Introduction
David sends a congratulatory message to Hanun, king of Ammon, 1 Chronicles 19:1 , 1 Chronicles 19:2 . He treats the messengers with great incivility, 1 Chronicles 19:3 , 1 Chronicles 19:4 . David is exasperated, but condoles with the degraded messengers, 1 Chronicles 19:5 . The Ammonites prepare for war, and hire thirty-two thousand chariots, and besiege Medeba, 1 Chronicles 19:6 , 1 Chronicles 19:7 . David sends Joab to attack them; he defeats the Syrians and Ammonites, 1 Chronicles 19:8-15 . The discomfited Syrians recruit their army, and invade David's territories beyond Jordan; he attacks them, kills Shophach their general, seven thousand charioteers, and forty thousand of their infantry, 1 Chronicles 19:16-18 . The Syrians abandon the Ammonites and make a separate peace with David, 1 Chronicles 19:19 .
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