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Young's Literal Translation

1 Chronicles 19:14

And Joab draweth nigh, and the people who [are] with him, before Aram to battle, and they flee from his face;

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.
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.
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 And the sons of Ammon see that they have made themselves abhorred by David, and Hanun and the sons of Ammon send a thousand talents of silver, to hire to them, from Aram-Naharaim, and from Aram-Maachah, and from Zobah, chariots and horsemen; 7 and they hire to them two and thirty thousand chariots, and the king of Maachah and his people, and they come in and encamp before Medeba, and the sons of Ammon have been gathered out of their cities, and come in to the battle. 8 And David heareth, and sendeth Joab, and all the host of the mighty men, 9 and the sons of Ammon come out and set battle in array at the opening of the city, and the kings who have come [are] by themselves in the field. 10 And Joab seeth that the front of the battle hath been unto him, before and behind, and he chooseth out of all the choice in Israel, and setteth in array to meet Aram, 11 and the remnant of the people he hath given into the hand of Abishai his brother, and they set in array to meet the sons of Ammon. 12 And he saith, `If Aram be stronger than I, then thou hast been to me for salvation; and if the sons of Ammon be stronger than thou, then I have saved thee; 13 be strong, and we strengthen ourselves, for our people, and for the cities of our God, and Jehovah doth that which is good in His eyes.' 14 And Joab draweth nigh, and the people who [are] with him, before Aram to battle, and they flee from his face; 15 and the sons of Ammon have seen that Aram hath fled, and they flee -- they also -- from the face of Abishai his brother, and go in to the city. And Joab cometh in 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 lie down, the men of the city -- men of Sodom -- have come round about against the house, from young even unto aged, all the people from the extremity;
Genesis 19:8
lo, I pray you, I have two daughters, who have not known any one; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do to them as [is] good in your eyes; only to these men do not anything, for therefore have they come in within the shadow of my roof.'
Genesis 19:12
And the men say unto Lot, `Whom hast thou here still? son-in-law, thy sons also, and thy daughters, and all whom thou hast in the city, bring out from this place;
Genesis 19:14
And Lot goeth out, and speaketh unto his sons-in-law, those taking his daughters, and saith, `Rise, go out from this place, for Jehovah is destroying the city;' and he is as [one] mocking in the eyes of his sons-in-law.
Genesis 19:17
And it cometh to pass when he hath brought them out without, that he saith, `Escape for thy life; look not expectingly behind thee, nor stand thou in all the circuit; to the mountain escape, lest thou be consumed.'
Genesis 19:22
haste, escape thither, for I am not able to do anything till thine entering thither;' therefore hath he calleth the name of the city Zoar.
Genesis 19:28
and he looketh on the face of Sodom and Gomorrah, and on all the face of the land of the circuit, and seeth, and lo, the smoke of the land went up as smoke of the furnace.
Genesis 19:30
And Lot goeth up out of Zoar, and dwelleth in the mountain, and his two daughters with him, for he hath been afraid of dwelling in Zoar, and he dwelleth in a cave, he and his two daughters.
Exodus 9:21
and he who hath not set his heart unto the word of Jehovah leaveth his servants and his cattle in the field.
Exodus 12:31
and he calleth for Moses and for Aaron by night, and saith, `Rise, go out from the midst of my people, both ye and the sons of Israel, and go, serve Jehovah according to your word;

Gill's Notes on the Bible

See Gill "1Ch 19:1".


 
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