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Joab said, "If the Arameans are too strong for my [troops], be ready to help me. And if the Ammonites are too strong for your [troops], I'll help you.
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Be strong! Let's prove ourselves strong for our people and for the cities of our God, and the LORD will do what he considers right."
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Then Joab and his troops advanced to fight the Arameans, and the Arameans fled.
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When the Ammonites saw that the Arameans had fled, they, too, fled from Joab's brother Abishai and went into the city. So Joab returned to Jerusalem.
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Realizing that Israel had defeated them, the kings sent [messengers] to get [other] Arameans from beyond the Euphrates River. Shophach, the commander of Hadadezer's army, led them.