2 Samuel 10:13 Cross References - CAB

¹³ And Joab and his people with him advanced to battle against Syria, and they fled from before him.

¹³ And behold, a prophet came to Ahab king of Israel, and said, Thus says the Lord: Have you seen this great multitude? Behold, I give it this day into your hands, and you shall know that I am the Lord. ¹⁴ And Ahab said, By whom? And he said, Thus says the Lord: by the young men of the heads of the districts. And Ahab said, Who shall begin the battle? And he said, You. ¹⁵ And Ahab numbered the young men the heads of the districts, and they were two hundred and thirty. And afterwards he numbered the people, even every man fit for war, seven thousand. ¹⁶ And he went forth at noon, and the son of Hadad was drinking and getting drunk in Succhoth, he and the kings, even thirty-two kings, his allies. ¹⁷ And the young men the heads of the districts went forth first; and they sent and reported to the king of Syria, saying, There are men come forth out of Samaria. ¹⁸ And he said to them, If they come forth peaceably, take them alive; and if they come forth to war, take them alive; ¹⁹ and let not the young men the heads of the districts go forth of the city. And the force that was behind them ²⁰ killed each one the man next to him; and each one a second time killed the man next to him. And Syria fled, and Israel pursued them; and the son of Hadad, the king of Syria, escaped on the horse of a horseman. ²¹ And the king of Israel went forth, and took all the horses and the chariots, and attacked the enemy with a great slaughter in Syria.

²⁸ Then the man of God came, and said to the king of Israel, Thus says the Lord: Because Syria has said, The Lord God of Israel is a God of the hills, and He is not a God of the valleys, therefore will I give this great army into your hand, and you shall know that I am the Lord. ²⁹ And they encamped one over against the other before them for seven days. And it came to pass on the seventh day that the battle drew on, and Israel attacked Syria, even a hundred thousand footmen in one day. ³⁰ And the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and the wall fell upon twenty-seven thousand men that were left. And the son of Hadad fled, and entered into an inner chamber, into a closet.

¹⁴ So Joab and the people that were with him set themselves in battle array against the Syrians, and they fled from them. ¹⁵ And the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians fled, and they also fled from before Abishai, and from before Joab his brother, and they came to the city; and Joab came to Jerusalem.

⁵ Is it not for you to know that the Lord God of Israel has given a king over Israel forever to David, and to his sons, by a covenant of salt? ⁶ But Jeroboam the son of Nebat, the servant of Solomon the son of David, has risen up, and has revolted from his master. ⁷ And there are gathered to him pestilent men, transgressors, and he has risen up against Rehoboam the son of Solomon, while Rehoboam was young and fearful in heart, and he withstood him not. ⁸ And now you profess to resist the kingdom of the Lord in the hand of the sons of David, and you are a great multitude, and with you are golden calves, which Jeroboam made you, as gods. ⁹ Did you not cast out the priests of the Lord, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and make for yourselves priests of the people of any other land? Whoever came to consecrate himself with a calf of the herd and seven rams, he then became a priest to that which is no god. ¹⁰ But we have not forsaken the Lord our God, and His priests, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, ministers unto the Lord; and in their daily courses ¹¹ they sacrifice to the Lord whole burnt offerings, morning and evening, and compound incense, and set the showbread on the pure table; and there is the golden lampstand, and the lamps for burning, to light in the evening; for we keep the charge of the Lord God of our fathers; but you have forsaken Him. ¹² And behold, the Lord and His priests are with us at our head, and the signal trumpets to sound an alarm over us. Children of Israel, fight not against the Lord God of our fathers; for you shall not prosper. ¹³ Now Jeroboam had caused an ambush to come round upon him from behind; and he himself was before Judah, and the ambush behind. ¹⁴ And Judah looked back, and behold, the battle was against them, ahead and behind. And they cried to the Lord, and the priests sounded with the trumpets. ¹⁵ And the men of Judah shouted. And it came to pass, when the men of Judah shouted, that the Lord struck Jeroboam and Israel before Abijah and Judah. ¹⁶ And the children of Israel fled from before Judah; and the Lord delivered them into their hands.