2 Samuel

  • David Defeats the Ammonites

  • |2 Samuel 10:1| Some time after this, King Nahash of the Ammonites died, and his son Hanun became king.

  • |2 Samuel 10:2| David said, “I am going to show loyalty to Hanun just as his father, Nahash, was always loyal to me.” So David sent ambassadors to express sympathy to Hanun about his father’s death.But when David’s ambassadors arrived in the land of Ammon,

  • |2 Samuel 10:3| the Ammonite commanders said to Hanun, their master, “Do you really think these men are coming here to honor your father? No! David has sent them to spy out the city so they can come in and conquer it!”

  • |2 Samuel 10:4| So Hanun seized David’s ambassadors and shaved off half of each man’s beard, cut off their robes at the buttocks, and sent them back to David in shame.

  • |2 Samuel 10:5| When David heard what had happened, he sent messengers to tell the men, “Stay at Jericho until your beards grow out, and then come back.” For they felt deep shame because of their appearance.

  • |2 Samuel 10:6| When the people of Ammon realized how seriously they had angered David, they sent and hired 20,000 Aramean foot soldiers from the lands of Beth-rehob and Zobah, 1,000 from the king of Maacah, and 12,000 from the land of Tob.

  • |2 Samuel 10:7| When David heard about this, he sent Joab and all his warriors to fight them.

  • |2 Samuel 10:8| The Ammonite troops came out and drew up their battle lines at the entrance of the city gate, while the Arameans from Zobah and Rehob and the men from Tob and Maacah positioned themselves to fight in the open fields.

  • |2 Samuel 10:9| When Joab saw that he would have to fight on both the front and the rear, he chose some of Israel’s elite troops and placed them under his personal command to fight the Arameans in the fields.

  • |2 Samuel 10:10| He left the rest of the army under the command of his brother Abishai, who was to attack the Ammonites.


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