacah, were by themselves in the field.</p> <a name="9" id="9"></a><p class="hdg">David Defeats Ammon and Syria<br /><p class="cross">(<a href="../1_chronicles/19.htm#10">1 Chronicles 19:10-19</a>)</p></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/10-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Now when Joab saw that the battle was set against him before and behind, he chose of all the choice men of Israel, and put them in array against the Syrians: <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/10-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>The rest of the people he committed into the hand of Abishai his brother; and he put them in array against the children of Ammon. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/10-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>He said, "If the Syrians are too strong for me, then you shall help me; but if the children of Ammon are too strong for you, then I will come and help you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/10-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Be courageous, and let us be strong for our people, and for the cities of our God; and Yahweh do that which seems good to him." <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/10-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>So Joab and the people who were with him drew near to the battle against the Syrians: and they fled before him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/10-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>When the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians had fled, they likewise fled before Abishai, and entered into the city. Then Joab returned from the children of Ammon, and came to Jerusalem.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/10-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>When the Syrians saw that they were defeated by Israel, they gathered themselves together. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/10-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Hadadezer sent, and brought out the Syrians who were beyond the River: and they came to Helam, with Shobach the captain of the army of Hadadezer at their head. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/10-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>It was told David; and he gathered all Israel together, and passed over the Jordan, and came to Helam. The Syrians set themselves in array against David, and fought with him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/10-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>The Syrians fled before Israel; and David killed of the Syrians [the men of] seven hundred chariots, and forty thousand horsemen, and struck Shobach the captain of their army, so that he died there. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/10-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>When all the kings who were servants to Hadadezer saw that they were defeated before Israel, they made peace with Israel, and served them. So the Syrians feared to help the children of Ammon any more.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The World English Bible is a 1997 revision of the American Standard Version of the Holy Bible, first published in 1901. It is in the Public Domain. Please feel free to copy and distribute it freely. Thank you to Michael Paul Johnson for making this work available. 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