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The king himself rose, and held a midnight council. This is the trick, said he, the Syrians are playing us; they know we are hard put to it by famine, and they think to lure us out by leaving their camp and hiding in the open country; so they hope to capture us alive, and make their way into the city. (2 Kings 7, 12)
All the way to Jordan they followed in the enemy’s track, and still all the road was strewn with garments and weapons which the Syrians had thrown away in the flight; and they brought back the report of it to the king. (2 Kings 7, 15)
And with Joram, Achab’s son, he went to fight against Hazael, king of Syria, at Ramoth-Galaad. Joram was wounded in this engagement with the Syrians, (2 Kings 8, 28)
Now, said he, open the window that looks east, and he opened it; Shoot, and he shot. Yonder shaft, Eliseus told him, betokens the divine deliverance, deliverance from the power of Syria. It is for thee to defeat the Syrians utterly, there at Aphec. (2 Kings 13, 17)
Whereupon the prophet said to him angrily, Five times thou shouldst have let fly, or six, or seven, to defeat the Syrians utterly; this signifies three defeats and no more. (2 Kings 13, 19)
When the Syrians of Damascus came out to reinforce Adarezer king of Soba, David routed their army of twenty-two thousand, (1 Chronicles 18, 5)
Meanwhile Hanon and the Ammonites, well aware that they had made an enemy of David, sent and hired mercenaries, with a thousand talents of silver, from Mesopotamia, and the Syrians of Maacha, and from Soba, with chariots, too, and horsemen. (1 Chronicles 19, 6)
And Joab, seeing that he would be attacked both in front and from the rear, chose the best of his troops and led them out against the Syrians, (1 Chronicles 19, 10)
Bring me aid, said Joab, if the Syrians are too strong for me, and I, if the Ammonites have the mastery, will bring thee aid instead. (1 Chronicles 19, 12)
So Joab and his men engaged the Syrians and routed them; (1 Chronicles 19, 14)
and the Ammonites, seeing the Syrians in full flight, gave way in their turn before the onslaught of his brother Abisai, retreating into the city. Thereupon Joab went back to Jerusalem. (1 Chronicles 19, 15)
Thus defeated, the Syrians dispatched messengers and brought their fellow tribesmen on the further side of the river to their aid; Sophach, Adarezer’s general, was in command of them. (1 Chronicles 19, 16)
