1 Chronicles 19:14
So Joab and the people that were with him drew nigh before the Syrians unto the battle; and they fled before him.
1 Chronicles 19:14 in other translations
| BSB | So Joab and his troops advanced to fight the Arameans, who fled before him. |
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| WEB | So Joab and the people who were with him came near to the front of the Syrians to the battle; and they fled before him. |
| ASV | So Joab and the people that were with him drew nigh before the Syrians unto the battle; and they fled before him. |
| YLT | And Joab draweth nigh, and the people who are with him, before Aram to battle, and they flee from his face; |
| DARBY | And Joab and the people that were with him drew near in front of the Syrians to the battle; and they fled before him. |
| BBE | So Joab and the people who were with him went forward into the fight against the Aramaeans, and they went in flight before him. |
| Webster | So Joab and the people that were with him drew nigh before the Syrians to the battle; and they fled before him. |
What does 1 Chronicles 19:14 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 1 Chronicles 19:9-15
9-15. children of Ammon ... put the battle in array before the gate of the city--that is, outside the walls of Medeba, a frontier town on the Arnon. the kings that were come were by themselves in the field--The Israelitish army being thus beset by the Ammonites in front, and by the Syrian auxiliaries behind, Joab resolved to attack the latter (the more numerous and formidable host), while he directed his brother…
1 Chronicles 19:14 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for 1 Chronicles 19:14
- 2 Chronicles 13:5-16
Ought ye not to know that the Lord God of Israel gave the kingdom over Israel to David for ever, even to him and to his sons by a covenant of salt? Yet Jeroboam the son of Nebat, the servant of Solomon the son of David, is risen up, and hath rebelled against his lord. And there are gathered unto him vain men, the children of Belial, and have strengthened themselves against Rehoboam the son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was young and tenderhearted, and could not withstand them. And now ye think to withstand the kingdom of the Lord in the hand of the sons of David; and ye be a great multitude, and there are with you golden calves, which Jeroboam made you for gods. …
- 1 Kings 20:13
And, behold, there came a prophet unto Ahab king of Israel, saying, Thus saith the Lord, Hast thou seen all this great multitude? behold, I will deliver it into thine hand this day; and thou shalt know that I am the Lord.
- 1 Kings 20:28-30
And there came a man of God, and spake unto the king of Israel, and said, Thus saith the Lord, Because the Syrians have said, The Lord is God of the hills, but he is not God of the valleys, therefore will I deliver all this great multitude into thine hand, and ye shall know that I am the Lord. And they pitched one over against the other seven days. And so it was, that in the seventh day the battle was joined: and the children of Israel slew of the Syrians an hundred thousand footmen in one day. But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and there a wall fell upon twenty and seven thousand of the men that were left. And Ben–hadad fled, and came into the city, into an inner chamber.
- Jeremiah 46:15-16
Why are thy valiant men swept away? they stood not, because the Lord did drive them. He made many to fall, yea, one fell upon another: and they said, Arise, and let us go again to our own people, and to the land of our nativity, from the oppressing sword.
- 1 Kings 20:19-21
So these young men of the princes of the provinces came out of the city, and the army which followed them. And they slew every one his man: and the Syrians fled; and Israel pursued them: and Ben–hadad the king of Syria escaped on an horse with the horsemen. And the king of Israel went out, and smote the horses and chariots, and slew the Syrians with a great slaughter.
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1Ki 20:13,19-21,28-30; 2Ch 13:5-16; Jer 46:15,16
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Context
- 1 Chronicles 19:13
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.
- 1 Chronicles 19:14
So Joab and the people that were with him drew nigh before the Syrians unto the battle; and they fled before him.
- 1 Chronicles 19:15
And when the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians were fled, they likewise fled before Abishai his brother, and entered into the city. Then Joab came to Jerusalem.
1 Chronicles 19:14 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Acercóse luego Joab y el pueblo que tenía consigo, para pelear contra los Siros; mas ellos huyeron delante de él. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et Joab s’approcha, et le peuple qui était avec lui, au-devant des Syriens, pour livrer bataille; et ils s’enfuirent devant lui. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Da rückte Joab und das Volk, das bei ihm war, vor, den Syrern entgegen zum Streit; und sie flohen vor ihm. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Perrexit ergo Joab et populus qui cum eo erat, contra Syrum ad prælium: et fugavit eos. |