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          DASV: 1 Chronicles 19    

1 Some time later, Nahash the king of the Ammonties died, and his son succeeded him.
2 David said, "I will show kindness to Hanun the son of Nahash, because his father showed kindness to me." So David sent messengers to comfort him concerning his father's death. David's servants came into the land of the Ammonites to Hanun, to offer condolences.
3 But the Ammonite officials said to Hanun, "Do you really think that David is honoring your father, by sending men to express sympathy to you? Are his servants not come to you to search, explore, and spy out the land?"
4 So Hanun took David's servants, shaved them, cut off their garments in the middle, exposing their buttocks, and sent them away.
5 Then someone came and told David how the men were mistreated. He sent messengers to meet them; for they were absolutely humiliated. The king said, "Stay at Jericho until your beards have regrown, and then return."

6 When the Ammonites saw that they had made themselves repugnant to David, Hanun and the Ammonites sent a 1,000 talents [75,000 pounds] of silver to hire chariots and horsemen from Aram Naharaim, Aram-maacah, and Zobah.
7 So they hired 32,000 chariots, and the king of Maacah and his army, who came and camped before Medeba. The Ammonites assembled from their towns and came to battle.

8 When David heard about it, he sent Joab, and all the army of the mighty men.
9 The Ammonites came out, and deployed their battle lines at the gate of the city, and the mercenary kings who had come were by themselves in the open fields.
10 Now when Joab saw that the battle was going against him in front and behind, he chose all the elite forces of Israel, and deployed them against the Arameans.

11 The rest of the people he put under the command of Abishai his brother; and they deployed against the Ammonites.
12 He said, "If the Arameans are too strong for me, then you should come to my rescue; but if the Ammonites are too strong for you, then I will come to your rescue.
13 Be courageous! Let us fight bravely for our people, and for the cities of our God; and may the LORD do what seems good to him."
14 So Joab and the people who were with him advanced against the Arameans for the battle; and they fled before him.
15 When the Ammonites saw that the Areameans had fled, they likewise fled before Abishai his brother, and retreated into the city. Then Joab returned to Jerusalem.

16 When the Arameans saw that they were routed before Israel, they sent messengers, and got reinforcements from the Arameans who were beyond the Euphrates River, with Shophach, the commander of the army of Hadarezer at their head.
17 David was told about it; so he gathered all Israel together, and passed over the Jordan River, and came on them, and advanced against them. So when David had advanced against the Arameans, they fought with him.
18 The Arameans fled before Israel; and David killed 7,000 Aramean charioteers, and 40,000 foot soldiers. He also killed Shophach the commander of the army.
19 When the subjects of Hadarezer saw that they were defeated before Israel, they made peace with David, and served him. After that the Arameans would not help Ammonites anymore.

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