2 Samuel 10 · Verse 13

2 Samuel 10:13

And Joab drew nigh, and the people that were with him, unto the battle against the Syrians: and they fled before him.
2 Samuel 10:13, King James Version

2 Samuel 10:13 in other translations

BSBSo Joab and his troops advanced to fight the Arameans, who fled before him.
WEBSo Joab and the people who were with him came near to the battle against the Syrians, and they fled before him.
ASVSo Joab and the people that were with him drew nigh unto the battle against the Syrians: and they fled before him.
YLTAnd Joab draweth nigh, and the people who are with him, to battle against Aram, and they flee from his presence;
DARBYAnd Joab drew near, and the people that were with him, unto the battle against the Syrians; and they fled before him.
BBEThen Joab and the people with him went forward to the fight against the Aramaeans, and they went in flight before him.
WebsterAnd Joab and the people that were with him drew near to the battle against the Syrians: and they fled before him.

What does 2 Samuel 10:13 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 2 Samuel 10:6-14

6-14. when the children of Ammon saw that they stank before David--To chastise those insolent and inhospitable Ammonites, who had violated the common law of nations, David sent a large army under the command of Joab, while they, informed of the impending attack, made energetic preparations to repel it by engaging the services of an immense number of Syrian mercenaries. Beth-rehob--the capital of the low-lying region…

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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 2 Samuel 10:6-14

They that are at war with the Son of David, not only give the provocation, but begin the war. God has forces to send against those that set his wrath at defiance, Is 5:19, which will convince them that none ever hardened his heart against God, and prospered. Christ's soldiers should strengthen one another's hands in their spiritual warfare. Let nothing be wanting in us, whatever the success be. When we make…

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2 Samuel 10:13 in the original Hebrew

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וַיִּגַּ֣שׁvai.yi.Gashand he drew nearH5066
יוֹאָ֗בyo.'AvJoabH3097
וְהָעָם֙ve.ha.'Amand the peopleH5971
אֲשֶׁ֣ר'a.SherwhichH834
עִמּ֔וֹi.Mo[was] with himH5973
לַמִּלְחָמָ֖הla.mil.cha.Mahfor <the> battleH4421
בַּֽאֲרָ֑םba.'a.Ramin AramH758
וַיָּנֻ֖סוּvai.ya.Nu.suand they fledH5127
מִפָּנָֽיו\׃mi.pa.Navfrom before himH6440

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for 2 Samuel 10:13

  • 1 Kings 20:13-21

    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. And Ahab said, By whom? And he said, Thus saith the Lord, Even by the young men of the princes of the provinces. Then he said, Who shall order the battle? And he answered, Thou. Then he numbered the young men of the princes of the provinces, and they were two hundred and thirty two: and after them he numbered all the people, even all the children of Israel, being seven thousand. And they went out at noon. But Ben–hadad was drinking himself drunk in the pavilions, he and the kings, the thirty and two kings that helped him. …

  • 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 Chronicles 19:14-15

    So Joab and the people that were with him drew nigh before the Syrians unto the battle; and they fled before him. 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 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.

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they fled.
1Ki 20:13-21,28-30; 1Ch 19:14,15; 2Ch 13:5-16

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Context

  • 2 Samuel 10:12

    Be of good courage, and let us play the men for our people, and for the cities of our God: and the Lord do that which seemeth him good.

  • 2 Samuel 10:13

    And Joab drew nigh, and the people that were with him, unto the battle against the Syrians: and they fled before him.

  • 2 Samuel 10:14

    And when the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians were fled, then fled they also before Abishai, and entered into the city. So Joab returned from the children of Ammon, and came to Jerusalem.

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2 Samuel 10:13 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Y acercóse Joab, y el pueblo que con él estaba, para pelear con los Siros; mas ellos huyeron delante de él.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Et Joab s’approcha, et le peuple qui était avec lui, pour livrer bataille aux Syriens; et ils s’enfuirent devant lui.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Da rückte Joab und das Volk, das bei ihm war, vor zum Streit wider die Syrer; und sie flohen vor ihm.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Iniit itaque Joab, et populus qui erat cum eo, certamen contra Syros: qui statim fugerunt a facie ejus.