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Christian Standard Bible ®

1 Chronicles 19:14

Joab and the people with him approached the Arameans for battle, and they fled before him.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Hadadezer;   Joab;   Medeba;   Zobah;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Hanun;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Medeba;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Hadarezer;   Medeba;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Chronicles, I;   Maacah;   Medeba;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Joab;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Medeba;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
So Yo'av and the people who were with him drew near before the Aram to the battle; and they fled before him.
King James Version
So Joab and the people that were with him drew nigh before the Syrians unto the battle; and they fled before him.
English Standard Version
So Joab and the people who were with him drew near before the Syrians for battle, and they fled before him.
New Century Version
Then Joab and the army with him went to attack the Arameans, and the Arameans ran away.
New English Translation
So Joab and his men marched toward the Arameans to do battle, and they fled before him.
Amplified Bible
So Joab and the people who were with him approached the Arameans for battle, and they fled before him.
New American Standard Bible
So Joab and the people who were with him advanced to battle against the Arameans, and they fled from him.
World English Bible
So Joab and the people who were with him drew near before the Syrians to the battle; and they fled before him.
Geneva Bible (1587)
So Ioab and the people that was with him, came neere before the Aramites vnto the battel, and they fled before him.
Legacy Standard Bible
So Joab and the people who were with him drew near before the Arameans for the battle, and they fled before him.
Berean Standard Bible
So Joab and his troops advanced to fight the Arameans, who fled before him.
Contemporary English Version
Joab and his soldiers attacked the Syrians, and the Syrians ran from them.
Complete Jewish Bible
So Yo'av and the people with him went to engage Aram in battle, and they fled before him.
Darby Translation
And Joab and the people that were with him drew near in front of the Syrians to the battle; and they fled before him.
Easy-to-Read Version
Joab and the army with him attacked the Aramean army. The Arameans ran away from Joab and his army.
George Lamsa Translation
So Joab and the people who were with him drew near against the Arameans to battle, and they fled before him.
Good News Translation
Joab and his men advanced to attack, and the Syrians fled.
Lexham English Bible
And Joab and the people who were with him drew near before Aram for battle, and they fled before him.
Literal Translation
And Joab and the people with him drew near before Syria to do battle; and they fled before him.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And Ioab made him forth with ye people that was with him, to fighte agaynst ye Syrians: & they fled before him.
American Standard Version
So Joab and the people that were with him drew nigh before the Syrians unto the battle; and they fled before him.
Bible in Basic English
So Joab and the people who were with him went forward into the fight against the Aramaeans, and they went in flight before him.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
So Ioab and the people that were with him, drue nye before the Syrians vnto the battayle: and they fled before him.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
So Joab and the people that were with him drew nigh unto the battle to meet the Arameans; and they fled before him.
King James Version (1611)
So Ioab and the people that were with him, drew nigh before the Syrians, vnto the battell; and they fled before him.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
So Joab and the people that were with him set themselves in battle array against the Syrians, and they fled from them.
English Revised Version
So Joab and the people that were with him drew nigh before the Syrians unto the battle; and they fled before him.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor Joab yede, and the puple that was with hym, ayens Sirus to batel, and he droof hem awei.
Update Bible Version
So Joab and the people that were with him drew near before the Syrians to the battle; and they fled before him.
Webster's Bible Translation
So Joab and the people that [were] with him drew nigh before the Syrians to the battle; and they fled before him.
New King James Version
So Joab and the people who were with him drew near for the battle against the Syrians, and they fled before him.
New Living Translation
When Joab and his troops attacked, the Arameans began to run away.
New Life Bible
So Joab and the men who were with him came near to fight against the Syrians. And the Syrians ran away from him.
New Revised Standard
So Joab and the troops who were with him advanced toward the Arameans for battle; and they fled before him.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then did Joab, and all the people who were with him, draw near before the Syrians unto the battle, - and they fled from before him.
Douay-Rheims Bible
So Joab and the people that were with him, went against the Syrians to the battle: and he put them to flight.
Revised Standard Version
So Jo'ab and the people who were with him drew near before the Syrians for battle; and they fled before him.
Young's Literal Translation
And Joab draweth nigh, and the people who [are] with him, before Aram to battle, and they flee from his face;
THE MESSAGE
But when Joab and his soldiers moved in to fight the Arameans, they ran off in full retreat. Then the Ammonites, seeing the Arameans run for dear life, took to their heels and ran from Abishai into the city. So Joab withdrew from the Ammonites and returned to Jerusalem.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
So Joab and the people who were with him drew near to the battle against the Arameans, and they fled before him.

Contextual Overview

6When the Ammonites realized they had made themselves repulsive to David, Hanun and the Ammonites sent thirty-eight tons of silver to hire chariots and horsemen from Aram-naharaim, Aram-maacah, and Zobah. 7They hired thirty-two thousand chariots and the king of Maacah with his army, who came and camped near Medeba. The Ammonites also came together from their cities for the battle. 8David heard about this and sent Joab and all the elite troops. 9The Ammonites marched out and lined up in battle formation at the entrance of the city while the kings who had come were in the field by themselves. 10When Joab saw that there was a battle line in front of him and another behind him, he chose some of Israel’s finest young men and lined up in formation to engage the Arameans. 11He placed the rest of the forces under the command of his brother Abishai. They lined up in formation to engage the Ammonites. 12“If the Arameans are too strong for me,” Joab said, “then you’ll be my help. However, if the Ammonites are too strong for you, I’ll help you. 13Be strong! Let’s prove ourselves strong for our people and for the cities of our God. May the Lord’s will be done.” 14Joab and the people with him approached the Arameans for battle, and they fled before him. 15When the Ammonites saw that the Arameans had fled, they likewise fled before Joab’s brother Abishai and entered the city. Then Joab went to Jerusalem.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

they fled: 1 Kings 20:13, 1 Kings 20:19-21, 1 Kings 20:28-30, 2 Chronicles 13:5-16, Jeremiah 46:15, Jeremiah 46:16

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 10:13 - they fled 1 Chronicles 19:18 - fled before Israel

Cross-References

Genesis 19:4
Before they went to bed, the men of the city of Sodom, both young and old, the whole population, surrounded the house.
Genesis 19:8
Look, I’ve got two daughters who haven’t been intimate with a man. I’ll bring them out to you, and you can do whatever you want to them. However, don’t do anything to these men, because they have come under the protection of my roof.”
Genesis 19:12
Then the angels said to Lot, “Do you have anyone else here: a son-in-law, your sons and daughters, or anyone else in the city who belongs to you? Get them out of this place,
Genesis 19:14
So Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were going to marry his daughters. “Get up,” he said. “Get out of this place, for the Lord is about to destroy the city!” But his sons-in-law thought he was joking.
Genesis 19:17
As soon as the angels got them outside, one of them said, “Run for your lives! Don’t look back and don’t stop anywhere on the plain! Run to the mountains, or you will be swept away!”
Genesis 19:22
Hurry up! Run to it, for I cannot do anything until you get there.” Therefore the name of the city is Zoar.
Genesis 19:28
He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and all the land of the plain, and he saw that smoke was going up from the land like the smoke of a furnace.
Genesis 19:30
Lot departed from Zoar and lived in the mountains along with his two daughters, because he was afraid to live in Zoar. Instead, he and his two daughters lived in a cave.
Exodus 9:21
but those who didn’t take to heart the Lord’s word left their servants and livestock in the field.
Exodus 12:31
He summoned Moses and Aaron during the night and said, “Get out immediately from among my people, both you and the Israelites, and go, worship the Lord as you have said.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

See Gill "1Ch 19:1".


 
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