Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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.
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.
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;
Themes
Hadadezer » King of zobah, vanquished by david
Joab » Son of david's sister » Defeats the ammonites
Medeba » David defeats an army and the ammonites at
Zobah » Its inhabitants mercenaries of the ammonites against david
Topics
Interlinear
Nagash
Paniym
פּנים
Paniym
before, face, presence, because, sight, countenance, from, person, upon, of, ...me, against, ...him, open, for, toward,
Usage: 2119
Milchamah
Word Count of 20 Translations in 1 Chronicles 19:14
Verse Info
Context Readings
Ammonites And Syrians Defeated
13 Pluck up thine heart and let us play the men for our people's sake, and for the cities of our God, and the LORD to do what seemeth him best." 14 And Joab and the people that were with him drew nigh to the Syrians, to fight, and they fled before him. 15 And when the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians were fled, they ran away likewise, from Abishai his brother and gat them into the city. And Joab came to Jerusalem.
Cross References
1 Kings 20:13
And behold there came a Prophet unto Ahab king of Israel, and said to him, "Thus sayeth the LORD, 'Seest thou all this great multitude? Behold, I will deliver them into thine hand this day, that thou mayest know that I am the LORD.'"
1 Kings 20:19-21
And also if they come for war, take them yet alive." And when those men of the sheriffs of the shires were come out of the city and the Host after them,
1 Kings 20:28-30
Then there came a man of God and said unto the king of Israel, "Thus sayeth the LORD, 'Because the Syrians say that the LORD is but a God of the hills, and not God of the valleys too: therefore will I deliver all this great multitude into thine hand that ye may know that I am the LORD.'"
2 Chronicles 13:5-16
Becometh it not you to know how the LORD God of Israel gave the kingdom of Israel to David forever, even to him and to his sons, with a salted covenant.
Jeremiah 46:15-16
How happeneth it that thy mighty worthies are fallen? Why stood they not fast? Even because the LORD thrust them down.