After this, the king of the children of Ammon died, and Hanun his son reigned in his place. 1Sa 11:1-31Ch 19:1-19Jdg 10:7-9Jdg 11:12-28 David said, “I will show kindness to Hanun the son of Nahash, as his father showed kindness to me.” So David sent by his servants to comfort him concerning his father. David’s servants came into the land of the children of Ammon. 1Sa 11:1Deu 23:3-6Neh 13:1-31Sa 22:3-4Neh 4:3-7
But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun their lord, “Do you think that David honors your father, in that he has sent comforters to you? Hasn’t David sent his servants to you to search the city, to spy it out, and to overthrow it?” Gen 42:16Gen 42:91Co 13:51Co 13:7
So Hanun took David’s servants, shaved off one half of their beards, and cut off their garments in the middle, even to their buttocks, and sent them away. Isa 20:4Jer 41:51Ch 19:3-4Isa 15:2Lev 19:27Psa 109:4-5Isa 47:2-3 When they told David this, he sent to meet them, for the men were greatly ashamed. The king said, “Wait at Jericho until your beards have grown, and then return.” 1Ch 19:51Ki 16:34Jos 6:24-26
When the children of Ammon saw that they had become odious to David, the children of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of Beth Rehob and the Syrians of Zobah, twenty thousand footmen, and the king of Maacah with one thousand men, and the men of Tob twelve thousand men. 2Sa 8:32Sa 8:5Gen 34:301Sa 27:12Jdg 11:3Jdg 11:5Jdg 18:281Ch 19:6-7 When David heard of it, he sent Joab and all the army of the mighty men. 1Ch 19:8-192Sa 23:8-39 The children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in array at the entrance of the gate. The Syrians of Zobah and of Rehob and the men of Tob and Maacah were by themselves in the field. 2Sa 10:61Ch 19:7Jdg 1:31Jos 19:28Num 13:21 Now when Joab saw that the battle was set against him before and behind, he chose of all the choice men of Israel and put them in array against the Syrians. Jdg 20:42-43Jos 8:21-22 The rest of the people he committed into the hand of Abishai his brother; and he put them in array against the children of Ammon. He said, “If the Syrians are too strong for me, then you shall help me; but if the children of Ammon are too strong for you, then I will come and help you. Gal 6:21Ch 19:9-12Luk 22:32Neh 4:20Php 1:27-28Rom 15:1 Be courageous, and let’s be strong for our people and for the cities of our God; and may the LORD do what seems good to him.” 1Co 16:13Deu 31:61Sa 3:18Heb 13:6Neh 4:141Sa 4:9Jdg 10:151Ch 19:13 So Joab and the people who were with him came near to the battle against the Syrians, and they fled before him. 1Ki 20:13-211Ch 19:14-151Ki 20:28-302Ch 13:5-16 When the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians had fled, they likewise fled before Abishai, and entered into the city. Then Joab returned from the children of Ammon and came to Jerusalem.
When the Syrians saw that they were defeated by Israel, they gathered themselves together. Isa 8:9-10Mic 4:11-12Psa 2:1Rev 19:19-21Zec 14:2-3 Hadadezer sent and brought out the Syrians who were beyond the River; and they came to Helam, with Shobach the captain of the army of Hadadezer at their head. 1Ch 19:162Sa 8:3-81Ch 18:31Ch 18:5 David was told that; and he gathered all Israel together, passed over the Jordan, and came to Helam. The Syrians set themselves in array against David and fought with him. 1Ch 19:17 The Syrians fled before Israel; and David killed seven hundred charioteers of the Syrians and forty thousand horsemen, and struck Shobach the captain of their army, so that he died there. 1Ch 19:182Sa 8:4Jdg 4:2Jdg 4:22Jdg 5:26Psa 18:38Psa 46:11 When all the kings who were servants to Hadadezer saw that they were defeated before Israel, they made peace with Israel and served them. So the Syrians were afraid to help the children of Ammon any more. 2Sa 8:6Rev 18:101Ch 19:191Ki 20:1Dan 2:37Gen 14:1-5Isa 26:11Jdg 1:7