After this, Nahash the king of the children of Ammon died, and his son reigned in his place. 2Sa 10:1-191Sa 11:1-21Sa 12:12 David said, “I will show kindness to Hanun the son of Nahash, because his father showed kindness to me.” 1Sa 30:26Deu 23:3-6Gen 19:37-382Ki 4:132Sa 9:12Sa 9:7Ecc 9:15Est 6:3
So David sent messengers to comfort him concerning his father. David’s servants came into the land of the children of Ammon to Hanun to comfort him. But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun, “Do you think that David honors your father, in that he has sent comforters to you? Haven’t his servants come to you to search, to overthrow, and to spy out the land?” 1Co 13:5-71Ki 12:8-111Sa 29:41Sa 29:9Gen 42:9-18Jdg 1:23-24Jdg 18:2Jdg 18:8-10 So Hanun took David’s servants, shaved them, and cut off their garments in the middle at their buttocks, and sent them away. 2Sa 10:4-52Ch 36:16Isa 15:2Isa 20:4Isa 47:2-3Jer 41:5Jer 48:37Lev 19:27 Then some people went and told David how the men were treated. He sent to meet them; for the men were greatly humiliated. The king said, “Stay at Jericho until your beards have grown, and then return.” 1Ki 16:34Jdg 16:22Jos 6:24-26Mat 18:31
When the children of Ammon saw that they had made themselves odious to David, Hanun and the children of Ammon sent one thousand talents 1 of silver to hire chariots and horsemen out of Mesopotamia, out of Aram-maacah, and out of Zobah. 1Ch 18:51Ch 18:92Sa 10:6Gen 34:301Ki 11:23-241Sa 13:41Sa 14:471Sa 27:12 So they hired for themselves thirty-two thousand chariots, and the king of Maacah with his people, who came and encamped near Medeba. The children of Ammon gathered themselves together from their cities, and came to battle. Jos 13:9Num 21:30Jos 13:161Ch 18:41Sa 13:52Ch 14:92Sa 10:6Exo 14:9 When David heard of it, he sent Joab with all the army of the mighty men. 1Ch 11:10-471Ch 11:62Sa 23:8-39 The children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in array at the gate of the city; and the kings who had come were by themselves in the field. 1Ki 20:11Ki 20:241Sa 17:22Ch 13:32Ch 14:102Sa 10:82Sa 18:4Isa 28:6
Now when Joab saw that the battle was set against him before and behind, he chose some of all the choice men of Israel, and put them in array against the Syrians. 2Sa 10:9-14Jdg 20:42-43Jos 8:22 The rest of the people he committed into the hand of Abishai his brother; and they put themselves in array against the children of Ammon. 1Ch 18:121Ch 11:201Ch 19:9 He said, “If the Syrians are too strong for me, then you are to help me; but if the children of Ammon are too strong for you, then I will help you. Neh 4:20Php 1:27-28Ecc 4:9-12Gal 6:2 Be courageous, and let’s be strong for our people and for the cities of our God. May the LORD do that which seems good to him.” Psa 27:142Sa 10:12Jos 10:25Neh 4:141Co 16:131Sa 4:91Sa 17:32Deu 31:6-7
So Joab and the people who were with him came near to the front of the Syrians to the battle; and they fled before him. 1Ki 20:131Ki 20:19-211Ki 20:28-302Ch 13:5-16Jer 46:15-16 When the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians had fled, they likewise fled before Abishai his brother, and entered into the city. Then Joab came to Jerusalem. Lev 26:7Rom 8:31
When the Syrians saw that they were defeated by Israel, they sent messengers and called out the Syrians who were beyond the River, 2 with Shophach the captain of the army of Hadadezer leading them. 2Sa 10:16Zec 14:1-3Isa 8:9Mic 4:11-12Psa 2:1 David was told that, so he gathered all Israel together, passed over the Jordan, came to them, and set the battle in array against them. So when David had put the battle in array against the Syrians, they fought with him. 1Ch 19:9Isa 22:6-7 The Syrians fled before Israel; and David killed of the Syrian men seven thousand charioteers and forty thousand footmen, and also killed Shophach the captain of the army. 2Sa 10:181Ch 19:13-14Psa 18:32Psa 33:16Psa 46:11 When the servants of Hadadezer saw that they were defeated by Israel, they made peace with David and served him. The Syrians would not help the children of Ammon any more. 2Sa 10:191Ch 14:171Ki 20:11Ki 20:12Gen 14:4-5Isa 10:8Jos 9:9-11Psa 18:39