2 Samuel 10:16

2 Samuel 10:16

14 When the people of Ammon saw that the Syrians were fleeing, they also fled before Abishai, and entered the city. So Joab returned from the people of Ammon and went to ^aJerusalem.

15 When the Syrians saw that they had been defeated by Israel, they gathered together.

16 Then¹ Hadadezer sent and brought out the Syrians who were beyond² the River, and they came to Helam. And Shobach the commander of Hadadezer’s army went before them.

17 When it was told David, he gathered all Israel, crossed over the Jordan, and came to Helam. And the Syrians set themselves in battle array against David and fought with him.

18 Then the Syrians fled before Israel; and David killed seven hundred charioteers and forty thousand ^ahorsemen of the Syrians, and struck Shobach the commander of their army, who died there.

19 And when all the kings who were servants to¹ Hadadezer saw that they were defeated by Israel, they made peace with Israel and ^aserved them. So the Syrians were afraid to help the people of Ammon anymore.

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THE SYRIANS DEFEATED. (II Samuel 10:15-19)

Hadarezer sent and brought out the Syrians that were beyond the river—This prince had enjoyed a breathing time after his defeat (II Samuel 8:3). But alarmed at the increasing power and greatness of David, as well as being an ally of the Ammonites, he levied a vast army not only in Syria, but in Mesopotamia, to invade the Hebrew kingdom. Shobach, his general, in pursuance of this design, had marched his troops as far as Kelam, a border town of eastern Manasseh, when David, crossing the Jordan by forced marches, suddenly surprised, defeated, and dispersed them. As a result of this great and decisive victory, all the petty kingdoms of Syria submitted and became his tributaries (see on I Chronicles 19:1).

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