6
And the children of Ammon saw that the people of David were ashamed, and Anan and the children of Ammon sent a thousand talents of silver to hire for themselves chariots and horsemen out of Syria of Mesopotamia, and out of Syria Maacha, and from Sobal.
7
And they hired for themselves two and thirty thousand chariots, and the king of Maacha and his people; and they came and encamped before Medaba: and the children of Ammon assembled out of their cities, and came to fight.
8
And David heard, and sent Joab and all the host of mighty men.
9
And the children of Ammon came forth, and set themselves in array for battle by the gate of the city: and the kings that were come forth encamped by themselves in the plain.
10
And Joab saw that they were fronting to fight against him before and behind, and he chose out of all the young men of Israel, and they set themselves in array against the Syrian.
The Brenton translation of the Septuagint is in the public domain.