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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)
All the golden trappings which Adarezer’s men wore, David carried off and brought to Jerusalem; (1 Chronicles 18, 7)
When the news of David’s victory over Adarezer’s forces reached Thou, king of Hemath, (1 Chronicles 18, 9)
All the gold and silver and bronze ornaments, all the silver and the gold he took from so many nations, Edomites, Moabites, Ammonites, Philistines and Amalecites, king David consecrated to the Lord. (1 Chronicles 18, 11)
and put a garrison in Edom to secure its loyalty to king David. Thus the Lord protected David in all his enterprises; (1 Chronicles 18, 13)
Banaias, son of Joiada was at the head of the Cerethites and Phelethites, and David’s sons, too, held high office about the king’s person.✻ (1 Chronicles 18, 17)
David thought to himself, I will shew friendliness to Hanon, as his father Naas did to me; and he dispatched envoys to condole with him over his father’s death. But when these reached the Ammonite country on their mission, (1 Chronicles 19, 2)
the chiefs there said to Hanon, What, David send messengers to comfort thee, in honour of thy father’s memory? Nay, if he has sent men here, they are spies ready to search thy land and make report on it. (1 Chronicles 19, 3)
So Hanon robbed David’s men of their shoes, shaved them, and cut off the skirts of their clothes, feet to buttocks, and in that guise sent them back. (1 Chronicles 19, 4)
When the news reached him of their return, David sent to meet them, covered with confusion as they were, and bade them wait in Jericho, not returning home until their beards were grown again. (1 Chronicles 19, 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)
Upon hearing the news, David sent the whole of his forces to engage them, under Joab. (1 Chronicles 19, 8)
