2 Samuel 8:5 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

⁵ When the Arameans of Damascus  came to assist King Hadadezer of Zobah, David struck down twenty-two thousand Aramean men.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ And when the Syrians of Damascus came to succour Hadadezer king of Zobah, David slew of the Syrians two and twenty thousand men.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ And when the Syrians of Damascus came to help Hadadezer king of Zobah, David slew 22,000 of them.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ And when the Syrians of Damascus came to succor Hadadezer king of Zobah, David smote of the Syrians two and twenty thousand men.

Common English Bible

⁵ When the Arameans of Damascus came to help Zobah’s King Hadadezer, David killed twenty-two thousand of them.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ And the Syrians of Damascus arrived, so that they might bring reinforcements to Hadadezer, the king of Zobah. And David struck down twenty-two thousand men of the Syrians.

2 Samuel 8:5 Cross References

2 Samuel 10:6

When the Ammonites realised they had become repulsive to David, they hired twenty thousand foot soldiers from the Arameans of Beth-rehob and Zobah, one thousand men from the king of Maacah, and twelve thousand men from Tob.

2 Samuel 8:3

David also defeated Hadadezer  son of Rehob, king of Zobah, when he went to restore his control at the River Euphrates.

Job 9:13

God does not hold back his anger; Rahab’s  assistants cringe in fear beneath him!

Isaiah 31:3

Egyptians are men, not God; their horses are flesh, not spirit. When the Lord raises his hand to strike, the helper will stumble and the one who is helped will fall; both will perish together.

Isaiah 7:8

The chief city of Aram is Damascus, the chief of Damascus is Rezin (within sixty-five years Ephraim will be too shattered to be a people),