2 Samuel 10

David Defeats the Ammonites

1In the course of time, the king of the Ammonites died, and his son Hanun succeeded him as king. 2David thought, “I will show kindness to Hanun son of Nahash, just as his father showed kindness to me.” So David sent a delegation to express his sympathy to Hanun concerning his father.

When David’s men came to the land of the Ammonites, 3the Ammonite commanders said to Hanun their lord, “Do you think David is honoring your father by sending envoys to you to express sympathy? Hasn’t David sent them to you only to explore the city and spy it out and overthrow it?” 4So Hanun seized David’s envoys, shaved off half of each man’s beard, cut off their garments at the buttocks, and sent them away.

5When David was told about this, he sent messengers to meet the men, for they were greatly humiliated. The king said, “Stay at Jericho till your beards have grown, and then come back.”

6When the Ammonites realized that they had become obnoxious to David, they hired twenty thousand Aramean foot soldiers from Beth Rehob and Zobah, as well as the king of Maakah with a thousand men, and also twelve thousand men from Tob.

7On hearing this, David sent Joab out with the entire army of fighting men. 8The Ammonites came out and drew up in battle formation at the entrance of their city gate, while the Arameans of Zobah and Rehob and the men of Tob and Maakah were by themselves in the open country.

9Joab saw that there were battle lines in front of him and behind him; so he selected some of the best troops in Israel and deployed them against the Arameans. 10He put the rest of the men under the command of Abishai his brother and deployed them against the Ammonites. 11Joab said, “If the Arameans are too strong for me, then you are to come to my rescue; but if the Ammonites are too strong for you, then I will come to rescue you. 12Be strong, and let us fight bravely for our people and the cities of our God. The Lord will do what is good in his sight.”

13Then Joab and the troops with him advanced to fight the Arameans, and they fled before him. 14When the Ammonites realized that the Arameans were fleeing, they fled before Abishai and went inside the city. So Joab returned from fighting the Ammonites and came to Jerusalem.

15After the Arameans saw that they had been routed by Israel, they regrouped. 16Hadadezer had Arameans brought from beyond the Euphrates River; they went to Helam, with Shobak the commander of Hadadezer’s army leading them.

17When David was told of this, he gathered all Israel, crossed the Jordan and went to Helam. The Arameans formed their battle lines to meet David and fought against him. 18But they fled before Israel, and David killed seven hundred of their charioteers and forty thousand of their foot soldiers.#10:18 Some Septuagint manuscripts (see also 1 Chron. 19:18); Hebrew horsemen He also struck down Shobak the commander of their army, and he died there. 19When all the kings who were vassals of Hadadezer saw that they had been routed by Israel, they made peace with the Israelites and became subject to them.

So the Arameans were afraid to help the Ammonites anymore.

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2 SAMUELE 10

Davida o hlola Baamone le Baarame

(1 Dik. 19:1-19)

1Kamorao ho mona, kgosi ya Baamone ya eshwa, mme Hanune, mora wa yona, a e hlahlama. 2Davida a re: “Hanune, mora wa Nahashe, ke tla mo etsetsa tse molemo, jwalokaha ntatae a ile a nketsetsa tse molemo.” Ka baka leo, Davida a roma bahlanka ba hae ho mo isetsa matshediso, ka baka la lefu la ntatae.

Ha bahlanka ba Davida ba fihla naheng ya Baamone, 3mahosana a Baamone a re ho Hanune, monga wona: “O bona eka ke hobane Davida a tlotla ntatao ha a rometse maqosa ho tla o tshedisa? Na hase ho tla hlahloba motse, le ho o hlwela, hore a tle a o hape?”

4Yaba Hanune o tshwara bahlanka ba Davida, o ba beola ditedu tsa mohlaare o mong, o hahola diaparo tsa bona ka lehare, ho ya fihla dibonong, a nto re ba tsamaye. 5Hoba Davida a bolellwe taba ena, a re ba yo kgahlanyetswa, hobane bao ba ne ba hlabilwe ke dihlong haholo. Yaba kgosi Davida o re ho bona: “Dulang moo Jeriko ho fihlela ditedu tsa lona di hlomela, ebe jwale le a kgutla.”

6Ha Baamone ba bona hore ba kgopisitse Davida, ba ya hira Baarame ba ahileng Bete-Rehobe, le ba ahileng Soba. E ne e le banna ba ditaaso ba dikete tse mashome a mabedi. Kgosi ya Maaka yona e ne e ena le banna ba sekete, ha banna ba Tobe bona ba ne ba le dikete tse leshome le metso e mmedi.

7Ha Davida a utlwa taba ena, a romela Joabe le lebotho lohle la bahlabani. 8Baamone ba tswa, ba thea theko ya ntwa kgorong ya motse. Baarame ba tswang Soba, le ba tswang Rehobe, le banna ba tswang Tobe le Maaka, bona ba ne ba le naheng ba le bang.

9Ha Joabe a bona hore ba direng ba mo hlahile kapele le kamorao, a kgetha mokgetho hara bahale bohle ba Baiseraele, a o emisa ka theko, wa thulana le Baarame. 10Bahlabani ba bang bona a ba bea tlasa taolo ya ngwanabo, Abishai, le bona ba thea theko, ba thulana le Baamone. 11Joabe a re: “Haeba Baarame ba ka nkimela, wena o tla nthusetsa; le wena, haeba o ka imelwa ke Baamone, ke tla o thusetsa. 12Tiisa matla, re lwanele setjhaba sa habo rona, le metse ya Modimo wa rona ka sebete. Morena a ke a etse seo yena a bonang hore se lokile.”

13Jwale Joabe le bahlabani ba neng ba ena le yena ba atamela thekong ya ntwa, mme ditheko tsa kopana. Baarame ba ba baleha. 14Ha Baamone ba bona hore Baarame ba balehile, le bona ba baleha Abishai, ba ba ba ya kena motseng. Jwale Joabe a kgaotsa ho ba phaladisa, a kgutlela Jerusalema.

15Ha Baarame ba bona hore Baiseraele ba ba hlotse, ba boela ba kgobokanya mabotho. 16Hadade-Esere a laela hore ho latwe Baarame ba neng ba le kamose wane ho Noka. Baarame bao ba fihla Helame, ba ena le Shobake, molaodi wa mabotho a Hadade-Esere, a ba eteletse pele.

17Ha Davida a tsebiswa hona, a kgobokanya bahlabani bohle ba Baiseraele, a tshela Jorodane, a fihla Helame. Baarame ba thea theko ya ntwa, ba lwantsha Davida. 18Baarame ba baleha Baiseraele. Davida a bolaya Baarame ba makgolo a supileng ba palamang dikariki tsa ntwa, le banna ba dikete tse mashome a mane ba palamang dipere. A bolaya le Shobake, molaodi wa mabotho a bona, mme a shwela hona moo. 19Ha dikgosi tsohle tse buswang ke Hadade-Esere di bona hore Baiseraele ba di hlotse, tsa etsa kgotso le bona, tsa ba sebeletsa.

Ka baka leo, Baarame ba tshaba ho nna ba thusetsa Baamone.

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