And the Syrians fled before Israel. And David killed from Syria seven hundred in chariots, and forty thousand horsemen. And he struck Shobach the commander of the army, and he died there.
And the sons of Ammon saw that they were odious to David. And the sons of Ammon sent and hired Syrians from Bethrehob, and Syrians from Zobah, twenty thousand footmen; and the king of Maacah with a thousand men; and the men of Tob with twelve thousand men.
And the sons of Ammon came out and set in order for battle at the opening of the gate. And the Syrians of Zobah, and Rehob, and the men of Tob, and Maacah were by themselves in the field.
And Asa took all the silver and gold that remained in the treasures of the house of Jehovah, and the treasures of the king’s house, and gave them into his servants’ hand; and King Asa sent them to Ben-hadad, the son of Tabrimmon, the son of Hezion, the king of Syria, who lived at Damascus, saying,
And he said to him, The cities that my father took from your father, I give back. And you shall make streets for yourself in Damascus, as my father did in Samaria. And I will let you go with a covenant. And he cut a covenant with him and sent him away.
And the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, all that he did, and his might with which he fought, and with which he recovered Damascus and Hamath of Judah for Israel, are they not written in the Book of the Matters of the Days of the Kings of Israel?
he asked from him letters to Damascus, to the synagogues, so that if he found any being of the Way, both men and women, they having been bound, he might bring them to Jerusalem.