Holy Bible
(King James Version)
First
Chronicles : Chapter 19
1. NOW it
came to pass after this, that Nahash the king of the children of Ammon
died, and his son reigned in his stead.
2. And David said, I will shew kindness unto Hanun the son of Nahash,
because his father shewed kindness to me. And David sent
messengers to comfort him concerning his father. So the servants
of David came into the land of the children of Ammon to Hanun, to
comfort him.
3. But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun, Thinkest thou
that David doth honour thy father, that he hath sent comforters unto
thee? are not his servants come unto thee for to search, and to
overthrow, and to spy out the land?
4. Wherefore Hanun took David's servants, and shaved them, and cut off
their garments in the midst hard by their buttocks, and sent them away.
5. Then there went certain, and told David how the men were
served. And he sent to meet them: for the men were greatly
ashamed. And the king said, Tarry at Jericho until your beards be
grown, and then return.
6. And when the children of Ammon saw that they had made themselves
odious to David, Hanun and the children of Ammon sent a thousand talents
of silver to hire them chariots and horsemen out of Mes-o-po-ta-mi-a,
and out of Syria-ma-a-chah, and out of Zobah.
7. So they hired thirty and two thousand chariots, and the king of Ma-a-chah
and his people; who came and pitched before Me-de-ba. And the
children of Ammon gathered themselves together from their cities, and
came to battle.
8. And when David heard of it, he sent Joab, and all the host of the
mighty men.
9. And the children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in array
before the gate of the city: and the kings that were come were by
themselves in the field.
10. Now when Joab saw that the battle was set against him before and
behind, he chose out of all the choice of Israel, and put them in array
against the Syrians.
11. And the rest of the people he delivered unto the hand of Ab-i-shai
his brother, and they set themselves in array against the children of
Ammon.
12. And he said, If the Syrians be too strong for me, then thou shalt
help me: but if the children of Ammon be too strong for thee, then I
will help thee.
13. Be of good courage, and let us behave ourselves valiantly for our
people, and for the cities of our God: and let the LORD do that which is
good in his sight.
14. So Joab and the people that were with him drew nigh before the
Syrians unto the battle; and they fled before him.
15. And when the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians were fled, they
likewise fled before Ab-i-shai his brother, and entered into the
city. Then Joab came to Jerusalem.
16. And when the Syrians saw that they were put to the worse before
Israel, they sent messengers, and drew forth the Syrians that were
beyond the river: and Sho-phach the captain of the host of Had-a-re-zer
went before them.
17. And it was told David; and he gathered all Israel, and passed over
Jordan, and came upon them, and set the battle in array against
them. So when David had put the battle in array against the
Syrians, they fought with him.
18. But the Syrians fled before Israel; and David slew of the Syrians
seven thousand men which fought in chariots, and forty thousand footmen,
and killed Sho-phach the captain of the host.
19. And when the servants of Had-a-re-zer saw that they were put to the
worse before Israel, they made peace with David, and became his
servants: neither would the Syrians help the children of Ammon any more.
May 23
Daily reading schedule.. go to chapter 20.
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