1 Chronicles 19

1After this, Nahash the king of the children of Ammon died, and his son reigned in his place.Cross-references: 1Sam 11:1 · 1Sam 12:12 · 2Sam 10:1

2David said, “I will show kindness to Hanun the son of Nahash, because his father showed kindness to me.” 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.Cross-references: Gen 19:37 · Deut 23:3 · 1Sam 30:26 · 2Sam 9:1 · 2Sam 9:7 · 2Ki 4:13 · +5 more

3But 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?”Cross-references: Gen 42:9 · Josh 2:1 · Judg 1:23 · Judg 18:2 · Judg 18:8 · 1Sam 29:4 · +3 more

4So Hanun took David’s servants, shaved them, and cut off their garments in the middle at their buttocks, and sent them away.Cross-references: Lev 19:27 · 2Sam 10:4 · 2Chr 36:16 · Ps 35:12 · Ps 109:4 · Isa 15:2 · +6 more

5Then 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.”Cross-references: Josh 6:24 · Judg 16:22 · 1Ki 16:34 · Matt 18:31

6When the children of Ammon saw that they had made themselves odious to David, Hanun and the children of Ammon sent one thousand talents of silver to hire chariots and horsemen out of Mesopotamia, out of Aram-maacah, and out of Zobah.Cross-references: Gen 34:30 · Ex 5:21 · 1Sam 13:4 · 1Sam 14:47 · 1Sam 27:12 · 2Sam 8:3 · +14 more

7So 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.Cross-references: Ex 14:9 · Num 21:30 · Josh 13:9 · Josh 13:16 · Judg 4:3 · 1Sam 13:5 · +5 more

8When David heard of it, he sent Joab with all the army of the mighty men.Cross-references: 2Sam 23:8 · 1Chr 11:6 · 1Chr 11:10

9The 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.Cross-references: 1Sam 17:2 · 2Sam 10:8 · 2Sam 18:4 · 1Ki 20:1 · 1Ki 20:24 · 2Chr 13:3 · +4 more

10Now 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.Cross-references: Josh 8:22 · Judg 20:42 · 2Sam 10:9

11The rest of the people he committed into the hand of Abishai his brother; and they put themselves in array against the children of Ammon.Cross-references: 1Chr 11:20 · 1Chr 18:12 · 1Chr 19:9

12He 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.Cross-references: Neh 4:20 · Eccl 4:9 · Gal 6:2 · Phil 1:27

13Be courageous, and let’s be strong for our people and for the cities of our God. May Yahweh do that which seems good to him.”Cross-references: Deut 31:6 · Josh 1:7 · Josh 10:25 · Judg 10:15 · 1Sam 3:18 · 1Sam 4:9 · +10 more

14So Joab and the people who were with him came near to the front of the Syrians to the battle; and they fled before him.Cross-references: 1Ki 20:13 · 1Ki 20:19 · 1Ki 20:28 · 2Chr 13:5 · Jer 46:15

15When 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.Cross-references: Lev 26:7 · Rom 8:31

16When the Syrians saw that they were defeated by Israel, they sent messengers and called out the Syrians who were beyond the River, with Shophach the captain of the army of Hadadezer leading them.Cross-references: 2Sam 10:16 · Ps 2:1 · Isa 8:9 · Mic 4:11 · Zech 14:1

17David 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.Cross-references: 1Chr 19:9 · Isa 22:6

18The 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.Cross-references: 2Sam 10:18 · 1Chr 19:13 · Ps 18:32 · Ps 33:16 · Ps 46:11

19When 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.Cross-references: Gen 14:4 · Josh 9:9 · 2Sam 10:19 · 1Ki 20:1 · 1Ki 20:12 · 1Chr 14:17 · +4 more