2 Samuel 10:14

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

Brenton Septuagint

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 and his people with him advanced to battle against Syria, and they fled from before him.

15And the Syrians saw that they were worsted before Israel, and they gathered themselves together.

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Cross References

2 Samuel 8:12out of Idumea, and out of Moab, and from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines, and from Amalec, and from the spoils of Adraazar son of Raab king of Suba.

2 Samuel 22:38I will pursue my enemies, and will utterly destroy them; and I will not turn again till I have consumed them.

1 Chronicles 18:12And Abesa son of Saruia smote the Idumeans 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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