2 Samuel 10:14

And when the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians fled, they fled before Abishai, and entered into the city. And Joab returned from the children of Ammon, and came to Jerusalem.

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

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 Jerusalem.

In Context

13And Joab drew near, and the people that were with him, unto the battle against the Syrians; and they fled before him.

15And when the Syrians saw that they were routed before Israel, they gathered themselves together.

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Cross References

2 Samuel 8:12of the Syrians, and of the Moabites, and of the children of Ammon, and of the Philistines, and of the Amalekites, and of the spoil of Hadadezer, the son of Rehob, king of Zobah.

2 Samuel 22:38I pursued mine enemies, and destroyed them, And I turned not again till they were consumed.

1 Chronicles 18:12And Abishai the son of Zeruiah smote of the Edomites in the valley of salt eighteen thousand.

Matthew Henry on 2 Samuel 10:7-15

The Ammonites and Syrians Defeated. ( b. c. 1037.) 6 And when the children of Ammon saw that they stank before David, the children of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of Beth-rehob, and the Syrians of Zoba, twenty thousand footmen, and of king Maacah a thousand men, and of Ishtob twelve thousand men. 7 And when David heard of it, he sent Joab, and all the host of the mighty men. 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,… Read the whole commentary →

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