2 Samuel 10

ECB(i) 1
DAVID DEFEATS THE SONS OF AMMON AND THE ARAMIY
And so be it, afterward, the sovereign of the sons of Ammon dies and Hanun his son reigns in his stead. 2 And David says, I work mercy to Hanun the son of Nachash as his father worked mercy to me. And David sends to sigh over him by the hand of his servants concerning his father: and the servants of David come into the land of the sons of Ammon. 3 And the governors of the sons of Ammon say to Hanun their adoni, In your eyes, is it because David honors your father, that he sends to sigh over you? Sends not David his servants to you to probe the city and to spy it out and to overturn it? 4 And Hanun takes the servants of David and shaves off one half of their beards and cuts off their garments in the middle to their buttocks and sends them away. 5 And they tell David; and he sends to meet them; because the men shame mightily. And the sovereign says, Settle at Yericho until your beards sprout and return. 6 And the sons of Ammon see that they stink to David; and the sons of Ammon send and hire the Aramiy of Beth Rechob and the Aramiy of Sobah twenty thousand on foot; and of sovereign Maachah a thousand men; and of Ish Tob twelve thousand men: 7 and David hears and sends Yah Ab and all the host of the mighty: 8 and the sons of Ammon come and line up for war at the opening of the portal: and the Aramiy of Sobah and of Rechob and Ish Tob and Maachah are alone in the field. 9 And Yah Ab sees the face of the war is against him - at their face and behind; and he chooses from all the chosen of Yisra El and lines them up to meet the Aramiy: 10 and he gives the rest of the people into the hand of Abi Shai his brother, to line them up to meet the sons of Ammon. 11 And he says, If the Aramiy prevail over me, then you save me: but if the sons of Ammon prevail over you, then I come and save you. 12 Strengthen! - Strengthen for our people and for the cities of our Elohim: and Yah Veh works good in his eyes. 13 And Yah Ab and the people with him draw near to the war against the Aramiy: and they flee his face: 14 and the sons of Ammon see the Aramiy, and they also flee the face of Abi Shai and enter the city: and Yah Ab returns from the sons of Ammon and comes to Yeru Shalem. 15 And the Aramiy see they are smitten at the face of Yisra El, and they gather together: 16 and Hadar Ezer sends and brings the Aramiy beyond the river: and they come to Helam; and Shobach the governor of the host of Hadar Ezer goes from their face. 17 And they tell David, and he gathers all Yisra El and passes over Yarden and comes to Helam. And the Aramiy line up to meet David and fight him: 18 and the Aramiy flee the face of Yisra El; and David slaughters seven hundred chariots and forty thousand cavalry of the Aramiy; and smites Shobach the governor of their host who dies there. 19 And all the sovereigns, the servants to Hadar Ezer, see they are smitten at the face of Yisra El; and they shalam with Yisra El and serve them: and the Aramiy awe to save the sons of Ammon any more.