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He said, If the Aram be too strong for me, then you shall help me; but if the children of `Ammon be too strong for you, then I will help you.
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Be of good courage, and let us play the man for our people, and for the cities of our God: and the LORD do that which seems him good.
14
So Yo'av and the people who were with him drew near before the Aram to the battle; and they fled before him.
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When the children of `Ammon saw that the Aram were fled, they likewise fled before Avishai his brother, and entered into the city. Then Yo'av came to Yerushalayim.
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When the Aram saw that they were put to the worse before Yisra'el, they sent messengers, and drew forth the Aram who were beyond the River, with Shophach the captain of the host of Hadad`ezer at their head.
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It was told David; and he gathered all Yisra'el together, and passed over the Yarden, and came on them, and set the battle in array against them. So when David had put the battle in array against the Aram, they fought with him.
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The Aram fled before Yisra'el; and David killed of the Aram [the men of] seven thousand chariots, and forty thousand footmen, and killed Shophach the captain of the host.
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When the servants of Hadad`ezer saw that they were put to the worse before Yisra'el, they made shalom with David, and served him: neither would the Aram help the children of `Ammon any more.