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Andra SamuelsbokenKapitel 10

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Some time later the king of the Ammonites died, and his son Hanun became king in his place.
David said, "I will show kindness to Hanun son of Nahash, just as his father showed kindness to me." So David sent a delegation of his servants to console him over his father. But when David's servants arrived in the land of the Ammonites,
the Ammonite commanders said to Hanun their lord, "Do you really think David is honoring your father by sending you men to console you? Hasn't David sent his servants to you to explore the city, to spy it out and overthrow it?"
So Hanun seized David's servants, shaved off half of each man's beard, cut their garments in half at the buttocks, and sent them away.
When David was told, he sent men to meet them, for the men were deeply humiliated. The king said, "Stay in Jericho until your beards have grown back, and then return."
When the Ammonites realized they had made themselves odious to David, they sent and hired the Arameans of Beth Rehob and the Arameans of Zobah—twenty thousand foot soldiers—along with the king of Maacah with a thousand men, and twelve thousand men from Tob.
When David heard of it, he sent out Joab with the whole army of fighting men.
The Ammonites marched out and took up battle positions at the entrance of the gate, while the Arameans of Zobah and Rehob and the men of Tob and Maacah were by themselves in the open field.
When Joab saw that he faced battle lines both in front of him and behind him, he chose some of the best troops in Israel and drew them up against the Arameans.
The rest of the men he put under the command of his brother Abishai, who drew them up against the Ammonites.
Joab said, "If the Arameans are too strong for me, then you are to come to my rescue; but if the Ammonites are too strong for you, then I will come and rescue you.
Be strong, and let us fight bravely for our people and for the cities of our God. And may the LORD do what is good in his sight."
Then Joab and the troops with him advanced to fight the Arameans, and they fled before him.
When the Ammonites saw that the Arameans were fleeing, they fled before Abishai and withdrew into the city. So Joab broke off the attack against the Ammonites and returned to Jerusalem.
When the Arameans saw that they had been defeated by Israel, they regrouped.
Hadadezer sent messengers and brought out the Arameans from beyond the River, and they came to Helam, with Shobach the commander of Hadadezer's army leading them.
When David was told of it, he gathered all Israel, crossed the Jordan, and came to Helam. The Arameans drew up their lines to meet David and fought against him.
But the Arameans fled before Israel, and David killed seven hundred of their charioteers and forty thousand of their horsemen. He also struck down Shobach the commander of their army, and he died there.
When all the kings who were vassals of Hadadezer saw that they had been defeated by Israel, they made peace with the Israelites and became subject to them. So the Arameans were afraid to help the Ammonites anymore.
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