1 Chronicles 19:14

So Joab and the people that were with him, went against the Syrians to the battle : and he put them to flight.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

So Joab and the people that were with him drew nigh before the Syrians unto the battle; and they fled before him.

In Context

13Be of good courage and let us behave ourselves manfully for our people, and for the cities of our God: and the Lord will do that which is good in his sight.

15And the children of Ammon seeing that the Syrians were fled, they likewise fled from Abisai his brother, and went into the city: and Joab also returned to Jerusalem.

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Cross References

1 Kings 20:13And behold a prophet coming to Achab king of Israel, said to him: Thus saith the Lord: Hast thou seen all this exceeding great multitude, behold I will deliver them into thy hand this day: that thou mayest know that I am the Lord.

1 Kings 20:28(And a man of God coming, said to the king of Israel: Thus saith the Lord: Because the Syrians have said: The Lord is God of the hills, but is not God of the valleys: I will deliver all this great multitude into thy hand, and you shall know that I am the Lord.)

Jeremiah 46:15Why are thy valiant men come to nothing? they stood not: because the Lord hath overthrown them.

Matthew Henry on 1 Chronicles 19:7-19

The Defeat of the Ammonites. ( b. c. 1036.) 6 And when the children of Ammon saw that they had made themselves odious to David, Hanun and the children of Ammon sent a thousand talents of silver to hire them chariots and horsemen out of Mesopotamia, and out of Syria-maachah, and out of Zobah. 7 So they hired thirty and two thousand chariots, and the king of Maachah and his people; who came and pitched before Medeba. And the children of Ammon gathered themselves together from their cities, and came to battle. 8 And… Read the whole commentary →

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