Parallel Verses

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.

New American Standard Bible

So Joab and the people who were with him drew near to the battle against the Arameans, 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.

Holman Bible

Joab and the people with him approached the Arameans for battle, and they fled before him.

International Standard Version

So Joab and the soldiers who were with him attacked the Arameans in battle formation, and the Arameans retreated in front of him.

A Conservative Version

So Joab and the company that were with him drew near before the Syrians to the battle, and 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.

Amplified

So Joab and the people who were with him approached the Arameans for 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.

Julia Smith Translation

And Joab will draw near, and the people which are with him, before Aram to battle; and they will flee from before him.

King James 2000

So Joab and the people that were with him drew near before the Syrians unto the battle; and they fled before him.

Lexham Expanded Bible

And Joab and the people who [were] with him drew near before Aram for battle, and they fled before him.

Modern King James verseion

And Joab and the people with him drew near before the Syrians to the battle. And they fled before him.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

And Joab and the people that were with him drew nigh to the Syrians, to fight, and they fled before him.

NET Bible

So Joab and his men marched toward the Arameans to do battle, and they fled before him.

New Heart English Bible

So Joab and the people who were with him drew near before the Syrians to the battle; and they fled before him.

The 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.

Webster

So Joab and the people that were with him drew nigh before the Syrians to the battle; and they fled before 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.

Youngs Literal Translation

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

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
So Joab
יואב 
Yow'ab 
Usage: 145

and the people
עם 
`am 
Usage: 1867

נגשׁ 
Nagash 
Usage: 125

פּנים 
Paniym 
פּנים 
Paniym 
Usage: 2119
Usage: 2119

the Syrians
ארם 
'Aram 
Usage: 132

unto the battle
מלחמה 
Milchamah 
Usage: 319

and they fled
נוּס 
Nuwc 
Usage: 160

References

Easton

Fausets

Hastings

Context Readings

Ammonites And Syrians Defeated

13 Take heart, and let us be strong for our people and for the towns of our God; and may the Lord do what seems good to him. 14 So Joab and the people who were with him went forward into the fight against the Aramaeans, and they went in flight before him. 15 And when the children of Ammon saw the flight of the Aramaeans, they themselves went in flight from Abishai, his brother, and came into the town. Then Joab came back to Jerusalem.

Cross References

1 Kings 20:13

Then a prophet came up to Ahab, king of Israel, and said, The Lord says, Have you seen all this great army? See, I will give it into your hands today, and you will see that I am the Lord.

1 Kings 20:19-21

So the servants of the chiefs of the divisions of the land went out of the town, with the army coming after them.

1 Kings 20:28-30

And a man of God came up and said to the king of Israel, The Lord says, Because the Aramaeans have said, The Lord is a god of the hills and not of the valleys; I will give all this great army into your hands, and you will see that I am the Lord.

2 Chronicles 13:5-16

Is it not clear to you that the Lord, the God of Israel, gave the rule over Israel to David and to his sons for ever, by an agreement made with salt?

Jeremiah 46:15-16

Why has Apis, your strong one, gone in flight? he was not able to keep his place, because the Lord was forcing him down with strength.

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