2 Chronicles 25:11

At the return of the year, at the time when kings go out, David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the children of Ammon, and besieged Rabbah. But David stayed at Jerusalem.

Behold, a prophet came near to Ahab king of Israel, and said, “Yahweh says, ‘Have you seen all this great multitude? Behold, I will deliver it into your hand today. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.’ ”

But now you rejected us, and brought us to dishonor, and don’t go out with our armies.

Dilean, Mizpah, Joktheel,

I have been with you wherever you went, and have cut off all your enemies from before you. I will make you a great name, like the name of the great ones who are in the earth.

At the return of the year, Ben Hadad mustered the Syrians, and went up to Aphek, to fight against Israel.

He killed ten thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt, and took Sela by war, and called its name Joktheel, to this day.

Haven’t you, God, rejected us? You don’t go out with our armies, God.

Turn us again, God. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.

Send the lambs for the ruler of the land from Selah to the wilderness, to the mountain of the daughter of Zion.

Then David answered and said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Abishai the son of Zeruiah, brother of Joab, saying, “Who will go down with me to Saul to the camp?” Abishai said, “I will go down with you.”

David came to Baal Perazim, and David struck them there. Then he said, “Yahweh has broken my enemies before me, like the breach of waters.” Therefore he called the name of that place Baal Perazim.

David struck also Hadadezer the son of Rehob, king of Zobah, as he went to recover his dominion at the River.

Hadadezer sent, and brought out the Syrians who were beyond the River: and they came to Helam, with Shobach the captain of the army of Hadadezer at their head.

David defeated Hadadezer king of Zobah to Hamath, as he went to establish his dominion by the river Euphrates.

The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high, who says in his heart, ‘Who will bring me down to the ground?’

They said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let’s make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth.”

You will live by your sword, and you will serve your brother. It will happen, when you will break loose, that you will shake his yoke from off your neck.”

Edom shall be a possession. Seir, his enemies, also shall be a possession, while Israel does valiantly.

He who brought the news answered, “Israel has fled before the Philistines, and there has been also a great slaughter among the people. Your two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and God’s ark has been captured.”

Samuel said, “What have you done?” Saul said, “Because I saw that the people were scattered from me, and that you didn’t come within the days appointed, and that the Philistines assembled themselves together at Michmash;

Then Abishai said to David, “God has delivered up your enemy into your hand today. Now therefore please let me strike him with the spear to the earth at one stroke, and I will not strike him the second time.”

So Joab and Abishai his brother killed Abner, because he had killed their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battle.

The Philistines came up yet again, and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.

He will build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.

David earned a reputation when he returned from striking down eighteen thousand men of the Syrians in the Valley of Salt.

The rest of the people he committed into the hand of Abishai his brother; and he put them in array against the children of Ammon.

When the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians had fled, they likewise fled before Abishai, and entered into the city. Then Joab returned from the children of Ammon, and came to Jerusalem.

David said to Abishai, “Now Sheba the son of Bichri will do us more harm than Absalom did. Take your lord’s servants, and pursue after him, lest he get himself fortified cities, and escape out of our sight.”

But Abishai the son of Zeruiah helped him, and struck the Philistine, and killed him. Then the men of David swore to him, saying, “Don’t go out with us to battle any more, so that you don’t quench the lamp of Israel.”

Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief of the three. He lifted up his spear against three hundred and killed them, and had a name among the three.

For when David was in Edom, and Joab the captain of the army had gone up to bury the slain, and had struck every male in Edom

God raised up an adversary to him, Rezon the son of Eliada, who had fled from his lord Hadadezer king of Zobah.

He said, “I have been very jealous for Yahweh, the God of Armies; for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.”

The prophet came near to the king of Israel, and said to him, “Go, strengthen yourself, and mark, and see what you do; for at the return of the year the king of Syria will come up against you.”

You have indeed struck Edom, and your heart has lifted you up. Enjoy the glory of it, and stay at home; for why should you meddle to your harm, that you fall, even you, and Judah with you?’ ”

and their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. The sons of Zeruiah: Abishai, Joab, and Asahel, three.

Abishai, the brother of Joab, he was chief of the three; for he lifted up his spear against three hundred and killed them, and had a name among the three.

The Philistines made a another raid in the valley.

Moreover Abishai the son of Zeruiah struck eighteen thousand of the Edomites in the Valley of Salt.

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.

At the time of the return of the year, at the time when kings go out, Joab led out the army, and wasted the country of the children of Ammon, and came and besieged Rabbah. But David stayed at Jerusalem. Joab struck Rabbah, and overthrew it.

You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.

At the end of the year, the army of the Syrians came up against him: and they came to Judah and Jerusalem, and destroyed all the princes of the people from among the people, and sent all their plunder to the king of Damascus.

The Ammonites gave tribute to Uzziah. His name spread abroad even to the entrance of Egypt; for he grew exceedingly strong.

But a prophet of Yahweh was there, whose name was Oded; and he went out to meet the army that came to Samaria, and said to them, “Behold, because Yahweh, the God of your fathers, was angry with Judah, he has delivered them into your hand, and you have slain them in a rage which has reached up to heaven.

Preserve me, God, for I take refuge in you.

Turn to me, and have mercy on me, for I am desolate and afflicted.

You have made us like sheep for food, and have scattered us among the nations.

Be merciful to me, God, for man wants to swallow me up. All day long, he attacks and oppresses me.

Deliver me from my enemies, my God. Set me on high from those who rise up against me.

Don’t kill them, or my people may forget. Scatter them by your power, and bring them down, Lord our shield.

God, you have rejected us. You have broken us down. You have been angry. Restore us, again.

Save me, God, for the waters have come up to my neck!

God, why have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture?

How long, Yahweh? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?

Help us, God of our salvation, for the glory of your name. Deliver us, and forgive our sins, for your name’s sake.

Hear us, Shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph like a flock, you who sit above the cherubim, shine out.

Turn us, God of our salvation, and cause your indignation toward us to cease.

“I have made a covenant with my chosen one, I have sworn to David, my servant,

a very awesome God in the council of the holy ones, to be feared above all those who are around him?

Then you spoke in vision to your saints, and said, “I have given strength to the warrior. I have exalted a young man from the people.

But you have rejected and spurned. You have been angry with your anointed.

Relent, Yahweh! How long? Have compassion on your servants!

Who will bring me into the fortified city? Who has led me to Edom?

Haven’t you rejected us, God? You don’t go out, God, with our armies.

“Yahweh was very displeased with your fathers.

“I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will save the house of Joseph, and I will bring them back; for I have mercy on them; and they will be as though I had not cast them off: for I am Yahweh their God, and I will hear them.