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World English Bible

1 Chronicles 19:14

So Joab and the people who were with him drew near before the Syrians to the 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

Christian Standard Bible®
Joab and the people with him approached the Arameans for battle, and they fled before him.
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.
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

6 When the children of Ammon saw that they had made themselves odious to David, Hanun and the children of Ammon sent one thousand talents of silver to hire them chariots and horsemen out of Mesopotamia, and out of Arammaacah, and out of Zobah. 7 So they hired them thirty-two thousand chariots, and the king of Maacah and his people, who came and encamped before Medeba. The children of Ammon gathered themselves together from their cities, and came to battle. 8 When David heard of it, he sent Joab, and all the host of the mighty men. 9 The children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in array at the gate of the city: and the kings who had come were by themselves in the field. 10 Now when Joab saw that the battle was set against him before and behind, he chose of all the choice men of Israel, and put them in array against the Syrians. 11 The rest of the people he committed into the hand of Abishai his brother; and they put themselves in array against the children of Ammon. 12 He said, If the Syrians be too strong for me, then you shall help me; but if the children of Ammon be too strong for you, then I will help you. 13 Be of good courage, and let us play the man for our people, and for the cities of our God: and Yahweh do that which seems him good. 14 So Joab and the people who were with him drew near before the Syrians to the battle; and they fled before him. 15 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.

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
But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both young and old, all the people from every quarter.
Genesis 19:8
See now, I have two virgin daughters. Please let me bring them out to you, and do you to them as is good in your eyes. Only don't do anything to these men, because they have come under the shadow of my roof."
Genesis 19:12
The men said to Lot, "Do you have anybody else here? Sons-in-law, your sons, your daughters, and whoever you have in the city, bring them out of the place:
Genesis 19:14
Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry his daughters, and said, "Get up! Get out of this place, for Yahweh will destroy the city." But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be joking.
Genesis 19:17
It came to pass, when they had taken them out, that he said, "Escape for your life! Don't look behind you, neither stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountain, lest you be consumed!"
Genesis 19:22
Hurry, escape there, for I can't do anything until you get there." Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.
Genesis 19:28
He looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and looked, and saw that the smoke of the land went up as the smoke of a furnace.
Genesis 19:30
Lot went up out of Zoar, and lived in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he was afraid to live in Zoar. He lived in a cave with his two daughters.
Exodus 9:21
Whoever didn't regard the word of Yahweh left his servants and his cattle in the field.
Exodus 12:31
He called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, "Rise up, get out from among my people, both you and the children of Israel; and go, serve Yahweh, as you have said!

Gill's Notes on the Bible

See Gill "1Ch 19:1".


 
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