Liber Primus Paralipomenon

I Paralipomenon, chapter 19, Vulgate and King James Version

Chapter 19 Vulgate

   1 Accidit autem post haec, ut moreretur Naas rex filiorum Ammon, et regnaret filius eius pro eo.
   2 Dixitque David: "Faciam misericordiam cum Hanon filio Naas; praestitit enim pater eius mihi gratiam". Misitque David nuntios ad consolandum eum super morte patris sui. Qui cum pervenissent in terram filiorum Ammon, ut consolarentur Hanon,
   3 dixerunt principes filiorum Ammon ad Hanon: "Tu forsitan putas quod David honoris causa in patrem tuum miserit, qui consolentur te; nec animadvertis quod, ut explorent et investigent et evertant terram tuam, venerint ad te servi eius".
   4 Igitur Hanon pueros David tulit et rasit et praecidit tunicas eorum a natibus usque ad pedes et dimisit eos.
   5 Qui cum abissent et hoc mandassent David, misit in occursum eorum - grandem enim contumeliam sustinuerant - et praecepit, ut manerent in Iericho, donec cresceret barba eorum, et tunc reverterentur.
   6 Videntes autem filii Ammon quod odiosos se fecissent David, tam Hanon quam reliquus populus miserunt mille talenta argenti, ut conducerent sibi de Mesopotamia et de Syria Maacha et de Soba currus et equites;
   7 conduxeruntque sibi triginta duo milia curruum et regem Maacha cum populo eius. Qui cum venissent, castrametati sunt e regione Medaba; filii quoque Ammon congregati de urbibus suis venerunt ad bellum.
   8 Quod cum audisset David, misit Ioab et omnem exercitum virorum fortium.
   9 Egressique filii Ammon direxerunt aciem iuxta portam civitatis; reges autem, qui ad auxilium venerant, separatim in agro steterunt.
   10 Igitur Ioab intellegens bellum et ex adverso et post tergum contra se fieri elegit viros fortissimos de universo Israel et perrexit contra Syrum;
   11 reliquam autem partem populi dedit sub manu Abisai fratris sui, et perrexerunt contra filios Ammon.
   12 Dixitque: "Si vicerit me Syrus, auxilio eris mihi; si autem superaverint te filii Ammon, ero tibi in praesidium.
   13 Confortare et agamus viriliter pro populo nostro et pro urbibus Dei nostri; Dominus autem, quod in conspectu suo bonum est, faciet".
   14 Appropinquavit ergo Ioab et populus, qui cum eo erat, contra Syrum ad proelium, et fugerunt a facie eorum.
   15 Porro filii Ammon videntes quod fugisset Syrus, ipsi quoque fugerunt Abisai fratrem eius et ingressi sunt civitatem. Reversusque est etiam Ioab in Ierusalem.
   16 Videns autem Syrus quod cecidisset coram Israel, misit nuntios et adduxit Syrum, qui erat trans fluvium; Sophach autem princeps militiae Adadezer erat dux eorum.
   17 Quod cum nuntiatum esset David, congregavit universum Israel et transivit Iordanem venitque ad eos et direxit ex adverso aciem et pugnavit cum eis.
   18 Fugit autem Syrus Israel, et interfecit David de Syris septem milia curruum et quadraginta milia peditum et Sophach exercitus principem.
   19 Videntes autem servi Adadezer se ab Israel esse superatos, fecerunt pacem cum David et servierunt ei; noluitque ultra Syria auxilium praebere filiis Ammon.

Source: Bibliorum Sacrorum Editio, Sacrosanti Oecumenici Concilii Vaticani II, Ratione Habita, Iussu Pauli PP. VI Recognita, Auctoritate Ioannis Pauli PP. II Promulgata, Editio Typica Altera

King James Version

   1 Now it came to pass after this, that Nahash the king of the children of Ammon died, and his son reigned in his stead.
   2 And David said, I will shew kindness unto Hanun the son of Nahash, because his father shewed kindness to me. And David sent messengers to comfort him concerning his father. So the servants of David came into the land of the children of Ammon to Hanun, to comfort him.
   3 But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun, Thinkest thou that David doth honour thy father, that he hath sent comforters unto thee? are not his servants come unto thee for to search, and to overthrow, and to spy out the land?
   4 Wherefore Hanun took David's servants, and shaved them, and cut off their garments in the midst hard by their buttocks, and sent them away.
   5 Then there went certain, and told David how the men were served. And he sent to meet them: for the men were greatly ashamed. And the king said, Tarry at Jericho until your beards be grown, and then return.
   6 ¶ And when the children of Ammon saw that they had made themselves odious to David, Hanun and the children of Ammon sent a thousand talents of silver to hire them chariots and horsemen out of Mesopotamia, and out of Syria-maachah, and out of Zobah.
   7 So they hired thirty and two thousand chariots, and the king of Maachah and his people; who came and pitched before Medeba. And the children of Ammon gathered themselves together from their cities, and came to battle.
   8 And when David heard of it, he sent Joab, and all the host of the mighty men.
   9 And the children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in array before the gate of the city: and the kings that were come were by themselves in the field.
   10 Now when Joab saw that the battle was set against him before and behind, he chose out of all the choice of Israel, and put them in array against the Syrians.
   11 And the rest of the people he delivered unto the hand of Abishai his brother, and they set themselves in array against the children of Ammon.
   12 And he said, If the Syrians be too strong for me, then thou shalt help me: but if the children of Ammon be too strong for thee, then I will help thee.
   13 Be of good courage, and let us behave ourselves valiantly for our people, and for the cities of our God: and let the LORD do that which is good in his sight.
   14 So Joab and the people that were with him drew nigh before the Syrians unto the battle; and they fled before him.
   15 And when the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians were fled, they likewise fled before Abishai his brother, and entered into the city. Then Joab came to Jerusalem.
   16 ¶ And when the Syrians saw that they were put to the worse before Israel, they sent messengers, and drew forth the Syrians that were beyond the river: and Shophach the captain of the host of Hadarezer went before them.
   17 And it was told David; and he gathered all Israel, and passed over Jordan, and came upon them, and set the battle in array against them. So when David had put the battle in array against the Syrians, they fought with him.
   18 But the Syrians fled before Israel; and David slew of the Syrians seven thousand men which fought in chariots, and forty thousand footmen, and killed Shophach the captain of the host.
   19 And when the servants of Hadarezer saw that they were put to the worse before Israel, they made peace with David, and became his servants: neither would the Syrians help the children of Ammon any more.